The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-30
SAYS HIS RELATIVES
 ARE WAITING CHANGE TO SEIZE HIM AGAIN
Recites to Court He Wants to Visit Washington to Secure Action Against a Newspaper There
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

Washington December 29-tSpeclal.l John Armstrong Chaloner of Virginia for many years prominently in the hme' light. has furnished correspondents with one of the most remarkable stories oi it's peculiar type which has broken ir years.
 The man, declared in New York to De insane and in Virginia to be perfectly sane. and who because of his experience in Bloomingdale asylum, changed his name from Chandler to Chaloner-the original family name, he maintains-has asked the district supreme court to guar antee him immunity from arrest, save fol crime committed, during prospective visit to Washington on which he intends to secure action against a local news paper He declares in his petition that attempts will be made, as soon as he emerges from the protecting soil Of Vlr- ginia. to incarcerate him in an insane asylum.
 He begs that the court protect him from all interference, molestation, detention arrest or incarceration except for crime ' This protection is sought on the assump- ton that the supreme court of New York, the Society of the New York Hos- pital, the Bloomingdale asylum or some member of the Chandler family may seek to disturb him.
 "A JOKE, A LAUGH"
 In the second paragraph, the petitioner maintains that he was committed to an asylum in New York in 1S97 but that the order of commitment has since been va cated or annulled. In respect to the ac- tion of New York authorities in declaring him insane, Chaloner, in the petition de- clares, ''the whole question Of your peu- tioner's insanity is one of the broadest possible farces ever manipulated into a court of law. It is a joke, laugh-noth- ing more"
 Continuing his story, Chaloner Writes: Your petitioner bachelor of arts and master of arts of Columbia university discovered in the winter of 1896 and 1897 that long and carefully conducted chain of experiments in advanced experimen- tai psychology had progressed until your petitioner was enabled to enter a clair voyant or meriumistic trance, almost at will, and under proper scientific condi- tions. Prof. William James of Harvard university said your petitioner was a medium of marked powers, who did not, however, believe in spiritualism, but charged up with the spiritualistic and psychological phenomena which he could produce-such as so-called spirit rap pings automatic writings, frances and trance-like states-to the subconscious- ness, or as your petitioner terms it, the x-faculty or unknown faculty in the mind now widely known as the subcon- scious self or subliminal self.''
 MENTIONS STANFORD WHITE
 oh ,fcrl White, involved, as is known in the sen- sational Thaw case, ''lured the petitioner to New York" where eventually he was declared insane and confined for life ir Bloomingdale. He remained there, he says, for four years. until he managed to escape Thanksgiving Eve, 1900, and fled to Philadelphia
 The following representation is made to the court: "An even more sinister aspect of the threatened danger in venturing un- protected north of the Potomac, now pre- sents itself, to-wit: The danger of be- ing Kidnapped by so-called strong men who could be imported from the east side of New York city, in high-powered automobile, and, after waylaying youl petitioner on some side street. when going to and from his temporary lodging ir Washington to the courthouse. and over towering him, would then hustle your pc titioner into the aforesaid touring car and in five or 10 minutes whirl him be- yond the borders of the District of Co- lumbia, and the jurisdiction of this court and on into the state of New York and the cells of Bloomingdale'
 REFERS TO SENATOR
 The petitioner asks, in addition to the writ of protection desired, that he be put in the custody of an officer of the court at his sole expense, should ex- pense be necessary
 In enumerating those opposed to his continued liberty the petitioner mentions the husband of a cousin of your peti- tioner, now member of the United States Senate" In this connection. he continues, Said senator is now in Wash. ington, and is as much interested as ever in locking up for life your petitioner"
 Accompanying the petition is number Of exhibits of the petitioners writings notable among which is his book on 'Lun. acy Laws He adds that none of his op- ponents ever wrote anything of higher artistic or intellectual level than a cheque.