The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-09
An Artists Peculiar Position

Especial TO THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch
NEW YORK. May S-Nathan Arrow. an artist
OF considerable repute, who lives and has an
office in East Seventy-second street, is in a
very peculiar predicament. Two women claim
MIR. Arrow as their husband. One of these
AYERS that he married her under the name of
Arthur Norton nine years ago and claims she
was married TO him in 1881 in this CITY, The nj.
legged wife No. arrived here last Friday After
consulting with a lawyer she determined TO
have the artist arrested. Accompanied BIZ an
officer with warrant Mrs Norton went to Ar
now S house. I can easily identify him." said
Mrs. Norton. He has a scar on the back of hi9
left hand where he was bitten by Dolly and a
lump on the back of his head where he was hit
Win stone when boy" The officer went in
alone and found the artist at work and after
several minutes conversation said to Arrow:
I'll bring my wife in and see what she says"
The officer went out, closing the door after him.
He returned with Mrs Norton Only let me-
hear his voice. she said nerYousy, land can
tell whether or not it is he"
The policeman knocked on the door and
mans voice responded, Come in That's
he, cried Mrs. Norton excitedly, "That's nv
husband" The pair entered and Mrs. Norton
Immediately recognized Arrow as her husband
She grabbed at his left hand and held it up
triumphantly. There, do you see the scar?''
Then she ran her hands rapidly through the as
ton1shed artists hair. She found the lump on
his mead and Historically cried, 'sIt's he; I'm
sure now. Arrest him. officer
When the officer told the artist he had war
rant for his arrest, Arrow was dumbfounded.
and calculated, why, never saw the woman
before. What does she want?' But neverthe-
less the officer placed him under arrest and took
him to court. Before the Judge Mrs Norton
said Arrow had barber shop in Cincinnati
where she married him nine years ago. The boy
whom she brought with her is the exact likeness
of Arrow.
Arrow said he got the scar on his hand from
having it lammed in door, and had not been
in Cincinnati since 1864, when he only passed
through the city. He said he had been an ar
fist in this city for the past ten or twelve years
and could prove it. Judge Murray paroled him
until Saturday, when Arrow must prove that
he is Arrow the artist and not Norton the bar
Der.
In confederation OF her husbands statements,
Mrs. Arrow de facto told q reporter she had
lived with her husband eight years; that he had
lived with her relatives two years before she
married him and that before he came to board
at her house she had known him some time
She said that ne had had a studio in the Beadle
house for five years and the Cooper union three
years before that Mrs. Norton has letters from
her husband and she will try to match the hand
writing with that of Arrow. She thinks it very
peculiar that Arrow should bear two marks
which were on her husband, although such
things might happen.
Another suspicious coincident circumstance
cited by Mrs. NOTtOn's friends is the fact that
the name. Arthur Norton. if turned around and
twisted Just a trifle could be easily changed to
Nathan Arrow. Mrs. Norton has a little money
| and she intends to spend every cent in trying
| to prove that Arrow is her husband. Interest
| ing revelations are promised