The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-21
WILLING TO GIVE
$4,000 YEARLY
TO FORMER WIFI T
rim cess Troubetzkoy
Will Receive It From
Chaloner's Estate.
zl
PROMISE MADE
BEFORE DIVORCE
Former Amelie Rives Files De-
mand for Allowance, and Mas
ter Of Merry Mills Says He
Will Make Good His
Word and Let Her
Have It.
Especial to The Times .Dispateh !,


legal papers filed in the Suprema
Court to-day. Princess Aemlie Trou-
betzkoy, whose maiden name was
Amelto Rives, has made u demand 10,
an allowance of $500 yearly from, the x
net income OF $4,000 year cnioycd II
By her first husband, John Armstrong
Chanler. who, in his home in Virginia,
Is known as John Armstrong Cha Toner Il
In 1896 Amelic Rives Chanlcr got a
decree Of divorce from CHAMBER in
South Dakota. On February /, 1895,
she was married to Prince Pierre Trou- q.
bctzkoy She is now living with the IS
prince in this city
Upon application Of Thomas T. Silcr-
man, committee of the estate of John
Armstrong Chanler. IAN Incompetent
In this State, Justice Guy, III the SUI
prone Court has just appointed Geo
NJ. Nicilelar referee to pass upon the
claim OF the princess
Willing to Pay 1t.
III his petition, Mr.. Sherman who
WAS represented by Joseph H. Choate
Ir set forth that the Princess Trou.
betzkoy asserted she was entitled tt @
receive the allowance Of $500 a year 4
from the estate of her former husband
and that She had represented to him K
her belief that the payment of tho
yearly allowance would add to the
happiness Of Chanler. and that lie had
expressed the wish that the allowances
he paid to her
Mr.. Sherman set forth in his petition
that the princess said that prior to tho
| divorce she intrusted to the care ot
| Chanltr $50 900 in various amounts
| She said that In consideration of her.
not making any demand for the return
OF this money, Which was declared to
be part OF her earnings from her
writings (shc is the author Of several
| novels), and IN further consideration
that she would not demand a1imony,
Chanler promised and agreed to pay
to her $500 q year during the re-
nainder OF her life. She said that ar
ter Chanlcr was declared an incompe- II
tent in this state that none OF tile ALI
mony was paid to her
Mi Sherman further set forth thas
on Juno IS. 1899. Chanler was by
Judgment II the Supreme Court here
declared to be an incompetent, and was
committed to the Bloomingdale ASYLUM II
at White Plains. He said that in No
Tcrlber. 1900. Chanler escaped from
that asylum and went to Virginia.
where he has since remained. He now
dives on his farm. Merry Mills near Il
Gotham. In Albemarle county, Va. In *
the courts In Virginia lie succeeded in
having himself declared to be sane and
competent and assumed the name OF
Chaloner. which he asserted was the
original family name.
Property Worth S1,0oO,00O.
Mr. Sherman also set forth In de-.
tail Chanlers interests In properties
worth 100000. part OF it valuabls
real estate in this city.
John Armstrong Chanler. or CnalI
oner. is brother Of former Eieutent
ant-Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chunt
Ter and Of Robert Winthrop Chanler, the
husband Of Lima Cavalieri. to whom he
gave practically all OF his property by
a prenuptial agreement. The litigat
tlon which grew out Of the agreement
so FAR as is known. Is still pending.
"tnfsc Flap of the Tent
Now that the Princess Troubetzkoy &
wants $500 yearly from me. and has
so declared herself, / shall raise the
flap Of the tent just a bit and let them
take small squint at the circus that
will be pulled off In the New York
courts when my case comes up" sai6
John Armstrong Chaloner. at the West.
moroland Club last night.
ION the first page OF the schedule OF &
my property and income for the past
year. recently fled In the New York
Supreme Court by Thomas T. Sherman
The falsely alleged committee OF my
person and estate, whom I am suing
In the Federal Circuit Court In New
York City for said property. appearI
an item concerning an advance made
In or about 1896 of several hundred
dollars to the Princess Amelie Trou.
betZkcy, secured by several hundred
shares OF the Self-Threading Sewing
Machine Company.
Present to His Wife.
''Said shares were made over TO thu
latter by me as a present while sha
was my wife with the remark that IN
time they would bring her in annually
$4,000 income.
said shares would have done so had
not the late Stanford White. followed
by tho late Prescott Hall Butler. both
involved IN the conspiracy against my
liberty and property, tho first step OF &
which plot was TO get mo into Bloom.
ing1alc on n ncrjured and false charge
Of lunacy, throttltd the company. At
tachments belonging to the said sewing
machine company met with a ready &
sale, $4,000 worth of orders being
booked al tho Worlds Fair at Chicago.
but 1t required from 1899 to 1891. to-
| invent tools for putting them on the
| ma rket IN large quantities,
at the time that l had made the said
| present to the said party, ] remarked
| that ii by any unforeseen accident the
| Self Threading Sewing Machine stock Y.
| did not make good, | would substitute #
| income to a least said amount Of $4,000
| from some one or more OF my various n
properties when said properties should
| have improved 50 as TO enable me to &.
do 80 without feeling IL. Sa
| Time Comes to Make Good.
| said schedule proves my property "a s.
| have improved until II ia worth oyet