The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-12-23
HARRYTHAW SANE.
SAYS CHAl0NER
Discusses Stanford White Shoot
ing, and Challenges
Trial Judge.
ENDORSES BREAD AND WATER
Makes 1t His Diet Thrice d
Week, Like Victorious Men
OF History.

Harry X. T1aw. slayer OF SANFORD
White. is victim Of a conspiracy,
according 70 John Armstrong Chaioner.
and is being deprived of hiS liberty on
a trumped-up insanity charge.
Il am not friend of II. x. Thaw,"
said Mr.. Chaloner at the Rex Theatre
last night, NOR a friend OF the IDLE
rich class which he represents. but
speaking as a lawyer and an authori-
~ on lunacy. I say this TO the worfd:
Thaw is to-day as sane as any man
in this audience. speak from
knowledge born of walking the wards
in Bloomingdale for four years"
Mr.. Chaloner went at some length
into the Madison Square Garden shoot
ing. rhaw was undoubtedly insane
when he shot White. he said. but only
during that moment. Never since that
time. ne insisted, either during his trial
or subsequent Incarceration. was a
single one OF his acts that OF mad
man.
With his opinion on Thaw's mental
condition thus stated, Mr.. Chaloner
delivered a bit of the Thaw trial his
tory. which he said has never yet been
made public. AS far as he knew, no
newspaper had ever printed il.
Says Judge Was Incompetent.
II charge" said Mr.. Chaloner. wav-
that Judge Kehoe. Of the New York
State Supreme Court. who presided
when Thaw's attorneys made their last
application for retrial through
habeas corpus proceedings, had no
right TO sit on the bench at that hear
ing. for Judge Kehoe IS practically the
brother-in-law of Stanford White"
This relationship to the victim of
the man on trial before him. he said.
would be construed by any competent
authority as invalidating his right 10
preside. The speaker traced the rela-
tionship through Devereux Emmett. .
brother OF Judge Kehoe's wife. who
married a Miss Smith. a sister Of Mrs.
to question the genealogy, and it
stood.
How do 1 know this?" asked Mr..
Chaloner. Because one Of my eX-
sisters-notice the ex-I do it because
want TO emphasize the gulf which
hope will always separate me from
my kin, both in this world and the
one to come-because one Of my ex-
sisters married a brother OF this same
Devereux Emmett. l a sort of
brother-in-law TO Judge Kenoe myself
and to Stanford White, too, for that
matter"
Defends Bread Diet.
Mr.. Chaloner devoted the opening
few minutes of his address to his
much-quoted advocacy of a bread diet
as an al to health and long life. The
story, he said, was first printed in Ra-
leigh last week. where reporter for
the News and Observer surprised him
1no
and a quart of water. Since tnen, he
said, il has been distorted and made
matter of sport.
II sincerely believe that a bread
and-water diet three days a week is
conducive TO long life and health l
have practiced II for years. ana al
though 1 am fifty, l don't look older
han tni-ty-fve and feel as young as
twenty-five Bread and water is my
only food on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays On the other days OF the
week / eat normal foods.
The bread diet theory said Mr..
ChaIoner. has been proved sound by
history. The Romans who conquered
the Gauls and Germans. and the Eng
fish and Scotch soldiers of later times
were wheat-eating men. The Scotch.
ne said, ate oats. tOo-hence their final
subjudation by England.
No Love for Cereals.
The speaker had no love for the
patented cereals which are widely ad-
vertised as brain and Drawn foods
They are without a single redeming
quality, he said. and only a poor ini-
;ation of bread.
They don't even taste good said
MIR ChaIoner. "Oh, Yes. l know il
YOU disguise them sufficiently. if you
put enough good sugar and cream over
them. YOU can make them paiatab BILE l
can do the same thing with prussic
acid. Prussic acid in a peach tastes
good enough II you Will let me dis
guise il sufficiently. l can make enat
deadly poison Harmless. and palataole,
too"