Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-09-07
EARLE.
The Artist, Who Sent His
Wife Away to Get a
Divorce
So He Gan Marry His Attn.
ity, Gets Warm Recep-
ton at Home
Fellow TOWnsmen RiViIe Him,
Upset His Buggy and
Strike Him

New York, Sept. 6-Ferdinand
Penney Earle, the artist who sent
his wife to France, her old home, to
secure divorce SO that he might
marry another woman, received
sorry welcome when he returned to
his home in Monroe, Y, last
night, after bidding his wife farewell
at the steamer, according to advices
received here today. Earle was met
by crowd of villagers as he stepped
from the train. who at first insulted
and booted him and then pulled him
from his carriage and dragged him
through the mud OF the village
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streets. Earle courageously faced
his tormentors, exhorted the crowd
| in an attempt to vindicate himself
and then, goaded for an instant by
the insults of the people, he seized
his carriage whip and slashed at the
crowd A man snatched the whip
from his hand and bystanders state
struck the artist singing blow.
| Further trouble was prevented by
the appearance of officers who fore
ed Earle to drive to his home, though
he persistently tried to explain his
views to the angry crowd.
Earle reached Monroe at 1870
o'clock. Rain was falling in sheets,
but the artist, carelessly dressed,
stepped out in the rain. A crowd
was there and the people jeered him,
but the artist, who had passed
through a similar experience at the
steamship pier earlier in the day,
said nothing. He walked across the
street and entered a drug store to
wait for his buggy, which had been
summoned. The newspaper men
and part of the crowd followed him
While talking to the reporters mem.
bers of the crowd again began tc
make ieering remarks; others cried
"get a rope" star and feather him. =
AS the people assumed a threaten,
!, ing attitude Earle went out to his
buggy, which meanwhile had arriv
ed, jumped in and started his horse
at a gallop. Several persons Wert
} thrown down by the sudden start o
4 the vehicle and this seemed to in
crease the anger of the mob, whicl
made after the carriage and, catch
\ ing it, turned the vehicle on its side
Earle was thrown into the: mudd
road. He picked himself up, bu
| made no further move Whether h
simply did not know what to do, g
: whether he welcomed the opportul
! ity to pose as martyr for his idea
he made a strong pictureea as he stoo
% bare-headed in the rains facing a
= overwhelming circle of people aroun
him.
- Several men ran out of the CT
~ Gle and struck at him. Then Ear
used his whip. Three of the attac
= ers went down, but one managed
- seize the whip and slashed the a
fist across the face.
- This seemed to satisfy the crow
for there were cries Of tina
e enough" Village President Pull
-, ford and several officers here appes
:, ed upon the scene and Earle "
~ told to get into his buggy, viii
- had been righted, and drive away,
= II am willing to explain my pc
- tion," called out the artist, but Z
- officers insisted that he drive
- and Earle, who had shown splent
- courage throughout the trying
- deal, finally did so, moving slow
- The crowd broke up into SIN
!, groups after that and stood abb
~ the streets for a long while disc
sing the incidents OF the night 9
Il. the artists strange domestic story
ing