The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-14
His Lawyer Prepared
to Offer $40, 900 for
His Freedom.
MUST RELEASE
ALL HER CLAIMS
Payment Contingent on Singer
Getting Divorce or Permitting
Sheriff Bob" to Get One.
She Is Angry Over Manner
in Which Affair Has
Been Bungled.
Especial to The Times-pispatch,l


New York, September I3.-Sidney
Harris. personal counsel for Robert
Winthrop Chanler, has gone to Paris,
and 1t is the understanding among his
friends that his mission is last eff
fort to settle the unfortunate Chanler-
Cavalieri matrimonial hasco by means
of money offer and n divorce.
With the consent of Chanler, who
has finally given up the diva, he is
prepared to offer her $4,000 in lieu
of all claim she won to his estate
through the famous marriage agree
ment But he will stipulate that either
she shall get a divorce in France or
agree that Chanier may obtain one IN
some Western state without con
test
Distrust Each Other.
The reason that 1t Is so hard for
Nine. Cavalieri and the lawyers to
settle the affair is that they are dis
trustful of each other. For instance,
II is not long since that Cavalieri
offered to sign n waiver of her claims
for $4,000 and CHAMBERS lawyers even
went so far as to draw the check. Blu,
Nine Cavalieri was IN Paris. and she
stoutly refused to touch pen to paper
until she had the cash In her own fair
hands. wherupon Chambers lawyers
grew wary and refused to send the
check until they should receive her
waiver.
And that's how the matter stands.
Meanwhile, Nine Cavalieri has not re-
ceived a single penny of all the for
tune her dotlng husband settled on
her His astute lawyers have tied that
property up In wey that would take
years to break-even If 1t were posi-
ble to break 1t. L!na's own counsel
has advised her to jump at that Slo,ooo,
get her divorce and be quit of the
whole business.
But Lima Cavaleiri is very angry
woman. She is angry at Bob Chan'
Ter for presenting her with sew
eral hundred thousand dollars ne
| had no right to give away. ehe
is angrier with her French law
yors. who drew up the mar
rage settlement so bunglingly. and.
finally she is angry with herself. for
She might hive ozzened considerably
more money from Bob IL she mad not
sent him homcward bound. deserted
after only a few weeks honeymoon.
While Bob" was with her he gave
her all his income, and he even man
aged to wheedle considerable sums
from his attorneys as advances. The
diva pocketed all this. If she had stood
by Bob she was assured of at least
$4,000 n year and whatever else her
husband could induce the hardisted
lawyers to release to him. But sho
thought she had 1t ''all bound round
with wooden string"-though that
marriage settlement--and so the ink
on the marriage certificate was hardly
dry when she dispatched him to Amer
lea. and hurried to her first love the
Russian count.
They have been together pretty much
ever since. in Russia, In Nice. in Paris
and Berlin. But always Lima has kept
her weather eye blued on Bob Chan
lers fortune. and always she has been
proddins her lawyers to find some way
out of the muddle.
Chambers lawyers are mighty WILL
ing to settle for $4,000. for though
that will tie him up financially for
seven years they figure that the ex-
rense and trouble would be ten times
MS great IL an attempt were made to
carry on the farcIcal marriage. Mr..
Harris Is believed to have taken the
check in his pocket to Paris, and he
will present 1t with one hand to Linn
Cayaleiri, while he receives the waiver
with the other.
But the lawyer will also force
from Lima contract agreeing
either to divorce Robert w. Chen
Ter or be divorced by him. and
he will stipuatc that there be no
delay about the severng OF tho
letters. What luck he - having only
Mr. Harris and Lima know. but 1t IS
certain that some Of the Interviews in
her Paris villa are stormy stormy
sessions--Madame not being possessed
of too much patience and bearing in
the matter special grudse.
Meanwhile eX-Sherff Bob" the
shorn bridegroom. leads a life of I'M
utterable loneliness among his pigs
and chickens at Red Hook. Friends
say that he is not the same rollickipS
old Rob" Chanler by any means.
There's no DOUBT in the world that
his marital troubles have hit deeply
to his heart. tle Is at odds with all
the members OF his family save one.
His sister, who before her marriage
was Margaret Aston Chanler, stands
up for "old Bob nobly. and is believed
to be furnishing him money out of her
own allowance SO that he may con-
tinuc the expensive art studies that
are now his only solace. The other
brothers have to all practical purposes
broken with him completely, and any
business that must he done with Bob"
is left to a conferences OF lawyers,
StilI Loves the Diva.
Bob" has said that he has never
stopped loving Lima Cavaleiri. and that
whenever she would call he'd fly to
her side, But Lima has given no indi-
cation of calling. Instead, she repsls
every advance he has made. and It is
quite probable that when the divorce
finally comes about she Will seize the
first opportunity to marry the Russian
count,
At Mr. Harris's ofnce to-day it was
said that the lawyer was now in
! Europe. IT was added that he had
intended to make the trip. not partic-
ularly to settle the ~nam.er iIasco, but