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>• sv \R1X VLASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915
Yesterday*s cables seemed to show that the Serbians have once more
halted the Teutonic advance. Unless the sources of information from
Kurope are being tampered with the Serbs must have indicted awtul slaught
er on the invaders. The cable appearing in the stop press issue of the Gate
way last evening was apparently from Vienna and it declared that the
Austro-Germ an advance had to be halted because of the terrible losses. If
this ia so it shows a spirit and capacity in the Serbians that no Spartans
could ever surpass.
Just imagine that little country and what it has gone through tor the
past three or four years. It helped to doteat turkey and then it tought Bul
garia while ail the time it had trouble with the Albanians. Then came the
time of the murder at Serajevo when mighty Austria drew its sword ami pre
pared for the lunge. In refusing to bring the slayers ot the Austrian prime
to justice Serbia knew it invited war but it considered the killing of the
Austrian a political matter, refused to sell what it considered to be its self
respect even to »ave its own life and blood, ami once more its wonderful
little army shoulders the ride.
After a time the Austrians gain a footing and penetrate tne mtie king
dom. The whole world watched while clearly another small nation was
about to share the fate of Belgium, and then came the hurling back of the
Teutons. It was almost impossible to believe it.
Kussia was driven out of Galicia, driven far away from the places from
which she might hope to extend aid to the little Balkan neighbors, and onee
more Teutonic hosts are gathered to march through Serbia’s heart to Con
^t&ntiuoplc. The Teutons cross the Paoube. I lie Germans this time, with
all their wonderful efficiency*, to stiffen the ranks ot the invading forces have
joined the Austrians. I<ondon sends out word that matters look bad indeed
for Serbia and the allies, and then last evening comes the word that, to copy
exactly the words of the United Press cable—“the Teutons claim victory at
a tragic cost. The hold is strewn with Teuton dead, (and the Teutons) are
unable to advance owing to their enormous losses. Official statement.
We people of the Knglish speaking world in our ignorance have come to
regard the people of those small states away there as inferior in some way
or another but now right before our ey es a story of national heroism is being
unfolded which shines resplendently superior to any story ever contained in
the greatest of epics. \*o one can tell the outcome. Serbia may have been
politically wrong in attempting to dismember the Austrian empire by aiding
the conspiracies of the brother Slavs. She may have been wrong in taking
Turkey’s territorx and .die may have been wrong to turn on Bulgaria but
that she ha* made and i* making the most extraordinary struggle in history
to defend her soil no one can deny. What will the next few weeks bring for
that heroic little state?
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Legal Blanks and Location Notices at Gateway
party now here hah
lots of good sport
That the Weir surveying crew,
which is now in Seward, made a fine I
record for game shooting while locat- |
ing the permanent right of way of
the government railroad to Broad
Pass is made evident from the follow
ing in the Fairbanks Citizen:
Engineer Weir’s crew has had
fresh game all season, and has a
record hard to beat on any frontier
and seldom equalled. Fp to a few j
days ago this record included 20
sheep, 16 caribou, moose and bear and
not a pound of beef had been packed
to them. There is no sickness in the
crew and a healthier lot of men would
be hard to find, or a more contented
crew.
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BIG NUGGET FOUND;
STAMPEDE FOLLOWED
RUBY.—Henry Roden, who arrived
in Ruby recently from Birches, where
he hud been a few days on business,
| reports that a stampede took place
some time ago to Lynx creek, a tribu
tary of Grant creek, in the Gold
Mountain district. The stampede
was started by Chevo Winskey ex
hibiting a $120 nugget, which he
claimed to have picked up on Lynx
creek. Charley Coloumbe and Jean
Julian, of Mason creek, were among
the first to hike in there as soon as
reported. Mr. Roden says it resol veil
into quite a stampede from Tanana
and points further up the Yukon—
Record Citizen.
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PELLS STORY OF THE
PORTER CHARLTON CASE
Full Facts of Famous Tragedy of
Which Alaskan’s Wife
Was Victim.
By ALICE ROHE
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
COMO, Italy, Oct. 5.—Porter
I Charlton went on trial here today.
