The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-03
TUNMOlLS OF THE HUTTS TOLD
ARTIST SAYS HIS WIFE WAS THE
STRONGER or THE TWO.

Occasionally Disngured Him and A..
tackled ilim In the Street-she says tie
tsed Violence 10 Her Artists sw ear
for Him--He Must Find Allmony
Tho differences between Mrs Edna
Garfield HUT and Henry HUT. the artist.
which occasionally led to physical vio-
lencs and finally to suit for separation
brought by Mrs HUT. are recounted In
a mass OF afiidavts filed yesterday when
Supreme Court Justice Platzek signed
an order granting temporary alimony
of 500 q month to Mrs HUT. s25 month
for the support on the seven year old
son, Richard Henry HUT. and $500 coun-
sci fee. Several of the affidsvits for
HUT are furnished by brother artists.
and the names Of Harrison Fisher. B.
Cory Kilvert and Penrhyn Stanlaws are
brought into the case. HUT says that
he Ia 5000 in debt. has bank balance
Of only A.Os and hasn't had an order for
work for six weeks.
| The Hutts were married Oh January
II. 1909. and the artist says that when
he first met his future wife she came to
him seeking work ss professional model.
having been employed by Charles Dana
Gibson, A. B. Wenyel and others. Posing
was her only means Of support. 80 far az
HUT knows. His wife states in her am
davit that for the first three years Of
their married life they lived happily
and had no particular differences. She
had unlimited credit at the best stores
In the city. but while her husband paid
over 5000 year for their living ex-
penses she dressed herself on u mere
81 900 a year
| In 1905. she says. her husband began
to drink heavily and talked OF having
delusons Once she awoke to find his
hand at her throat choking her lie
went to physical culture place and quit
drinking for while. but two men whom
she declines to name had an evil influence
over him and he began drinking again.
Mr.. Hutt names these men and they
make sffidavits for him. They are b
Cory Kilvert and George Clarke. a pub.
Usher. In February. 1908. she says. Hut,
fell III and promised to reform. The first
day he was out he invited her to Mar.
tins, where she met Clarke and Kilvert
and one OF them proposed taking Hut
to see a prizefght. She objected because
her husband wanted TO send her to q
theatre with Kilvsrt. who WAS obnoxious
to her. and she thought il was settled
that her husband wasn't going to the
fight: but his obnoxious friend put hel
into q taxicsb and jumped in with her
saying that her husband and Clarke
would follow. When she got to the theatr,
and found that HUT didn't come she wen
right home and took her boy over to tn,
home Of her aunt. Mrs. Arthur q. Meyer
at pO4 West Eightieth street. because o
her humiliation. Her husband and Xii
vert came for her at midnight. but she
wouldn't go home.
| Mrs Hutt says she returned TO hei
husband because Penrhyn Stanlaws cam,
and told her that HUT was seriously IL
at hotel and that it was feared he nigh
do himself some injury and she was tn,
only person who had any influence over
through 1908 and stopped associatinl
with the two men until February. 1908
when he started on another debaucl
and used personal violence on her fire.
auently SO that marks were visible OF
her arms.
papers that he had been picked up on thu
street and taken to a hospital. Ther.
was a reconciliation. but in 1910 he strucl
their son and hit her on the arm when sh'
interfered. While she was at Narragan
sett Pier last summer their apartment
was stripped OF her furniture and pic
lures. and when she came back she had I,
take refuge with her aunt. Mrs. Meyer. ant
has been there since.
Mrs. Meyer put in an affidavit saying
that she had advanced A,07t To Mrs
HUT. but can't do any more for her ol
keep her any longer.
In his answer Hutt says his wife ha,
treated him with intolerable cruelty ant
has nsulted him on the public streets
in the presence OF strangers. Once lr
1903 she scratched his hand so severely
that he couldn't appear in public fo
He says she drinks too much hersel
and is habitually untrutbful.
Il have never been drunk. says Mr.
HUT He says he suffered from
nerv BUSINESS due to his wife's behavior
Kilvert is IA gentleman in every respect
he says.
MIR. Hutt says that his wife il much
stronger physically than he il. and tina
one of her habits was to throw a brass
desk set at him. Frequently at dinne
he had to dodge articles thrown at him
. he says. Once when his wife told him sh'
| was gong TO leave MN Decause sne wa
tired OF the humdrum of married life
: and thought she would get along bette
alone, he pleaded with her not to 60 ant
, she scratched his face from forehead 4
chin. She packed five trunks and left
and when hunting for her he cropped IL
the street from loss OF sleep and exhaus
ton and was taken To hospital. Ate
he had been out of the hospital severa
! weeks he got this letter from his wife:
Thursday. A. M--Henry, don't yo
think you could have said something to M
by this time? Can't you forgive me. ID
tell me soon. the suspense is killing me
Dad, II won't take so long to pay all tn
bills Iet's work together just as in tn
= old days won't you' See IL there Ia not
shark Of love left for me, You have acte
| nicely toward me, better than | deserve
a | know. but | will show you II You will jus
give me a chance. Oh daddy, come HON
to your little family. ! do love you an
. can't live without you. DO have pity; yo
= are so much stronger than I. Every
= thing will be torture until ! hear. al
1 and always will be. YOUR PRINCESS.
Three days later Hutt got note fror
Z his wife which said:
Daddy. please come back to Dick an
Z Movie,
9 Hutt denies that he struck his SOL
whose mind. he says. his wife poisone
against him. He says he and Harriso
, Fisher were walking down Broadwa