New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
White Driver,
From Town bv
Angry Critics
Wife Beater Scoots Away
in Auto in Barrage of
Cabbages and Tomatoes
Hurled by the Villagers
New Attack Threatened
French Bride Tells Story
of Romance That Turned
Out To Be a Nightmare
From a STAFF CORRESPONDENT

MARLBORO, N. Y, May 3O.-Bouck
White drove his little old automobile
with reckless abandon when he fed
from town this morning under a we'll
directed shower of tomatoes, turnips,
cabbages and other garden produce
thrown by wrathful villagers.
The former pastor of the Church of
the Social Revolution has hardly heard
the last of the sturdy people in this
Ulster County mountain town. If the
tarring and feathering and horsewhip-
ping with which he was treated q
few days ago for the reported mistreat-
ment of his young French wife have not
given him enough cause for deep
thought, he carried back more ma
terial to work on following his recep-
tion here to-day.
Recently Bouck White left a pair of
shoes at the village cobbler's for some
needed overhauling. This morning he
decided to drive in and claim them. He
left his automobile in front Of the
boot mender's shop and stepped inside
Story Spread on Windshield
While he was absent one of the
villagers, armed with some paste and
a copy of New York newspaper which
described the tarring episode, spread
the newspaper story over the wind
shield of the automobile. and observ-
ers laughed heartily.
When White came out he started to
strip the paper off. Near by stood sew
eral G. A. r. veterans who were pre-
laughed at White and hooted at him
and a crowd gathered to add their cat
calls to the vocal din.
White jumped into his machine, sent
it forward with a lurch, and started
to drive off, followed by stream of
vegetables. They whizzed by him and
his was a race against the vegetable
artillery fire of the Marlboro folk. Ac-
cording to White ne won the race, for
while he admitted the hooting he said
that il anything was thrown at him he
wasn't hit.
This mornings episode is only an in
dication of the unusually strong feel
ing which exists here against White
following the suit for the annulment
of her marriage started by Mrs. White
and the stories she has told of his
treatment Of her. There is a continual
undercurrent of further violent action
all through the village and the neigh
boring farms which is likely to break
forth at any time.
Thorough Beating Threatened
"We ought to go up and beat him. up
right" said one of the leaders of the
harder and more adventurous young
men of the town
"The Others" he said, referring to
the tar and feathering party, "did not
do as good a job as we will do. Some
Of them lacked courage"
One man, who has a knowledge of
the feelings of the townspeople toward
White, declared that the feeling
against him was not only bad, but that
it was rapidly growing worse.
White was working on pump house
in course of construction when visited
yesterday. He treated his troubles
nonchalantly, appearing unmoved by
the wrath manifested against him in the
town. Wearing blue overalls, spattered
with mortar, and waving a mason's
trowel as he talked, the alleged victim
of tar and feather vengeance said one
of his wife's chief reasons for abandon
ing him was that he had worn over
alls about his work.
"Mrs. White told me-" he said, "that
she didn't think she was marrying a
(CantInued on Gage oIuht)