The evening world., 1893-11-29
HIS WIFE NOT HIS AFFINITY.
Prof Macarthur Tells His Side
Of the Domestic Tempest
He Has Fled to Another state 70
"Avoid Publicity"

Prof. Macarthur, whose wife has sworn
out a warrant for his arrest in the Gates
avenue Police Court. Brooklyn, objects to
the statements made by his wife, Louisa
Lundt Macarthur. In her affidavit.
Mrs. Macarthur said in her affidavit,
which was published in THE
Evening Worlds" 6 O'Clock Edi-
ton yesterday, that her hus-
mother. who had been dead twenty years.
That he took all her pretty gowns to the
dyer and returned them to her dyed
black. That he beat her the very first
night after the wedding, and has abused
her since and till she fought him off
with a broomstick the otner day, after
which she left him, returning to her par
ents. They had been married three
months.
The Professor tells his side of the
story in a letter to The Evening World,''
dropping into poetry. incidentally, like
the late Mr.. Silas ,egg He writes from
Jersey City as follows:
To the Editor:
and grievous ones against myself in your issue
OF this evening under mir. Macarthur's Fads. +"
As shortly as l can and hastily let me state as
~ am Prof. D. McKInlay Macarthur. late OF
% Hull street. BROOKLYN. \. ", but since re-
which my poor wife. e%nNenomed OF her parcnts,
Is bringing upon herself and shall bring upon her
self alone. Touching the mourning Tor my he
loved mother, 1t has nought whatever connection
with the troubles OF which she seeks redress.
Mrs. Macarthur returned to her poor parents,
a. 1887 Pacific street mot her wealthy parents at
1851, as enormously stated. II ought To be a uuani-
mously granted fact that there alone is now her
Il made Miss Lundt's Acquaintance when she
was employed in an East New York factory.
whence l removed her and made redress to her
parents, ! became engaged to her, and only when
too late discovered that her character was loose
TO put 1t as mildly as ! can. . The poison
injecting the spiritual, not the corporal part OF
her, was the only lntolerant point in all the
troubles which have ensucd.
Her parents enyenomed her against me alb
initio.
In my poetical work. THE Solitaire of Mount Ida, -
is written my conclusions before marrying her.
After eXpatiating on sin IL says:
Two. whom its venom dript on young, shall In
A union find enough OF unsoiled leaves
The rest shall float on that long stream whoss way
Winds through forgetfulness TO death"
Such a dream quickly vanished after my mar
riaGe. Two were necessary for a union. but those
two required to be in affinity, which my wife re-
pudiated ever. A letter in Mondays Evening
a case OF a factory with more than twenty girls
who had been married and separated and returned
to work on account cr supposed ill~-trcatment at
the hands Of their husbands.
The husbands In such cases nre, ! believe, sell
dom to blame, and | fear a close entry into par
tlcularS would put II uoNn 10 the factory RlFl re-
naming the SAINT factory girl, instead OF taking
her new post OF wife. as n thing having nothing
more to do with the old days Of FISHING at the
River Of Men.
After repeated failures at playing the wife land
In the present case the failures have been re-
pcatcdl. | believe he safest situation IL with the
parents. who were her educators and guides until
now.
My wife failed to make a wife. There Is stIll
q hope she may be u daughter. even though her
youth and charms nrc weighted with the burden
Of the shame consequent upon running herself.
chill and heart broken husband irremcdiahly.
Relieve me more in mourning than any blacks
could Indicate. and anticipating with gratitude
your Impartial rcctiGcation by inserting this letter,
" u. MKINLAN MACARTHUR.
The Professors removal to another
State to "avoid. publicity. may, render
the service of the warrant obtained by
his wife a matter of some difficulty.