The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-14
NO TRACE OF JOHN A. CHAMBER.
AmeIic Rivcs' Former Husband still
Among the Missing.

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Relatives and
| friends of John Armstrong Chanler, great
| grandson of the first John Jacob Aston,
and former husband of Amelie Rives. are
| greatly mystified that none of the numer-
Gus detectives who are still hunting for
| him has been able to find a clew to his
| whereabouts.
Mr.. Cnanler escaped from Bloomingdale
| Asylum on November % last. The Gus
todian of his estate and person, Prescott
Hall Butler, of Evarts, Choate & Beaman,
at 50 Wall Street, declared yesterday that
| MIR Chanler had only his watch, some dia-
mond studs, and diamond ring when he
slipped from the asylum grounds last
! Thanksgiving Day.
Miss Margaret Chanler. sister of the
missing man, is a frequent visitor at the
Office of Mr.. Butler, seeking tidings of her
brother Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
brother Of John Armstrong Chanler, is
equally solicitous and as puzzled as any
one else. Harry Van Ness Philip, the abb
sent p ans former law partner. is in fire.
Cuent consultation with MIR Butler, and
rome f them can arrive at any solution
Of the mystery of the escaped mans
where bouts except on the theory that
one of his friends connived at his escape
and furnished him with funds 10 go TO
Europe or South America.
1t is not believed that MIR Chanler is in
this country, as if he were the chances of
his detection would be manifold What is
puzzling these relatives and friends is the
question, who is this friend whose mis-
taken friendship has placed Mr.. Chaner
beyond the reach of his relatives and
friends?"
At first the theory was advanced that
Mr.. Chanler had gone in search of his
former wife, the Princess TroubetZkoy
who is in a sanitarium near Philadelphia
In pursuance of this idea detectives were
placed near this sanitarium. These men
expected that Mr.. Chanler would appear
and ask for admittance to the presence
of his former wife. But Mr.. Chanler did
not appear.
Dr. Lyons, in charge of BIoomngla
Asylum, has spent much money in the
employment OF detectives to trace his
escaped patient He feels that he is re-
sponsible for the escape and has been at
much personal expense in the ehOrt 10 find
Mr. Chanler.
It is considered by the detectives en-
ployed on the case as impossible that Mr..
Chanler could have so long eluded the
men on his trail had he not been well
provided with funds, yet none OF his rel
received help from them. Several former
intimate friends of Mr. Chanler have been
under espionage by detectives, but have
not been found to be in communication
with the missing man.
The family is reluctant to believe that
Mr. Chanler has made away with him
self. There has not been a body an
swering his description reclaimed from
the rivers or bay. All the hospitals have
been searched by the detectives.
Mr.. Chauler had been an inmate of the
BlOomingdaie Asylum for nearly four
years when he escaped. Experts said that
his case was hopeless, that he would die
as paranoiac. He was allowed the free
dom OF the grounds, and it is even said
that he was permitted to visit the village
Of White Plains unattended. On the day
he escaped he was walking in the grounds
of the institution.