The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
Had Tar, Feathers and Rail
for Man Who Sent His
Wife Over Seas.
ARTIST DIDN'T SHOW UP
Stayed in New Yerk While Angry
Farmers Besieged His Home.
Is Denounced at Secret
Meeting and Windews Of
His House Are Broken.

NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-Haa Ferdi-
nand Pinney Earle. who sent his wife
back to France with their little son,
where she is expected to divorce him
so that he will be free to marry his
affinity been at his country home,
near Monroe. N. Y. just before dawn
today. it would have gone hard with
him.
Nelghbors and former friends of the
bewhiskered idealist. the man who be-
lieves his eccentricties are bern OF
genius, gathered at his home. But he
was not there. He stayed in New York
The house was deserted.
A man hurled a rock and 1t went
crashing through window. This was
a signal for many rocks to be hurled.
Window after window was smashed
and then with boots and yells the crowd
went on back to Monroe.
The attack on the house WAS made
after a secret meeting in Carpenters
barn, just outside Monroe, which was
attended by nearly 100 citizens of that
part of the county.
The meeting was secret because OF a
threat made yesterday by Henry Wei
lington Wack, counsel for Earle, to
Village President Paddleford. that any
demonstration against the life ur prop
erty of Earle would lead to prosecu-
tions.
1t was a most orderly crowd that
gathered at the barn. man was
chosen to preside. and he presided IN q
way that showed he was used to calling
meetings to order They began denun-
Citations of Earle. If there was a man
in the crowd that knew ought of evil
against the artist it was told at this
meeting
B. F. Pench, contractor. said that
he had seen Mrs. Earle with blackened
eyes, and he knew of occasions when
Earle had pinched his wife until her
arms were black and blue.
Then came a German who said that
on one occasion Mrs. Earle had been
playing on the piano. Her playing did
not suit the artistic taste of her hus-
band and he had knocked her from
the plano stool.
These and other stories excited the
men in the barn to dangerous pitch
In the crowd were Joshua Miller, of
Goshen; William Hancock, a farmer
and a man of wealth, who lives near
Chester; Charles Jameson, a contractor:
George Henderson and his two husky
sons. farmers; Henry Sands, employed
on the Hartman estate at Highlands,
and other men of the same order.
II believe Earle is in his house now
said man. I'VE will go there and
see."
The men made off in the direction OF
Earle's home quietly. They surrounds
ed the house, and then came the de-
mands for the artist to make his ap-
pearance without delay.
The cries were not answered. The
big hound that has been Earle's con-
stant companion sprang from
shadow, but he was quickly pacif1ed.
and trotted about among the men.
In the rear of the men came an auto
mobile containing big basket OF
feathers and a bucket of tar. Across
the tonnneau was a rail, and dangling
from the front of the car was rope.
The men had all been cautioned not
to resort to violence unless Earle at
tempted violence. The artist has
threatened to shoot If mob came to
his home. 1t was well he was not at
home last night and made an effort to
shoot. There were men in that crowd
who were armed and who were waiting
for such a move on his part.
When the first train from New York
arrived at the Monroe station this
morning 100 or more men were there to
greet Earle had he appeared. The
spirit of mob violence seemed to have
taken possession of not only the town,
but of the surrounding countryside.