New-York tribune., 1921-05-30

l2 Men Drag Ex-Pastor
From Mountain Home
and Administer Lash TO
Victim, in Night Carb
Tar and Feathers
Used, Neighbors Say
French Wife Charges She
Was Felled for Putting
Eggshells Into Stove
Fron, a StaJ Correspondent.


Aroused By his alleged mistreatment
Of his young French wife, twelve men
seized Bouck White. agitator and for
metly pastor of the Church of the So
cial Revolution in New York, at his
home near here last Monday night,
gave him a sound horsewhipping,
covered his body with a mixture Of
tar. asphalt and carbolic acid and
added feathers. Then they turned him
out on lonely mountain road after
driving him in an automobile down
hill in the direction of Newburgh.
White, who was dressed in his night
clothes, trudged painfully up the hilly
road in the direction of Marlboro thir-
teen miles away.
White was beaten after his bride
Of less than month, who had come to
America with him looking forward to
life on an extensive estate. had left
him, disillusioned and bearing marks
Of physical mistreatment. She had
grown tired of monotonous diet of
eggs and milk, found it impossible to
put herself in agreement with Whites
radical theories, Of which she knew
little or nothing before her marriage,
and stories of her unhappy life with
White in q rambling, unpainted farm
house had aroused sympathy for her
among the townspeople.
White Admits TrOuncing
White, still bearing Signs on his
f. L..
denied yesterday that he had been
treated with coat of tar and feathers,
but admitted that he had been aroused
at nigh and roughly handled.
Mrs White. who before her marriage
vas Mile. Andree Emile Simon, daugh-
ter Of Marcel Simon, superinten-
dent and chief chemist Of the Panhard-
Levassor Automobile Company in
Paris, has started suit for the annul-
nent OF her marriage on the ground of
fraud, in that he concealed his radical
ideas from hen parents. The action
was fled in the Supreme Court at
Poughkeepsie yesterday, and Justice A.
H.. F. Seeger, Of Newburgh, has ap-
pointed Harry G. Harper, of Pough-
keepsie, guardian ad litem for Mrs.
White. The complaint was filed by
Bernard F. Cecire, attorney for the
yesterday that he does not intend to
defend the suit against him.
Pending the Strengthening out of her
marital tangle Mrs. White has found
refuge in the Marlboro Mountain
House, about quarter mile from her
former home, high up in the foothills
Of the Catskill Mountains. William
McElratn, proprietor of the summer
boarding house, a husky, bronzed
mountain farmer, touched by the story
Of the young French bride, has offered
her home as long as she cares to
stay. Mrs. White, who speaks little
English, and that with marked
Parisian accent, was found there yes
terday. Aided by Mrs. Leonia Swife.
housekeeper at the Mountain House,
and McElroth, she told her story.
Bride Tells of Married Life
The wife of the agitator, who had
served two terms in prison for his
radical activities, is twenty years old
and an exceedingly attractive French
girl. She is tall, vivacious and charm
ing In manner. When she met the
SILK Jersey blouse, blue and white
checked sport skirt, dark brown Ok
lords and stockings to match. Mrs.
White came out bareheaded, showing
mass of dark brown hair. Her eyes
are dark brown and glowing with
energy and her coloring is brilliant.
An engagement ring, marriage ring
and gold necklace were her only
Jewels. Finding the afternoon sun too
strong for her she went into the house
again and came out wearing a lemon
coiored sport hat.
Before the Germans came to Rheims,
where her family lived, she said, they
we're well off. But the Germans left
them little and they went TO Paris,
yyaaklng up their residence at A Rue
aalppolyte. There she met White last
February, and after short courtship
She married him in Paris on April 21.
ne impressed her, she said, by the
aepth Of his learning. He could be
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