Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-11
BELFAST
Pierre Tartoue. the French Por.
trait Painter. known in
Three Continents, Sued for
Divorce in Belfast Court
Other Court Cases

On the docket q the JANUARY sig
ting Of the Waldo county supreme
judicial court, there appears al IT.
nocent enough looking entry, hu. !.
is enc which viii interest three coz
tinen,s and which VII. be he .aik
q society II New York. I. is q libel
for divorce brought b. Madam Aim
Drodwo-th Tar,oue. The only daug..
Ter Of Mr.. ard Mrs. T George Dot
worth II New York ard Eor;hport,
members If The Nortl.por- Coun:-:
and COLI Cluo, agains; her husband,
Pierre Tartous. famous N Frame.
America. South America and Cana
d. as painte. Of portraits ard 70
whom !, IS said that New Yo-i. Soc
CO paid 5000 in one year for paint
Ing their portraits. Yet with eli this
,-incel. salarE. hrs. Tar,cue alleges
;',at re cruelty ana Tiilfun: rcfus-
cd % provide suitable support"
II was 4 gree. shock 70 socie.y
when in the sumner Of 1917. four
wears after their romantic marriage.
II was learned ...a. the Tartores were
no; living happily together and that
they rad decided 10 separate. &:
that time they had taken q summer
place at Pye, New YORK, where they
entertained lavishly. IN the midst Of
i all, however. Mrs. Tartouc hast
ily summoned her mother from
Eorthpcrt, and when the latter =.
turned 70 the seacoast o< Maine. her
daughter accompanied her. Even
then none OF their friends realized
that anything was wrong. for their
marriage had been a love affair. in
fact love at first sight. and the ar
lists devotion 70 his handsome young
wife was most apparent. To q few
intimate friends in Maine the Dod-
1orths told. however. Of the RIP
ture in the married life Of their
daughter ard her famous young hi,s-
band Owing 70 tne law that no Ii
bel IS heard at TIE term j: IS enter
ed, the case will not come w for
hearing until April. Dunton 6, Morse
will appear for Mrs. IartoCe and
Buzzeli for the artist.
After brief deiiberation the Jury
rendered verdict Of not guilty in
Of Knox. indicted at the present term
for assault on Duncan r. McAnd!ess.
The alleged assault took placed at :he
latter's home in Brooks az o'clock
Sunday morning. Sept. 8. 1918. Mrs.
NcAndless and Gibbs. aged Il. ar
irving at that hour in a Ford car ana
asking admission to the house. The
evidence sc. forth that when Nc
Andless refused them admission,
Gibbs struck at him through win
dow screen but did not hit him. Ali
this McAndless testified 20 in court
on Thursday. the case having been
opened at the afternoon session. Nc
Andless is So years Of age. an old
New England League shcrtstop. tlav-
ing his his youth played on the Law
rerce. Mass. team. HIS wife is IS
years old and for some time has not
been living in his home. having fled
a libel for divorce on the grounds Of
on-support.
Willie A. Croker. the boy irdict-
ed by the Waldo county grand Jury
for larceny. charged with horse steal
pleaded guilty when arraigned in
court Thursday. He will be sentenced
on the last day Of the term by Jus
tice Charles J. Dunn Of Orono. the
presiding justice. Croker .thousI,
scarcely % years Of age, has served
a year IN the county Jail Tor forgery,
but is believed TO be mentally def
cient rather than vicious.