Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 21, 29 November 1908 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIUM AXD SUN-TLEGRAJI, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1908.

Romantic Fight of John A rmstrong Chaloner Against Relatives and New York Sanity Laws Story of Man Who Seeks Custody of His Fortune and His Pursuits Along Psychological Lines Which Send Him to the Mad House. Can a Man Carry Red Hot Coals in Hand and Be Sane?

L By WILL W. RELLER. Can a man carry red hot coals o' fire In his bare hand; go into trances where he vividly portrays the might; Napoleon on his death bed; declan that his eyes have changed in color have other eccentricities and still b. perfectly sane? The aristocratic, wealthy and Influential Chanler family of New Yorl city said no, and when one oj theii own kin, John Armstrong Chalone: (Chanler) acted so, they immediatelj dragged him before a lunacy commission, had him declared insane, hurried him to Bloomingdale mad house and placed his property, valued a $1,500,000 In the hands of a committer A raving maniac, made so by hi. Impractical study of psychology, hi. relatives said, and liable at any mom ent to do his fellows bodily harm. Th leading alienists in New York cit: confirmed these observations, th learned judge legally sanctioned it all and when Bloomingdale was reache with its powerful guards and iron bar. the New York press sighed the pub lie's relief, assured its readers tha another rich lunatic, had been judiciously placed where his insane delu slons and homicidal demonstrations would harm no one. For three years and eight month? In his maniac cell Chaloner, blue blood scion, college graduate, athlete, club man, world wide traveler, literary genius, art lover and Inventor, pleaded with th outside world for justice, and Always the answer came back "You're erazy." Complete desertion by his family convinced his former friends that Chaloner was a hopeless lunatic, and now this handsome Gibson figure who but a short while before had been idolized by the Four Hundred of New York, and whose welcome in most exclusive clubs and aristocratic homes never grew cold, found himself an outcast, surrounded on all sides by mental perverts, whose wild shrieks robbed sleep in the gentlest hours of the night, and whose association was most repulsive to his delicate nature In the light of day. Old favors were forgotten, former obligations broken, and no one now desired or dared to help this erstwhile favorite. Craftily Plans Escape Thus thrown upon his own resources Chaloner determined he would escape. The ' resolution was not framed on the moment, but was the result of long and careful thought, crafty and deepest planning. He was successful; the only Inmate that has ever absolutely eluded the trained human sleuth hounds of Bloomingdale. ' He made his way to Philadelphia, while police hunted and private de tectlve trailed him, adopted the pseu donym, "John Childe," and voluntarily placed himself in a private sanitarium for the insane. After six months observation the skilled alienists in charge pronounced him absolutely sane. Next to still another sanitarium, and then to Virginia where Chaloner asked the courts to legally confirm the Philadelphia alienists' decision, which they did. "Stop Thieves," Cries Chaloner. Thus exonerated, Chaloner now cries in vehement tones, "Stop thieves, hold perjurers; give back my fortune, and my go,od name." More than that, he has entered suit in the federal court of New York asking that the old proceedings against him be declared absolutely null and void because the lunacy law of the Empire state is unconstitutional; demanding that ignorant judges, paid and unscrupulous alienists cease to make of sweet justIce a hollow mockery, and a reproach to our boasted civilization. No fertile brain ever conceived a more absorbing and dramatic story than that of John Armstrong Chaloner. There is every needed element for the most elaborate fiction. He himself, proud claimant of the blood of John Winthrop, William B. Astor, General Marion and Charlotte Corday, graduate of both law and liberal arts at Columbia university, handsome, wealthy and gifted, can well claim to be one of America's "upper tens" and a most fitting person around whom to build a melodrama. The principal setting is the most exclusive circles of New York's varied life, the mad house of the White Plains, and the happy green fields of Virginia. The leading characters em- . brace the Char.lers. among whom is "Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler. a brother, just defeated for governor of New York, and now lieutenant governor of that state, the Princess Paul Troubetsky, nee Amelie Rives, the well known authoress, divorced wife of Chaloner; the late Stanford Whitet, whom Chaloner charges with the darkest perfidy and heartless infidelity; leaders of the bar and medical profession of the east. and of late there has been injected in to the plot, "The Veiled Lady." Ac cording to Chaloner the lady is one of the most prominent members of New York society, and she will be brought into the pending case in the federal court. Mr. Chaloner says that he regrets this fact that the case has taken, and he will shield the lady's name from the public, by handing it to the Judge (if it be necessary) in a sealed letter. According to Chaloner the letter will show the truth of the old motto, "Jealousy is as cruel as the grave." Strangely 4he Chaloner case touches again and again the Thaw case. It was Stanford White who induced his friend "Archie" to come from his es tate In Virginia, where he was free, honored and loved, to New York, from where he was hurried to Bloomindale In the roof garden atop the Madison Square garden, which White had built

