The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-30
GIVE BOUCK White
WHIP LASHES,, TAR
AND FEATHER HIM
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torney, handed up to Supreme
Court Justice A. r. II. Seeger. there
came today from four sources other
facts concerning white and his
bride OF Ave weeks.
According to Cecire the complaint
related how Miss Simon had married
White In Paris on April 81 after
swift courtship. She, the daughter of
Marcel Simon. once wealthy resident
of Rheims and now a chemist. and
superintendent of the Panhard-Levas-
| sor motor works in Paris. was In
troduced to White at bazaar In
Paris. After relating how they had
come to this country. arriving nine
days after the marriage ceremony in
a Protestant chapel in Paris. the COM
plant set forth how White had at
tempted to innoculate the cultured
French girl with the germs of radi-
calism.
FINDS SHE WAS DECEIVED.
Failing in this. the document con-
tinued, White took the girl to his
Summer estate" 1t was when he ar
rived at the estate" the complaint
alleged, that the former Miss Simon
realized that she hadn't married a
wealthy American. for. according to
Der allegations. that was the pose of
White in Paris.
| Educated HI T.. JOSEPH A<ybeutu anu
having taken a course at the Sar
bonnie. the slender French girl, fitted
only for a life OF refinement, arrived
| at Whites shack In Snake Hollow.
| three miles from here. and found the
estate of her wealthy" husband to
consist OF:
A tumbled down farm house of
diminutive dimensions: a tangled plot
| of thirty acres OF near jungle, rocks
and Quietness; a flock of Ave White
Leghorn hens. a discouraged pig, one
COW and an elderly "nivver." She
also found that the unvarying menu
for all meals was milk and eggs.
| She lived there hve days and then
a week ago last Thursday morning a
weeping. Iusgage-laden figure came
| toterins down the narrow grass
clogsed road winding from "Bouck
Whites place" down to the Marlbor-
| ough Mountain House. a summer
boarding place where William NOEL
rath. proprietor. and Mrs. Leonia
Swifie, his housekeeper. were waiting
for the summer board RS to arrive.
HOUsEkEEPER ANGRY.
Comfortably rocking back and forth
on the hotels wide porch today. and
frequently punctuating her story
with indignant statements of what
she'd like to do to him" (White). the
housekeeper went back to the morn
ing OF Mrs. Whites arrival
IT was sitting in the ONCE" she
said. looking out of the window
watching for automobile parties.
when ] saw a girl come around the
| bend in the road up thcre'-she
waved her hand toward a curve skirt
ing a drop 1.4oO feet down to the
valley below
| AS she came closer I noticed that
she had her hand up TO her face and
was weeping. She was carrying a
heavy suitcase. Pretty soon | made
her out to be that French girl that
White married. She came down the
road. and when she got in front of
the house fhe hesitated a bit, as
though uncertain. and then came in
| She came up to the porch. and as |
went out to meet her she dropped
the suitcase and tainted into one OF
| the chairs.
81 brought her around and then she
told me that white Ind just beaten
| her. she showed me her arms. Blue
marks showed where Somebody fin
gers had been dug into her forearms
she told m~ that White lad seized
her. thrown her 10 the floor. and lad
called her naWes. and NIL because
! cooking stove.
SECOND ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
at was the second time that White
had tried violence on her, she told
me. and she had fled from him be-
cause she feared that he had hurt her
seriously. called Mr.. McElrath from
his work and told him about II. He"
But just then McElrath himself
| came out of the door. He is about
forty-five years old, more than six
| feet tall, bearded. and OF massive
build-a combination OF hard work
ing farmer and mountaineer. his jobs
when the hotel business is not good.
| "Yes." he said. taking up the mar
| rative. that's the fact, but don't for
get that Andree properly scratched
Whites face. took her in and
told her that she could live here. pro-
viding she liked the place and the
| folks, for the rest OF her life and that
II White came around here trying to
| bother her-Td. I'd" McEurath
doubled up a fist that Andres coun-
| tryman. Carpenter, might be proud
Of and added: KNOCK his head off
his shoulders"
The big mountaineer, farmer and,
now and then boniface, paused to let
his anger cool and went on:
along about 2 o'clock the next day
| after Andree came here to us. White
came loafng down the road. He had
| couple of written notices that his
wife had left his bed and board and
that he would not be responsible for
her. I listened to him tell me all
about tive was standing over there
| by the barn and then l told him
what the girl had told me and Mrs.
| Swif1e.
ORDERS WHITE OFF PLACE.
"'Oh.' he says. L can explain that
but I didn't let him explain any. I
just looked right ct him and I says:
"'Get the hell of the place He
went on UP the road. He didn't say
anything"
What happened Monday night at
Whites house was told by McElrath,
who didn't say that he was In the
rarity but added that he had heard
that some of the leading citizens had
a part in it,"
whites been saving the last few