The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-07
CHALONER HAS
AWFUL CHARGE
Says Famous Scientist Was
Cause of all His
Woes.
CALLS RUTHERFORD MONSTER
One of Most Noted New
York Families is
Attacked.
Well Known Churchman
Real Head Devil of
Conspiracy.
Ry limited Presa wIre.

the most famous scientists America
has ever known, the late Lewis Nor
ris Rutherford, the astronomer. The
discovery of the facts against Ruth
erford were the basis, Chaloner as
serted, of the alleged plot to incar-
cerate him IN Bloominsdale Asylum
for life and all the chain of events
/ which, le,iN up to the taking of de.
positions here IN N>chaloner's suit &c
recover his property
Chaloner, in attacking RIGherford
attacked in a way the whole fcpth.
erford clan. wlnthtope Chanler
Rutherford is the husband of the
daughter Of Levi =. Morton; anoth-
er son, Lewis NJ. Rutherford, Jro
married Mrs. Sammy" sands, whose
third matrimonial venture Is w. Is.
Vanderbilt. Sr., OF Paris.
A third son is Rutherford Stuyve-
SAINT, who changed his name, about
to inherit the Peter Stuyvesant mill
lions. Miss Margaret Rutherford,
daughter of Lewis M. Rutherford, Jr.,
and Mrs. Vanderbilt, is about to mar
ty the son of Mrs. ogden Mills.
Names Society Leaders.
3 Mr.. Chaloner on the stand named
all these people, saying he was carry
ing his war into the holiest of HOLES
OF New York society.
80 far as the 400 goes, Mr.. Chal-
oner today launched such an attack
against II as II has never in all its
a aft hlfan
Wall street lawyers In the bitterest
terms, and l'denbuUced in carefully
schossh invectiva the New Y6rK bank
'tr6m which nis safety deposit box
WAS taken by Prescott Hall Butler,
rMIth letters which contained evidence
against Lewis, Morris, Rutherford, Sr.
The safety deposit box, Chaioner
. alleged, was blown up while he was
in Bloomingdale, the bank permitting
Butler, he declared, TO do this. Press
icott Hall Butler himself was called
almost every name Mr.. Chaloner
could think of and he managed To
think of a great many
Names s'sIsca1 Head Devil"
- Mr.. "Chaloner named Heniy Lewis
Morris. attorney and well known
Episcopal Iayman, as the real head
devil Of the conspiracy against me-
Il Morris. he alleged, acted for Lewis
Rutherford Sr., Lewis Rutherford
Jr., and for the Chanler brothers,
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, the form
er governor, and Winthrop Astor
Chanler, in "concocting the dlaboll-
cal plot against me-
For years had wondered how the
mean an dstingy Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler and the none too brainy Win
throp Astor Chanler had ever man
aged TO conceive the clever scheme
by which / was suddenly railroaded
10 the asylum" said Chaloner. 1T
was such magnihcently contrlved
and, executed piece of rascality, in
Yolying such complete knowledge of
the complicated lunaey laws OF New
York. that / always was astounded
that the Chanlers could plan II.
mot until 1898, when l found that
the Bank of New York had permitted
prescott Hall Butler to act like a
yeggman and blow up my safety de-
poslt box, where important letters
lay, was the veil lifted from my eyes.
Then l understood that the great
brain OF old Rutherford---for he was
q wonderful genius as well as ter
rlble monster-had been the first In
the plot, and that Henry Lewis Nor
ris has been the engineer of the un-
derground railway whic hshot me
from City Hail Park to Blooming
gale asylum.
Names 400 Members"
IF the fates had combined to make
this story interesting they could not
have involved more -blooded
and pretentious set of people. Let
me put in the record whom It in
wolves"
Chaloner then named Mrs. Win
throp Rutherford and Mrs. w. *.
Vanderbilt and explained their con-
nection. past or present, to the elder
Rutherford Then he continued;
Il am coming to the grandest lit
lie name of all. that of one of the
two possible future queens OF New
York society. Miss Margaret Ruth
,erford, | mean. who is to wed the son
of Mrs. ogden Mills.
"she may be married already.
may not know. / have been too busy
with my own affairs to follow the de-
tails OF the hVes OF the self-adVef-
tising New York 400, into whose
holy of holles l carry the great war
by exposing what sort of man these
people are sprung from.
"a much-married lady is Mrs. Van
derbilt," he said In commenting upon
her.
Mr. Chaloner's phrase for allenists
was professional perJurers and MUIR
derous sneak thieves who viii be walt
ing like carrion crows In the court
room"
"They perjure themselves daily for
their bread" he said, waiting
around court rooms 60 fatten upon
some gentlemen of Independent
means who can pay their murderous
fees out of his estate when he Is
imprisoned In an asylum"
Joseph Choate, Jr, was called O
nasty little cur for WHITING chaloner's
name as Chanler. ChalOner said he