Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-05
form of procedure:

10TH VI PIOSSoa4>-
"Ffle my petition with the judiciary
committee of the House of Represen-
tatives, as was done in the Archibald
case. l have done SO, and each men,
Der of the judiciary committee has
been sent a copy of my petition by
registered mail. Owing to the fact
that the session is about to close, the
committee will take up no new matters
before adjournment, but after the con-
ference I have had with thesaid men,
Der of Congress ] feel sure I will be
given hearing by the judiciary COM
mittee as early as possible the next
session of Congress next December"
Mr.. Chaloner characterized his case
a "blue blood" conspiracy. He said
that Judge Gray and Joseph H. Choate
were so powerful that no federal judge
in the lower courts would dare to go
against them. i am after public op-
inion to keep the judges straight" he
said.
He charged Judge Holt with being
san insurrecto against the rule which
govern all civilized courts"
Mr.. Chaloner in his denunciation of
the "gangsters" in New York who
were opposed to him went into TRADE
after TRADE of violent language,
which he accentuated with banging en-
the table and rising in excited fur
ries and shouting at the top of his
voice.
Mr.. Chaloner then took up the lun
acy laws of the various states in the
union which he denounced.
In Washington they were "bum." In
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Jer-
sey worse still, "and in New York they
are simply parallel with hell" He
said he took his life In his hands when
he went to Washington recently and
conferred with a Congressman about
Judge Hollis impeachment. 1t was
his purpose, he said, to reform these
lunacy laws of the country in accord
ance with an oath he had taken while
patient at Bloomingdale. He was
fully prepared, he said, to wear Con-
gress and the public out until I make
one Of them ashamed of themselves
for being parties of such damnable
state of lawlessness, tyranny, and dis
honesty which is rife today in nearly
so per cent of the states of the un-
ion."
These laws, he held, would be dis
grace to the Congo under the en-
lightened rule of the late King Leo
po1d of Belgium.
Mr.. Chaloner then took up the mes
sage he had received from Mr.. Mil
Ter, an ex-Confederate officer and a
member of the Manhattan Club of
New York and who is now in He'll.
Mr.. Chaloner said he was reading in
bed at the. Merry Mills, when he hap
pened to pick up a London periodical
which contained an article by Profess
sor William James, the psychologist.
According to Mr.. Chaloners story
he then; put mental question to his
faculty." asking if he could commun-
icate with his departed friend.
Mr.. Chaloner said he got pad and
blue pencil, and. letting his Sex fac
ulty" take control of him, waited for
the automatic writing tc begin.
Slowly, as he waited, came this:-
"Hell, Tuesday, 6'G2 P. NJ, July 30,
1912. You are no5 to begin until
dark"
Then latec came the massage:-
"you are to begin the inquiry into the
state of the de parted"
Later his fra III communicated
My dear bog, you don't know how
happy am that the hour has at last
S., uck in whicn I am permitted by
his Satanic maic>.t" to lift corner OF
tr.: veil which separates the living
f. ON the dead"
The message then went on 10 say
trat the New Testament was literally
anL absolutely true. that there was
hell fire and there was a purgatory
II had a moi .rately mild torture
con pared to many other persons IN
MY walk of lifc," continued the mes
So gre, "largely because | happened T.
b. a truthful and moderately honest
man by nature ana also largely be-
c: use l had my share of h9ll while
OH earth in bei.l:: New Yorker Of
social standing but without moEey.'
At frequent intervals Mr.. Chalonel
interrupted the sender of The message
bv expressions Of doubt as to its All
thenticity. Mr.. Chaloner explained
ia,er that he did not believe word 0:
It and that his IN faculty was simr
i " lying to him.
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