New-York tribune., 1921-07-20
Court Sewers
Bouck Whites
Marital Bonds
French Bride Cries in Joy
as Marriage 10 Radical
Pastor is Annulled AZ
ter Poughkeepsie Hearing
Both Say s'Never Again
Decision Based on Ground
Socialist Deceived Her: !:
Cruelty Charges Erased
rro,n a staf Correspondent

Mrs. Andree Emlle Simon White to-
day drew off her wedding ring in the
Office of Bernard F. Cecire, her attor-
ney. laughed joyously, and said:
"Wiu you please not call me Mrs.
White | am Andree Simon again.
feel so happy and so young!"
She spread out her arms and tears
glittered on her heavy lashes They
were tears of JOY. She had Just been
informed that her marriage to Charles
Bouck White, former pastor of the
Church of the Social Revolution, had
been annulled. In a terse Judgment
contained in seventeen words, Supreme
Court Justice Morschauser to-day
granted the annuiment of her marriage
on the. ground of fraud.
The decree will be effective in three
months. The decision was given on
the grounds that Mr.. White concealed
from his twenty-year-old French bride
his socialistic views until after their
marriage and that he failed to tell her
ne had beenSconvicted on two occasions
Of misdemeanors. Justice Morschauser
ruled that concealment or misrepre-
sentation was sufficient ground for dis
solving the marriage tie. Charges of
phy-ical cruelty made by Mrs. White
were stricken from the record when
In the judgment handed to-day the
fair Andree is described as an Gin
fant" Her guardian ad litem is Harry
C. Harper. The brief text IS as fol-
lows:
The plaintiff il entitled to the re-
lief asked for in the complaint (King
vs.: Brewer, s Misc. 5s7; Libman VS..
Dilorenzo, 174 N. Y. 465; Keyes vs..
Keyes, 6 Misc. 1867. I direct judgment
for plaintiff"
White Approves 1t Too
When asked for statement by re-
porters, Bouck White delivered him
self as follows:
az don't see how Judge Morschauser
could have done otherwise than give
my wife the decree she asked for.
Our marriage was not a marriage in
any real sense of the word; a two
weeks sail across the Atlantic togeth-
er and then the smash that was a dra-
matte termination of our meteoric
honeymoon. We could never have
hoped to resume welded relations.
Therefore, to release her, and also me,
was the only logical thing to do, and
the decree of the court annulling the
marriage was judicial and sensible.
II suppose she who was my wife will
marry again, and wish her the best
of fortune in the paths she will choose.
The hysterical and high-voltage home
sickness that caused her to break with
again. She by this time is a bit accli-
mated among us, and there is no rea-
FOR why she cannot mature into a
helpful and glad-hearted housewife and
woman. AS for me, | don't see how
iii ever dare fall in love again and
marry.
"You fellows of the press would not
leave me alone, and marriage needs to
be left alone. 1t is plant that thrives
only in the shade. Turn upon it the
sunlight of publicity, you wither and
bidding you chaps to be turned loose
on the marriage relation. Play up
every other topic under heaven, if you
choose, but in the name of right and
decency let welded privacies alone
Perhaps it will be salutary safe
guard in my life-this prohibition
henceforth of the softer and sentimen-
tai thought. 1t will compel my ener-
gies to seek sterner channels.
Not Telling His Plans
what am l going to do? What are
my plans? Pm not telling my plans
just now. For one thing they are not
ripe enough, but I will say this, if you
capitalistic gentry think you have
compassed my destruction you think 8
very foolish thing. I may be no good
in love affairs or as honeym oone1
ind staid, indulgent husband. | don't
shine. but as fighter against hell
hent scheme of things there is power
in me and I'll give you more stories
70 write up and falsify when the fiji
moment arrives"
81 am perfectly delighted" Mrs
White drawled in her broken English
ut is a very good day. But I wish te
deny Mr.. Whites statements in court
the other day that 1 was 'hysterically
homesick, or nervously incompetent.
have never been nervous and how
could | be homesick in America, where
find justice? ! am going to stay here
and learn English. l thought thess
were very poor excuses Mr.. White made
in court for one who claims to be Sc
clever. I do not like this phrase
'hysterically homesick' at all.
What my husband wanted was ar