New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-05
". E. RHINELiNDER'S UlRRI1Gt.
WEBS A WAITRESS AFTER ONE MATRIMONIAL
VENTURE WITH \ DOMESTIC SERVANT.

WEBS A WAITRESS AFTER ONE MATRIMONIAL.
VENTURE WITH \ DOMESTIC SERVANT.
William Copeland Rhrclander. who was married
last Sunday at the Church Of the Characterization.
10 JuIette Kathleen Maier. who was waitress IN
an East Twenty thlrdst. restaurant. has had NOR"
or less newspaper nooricty during the last twenty
wears In no Rhnelander. whose parents were
wealthy married MaPgie McGnnis hcusemni1
IN the family Since mat time his family has had
no relations with him except 10 the extent OF
arranging for a liberal allowance, which has been
paid TO him at stated intervals during All the inter
venng years. After living for several years In tan
ada RhineIandor and his wife moved 10 brooklyn
while he was living in the latter place. on June
10 1884 he called at the office OF his fathers law
yer John Drake in this city. ana ai'cr private
conference fired a pistol at MI. Drake. wounding
him in the right arm. Mr.. brakes clerks diSarmed
RhInelander and had their employer removed 10 Il
hospital where he was patient for some time
NJ brake refused to make a complaint against
his assailant who. however. was arrested httle
later and being arraigned IL IN" loHi"7
Police Court. gave out n statement to the eh'ct
that Mr. Drake had been trying to get Mrs Rhine
lander TO leave her husband and that he had shot
Drake because the latter mad first assaulted him.
and he thought his life was in danger. commits
sion of three appointed to inquire into the
question OF khnelander's sanity, two ~ the mem
bcrs finding that he was insane and the third
being Of the opinion that he was sane en0ush 10
stand trial Subsequently, In October, 1884 the
District Attorney made motion before Recorder
Smyth that Khnelandcr be committed TO an IN
game asylum. The prisoners counsel declared that
his client was sane and was anxious TO be tried.
The Recorder denied the District Attorneys mo
tion but the never came 10 trial, and about
two years ago the indictment was quashed. In
December, 1886, Rhincander was arrested In New
Jersey on a charge Of grand larceny made By
DR. Samuel Johnson. Of Asbury Park. The doctor
had attached certain personal property belonging
TO Rhineander In satisfaction OF debt Of 500 for
medical services. but Rhnelander d!sregarded the
attachment and shipped his goods 10 New Yorls.
this action resulting I'm his arrest and his detcn-
ton for some time In the Monmouth County JAN.
nj Freehold. The next heard from Rhinclander
was five or six years later when he became Il
resident of Saratoga and. under the name or Viii
occupation OF breeding horses but this enterprise
was soon abandoned.
II is not generally known what became Of Rhine
ander's first Wife but IL IS said that divorce be-
tween the couple was arranged. Whether the
opinion of the majority o? Of the minority OF the
members OF the special commission appointed IN
1884 to inquire into Rhineander's sanity was cor
rect. 1t Is certain that the man has ever since
1876 Che Is now little forty years oldb given
unmistakable proofs OF what may at least be char
acter.zed marked eccentricity.