The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-15
MADE INV VISIBLE
BY LEGAL MANT TIE
Court Can't See Chaloner While
He Is i'll New
York.
FIGHTING FOR His ESTATE
Master OF The Merry Mills Hopes
Finally to Have Brand OF
Insanity Removed.
Especial to The Times.pispatch I,


New York, February li.-wltnin the
next ten days John Armstrong Chalon cir.
brother of William Astor, Lewis Stuy-
vesant and Robert Stuyvesant Chanler.
VIII come TO this city to appear be-
fore Judge Holt In the United states
Circuit Court. Mr.. Chaloner. under the
laws OF this State. is a lunatic and
refugee from the Bloomngdalo Asy-
lum.
Mr.. chaioner will come here in a
mantle of legal invisibilty, like that
of the hero in tne old fairy tales. BY
order of the United States Court the
State of New York cannot see John
\. Chaloner, of Virainia, while he is
in this State attending to his interests
in his action 10 have the committee
of his person discharged and his sam
ity declared.
The trial of nj. case was set down
for to-day. Unfinished business OF the
court put il over. The only proceed
Ing was request by Hugh Gordon
Miller, OF counsel for Mr. Chaloner.
that q deposition by the Princess
Troubetzkoy. formerly Amelie Rives
chanler, the wife of Mr.. Chaloner,
who divorced him. and another by DR..
Sha ckedford. of Virginia, a physician.
now dead, be especially searched for
by the officers of the court.
Former Wifc's Deposition.
The deposition OF the Princess
Troubetzkoy is expected 10 recit that
she regarded Chaloncr at the time he
was found insane as of sound mind
and able to attend to his own business
and that her reason for seeking a
divorce was due to her differences OF
temperament with MIN.
The paper has been mslaid in tts,
recent confusion of the Federal Court
records. due 10 changes OF the fling
system If 1t Is not found it Is prob
able the case will go ahead with the
agreement of both sides that n carbon
copy may be- used for the original.
Twenty seven nei6hbors OF MIR.
Chaloner in Virginia have made de-
positions in his favor There are
farmers. Judges, professional and busi-
ness men among them
Judge y. d. Dabney. judge of the City
Court of Charlottesville; Dr. Francis
Lee Thurman. of KeswIck, and Lawyer
w. tiilmer Dunn, OF Charlottesville. are
IN thia city 10 give their testimony.
1t is the contention OF Mr. Miller,
william r. Reed and /. A. Ware. OF Mr.
Chaloners counsel. tina, by his man
ngcment of his Virginia estate, by has
lima. by the legal textbooks H. has
written, by the inventions which he
has patented, by his many charitable
enterprises In Virginia. by his politi-
cal uttcranccs ana by his social inter
course among his neghbors. Mr.. Chal-
oner has shown hims,lf much more
competent and sane than soma of his
New York relations.
TrunkfuI of Exhibits.
This Is in line with Mr. Cnaloncrs
dispatch to his brother. Robert Chan
lar, after the Cavalieri incident: Who's
looney now?" They havo n trunkful or
exhibits to show the Jury rs evidence
Of this claim.
+. Furthermore. the lawyers will sock
10 establish that in event Mr.. Chaloncr
should die while the brand OF insanity
rests on him. his s2,000000 estate here
would revart to his next of kin. his
brothers. who got tho late stanford
CONTINUED on Third PaEe)