Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-13
DIR. WHITE HELD
AFTER ROW WITH
WIFE OVER SON
Held for Grand Jury on Charge
of Assault and Threat
to Kill.

Another chapter was added to the
already long history of the unhappy
marital life of DIR. j. Louis White, of
10 Halsted street. East Orange, to-
day, when he was held in $500 bail
by Recorder Yost in Montclair on
charges of assault and battery and
threatening to kill made by his wife.
Mrs. White, from whom the doctor
was unsuccessful in obtaining a
divorce, accuses her husband of in
vading the home of her mother. Mrs.
Anton NJ. Hartwyk, LAT North Fuller
ton avenue. MonIclair, yesterday, and,
after failure to kldnap his little son,
Louis, of pointing revolver at her
and threatened to kill her.
Dr. Whites descent on his mother
in-law's home caused a profound sem
sation in one OF Montc,air's most
fashionable sections. Hundreds of
persons were attracted to Mrs Hart
wyk's home by the wild shrieks of
Mrs. Hartwyk, Mrs. White and little
Louis as DR.. White dragged the boy
to his automobile and shouted back at
his wife IF you don't let the boy go
I'll shoot you"
Witnesses say DIR. White fourished
revolver, which was knocked from
his hand by his wife, picked up by
bystander, and later recovered by the
doctor. In the struggle to obtain pos
session of the boy DR.. White is al
legged to have broken the glasses of
his mother-in-law.
DR.. White drove up to the home of
his mother-in-law shortly after s
o'clock last night. His son was play
ing with some other youngsters in
front of the place, and DR.. White
picked the boy up and started for the
motor car. The boys loud cries at
tracted his mother and grandmother,
and they rushed from the house. The
doctor probably would have been able
to get into the automobile and speed
away before the women caught him.
but he tripped over a fire hydrant
and fell to the ground Mrs. Hart
wyk sliced her son-in-law, and 1t Is
said her glasses were broken and cut
her face In the struggle that fol-
lowed.
BY this time persons were pouring
from all the neighboring houses, AS
the crowd gathered, DR.. White be-
came nervous, and is alleged TO have
drawn revolver and pointed it at
his wife. Mrs. White struck the
weapon from her husbands hand and
1t fell to the pavement. Joseph Sulli-
van picked 1t up. DR.. White dropped
his son, and took the revolver away
from Sullivan. Then, just before the
police arrived, he darted through the
crowd, entered his automobile and
drove away.
Mrs. White went to Recorder Yost
and swore out warrant for her hus-
bands arrest, charging him with as
sault and battery and threatening to
kill. A warrant was issued for DR..
Whites arrest, but his attorney, John
Anderson, sent word to the recorder
that his client would be in court to-
day so no arrest was made.
In court today DR.. White waived
examination, and was held in $500
bail for the grand jury on his wife's
charges.
On August last Vice. Chancellor
Stevens denied DR.. White a decree
of divorce, on the ground that the
physician had permitted If he did not
actually encourage the acts of his
wife on which he based his suit. The
court criticized the husband severely
for the course he took. DIR. White
charged his wife with intimacy with
Robert Bursk, a Philadelphia grocer,
whom she met in Atlantic City in
1909.
The Whites were married in 1893,
and separated in 1910. In 1912 they
became reconciled, but. as Vice
Chancellor Stevens said, the reunion
was unfortunate
Besides the boy DIR. White is ac-
cused Of attempting to kidnap, the
Whites have another son, about ten
years old, who lives with his father