and where he was listening to a light ummer entertainment, White was aferwards slain by Harry Thaw, rhaw's Jailer for months was Robert vVinthrop Chanler, brother of the hero jf the Chaloner case. And that the precedent of escape from one state where his status is that of an insane person, to another, where the courts nay grant his freedon, has been conidered by the lawyers of Harry Thaw nd has been proven in the attempt to ,ecure Thaw's presence in Pittsburg. In the Chaloner case there is a 'ght on for a million and a half, with powerful wealthy relatives on one side :nd, according to New York courts, a matic on the other. The lunatic says hat his money is a secondary consideration, in witness thereof he has already deeded his country place "The Merry Mills," a splendid tract of 400 acres to the university of Virginia, retaining but a life interest for himself, and he has promised to leave the fortune, for which he is fighting to VlrSiniia, save a large legacy to the University of North Carolina. Fight for a Million. Chaloner's primary motive Is vindidication, redress fostered by four years in a mad house where he -iodly and deliberately took a Hannibal oath that he would devote overy dollar of his income, and if need be, every year of his life, in an effort to correct the defective lunacy laws of New York State, and of 40 per cent of the other states in the union. Prepares For Struggle. Living alone in his country home, nestled among Virginia's hills, Chal

oner is preparing for the oncoming battle. His is the master hand, his the fertile brain which has mapped out the legal line of match against the powerful forces in New York, which he claims are combining to maintain the illegal lunacy laws. A brief of 1,500 printed pages, covering every possible point in his case is but part of what this "hopeless lunatic" has done. A mighty struggle this case in New York will be, and the kind public is very likely to be with the under dog. But now in sequence to take up Chaloner's strange story. His marriage to Amelie Rives, then a wilful, gifted Virginia girl was one of the first and leading causes of his enstrangement from his family. Chal oner was courting Miss Rives whom her brilliant and startling novel, "The Quick of the Dead," appeared, in which she told of the old love of a beautiful widow for her dead husband, and her newer love for another man, Jack Dering, in the flesh. In fact Chaloner was none other than Jack Dering. She described him "There was the same curling brown hair above strong modeled forehead; eyes the color of autumn pools in the sunlight; the determined jut of the nose; the pleasing uneveness in the crowded white teeth; the fine jaw, which had that curve from ear t tip like the prow of a cutter." A marked copy of this sensational took Chaloner's family sent to him, but their protestation availed nothing, and the marriage was cosummated. This served to add to the young authoress popularity, and enormously increased the sale of her book. But there were more points of difference than of contact and coalescence in the characters of the pair, and after a few years the couple separated and a divorce was secured on the grounds of incompatibility of temper. Now, however, Chaloner declares that his wedlock was one of the most pleasant incidents of his life, end he advises all young men to marry. In fact, he is an advocate of the law whereby bachelors are taxed, the money going to the state, and being used for the benefit of struggling fathers with families. Twenty-five years, is the limit of time a man should be allowed to remain single, according to Chaloner. Business quarrels, an unequal division of the estate, in which Chaloner was favored, his failure to attend his sister's wedding, and other minor causes, he says, tended to widen the breach between him and his family. Stanford White Led Way. Finally, disgusted with New York, on which plan he declares Hell is made, Chaloner determined to spend his remaining days quietly pursuing the study of psychology and kindred sciences on his Virginia estate, and developing land which he owned, in the then just developing cotton and milling region of North Carolina. He was at his country seat, "The Merry Mills," when visited by Stanford White, who, Chaloner declares, coaxed him to "return to the metropolitan whirl once more." Having some business in the city needing his attention, Chaloner says that he yielded, and went back to Gotham. There, he says, at the request of White he performed, what he terms, a scientific experiment in occult psychology, by which he went into a trance, his face at the time resembling the death mask of Napoleon. Alienists saw this, and the exhibition, coupled with Chaloner's inhuman act of carrying red hot coals in his bare hands, and his declaration that his eyes had changed color from brown to gray, caused them to declare him insane. Chaloner tried to explain that his erratic actions were but laboratory experiments In a study In which he had advanced farther than ordinary students. But the medical men shook their heads wisely, and called It a hopeless case of paranoia (another word for monomania) while bis rich relatives with tearful cye3 told of the unfortunato man's eccentricities, and the Judge pronounced the sentence. Carried Uve Coals In Hand. To an ordinary laynuvn, carry ins

