The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-29

federal court it will be to those charg-
ed with insanity what the bred Scott
| decision was to the slaves. 1t will be
revolutionary in its effect.
1t was Pinel who struck the shack
les from off the insane Of France,
and Howard who called the attention
of the good people of England to the
damnable condition of British pris-
one; along similar lines Chaloner in
tends to work.
J. p. Morgan in Danger.
Chaloner declares there is danger Of
business men such as Morgan and Har-
riman being victims of a plot such as
that perpetrated upon him. Chaloner
says the illegal lunacy laws could be
taken advantage of, Hartman or Nor
gan be declared insane, and havoc
played in high finance. He claims
that he himself suffered property loss
of half a million while confined in
Bloomingdale, in addition to the mil
lion and half now kept from him.
He says. without the slightest hint
of hyperbole one can call the clique of
New York city lawyers, doctors, and
Black Hand of Lunacy." They set
to work secretly and unscrupulously to
rob and murder a victim (by murder
mean putting a sane man in a mad
house, and keeping him there till he
goes insane, and thereafter dies as do
a gang of Black Hand.
IL % tha
state Of New York on lunacy are a
) shame to humanity and civilization OF
that state The black king of Daho-
mey could not have worse laws in his
African kingdom. The ignorance Of
New York's very best lawyers on ev-
cry subject outside corporation and
criminal law is something appalling.
They have never apparently heard Of
the Absolute Rights of the Individual
as laid down in Blackstone's Common
taries, without which no grasp of the
principles protecting and governing
the legal rights of any individual can
be had
BIoominadaIe Bastiie Of 400.
Chaloner's stay in Bloomingdale
cost his estate thousands of dollars.
the charge being 500 for each week
Of confinement, and added amounts for
extras" For this reason he has lit
tie good to say for that institution as
the following will show:
"Bloomindale is the Bastile of the
Four Hundred, and it may be admitted
. first as last that it is run purely for
| hing nrinCtnleS
and not on charitable ones. Every
patient within it's walls is pay pa
tient,' as the parties putting him or
: her there can be squeezed into max
ing it. 90. ..
The exception to this iron clad rule
are handful of pauper lunatfcs from
!, Westchester county, who are taken In
free for the purpose of lodging the
county taxes on the large and valuable
real estate possessed by the Society of
,, the New York Hospital in the city of
White Plains.
"A candidate for a certificate Of
lunacy' is requested by his masters
therein-the said examining doctors
to stand up and then deliberately
, throw himself off his balance by put
ting his feet so close together, toes
and heels touching, that ones equili-
brium is menaced. He is then COM
, manded to extend his arms to their
fullest extent hands outspread, palms
= upward and close together. He is
then ordered to open his mouth, put
out his tongue and shut his eyes.
IF he does not fall down on the spot
y he is lucky. 1t is while in the above
described preposterous position that
the physical examination of the exam
( liners is taken"
How little love exists between Chal-
oner and his own family is shown by
his having secured decree changing
\ his name from Chanler, that used by
his relatives to the ancestral form
| Chaloner. He has the blood of battle
SCARED heroes in his veins and he de-
G clares that he loves to fight In good
cause. This combined with the feel
/ ings which actuate him he declares
will cause the battle to wage until his
kin cry for quarter, and New York S
: macy vultures are driven to an honest
Z livelihood.
e Chaloner has announced that should
I he lose in the United States circuit
y court he will carry it to the United
8 States circuit of appeals in which tri
) bunal he has the highest confidence
9 But who can tell what may happen
o when Chaloner returns to New York
s under the special writ of protection
granted him Nay not the shrewd
lawyers on the other side resort to
: some technicality in the law, drag
g Chaloner once more before the court
e he faced years ago; and perhaps his