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Show JOHN ARMSTRONG CHALONER I John Armstrong Chalonor, or Chanler, as ho fP. wt8 until ho took legal steps to change his namo JBShV a year ago, maintains his occupation for striking gwff and sensational originality. His very latest ad- TO ' t , vent Into tho limelight was by way of tho fatal W shooting ot a brutal husband who had beaten (M, P&i his wifo and was trying to klll'her in tho parlor 'ifllw' ot Chalonor's Virginia homo. Tho coroner's Jury vi sD promptly exonerated Chalonor, who will not ba X prosecuted. Jk b2tL 11 Js not Generally known or -It has been rffMJlk AaWftHm generally forgotton that Chalonor was tho hero sMWk afflvflllr of 11,0 crot' an(1 qu" remarkable novel which WtZmMiP)' VmD mad0 1,18 former wife, tho strikingly beautiful ufffnlnmy llwM anA Dr,lllant Amello Rives, now tho Princess YA VrL mill WI picrre Troubotskoy. famous in a month. "Tho Quick or tho Dead" suddenly transformed Miss Rives from a modest Virginia girl, daughter of a prominent old family, into the most talked of, criticised and praised writer In America. Chalonor Is a cousin of John Jacob Astor and a brother of Lewis Stuy-vesnnt Stuy-vesnnt Chanlor, lato lieutenant govornor and nominee for govornor of New York. A millionaire and society man In Gotham, Chalonor suddenly took up tho occult as a fad and becamo a mystic of tho most pronounced typo. Ills' Btrango fancies led his relatives to have him declared Insane and sent to nn asylum. Ho escaped from tho institution, reached Virginia nnd has boon declared de-clared Bano by the federal court of that commonwealth. In New York, how-over, how-over, ho Is still legally lnsano, and would bo returned promptly to tho asylum were ho to return to the metropolis. Tho greater part of his estate is still In tho hands of an administrator in Now York, and his suit to recovor Its control con-trol Is still pending In tho courts. Out of hatred for tho relatives who caused his detention, ho has legally transformed his name to tho ancient form of Chaloner. |