The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-22
HORACE L. ARN0LD'S PET.
HER J~BALoUsT MAKES UNPBBAS-
ANT COMPLICATIONS FOR INN.

n Real Wite In Grand Avenue. R~rookiyu,
and = womas who Regards Herself Ne
Hts Common Law wiz IN Hicks Street
Poet in n Serious Matrimonial Muddle.
A pretty, dark-eyed young woman, who said
she was Marie Arnold, yesterday applied 10 JUS
tice Walsh. In the Adams Street Police Court,
in Brooklyn, for n warrant for the arrest Of
Horace il. Arnold, who, she said, is her common
law husband, for assaulting her. The trouble.
she said. occurred on Wednesday night, at 81
Hicks street, where they had been living to-
gether. She admitted that she had started the
quarrel In q Jealous rage after discovering that
he had written a letter addressed Dear
Minnie" Sho exhibited some scratches and
bruises on her arm in corroboration OF
her complaint and Justice Walsh issued tho
warrant. Court Officer Moloney went with the
warrant TO the thrce-story brown-stons house
ut 81 Grand avenue. where he was told Mr..
Arnold was most likely to be found. lie didn't
find Mr.. Arnold, but Mrs. Arnold, TO whom he
has been married twelve years. explained that
he had gone to New York on business and would
be back In the evening. She also volunteered
the Information that o dark-eyed young woman
had been thore in tho morning and made a
rumpus. She promised that her husband would
Mir. Arnold writes Tor magazines and periodi-
Gals, and, according to the complainant against
a aim' h also % s%ys tR RSGs" siin enc t Glsi ~ aS4 HSmIais,e:
began q year ago they have been writing a novel
In collaboration. She AYERS that he put q we'd
ding ring on her finger. and entered into q reCu-
lar marriage contract and that they were Known
sons. She furnished this letter as an example
OF Mr.. Arnold's literary skill:
WEDNEsDAY, April 3, 3 4. NJ.
PET: / have not shown you very much JUS
tico since first met you aud | have had no
money at all FOR you, and now that know how
good and sim plo and pure and humble and fond
and silly and unhappy you are. | assure you the
wretchcd bargain you made lies heavy on my
mind aud always will. | did not moan to hurt
you. ! don't think nnlan often does mean that
out have put you, n pure. silly. virtuOus wO-
man into u disaEreeable place and you mean to
stay there. no matter what l say to you. You
are curious about ono thing. You will assume
will not face the smallest certainty OF an I'M
pleasant nature. You will assume poverty, but
you Will not talk nbout money. You In effect
marry me when you know that In twelve years
| Will be 20. You arc a big. nice, charming. faith
full woman, and yet will throw yourself away on
luxury or anything you have been accustomed
TO have. and you will not quit me IL you can
possibly help It. I will, of course. do what | can
for you. for | could trust you forever. The
whole story Is that | have absolutely ruined
your life. and | give you nothing at all in re-
turn. You might easily have a good husband,
and you throw away your life Mt 27 for me. |
know 1t ard so do %you-but 1t Is no use to say q
word to you. You cannot bear to say vou have
made n mlstake-you will not take the only step
that would In any way alleviate your error.
Don't go out OF the house to-day until after
! see You. | will call about IL 80 A. NJ. ! do
not send you away. Stay in until | come or else
pretty you are! How nice you are! Marlel
Dear wife. ARNOLD"