New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-10
WON'T WE'D, BEATEN
BY SISTER, SAYS GIRL
Two Years Feud in Macarthur
Family, with Court Fights,
Reaches Climax in
Woman'S Arrest.
ENGAGEMENT PARTY ROW
Warrant Sworn Out After Al
legged Assault at Summer Ho-
tel-Parents' Divorce Cause
of Breach Among Children
That Grows and Grows.

of Breach Among Children
That Grows and Grows.
The Tain and Macarthur families
Of Great Neck and Richmond Hill
Long Island, who for two years have
been busly engaged in a family feud
resulting from d suit for separation in
stituted in 1911 by Mrs. Mary Ann
Macarthur against James Macarthur
were thrown into further state OF
turmoil again yesterday when Miss
Kathryn .iacArthur. one Of Mrs. Mary
the arrest OF her sister, Mrs. John G.
Tatum. on a charge OF feloniously IS
saultinc her in Shavertown, Delawar.
County, y. Y. on July |.
One Of the immediate results OF this
new row was a realignmcnt In the Mac.
Arthur family. which had been abou,
evenly divided between the father and
the mother.
The latest trouble. according 10 Miss
Kathryn's affidavit on which she OBJ
tanned the warrant for Mrs Tatum's
arrest, was caused by the efforts OF
rs. Tatum TO force her sister to marry
Frederick W. Peters. jr., Of No. i3l
Riverside Drive, New York. Mrs
Tatum, her sister says. was TO give !
party at her home in Great Neck t.
announce the engagement
When Miss Macarthur refused TO at
tend the party. she said. or TO permit
the announcement to be made. Mrs
Tatum followed her to Shavertown
where she was convalcscing from an
operation for appendicitis. and ther,
attacked her. beating her into uncon.
sciousness.
Suit by Sixty. .Year.old Wife.
When the Macarthur family troubles
began in 1911. Mrs. Macarthur based
her plea for separation from James
Macarthur on the ground Of cruelty,
The case tried before Justice Mad
doX. Of the Queens County Supreme
Court, Mrs. Macarthur giving her age
as sixty. while her husbands age was
given as flfty-two.
During the trial II this suit Mrs
Macarthur was asked under cross-eX'
animation II her quarrels with her hus-
band were not chiefly concerning their
daughter. Mrs. Tatum, the woman ar
rested in the present case. and whether
Mrs. Tatum had not urged her mother
10 take action against her husband
Mrs. Macarthur denied her daughter
had instigated the suit, but admitted
that many OF her discussions with her
husband had TO do with Mrs. Tatum.
The burden OF these discussions. II
was said. was "A difference OF opinion In
the matter # Mrs. Tatum's marriage
10 John &. Tatum, OF the cotton brok-
orage firm Of ID. o. Tatum, No. 23J
Church street, Manhattan. Miss Mac
Arthur was engaged at the Tatum
home as a companion 10 Tatum's first
wife. Mrs. Louisa Tatum.
This first wife died on February 20
1909. being buried on February - in
Woodlawn Cemetery. Two days after
this Tatum married Miss Macarthur AT
Greenwich, Conn. despite the father
objections. From this dated the be-
ginning of the Macarthur family
troubles.
Justice Tries TO Make Peace.
While the Macarthur separation suit
was in court Justice Maddox attempted
10 bring about reconciliation, alluding
To their previous thirty-two years OF
married life
You people are old enough TO know
better" he said After all these years
of married life you should go into II
room and arrange your differences. II
any of your six children tries to put
barriers in the way Of your reconcilia-
ton, all the others should combine
against that one"
Macarthur at that time was eager
for q reconciliation. but the wife was
not, and the case went on The second
day Of the trial matters became more
.mbroiled than ever. When Tatum
and the six Macarthur children came
irto court during a recess they all be-
gan to quarrel Macarthur seized
Kathryn, who was then on her mother
side, about the waist and hurled her
several feet across the room.
Justice Maddox rushed back into the
room, which was in an uproar, and
with the aid of court officers. sepa-
rated the factions, ordering them to SIT
on opposite sides OF the room.
Failing TO bring about a reconcilia'
tion. Justice Maddox granted Mrs
Macarthur an interlocutory decree OF
senaration. In the family alignment
which then came MacArthur's three
sons and his daughter, Elizabeth. wen'
70 live with him. while Kathryn and
Mrs Tatum threw in their lot with
Mrs. Macarthur, going to live at th'
Tatum home at Great Neck.
Husband Gets a Reno Divorce.
Although at the time ot the separa
tion Macarthur was eager for a recon
ciliation, he later went TO Reno, New.
where he established a residence anc
obtained a divorce from his wife or
Tho ground OF desertion. He married
again soon afterward.
-, .t.rdoy'a row the family re-.