red hot coals In the naked hand is certainly a sign of dementia, and yet Chaloner gives a most reasonable explanation of his rash act. He says that he was but experimenting to prove that the law touching the conservation of energy, held good in things mental, as well as in things ma

terial For three years Chaloner, has been resisting the desire to eat meat, and had placed himself on what was a distasteful vegetable diet. Now Chaloner desired to know if this force of will power was stored up, or wheth2r it was lost. He tried the fire test; fire, because it is the most. painful element to human beings. Taking a handful of live coals, making no sound, and walking on square heel and toe, a distance of fifteen feet to an open window , he vigorously threw the coals onto the lawn, not having dropped one during the trying ordeal. Chaloner says that the pain was excruciating, but he felt justified in undergoing it to prove his theory. It required three buckets of cold water to draw the fire from his badly blistered hand, which he carried in a bandage for ten days afterward. Even to this day Chaloner declares that his eyes have changed in color. They are gray now, and he has the affidavit of his former wife, the Princess Troubetskoy, that they were brown when she pictured him in "The Quick of the Dead." The change in the color of his eye3 Chaloner attributes to what he calls the "X-f acuity." This "faculty," he says, grew out of his system of dieting. With this dieting came the realization of a mysterious power. How could he harness this unknown "faculty," and make it of service, he asked himself. Follows the Planchette. Chaloner was formerly an expert at pool. One day when "breaking" the balls, he was surprised to see them form in the position of the stars in the constellations of the big and little dippers. On setting them up again they "broke" in the same way. He says that he started to plot their position on paper, and then experienced the mysterious power of automatic writ ing. He secured a planchette, and when he turned it loose it told him that he was the reincarnation of Napoleon Bo naparte. The planchette told him to try his luck in Wall street. To test the truthfulness of this singular power that had suddenly come to him, he went to New York, and walked in to a broker's office. There he tried the planchette again,' and it advised him to take a risky "flyer" on Man hattan. For three days he followed the mysterious dictates of the "X-fac-ulty" and at the end of that time he had won $1,300, and was told to quit. Chaloner says that he experienced the novel sensation of watching his own eyes change color. The "X-fac-ulty" told him to stand by the window facing west, with a mirror in one hand and your pearl pin in the other; watch the change. He declares that his eyes changed from brown to gray in three hours. Prof. William James, the noted psychologist of Harvard, has taken much interest in Chaloner's extraordinary case. In a written opinion, Prof. James says: "Chaloner is evidently possessed of a strong 'medlumistic' or 'physic temperament. But whereas most mediums promptly adopt the the ory, current in medlumistic circles, that these automatisism are due to spirit control, Chaloner, prepossessed against this theory, appears to have set to work systematically (and as It would appear from the narrative, critically) to explore them to determine their significance himself. In this at tempt he seems to me to deserve noth ing but praise. The only question is as to the amount of judiciousness shown in allowing the subject to ab sorb him so continuously. The most injudicious act of which he is accused is the experiment with fire. As de scribed in the motivation of this ex periment was rational and its results interesting, mut moderately harmful It seems to me a monstrous claim to say that a man may not make expert ments, even as extreme as that upon his own person without putting his legal freedom In jeopardy. The Napoleon experiment (going off in a trancelike state) falls strictly within the limits of praiseworthy research.' Escape Well Planned. When in Bloomingsdale Chaloner utilized his time most profitably mal ing a systematic study of the bible. reading the masters keeping himself in athletic trim and devoting many hours each day to perfecting his es cape. Whether or not insane, Chal oner exercised the cunning of a man iac in laying plans for his escape. Finally Chaloner gained the confi dence of his keepers, and was allow ed a short walk each day. Cleverly extending his strolls -ach dav, and carefully conserving his energy, he bo came an expert at walking being able to cover 12 miles in three hours, through the hills. At last the desired time came, and having borrowed ?10 from a person outside the asylum, Chaloner caught a train, eight miles from Bloomingdale and made his way to the Shaf fer sanitarium, 3224 Chestnut street in Philadelphia. Here while the press of the nation told various stories of his disappearance, and finally his death, he quietly underwent the most thorough test of his sanity. Fearing that the public might construe bis fav orable stay at the Shaffer sanitarium to be bat a lucid interval, after four years in Bloomingdala, the quiet, rath er punctllous "Mr. John Childe" went to another Institution at Cooeordvfile, Pa., and there submitted to the same voluntary process again, and w 14

