The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-20

THIS before left Virginia. :, boa ,o,a
iou VIII spend more than three
yesrs IN hell So was prepared for I,
=. 80 revolver always with me ana
~ TINS moment IT was under nv niIlow
Gets Drop oA Or. Starr.
AL, did not want to start anything NV
d;.,.So pretended to yawn nro.
h"usy. ike this"-and hen cted - ~,
me sand--'in the meanwbiIs s,,, =. on
my right hand beneath the niror, a,,s
,,,,d',,Is the revolver straight M tho
b. button OF DR.. Starts waistcoa,.
IN evening dress-without yyith
wing u from under the pillow sea-
s9 come up to the side of the hsd &c "a
|. . 1sken my left wrist In his hand
dror oe.or. said ito him. I've got the
r"p on you and you know H. '''0
guess he did all right for Ia ,,,o,,.
pale and let 60 my hand ' "e went
asked me. Win US auietlyT he
a,s' 1 replied, but I'll sit up and
-. euss the matter with you IL YOU pronn-
n.y. 70 Try any rough tactics'
apparently saw the wisdom NJ this
ourse and he proposed that he would
~ me away quietly and that he would
80 no ruffians In the hall to slug me
hi, NJ ~, 90 no shooting. Then he and
SONG days-iater Sylvester o,s,,,,,,,
.ne manager OF the hotel. an old Sr,on5
mine ana a fellow member with N, a ~
, Naahhsttan Club, came into the room
ein. .oio me that there were two njain
S." men downstairs from MULBERRY
street. that they had papers to take me-
anu anu tnat he had seen them and every
LING ns was all right and I'd better 20 with
satd as sullivan finished talking
ssio. thinking out loud:
I've half a mind to LET thess .co,,
s.meaning my brothers and their
crowu-have all the rope they want ana
od ~ tney won't hang themselves
OSuilivan thought I had beer to,,,,,
I'm ana ne accepted II as my word. 40
lei u go at that and got dressed a "a
went down stairs, where a CLOSED coanh
was Waiting. 1 got into it with NV valet
snu win the two men and we were
,Ven 70 the Grand Central Station.
the late Theodore Roosevelt tha, po,, Ds
Commissioner, and that he had ,oid
mem TO treat me with every considar.-
overwork Afoih
30 little did these men think w,s
really insane that when we got 70 tha
urand Central and ono Of them pot o,,t
70 get the tickets the other one. thinking
INA. ne had been gone too long, got out
on. Went siter him. leaving me alone
ana unguarded In the cab. got ont Nd
went across the street and bought so,,a
cigars and was back in the cab again he
fore they returned"
Chaioner then told OF his incarcera-
tion In Bloominsdale.
In humiliation" he said, ct resisnsd
from all my fifteen clubs except the
French Club .1e
AS soon az I realized the seriousness
nt my plight wanted to get out on
naoeas corpus proceedings. but all my
Ietters were censored and was never
able to get lawyer. After more than
three years I heard that my brothers
2ad instituted proceedings to have me
declared incompetent and the proceed
inss were to be held before q Sherifr's
Jury In New York. twenty miles from
where lay on my back. unable to walk
on account Of the spinal affiiction which
still bothers me. When that happened I
determined to escape. and after getting a
parole which permitted me to walk out
side the grounds I got $40 from a friend
who met me In Q nearby village, hid Il
In my sock. and when I was ready
walked away.
Refuses 100000 oner.
ut was while was in Bloomingdale
that my friends proved false to me and
went over to tho enemy. my brothers.
stanford White came to me and said
that he had an offer to buy the building
at 2sS Broadway. which I owned. 1t
was an offer of $4,000. and / thought
II 1t was worth that to others 1t was
worth more to me. for II stood IN the
eentre OF the block, controlling the de-
velopment Of the property owned by, two
big estates on either side. borrowed
the money andshad 4 modern ten story
building built on it-while ! was sup
posed to be a crazy man behind the bars
at observation-disclosures / own It to-day.
When got to Virginia Jefferson Levy,
one Of the shrewdest real estate OPP
orators In New York. came to me and
told me that he was the man who want
ed to buy It and that there was no other
business man in New York who would
have been shrewd enough to refuse an
apparently dazzling offer"
Then Chaloner told OF how he had
passed nearly a year under observation
at his own volition IN various private
sanitaria in and near Philadelphia, and
OF how he finally went to Merry Mills
Va, where he has since remained
He described the layout of his estate
there, saying that it was a quarter OF a