New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-09
S1[PSON SHOT TO KILL
HER, SAYS MRS. CHARIOT
Taken to Mountains on Fathers
Order to Shoot Her,
She Charges.
HUSBAND IN BIG MINE co.
Trunks Are Held for $500 by
Hotel, and He Goes to Lud-
low Street Jail for $50
Alimony Arrears.

The difficulty which Alphonse Charles
Chariot. a mining man. has been expe-
riencirg in lis efforts to leave the Hotel
SEYMOUR. where he has been a patron,
will not bother him for while Deputy
Sheriff John f. Gilmore. acting under the
Instructions of Sheriff Hamburger. found a
way out for Chariot yesterday by placing
him under arrest The charge was con
tempt Of court for failure to pay Mrs.
Dace Melbourne Chariot alimony in her
suit for separation.
Only recently this latest acquisition TO
Warden Gene" Johnson's Alimony Club.
in Ludlow street Jail. was the president Of
the Chariot SHELTERS and Mines Company.
capitalized at 100000 and operating in
Mexico He still looked the part yester-
DAY when he was taken to Jail.
Chariot made the other members of the
club sit up and take notice Of his fur
lined overcoat and other details Of his
careful sartorial makeup. The amount
ior which the 100000 mine owner was
arrested is Ssp-two weeks alimony-hut
he said that he Is unable TO pay IT. and he
blames his wife for that
Chariot wanted 10 leave the Hotel Sey-
mour for less expensive quarters. but the
hotel management was holding his trunks
as security for 500 that he owed The
trunks are still at the hotel. AS for his
board and lodging. that item will be taken
care of by Warden Johnson for a time.
Chariot said. because of the notoriety
from his wifes suit, he had been unable
10 reorganize the FL Triunfo Mining Com
pany He also denied the statement Of
Mrs Chariot that he had been leading
riotous life and had been buying cham
pagne for other women. Mrs. Chariot said
that for some time her husband had been
drawing 1900 a month.
Mrs. Chariot was seventeen years old
when she married Chariot IN Jersey City
IN 1905 He vas ffty-hve years old. n
was his second marriage. and Mrs. Char
In said in her suit for separation on tho
ground Of cruelty. which has not yet come
10 trial. that while in Mexico he threat
ered % kill her. and actually ordered his
twanty-year-old son by his first marriage
% take Mrs. Chariot up in the mountains
and shoot her.
The wife said that one shot was fred
az her. but did not hit her. Mrs. Chariot
also alleged in her action that her hus~
hand put her out Of their home and then
pawned her jewelry for $500
Chariot in his answer 70 the separation
suit. said that he and his wife used to
1--we at the Waldorf and that he spent
many thousands Of dollars on her. He
said that she had 5000 shares in his min
ING company. which he said had value
Of 81 each. Chariot blamed his mother
in-law. Mrs shannon FOR most OF his do
nestle troubles. She was opposed to the
marriage. said Chariot. and had MADE
trouble for him ever since.
Mrs. shannon also served her son-in-iaw
With the order 70 show cause why he
should not be punished for contempt OF
court for not paying the two weeks all
rnony. Several process servers had tried
10 reach Chariot at the Hotel Seymour
hut without result. Then Mrs. shannon
undertook 70 serve the order-and she DID