Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-06-04
HOlCK WHITE TAKEN titOhl l'Ep
IING\:ED. TAItkED AND
tEATIiEKiiD.
Stirred by Cruelty Charges OF '''S
] Bride Masked ICu Seize him.

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White. radical ugitutol ana louhhc'
of the Church oi thc Social l<cVoi"
.tion was horscwnIrpcd aud 'arteu an"
fcathcrcd last Aon01N mShl nS
group o. citizens OF Muriporo' ~
hccau&c they nc..tycl ne haa D''h
cruel TO his brluc O. less IMAM liNc
weeks Mrs. Andre ltHhIIlr SHAUN
Mhitc. who Is HoW seeking an oh'u'-
mcnt OF the IA. rrIa&t on inc Gto'l'H"
of fraud. The mixture OF talN aaPh"l'
carbOi c acid and feathers was appH''
so thoroughly that when WAITE 1c'
moved it lac took with il lars" 'vc
lions of skin. The back OF his mock 70
day seemed to he almost rklnlcS,&.
Acyording to thc story told by tho
pcoplc OF Marlboro and corroDOraloh
to a large extent by White, although
he insists that ihc group was compo3
od OF "city toughs,' the agitator was
asleep III bed when three automobiles
filled with masked men drew up III
front of The rUUc stone and wooden
shack in which he had been living IN
retirement Tor the last three years
The shack is in the foothills oil the
Shawangunk Mountains, one OF tue
most dcsolatc spots in Ulster county.
White was dragged from bed, rorc
tied around his waist and he was
hauled into the middle OF the dirt
road that ends ut the shack. There
he w2S floggcd by the masked men UNI
til lie dropped from exhaustion, aftc'
which his pajamaS were ripped from
his back and the tarrin% and feather
ing done.
This is tho story thai the ncighbo;3
including men who arc said to have
taken part in the affair tell, but White
says the truth is somcwhatc different
He said lie had been roatcd roughly
by Il gang OF city toughs,' and he told
Il reporter for the New York Herald
who visited his shack yesterday that
he mad not been tarrcd and fcathcr"o
but that he had been beaten. When ask
cd what was the matter with his
neck, he said he had been Sunburncd.
The agitator declared that the "ton>;n"
threw him into an automobile ana
drove him to town south OF New
burg, Il distance OF more than thirteen
mites where he was thrown out uftcr
promising to do right hy his wife
and left to make his way back home
as best he could.
ADMITS MARTIAL TROUBLES.
Reporters who visited White at his
shack found him nlsecp in a rustic
swing in the front yard. With him as
his companion OH the thirty acre cs-
tate was William Sanger, an artist
and the husband Of Mrs. Margaret
Sanger Of birth control fame, who is
now in Europe. Sanger has Il studio
on the grounds which n huge sign.
board announces is "Bouck Whites
Place." When the reporters came II
White arose to sitting position ir
the swing, but he did It with difficulty
and rubbed himself caressingly, us IL
Inc was in considerable pain
TITS all true" he said, when asked
about his martial troubles. "You boys
can go the limit. Never mind me, but
take care Of her. Give her the best Of
it."
The man who was so spruce and dap
per and so careful OF his appearance
while Il leader Of the parlor reds in
New York city was dressed stability
He wore a pair of old army shoes,
through which his toes pokcd; his cl.
gray sweater and he wore the rcmn.
ants OF a linen hat. He declared no
had told his wife that he was an agita
tor, but said he probably did not make
her realize fully the extent to which
he was "committcd to the cause Of
social revolution.
at is just one more" he said of tho
10000 marriages between French wo-
men and American men since the wal
that have turned out unfavorably.
French publicists and statesmen ara
beginning to concentrate on the fact
and arc trying to discourage such
unions. II Is just case of two opro.
site strains of temperament not mfA
ing. French and American marriages
do not turn out right. 1t is not my
fault and it is not her fault It is
merely because the French tcmpera.
ment cannot get used to American
frontier ways. l consider myself II
fronticrsman. My place is at the eni
of the road and I am therefore, prac
tically at the frontier"
White denied that he ever hai
struck his wife as he claims, but he
said that one time during a differ
ence in opinion he picked her up and
carried her to her bedroom. He has
several scratches on his face TO prove
his assertion that Mrs. White did no,
like that. When he was asked WHY
he had buried himself in the noun
tains White said:
SAYS WORLD HAS BRAINSTORM
The war broke up my work down
there in New York city. My agitation
was all before the war and / had n
right to agitatc. When America enter
cd the war 7 tod my radical friends
that since America had an enemy in
the open and the blood of Americas
sons was being spilled. It was un to
us, to abandon our radical activties
Wheh l made this announcement ali
OF my friends abandoned me. so /
came up here.
The world is now suffering from =
Dralnstorm, and when this is over
ana people get back to sane thinl,inp