Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-06-04
HOICK WHITE TAKEN FROM BED
EI.UGGt1D, TAKRED AND
IEATIIERED.
Stirred by Cruelty Charges OF HIS
! Bride Masked Men Seize him.

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Bride Masked Men Seize him.
Poughkccpsio, May 20.-Bouck
White. radical agitator and iounhcr
of tho Church Of the Social Rcvom
elton was horsewnipped and ,arrcu anu
fcathcred last Monday night by II
,roup OF citizens of marlboro, n. }
hcrousc they believed lie had De"h
crucl to his bride OF less than i've
vcclIs. Mrs. Andre Emillic Simon
White, who Is now seeking an annu'-
ment OF the murriaSc on Che BroNhNS
NJ fraud. The mixture OF taN aSpnAll
carbo.ic acid and feathers was applet
81 thorougniy that when Waite Ic'
moved it he took with ii Il large sec
lions of skin. The back OF his neck 10
day seemed to be almost SkinleSS.
According to The story told by tho
Deople of Marlboro and corroDoratcu
to a large extent by White, although
he insists that the group was compoa
cd of Getty toughs," the agitator was
asleep in bed when three automobiles
filled with masked men drew up III
front of the rude stone and wooden
shack in which he had been living IN
retirement Tor the last three years
The shack is in the foothills OF the
Shawangunk Mountains, one OF tue
most desolate spots in Ulster county.
White was dragged from bed, rore
tied around his waist and he was
hauled into the middle of the dirt
road that ends at the shack. There
he wos floggcd by the masked men un
til he dropped from exhaustion, after
which his pajamas were ripped from
his back and the tarring and feather
ing done.
This is the story that the ncighbo:S
including men who are said to have
taken part in the affair tell, but White
says the truth is somcwhatc different
lie said he had been treated roughly
by Il gang Of city toughs," and he told
a reporter for the Now York Herald
who visited his shack yesterday that
he had not been tarred and feather"o
but that lie had been beaten. When ask
ed what was the matter with his
neck, he said he had been sunburned.
The agitator declared that tho "ton,;ns
threw him into an automobile and
drove him to town south of New
burg. Il distance Of more than thirteen
mites where he was thrown out after
promising to do right by 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 alseep in n rustic
swing in the front yard. With him MS
his companion OH the thirty acre cs-
tate was William Sanger, an artist
nd ho |, c1, nr rot
Sanger Of birth control fame, who is
now in Europe. Sanger has Il studio
OH the grounds which huge sign.
board announces is "Bouck Whites
Place" When the reporters came III
White arose to sitting position IN
the swing, but he did it with difficulty
and rubbed himself caressingly, rs IL
Inc was in considerable pain.
"It's all true" he said when asked
about his martial troubles. "You boys
can go tho 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 leader of the parlor reds in
New York city was dressed shabbily
IIc wore pair of old army shoes,
through which his toes poked; his cl.
bows protrudcd from holes in dirty
gray sweater and he wore the remn.
ants OF linen hat. He declared he
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 ~
social revolution "
ut is just one more" he said OF tho
10000 marriages between French wO-
men and American men since tho wal
that have turned out unfavorably.
French publiciSts and statesmen ara
beginning to concentrate on the fact
and are trying to discourage such
unions. 1t is just a 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 1t is not her fault. 1t is
merely because the French tempera.
ment cannot get used to American
frontier ways. I consider myself
fronticrsman. My place is at the enl
of the road and I am, therefore, prac
tically at the frontier"
White denied that he ever had
struck his wife as ne claims, but he
said that one time during a differ
ence in opinion he picked her up and
carried her to her bedroom. lie mas
several scratches on his face to prove
his assertion that Mrs. White did not
like that. When he was asked why
he had buried himself in the noun.
tains White said:
. SAYS WORLD HAS BRAINSTORM
Tho war broke up my work down
there in New York city. NJ agitation
was all before the war and I had
right to agitate. When America enter
cd the war tod my radical friends
that since America had an enemy in
the open and the blood Of Americas
sons was being spilled. It was up to