Show TROUBLES FOR AN ARISTOCRAT Member of One of New Yorks Oldest Families Threatens Mother With Death New York John Van Rensselaer son of Mrs John King Van Rensselaer and a member of one of New Yorks oldest families was taken Into custody cus-tody on Monday on a charge of attempted at-tempted extortion The arrest wits made on advices from Chief of Pollco Crowley of Newport R I who ref celved a complaint from Mrs Van Rensselaer that her son had written a letter threatening her with bodily harm unless she provided him with funds Van Rensselaer Is 34 years old and married Van Rensselaer is connected con-nected with a local brokerage house and when he returned to his homo Monday night ho was placed under arrest by detectives who produced the letter alleged to have been written writ-ten by Van RensSolaer to his mother The detectives and Lieutenant Man nlpn beforovhoffiTari ne iisgelaer was brought In the police station declared that the young man stated that he had written the letter |