From the iron cage in which the
| prisoner in Italy is always confined
j in the courtroom, the young Ameri
! can, not yet twenty-five, listened to
j the opening of the case. From the
I start it was clear that the d. fen*/.
| would attempt to prove that he was
insane when he killed with a mallet
i his wife of less than a month on the
• night of June 7, 1910, stuffed her
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depths of Lake Como.
The strangeness of the crime was jj
not lessened by the medieval cage, z
and the two fantastically costumed
carbineers who guarded him, with
their Napoleonic hats gaily cockaded
and their decorated uniforms, appear
ed in spite of the sinister sotting like
opera bouffe chorusmen.
Charlton is an American with
Italian lawyers, in an Italian court
being tried by Italian methods. How
ever, in the two years since he was
taken back to Italy, he has learned
the Italian language sufficiently well ■
to be able to follow the progress of j
his trial.
The jury which will hear the pleas
is an unusual one for Italy. 'It is
made up almost entirely of profes
sional men, and the reports oi the
alienists who have been watching the
prisoner will not fall upon ignorant
i ears. There have been three reports
by alienists—all of a type familiar in
America, which will be introduced at
the trial. The first, for the defense,
declared hint insane at the time the
crime was committed; the second for
the crown, declared him sane, ami the ^
third, provided by the government, |
left loopholes both ways.
Coming betw'een the court and
the prisoner were the visions of the 1
penalty which may be visited upon
him. The sentence for deliberate
murder is life imprisonment. The j
first ten years of life term are spent i
in solitary confinement in a dark cell i
with only bread and water for food— I
a sentence which practically means <
death from insanity in a fewr years, j
The sentence for murder not deliber j
ate is twenty years.
The many extenuating circum
i
stances in the case, together with the
youth of the prisoner, ami the fact
that “crimes of passion" are not re
garded with great seriousness In ;
Italy, have led Charlton’s counsel to j
believe that it will be quite possible
, to free him.
Charlton, then not twenty and s j
clerk in a New York banking house,
married Mary Scott Castle, May 12,
1010. She was twice his age, had
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been well known in San Francisco
and New York, and had short experi
ence on the stage. Sho was of an
intensely passionate and jealous
nature, and when Charlton met her
she was being held on bail for the
' shooting of William B. Craig, a brok
er, in the elevator of the Waldorf
Astoria. She fascinated Charlton,
and the attention of the young man
pleased her.
They sailed for Genoa four days
after their marriage, and immediately
they began a series of violent quar
rels. They went through Italy and to
, I
I the shores of Como, where their
quarrels were so strenuous that they
| were asked to leave the hotel. Then
they rentd the Villa Iiegnazzi at t
Moltrasio, where the crime was com
mitted.
It is said that the experience drove
Charlton into periods of insanity dur
ing one of which he killed her. The
details may cause part of the trial to j
be conducted behind locked doors.
The final quarrel came late at night
on June 7, and at its height Charlton
blind with rage, picked up a mallet
and beat her to death. He put the
body in a trunk and sank it in the
! lake. Then he fled. The trunk was i
found two days later and search was
made for Charlton’s body, for it was
believed that he too, was the victim i
of a murder. He was arrested n he :
walked down the gangplank of th<
Prinzess Irene in New York harbor.
He had sailed from Genoa. He con
fessed the crime, but he and n»s I
father Judge Paul Charlton, fought j
extradition, and it was not until
August 191.7, that the United States
Supreme court decided that he must i
return to Italy to stand trial. There
j he was lodged in an asylum for ob
; servance. Italian legal processes are
slow, but the trial wes finally set for ,
August, 1914. The coming of the ?
world war caused the first postpone
ment, and Italy’s entrance in4o the
war caused it to be postponed again.
The time that he has spent in con
■ finement will be taken into arvnmt, if '
Charlton is sentenced to a United :
term.
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inside Alaska are now anxiouB to get,
any nows they can of the place where
the government railroad will be. To'
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Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
the Discovery of Chisana
file Discovery of Nelchina
•The Discovery of Nome
-Alaska Gold Mines
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Rise and Fall of Alaska’s Home Rail nut
Alaska at the Panama Exposition
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