The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
MOB BEATS EARLE Who
sent AWAY Wife
Neighbors Resent Artists Method
of Securing an affinity"
ROLLED IN The MUD AT MONROE
Threats For the Other Woman-Mrs.
Earle and Her Son Sail For
France to Set Husband Free
Who "Other Woman Is.

Monroe, N. Y.-Hooted and jeered
at from the time he left home to send
his young wife away in order that he
may wed another, Ferdinand Pinney
Earle was mobbed at $50 p. m, wheel
he got back to Monroe. Five hundred
villagers, in the midst of the pouring
rain, turned over his buggy and some
body hit him across the head With his
own horsewhip. He fought back his
attackers, was Joined by two officers,
and, having vainly tried to explain"
his views, drove slowly away to his
home near by.
Mr.. Earle is the artist son Of the
late General Ferdinand Pinney Earle,
and he believes that the young wife
he married in FraLce five years ago
is not his real affinity, and that sne
should go back to her parents. He
thinks that he has found in a stout
young Socialistic woman of Bethle-
hem, Pa, the other love note that
God made and tuned to play in har-
mony with him during this and other
lives. He has had the new-found
Note who is attuned to him, and only
him, at his house for ten days, and
as soon as his wife gets the divorce
she promises to get, he will marry
the Other.
II this young person hadn't left his
home near Monroe shortly after he
and his wife left, something might
have happened to her, the villagers
said.
Having seer his wife and two-year-
old son, Harold Erwin, off on the
steamer, the artist went from Ho-
boken to New York in a cab with his
brother, Victor M. Earle, a real estate
man, of Broadway and Seyenty-sec-
ond street, and the latter's wife. They
were hooted and jeered as they left
the pier in Hoboken, and once the cab
was held up. The artist wore a mar
tyred expression, but said nothing.
Victor Earle gave a new hint as to
the "Afinity's" identity. She has
been getting her mail at Monroe un-
der the name of Julia Cutler. Victor
Earle said that was almost" her
name. d" o.
"She is Miss Julia Kuttner," he
said. There has been so much said
about the future Mrs. Ferdinand
Earle that I think it only right that
her right name should be made
known. I know very little about her.
l only met her once. That was at the
steamship pier when she and my
brother returned from Europe, some
weeks ago Ferdinand's wife and 1
met them there.
Miss Kuttner, as I understand it,
comes from Bethlehem, Pa. She Is Of
German parentage, born in this coun-
try. She is about twenty-five years
old. Her mother is living, and her
brother Alfred has been a guest with
her at Ferdinand's house. Since
leaving school she has Travelled a
good deal and she has done some set
Element work in New York City. I
am not acquainted with the details Of
that, but I suppose she met many per-
sons there who had socialistic notions.
How much of a Socialist she is you
can guess for yourself"
Mrs. Earle is slight, of "spirituelle"
figure. The affinity is described
as rather stout, or at least Of full
figure. She ear eyeglasses and
looks more than twenty-five years old.
She is said to be intellectual and a
ready talker.
Miss Julia Kuttner, whom Earle is
to wed as soon as his wife shall have
secured a divorce in France, was not
at the pier in Hoboken to say fare
well.
Just as the ship sailed Mrs. Earle
intimated she felt no regret at leav-
ing the artistic atmosphere Of her
husbands home and that she was
glad to descend from the rarifed alti-
tude Of his mode of life to that of
common everyday beings.