The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-12
[DE v|SIN.G PLAN
TO GET FORTUNE
FROM FAIR LIMA
May Be Forced From
Her Clutches by In
sanity Plea.
"sHFRIFF Bob
STILL In HIDING
chanler Family and Trustees
Hope to Save Riches Which
infatuated Wooer Gave to
cavalieri, B eauty and
Singer, Leaving Him
Penniless.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch from

Especial to The Times-Dispatch from
the New York World
New York, September 11.-"sherir
Bob" Chanler. badly the most sought
for man in the United States since ths
World told the story of the stripping
OF his income from him by his WIFI,
Lima Cavalieri. is still in hiding. Nd:
once to-day either at his studio In the
Windsor Arcade. his family seat In
Dutchess county, or any fthe ntimef
Gus homes of Chanlers in and about
New York did he come to the surface
to breathe.
Members of his family continued
their conference in an endeavor to find
remedy for the situation. ALI tho
securities and real estate holdings OF
the family are in this country, and
should the Chanlers refuse to pay tho
$4,000 year income left to the sher-
iff. Cavalieri would have to sue III
this country to compel the carrying
out of the agreement
An Insanity Plen.
It was strongly rumored to-day tina,
the family and the trustees had declI
ed upon defense of emotional insar
ity in case the singer should sue.
AT Just the right moment, Cavalier,
who had dealt with great profit to her-
self with infatuated men since the
days in Rome when the son of an cS-
premier of Italy offered her his ..pro-
tection,' put her arms about Chanlers
neck and coaxed. In moment of
emotional insanity akin to Harry
Thaw's "brainstorm,'' the Anglo saxon
succunbed to the Latin. Such is ths
defense as outlined in certain quarters
to-day.
Meantime, the needs OF Chanler were
l5receiving consideration from friarIsi
! to-day rhe former sheriff was nor
entirely raoneyless, it was pointed oui.
There is still due him half years
salary with the fees OF his former of
flee.
william Astor Chanler and Lewis
help their brother So Will his SIS
ters, Mrs. John j. Chapman and Mrs.
Richard Aldrich. Indeed. 1T is not trr'
probable that John Armstrong Chalo-
ner the brother in Virginia, who ls
sane legally there and insane in this
State, will contribute. But the great
est obstacle, friends of the eX-sherlF
say, lies in the possible attitude of the
young artist himself.
World of Experience.
Chanler lived long enough abroad to
appreciate the European attitude In
such affairs said a close friend to-day.
When Lima Cavalter induced him to
sign way his annual income she =
brought to bear upon him world of
experience.
"Sheriff Bob is not the first man
who has left her side penniless and
disillusioned. There are at least two
men who have occasion to regret
knowing her, and who have fled or
been forced into exile because of that
acquaintance.
In 1895 Cavalieri was milliner-a
step upward from the barefooted flow
er girl in Rome with vaudeville aspir-
ations. She made her real debut
vaudeville at the Orfeo, in Rome. There
the Marquis Carlo Di Rudini. son OF
an ex-premler of ITALY saw her ana
became her "protector' She was sent
to school, and her voice was cultivated.
Within six months from the night OF
her opening song she had horses car
rIages and liveried servants. Bur the
father of the young nobeman took le.
gal steps. The young man himself
was sent on voyage to China.
But Lima had had her start She
moved on to Paris, where. witntn
short time. she became the chlet NV.
ure in certain class. she appeared az
the Folies Bergeres and became a.he
sensation of Paris. Soon 1T was re-
norted she had been married to Primes &
,Bariotinsky. a Russian of goot
house.
Mobbed From Stage.
Immediately after the marriage there
was a period of retirement for The
most beautiful woman in Europe She
was studying and making herself fit
for her position as a princess, IT was
said Next came visit to Lisbon
with the prince. AT the Theatre Royal,
there she made her debut in grand
opera as Media in II Pagliacci." cava-
lieri was young, nervous and ineXperl-
enced. There was no sign of manifest
disapproval on the first night but the
following evening the company was
mobbed from the stage. Amid these
the prince and Cavalieri /
spoke their words of parting. Cavalier
to Paris. where she had the
OF seeing the home OF
the prince sold under the hammer q
to pay his debts. They were divorced.
then followed visit to Russia by her,
Paris gossiped over that visit The
chartered that Lima had 4
met in exile Prince Louis Bonaparte.
who wished to be Emperor OF the
French. On her departure for Paris
he said: "Adieu. we shall meet in that
Paris which shall be our home"
The wide experience OF the singer,
Of which this is but an epitome, fur-
nished the adeptness which she brought
to hear upon Chanler.
81 Miners Fatal Fail.
Knoxville, Tenn, September liz
L., Davis, aged tweaty-two. miners IN
Burra Eurra copper mine, at Duck-b