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

ummer entertainment, White was af-
erwards slain by Harry Thaw.
Fhaw's jailer for months was Robert
Winthrop Chanler, brother of the hero
Of the Chaloner case. And that the
precedent of escape from one state
where his status is that of an insane
person, to another, where the courts
nay grant his freedom, has been con-
idered by the lawyers of Harry Thaw
nd has been proven in the attempt to
.ecure Thaw's presence in Pittsburg.
In the Chaloner case there is q
ight on for million and a half, with
1owerful wealthy relatives on one side
md. according to New York courts, a
matte on the other. The lunatic says
hat his money is secondary consid-
Grafton, in witness thereof he has al
ready decided his country place The
Merry Mills" splendid tract of 400
acres to the university of Virginia. re-
tanning but life interest for himself,
and he has promised to leave the for
tune, for which he is fighting to Vir-
siniia, save large legacy to the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Fight for a Million.
Chaloner's primary motive is vindi-
dication, redress fostered by four
years in a mad house where he
cody and deliberately took a
| Hannibal oath that he would devote
every dollar of his income, and if need
| be, every year Of his life, in an effort
to correct the defective lunacy laws
| of New York State, and of 40 per cent
of the other states in the union.
Prepares For Struggle.
Living alone in his country home
nestled among Virginia's hills, Chal
oner is pre- pairing for the oncomine
battle. His is the master hand, his
| the fertile brain which has mapped
out the legal line of march against
| the powerful forces in New York
which he claims are combining tc
maintain the Illegal lunacy laws. A
| brief of 1900 printed pages, covering
| every possible point in his case is but
| part of what this hopeless lunatic'
| has done.
A mighty struggle this case in New
| York will be, and the kind public is
| very likely to be with the under dog
| But now in sequence to take VI
| Chaloners strange story.
His marriage to Amelie Rives, ther
wilful, gifted Virginia girl was one
of the first and leading causes of his
enstrangemen from his family. Chal
oner was counting Miss Rives whom
her brilliant and startling novel, 1.-The
Quick of the Dead appeared, In
which she told of the old love of e
beautiful widow for her dead husband
and her newer love for another man
Jack Dering, in the flesh. In fac
Dering. She described him-"There
was the same curling brown hail
above strong modelled forehead; eyes
| the color of autumn pools in the sun
light: the determined jut of the nose;
| the pleasing uneveness in the crowded
| white teeth; the fine jaw, which haC
that curve from ear to- tip like the
| prov of a cutter"
A marked copy Of this sensational
hook Chaloner's family sent to him
but their protestation awaited nothing
and the marriage was cosummated
This served to add to the young au
thoress' popularity, and enormously
increased the sale of her book.
But there were more points of diff
ference than of contact and coales
cence in the characters Of the pair, ant
after few years the couple separates
and divorce was secured on tn,
grounds of incompatibility of temper
Now, however, Chaloner declares tina
his wedlock was one of the most pleas
ant incidents of his life, and he advis
es all young men to marry. In fact
bachelors are taxed, the money goin:
to the state, and being used for tn,
benefit of struggling fathers will
families. Twenty-Five years, is tn,
limit of time man should be allowed
to remain single. according to Chalo
ner.
Business quarrels, an unequal di
vision of the estate, in which Chalo
ner was favored his failure to atten,
his sisters wedding, and other mino
causes, he says, tended to widen tn
breach between him and his family.
Stanford White Led Way.
Finally. disguised with New Yorl.
on which plan he declares He'll il
made, Chaloner determined to spen,
his remaining days quietly pursuing
the study Of psychology and kindre,
!, sciences on his Virginia estate, an,
developing lald which he owned. il
the then just developing cotton an
) milling region of North Carolina.
He was at his country seat, .'Th
Merry Mills when visited by Stan
ford White, who, Chaloner declares
coaxed him to return to the metropol
/ itan whirl once more" Having som
business in the city needing his atten
= ton, Chaloner says that he yielded
and went back to Gotham.
: There, he says. at the request O
White he performed, what he terms
: . scientific experiment in occult psy
chology, by which he went into
: trance. his face at the time resembling
the death mask of Napoleon. Alien
; lists saw this. and the exhibition. cou
: pied with Chaloner's inhuman act Q
carrying red hot Goals in his bar
5 hands, and his declaration that hi
5 eyes had changed color from brown +
gray, caused them to declare him il