The evening world., 1909-03-27
Former Miss kuttner Contents
That Artist Is a I.unalic and
That First Wife Was Not
Legally Divorced.
SHE IS NOW HIDING IN
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
Soul-Mate Husband, Back
From Sanitarium, Served
With Papers, Shouts That
He's Not a Lunatic.

Mrs. Ferdinand Pinney Earle No. ?.
the affinity" wife OF the artist. It was
learned to-day, Ia hiding in Westchester
County. M,y. Earle, WHO contends that
her husband Is both bgam!st and a
lunatc. has dete rmined to keep out OF
the ilmellsht FOR the present.
She Is very much overstrung from
her experiences with Earle" said her
lawyer. John j, Hughes. OF White
Plains, y. T.. to an Evening World re-
porter to-day.
Mrs. Earle has been an unfortunate
victim OF circumstances-compl
fooled BY man OF unsound mind. She
is a very fine woman, and the develop
ments Of her action viii be her COM
plete vindicat.op In the eyes OF the
public.
The suit is a straight road TO an
annulment Of her marriage to Earle.
our contention Is that the French d.
vorce granted TO E.arle's first wife vas
not a legal divorce A divorce Is good
until It is attacked. But We do not in
tend to try our case In the newspapers"
Wants to Remain Quiet
The lawyer said that a condition i'm
posed by his client was that her retreat
in Westchester County should not be
made public.
Mrs. Ferdinand Pinney Earle sr.,
Akk - ha ortt et kn IL lt,.ir ~
the Ansona, beyond admitting that
there were differences between her son
and his wife, declined TO discuss the
suit to-day.
Earle was served on the front porch
OF his home yesterday as hn stood In
his bathrobe. He read the paper as
far as he allegation that he was
!unatlc." Then he became very angry,
and for moment was speechless.
I'm not lunatic! It's false. Any.
one can see I'm all right" he declared
inally. Is he strobe into the house.
Earle gained almost worldwide fame
year and half ago by introducing
the affinity idea. He met Miss Kutt.
ner while engaged in settlement work
in this city In 1901. Later in the year
each admitted their infatuation.
Earle publicly declared he was to
Kuttner. and Mrs Earle apparently
was satisfied with the arrangement.
The people OF Monroe threatened to
handle the eccentric artist roughly, but
he con,rived to ship his wife and little
boy to Paris. and It was understood
she obtained n divorce from him there
but nothing conclusive was ever dis.
covered.
Arrested for Beating "soul Mate"
On April 8, 1908, word was received in
this city that Earle and his "affinity"
had been married in Italy. A few weeks
later they returned 20 New York. Earle
was not in the limeiight again until
last August, when he was arrested and
thrown into jail at Goshen on his Wlfe's
complaint The, artist was accused Of
Earle less than three weeks after she
had borne him a child. II was alleged
that the woman's throat was blackened
by the grip OF Earle's fingers. The
Grand Jury failed to indict Earle. The
alleged trouble was apparently patched
up, for the couple returned to Monroe
again.
Several months ago Earle, broken In
health. went TO Dr.. Carlos +. MacDon.
aids sanitarium. Central Valley. y. Y.
He was not pleased at first with the so.
ciety of persons who seemed mentally
affected" Dr. Macdonald refused to say
anything about Earle.
The complaint in the papers served
yesterday on Earle is in part as fol-
lows:
That on March II, 1905, plaintiff and
defendant were intermarried az the city
OF Venice, Italy.
"Was and Still ia a lun,tic"
That al the time OF said marriage the
defendant was a lunatic and incapa BILE
OF contracting marriage tina, defendant
has remained and stll IS lunatic, and
has ever since been and now is Of un.
sound mind
[ THAT on or about Jan. 70, 1919, plan.
TIFF discovered that defendant was Of
unsound mind and has not lived with
him since said date
Plaintiff alleges that at the time OF
/ said marriage, as the defendant rad a
former wife living, one Emile Marie
Fischbacher Earle. TO wlom ne was mar
[ rea in Paris, March a. 1915, such mar.
rlaee Is still In full force.
That the marriage OF plaintiff and de-
ss3tant was e9n,raf,ed by Plaintiff
marriage m2a was in force s"'a and io'm e5
i"s9-med b. defendan, md tu n I bs.
l.eyed he lad been divorced from Elm lie
Marie Fiss1bacher Earle.
As the ssue Of their marriage there
has been born 20 plaintiff and defendant
one child Edmund Erwin Earle, an In.
fa1' under one year o, age
Wants chiId's Name chanaed.
Plaintiff demands I, be adiudsed
that Edmund Erwin Fare Is the leg'tI.
mate child o., tie plaintiff and entitled
10 succeed TO plaintiffs real and nor.