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was perfect. Thus this unfortunate fellow, whom Dr. Lyon and Dr. Austin Flint, Sr., of Bloomingdale, Dr. Charles F. Mc Donald and Dr. M. Allen Starr had declared was "progressively and In curably insane" felt confident of his right to return to Virginia. What an eventful five years it had been since he left the valley of the Blue Ridge! His Eating Mechanical. That Chaloner is at least physical ly peculiar even his true friends will admit, and he even acknowledges, and says he regrets it. For instance he does not arise till noon and eats but two meals each day. These meals are simple affairs, consisting mostly of unbuttered bread with salt sprinkled over it and water. Occasionally Chal oner adds a little chocolate candy. a bit of fruit or cake to his meal, but never anything more, except twice a weeTi when he eats a small piecs of meat. This menu was not adopted because Chaloner likes It. but to pre vent him from getting gout, an ailment he inherited from ancestors accustomed to putting two bottles of Madeira under their belts before leavng the table. Eating is a most trying ordeal for Chaloner and he takes a unique way of trying to make it pleasant. His bread he cuts into pubes and then he covers the plate with a book or illus trated paper. He reads as he lunches and being absorbed In his reading, hfs eating becomes mechanical and thus loses it horror. He always answers his mail, a two hours task, before breakfast, after which meal he goes for a nine mile ride on horseback. His hours of work are from ten at night till three in the morning. He follows the same pro gram daily, save that on Sunday he does not work. While in Bloomingdale Chaloner says that the ability came to him to write and now he is indulging this talent, spending much of his time In the preparation of sonnets, of the Shakespearean style. Critics who have passed on the sonnets say they are works of a genius. Into his sonnets Chaloner has intro duced what he terms the quality of at subjects, and gentle sonnets for gentle subjects. Should he succeed in recov ering his fortune he intends to publish a sonnet quarterly, which will fiercely, yet, he says impartially, play the role of critic of those in the church, state and public press. Chaloner intends to hurl fiery broadsides at the yel low journals. A few of Chaloner's characteristic sonnets are here given. The first one on "The Poetry of Business," was sug gested by the deadly cares, horrible anxieties and terrible temptations in modern business, linked with the large number of failures. The sonnet fol lows: (Copyright by Palmetto Press.) The poetry of business is my theme. I And bloody epics doth her womb af ford. Weird as the evolutions of a dream. Restless as edge of conquering sword, Dark as the forehead of a coming storm, Bright and deadly as that storm's red levin; Her vast Satanic brain with plots doth swarm Plots black as hell, but orderly as heaven. On her dark battle-field doth brain meet brain. Intellect, Intellect, In deadly shock. No quarter there is ever giv'n or ta'en, That struggle's to the death twlxt hearts of rock. Fame, Home, and little ones are l'th ballance thrown Fame, Home and little ones with defeat go down. A sonnet on "Divorce" was suggested by the increasing tendency of the protestant churches to follow the lead of the Roman Catholic church in restricting divorce. The sonnet is also a defense of his own legal separation, although Chaloner . says that he did not intend it as such. The sonnet follows: (Copyright by Palmetto PreBS.) Love alone santifies the Marriage tie. Sans love mere veiled prostitution reigns. Note e'n the church can sanctify a lie. her love feigns. Such marriages do deep degrade the Chrch. And make Her unwitting the Procuress play. Such marriages do Womanhood besmirch. Such marriages are solemnized ev'ry day. And equal degradation doth set in Once love is dead for any cause at at all And the Church doth, but abet foul, deadly sin When She against Divorce lets canon fall. Thi3 only did Christ say: "Who shall put away." 'Gainst mutual Divorco naught did He say. Love accompanied by at least civil marriage. Love on both sides Is here meant. Chaloner prides himself on being aa old school lawyer, a type which he says were high priests In the temple of liberty. Most of the present day members of the bar he characterises as fee banting bravos, whose sword is at the bidding of any man whose purse is long enough, provided there is no shadow of prison bars thrown across the Job, John Chaloner has tasted of the bitterness of New York's inefficient lunacy laws, and he is bent on reforming It be can wis, his case in the

