WIFE'S SACRIFICE SEQUEL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 3

WIFE'S SACRIFICE SEQUEL.

ARTIST THKEATENED WITH TAR AND FEATHERS.

The martrimonial arrangement made by Mr Ferdinand Earle, the well-known Socialist artist, and his wife, whereby the latter premised to obtain a divorce in her native country, France, in order that Mr Earle may marry another woman, has aroused intense indignation among the artist's neighbours at the village of Monroe (United States), where he possesses a. sumptuous home. Mr Earle, after bidding farcvvellto Lis wife and son, who sailed for Europe on September 4th, returned to his home alone, and was met at the station by the entire village. He was vigorously hissed as he left the train, and violence was threatened- Mr Earle is a man who has the courage of his convictions, and he ■stood his ground on the station platform, defying his neighbours and protesting that he had done right. - Then he entered a carriage, and was about to drive away when it was overturned by the villagers, Mr Earle being; thrown in a mud puddle. He q\S|£kly picked himself up and tried to'fight the crowd with a horsewhip. Somebody wrenched his weapon from him, however, and struck him on the face. A rough-and-tumble fight ensued, in which the artist was bauly knocked about. Eventually he was rescued by the police and escorted to his home, a jeering, hooting crowd following him. Demonstrations have been constantly in progress outside his house ever since, and the villagers have threatened to tar and feather the artist should thyy catch him outside his house.