The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-15
SAYS HUSBAND HAS.
NOT TAKEN lBATH
FOR YEARS
One Complaint in Mrs Rhine
lander's Divorce Application
HEAD OF FAMOUS FAMILY
Vowed to Expose Shallow Preten-
sions Of the Cream Of
Society.
HEAD OF FAMOUS FAMILY

Saratoga, n. Y, Nov. l5.-Julia c.
Rhinelander has brought suit for sep
aration against William c. Rhinelan-
der the disinherited son of the late
William Rhinelander. She charges
that Rhinelander has compelled her
to live in squalid surroundings, al
though he has an income of $400 a
month from the Rhinelander estate.
She says that Rhlnelander has fire.
quently threatened her life, that he
keeps a loaded revolver in the house,
that for years he has not taken bath
that he has threatened to leave her
for her sister, and that her only in
come is $40 a month paid her by
of the Rhinelander es-
tate. She asks 800 month allow
ance
Rhinelander has lived for years as
a recluse here. He and his wife have
had no associates, and his peculiari-
ties have caused his neighbors to
avoid him. When his father died two
years ago, leaving large estate he
was almost disinherited. For a time
a contest of the will was threatened
but 1t was never brought and Rhine
lander accepted the $500 year
left by his father.
Several years ago he bought
large number of white Arabian hor-
SEES and attempted to start a breeding
farm, but soon tired of the project
He then turned his attention to old
furniture and his wife declares that
the rooms of their house are now
filed with useless pieces of furniture
for which he paid large sums of mon
ey.
Rhinelander will oppose the separa-
ton proceedings. He says that his
wife has $1,000 on deposit in a local
bank and has been treated well by
him. He is about so years old.
New York, Nov. 15.-William Cope
land Rhinelander, eldest son OF the
late William Rhinelander, and hered-
itary head of the famous old New
York family OF that name, boasted
years ago that his one ambition in
life was 10 expose what he termed
"the shallow pretensions of the peo-
pie who claim to be the cream of So
ciety.' He declared that he had no
sympathy with the so-called Amer
lean aristocracy," and told his frineds
that he would devote his life to
proving that at least one Rhinelander
could and would live far removed
from the sphere in which his relatives
moved.
Since that boast Mr.. Rhinelander
has often appeared in the public
prints. The news from Saratoga,
where his wife Mrs. Julia Rhineland-
er. formerly a waitress In a Twenty
third street restaurant has started pro
ceedings for legal separation caus-
ed some society people here to recall
his eccentricities.
Soon after he was graduated from
Columbia College in 1876, he aston.
ished his friends by marrying Mag
gle McGinnis. a maid in his fathers
home. He became estranged from
his family and with his allowance OF
800 a week. which his friends said
was to continue only so long as he
made his home outside of this city
Two children were born to Rhinelan.
der and this wife
After a few years In Canada. the
Rhinelanders went 10 Brooklyn where
they lived for awhile in q boarding
house. One day the young man call
ed at the office of John Drake. his
fathers LAWYER, at 79 Cedar street
He was in Mr. brakes private office
for nearly an hour. A revolver shot
was heard and employees found Mr.
Drake and Mr.. Rhinelander In a des
perate struggle. Mr.. Drake was
wounded and a revolver was in the
hands OF RhInelander.
Mr.. Drake upon his recovery refus
ed to make a complaint but Rhine
lander was arrested on Inspector
Byrne's order He said Mr. Drake
had attempted to get his wife e
leave him, and that he had forfeited
100000 when he married Maggie Nc
Ginnls. He declared that he shot MI
Drake because the lawyer had at
tackled him first. and that he though
his life was In danger A commission
was appointed to determine whethe'
he was sane. Two members declared
him insane. but the third Edwar,
Patterson. afterward Supreme Cour
Justice. declared he was sane enough
to stand trial. He was finally re
leased without trial.
A few years later he was arreste,
charged with grand larceny. Samue
Johnson OF Asbury Park. charged tina
he had shipped several trunks full o
brlc-a-brac, after they had been al
tached for 5000 doctors bill. Rhine
lander spent several weeks In Mon
mouth County jail. Then came an
other short period Of obscurity. Thel
he appeared In Saratoga under Oh,
name OF William Ralston, bought
farm and settled down TO hors,
breeding
How he became free from the frs
Mrs. Rhinelander was not mad,
known but In December 1894 Rhine
lander married Juliet Kathleen Male
n waitress In a Twenty.third stree
restaurant. at the Little Churcl
Around the Corner. In the legal pa
lpers connected with this second cere
mony he changed the spelling OF hi
name 60 Rhnelander Six years Ia
ter Rhinelander again tried his eS
pertinent of breeding horses. In IN,
same year the FIRST Mrs. Rhlnelande
was removed by the police from tn
lGraystone Apartments In West Forty
hfth street and was later sent to IN
Amityville Asylum by order of IN
supreme court
When William Rhluelander died