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federal court it will be to those charged with insanity what the Dred Scott decision was to the slaves. It will be revolutionary in its effect. It was Pinel who struck the shackles from off the insane of France, and Howard who called the attention of the good people of England to the damnable condition of British prlsone; along similar lines Chaloner intends to work. J. P. Morgan in Danger. Chaloner declares there is danger of business men such as Morgan and Harriman being victims of a plot such as that perpetrated upon him. Chaloner says the illegal lunacy laws could be taken advantage of, Harrlman or Morgan be declared insane, and havoc played In high finance. He claims that he himself suffered property loss of half a million while confined In Bloomingdale, in addition to the million and a half now kept from him. He says, "without the slightest hint of hyperbole one can call the clique of New York city lawyers, doctors, and 'Black Hand of Lunacy.'" They set to work secretly and unscrupulously to rob and murder a victim (by murder I mean putting a sane man in a mad house, and keeping him there till he goes insane, and thereafter dies) as do a gang of Black Hand. "The absolutely illegal laws of the state of New York on lunacy are a shame to humanity and civilization of that state. The black king of Dahomey could not have worse laws in his African kingdom. The ignorance of New York's very beet lawyers on ev ery subject outside corporaotion and criminal law is something appalling. They have never apparently heard of the Absolute Rights of the Individual as laid down in Blackstone's Commen taries, without which no grasp of the principles protecting and governing the legal rights of any individual can be had." Bloomingdale Bastile of 400. Chaloner's stay In Bloomingdale cost his estate thousands of dollars. the charge being ?10O for each week of confinement, and added amounts for extras." For this reason he has lit tle good to say for that institution as the following will show: Bloomindale is the Bastile of the Four Hundred, and It may be admitted first as last that it is run purely for money, purely on business principles, and not on charitable ones. Every 'patient within its walls is a pay patient,' as the parties putting him or her there can be squeezed into making it. "The exception to this iron clad rule are a handful of pauper, lunatics. from Westchester county, who are taken in free for the purpose of dodging the county taxes on the large and valuable real estate possesed by the Society of the New York Hospital in the city of White Plains. "A candidate for 'a certificate of lunacy' is requested by his masters therein the said examining doctors to stand up and then deliberately throw himself off his balance by putting his feet so close together, toes and heels touching, that one's equilibrium is menaced. He is then commanded to extend his arms to their fullest extent, hands outspread, palms upward and close together. He ia then ordered to open his mouth, put out his tongue and shut his eye's. "If he does not fall down on the spot he is lucky. It is while in the above described preposterous position that the physical examination of the examiners is taken." How little love exists between Chaloner and his own family is shown by his having secured a decree changing his name from Chanler, that used by his relatives to the ancestral form Chaloner. He has the blood of battlescarred heroes in his veins and he declares that he loves to fight in a good cause. This combined with the feelings which actuate him he declares, will cause the battle to wage until his kin cry for quarter, and New York's lnacy vultures are driven to an honest livelihood. Chaloner has announced that should he lose in the United States circuit court he will carry it to the United States circuit of appeals in which tribunal he has the highest confidence. But who can tell what may happen when Chaloner returns to New York, under the special writ of protection granted him. J4ay not the shrewd lawyers on the other side resort to some technicality In the law, drag Chaloner once more before the court he faced years aso- and perhaps his

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