White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-12-09


Tbs Rochester. N. Y. Chronicle tbinks
sonnet thing may bs ssia is bshsfl.ef Nc
Fsrlsnd:'
Perhaps Mcfarland. The ..,.,,;, Of
Albert D. tRicbsrdson. Il entitled to some
little sympathy. or ct lest to . uoiesv
of pity. He is some twenty YEAR oldcr
than his wife. bus his years do NOT ont.
number bsrs any more to-day ,hsn they
did when she married lin. and the fact
therefore forms NO excuse for her action.
He may have treated her badly. but ,h;s
vas no reason Why shs should deser, him
in order to throw herself into the arms of
smother man. She states. Il b ssis. that
he was in the habit Of drinking and then
Of sbusins her: but his statement 10 shss
they lived happily together until be lost
his property. snd then hsr fambkioa Was
beyond her pecuniary means. w hilGshs
was yet living with him, il is we'll Known.
Richardson was much more iati6 ate vith
her than he should have been. Aitsr she
had left him be believes The two eousiuusd
their intimacy. and this suppo.tion wss
not calculated excessively to clan. tbs
nerves OF an excitsble msn. Finally shs
got from hin his two childrsu, and for
some time be could fnd neither her nor
them. He got bis boy back, bot the lit
tie one cried every night for his motiisr,
who could not be found. Rishardsoa
published letter 10 which be avowsd
bis determination to marry Mrs. McFsr-
land jnst as soon "a she could get di.
vorce from her husband. At last, % Nc.
Farlsnd believed. the divorce wss oh.
tanned in an Indiana court. and il W. ON.
ders'ood that Richardson wss selling his
property in New Jersey. calculating to
marry the woman and take her with Jim
to California. Evidently Mcfarland had
brooded upon the subject until il becmss
The study Of bis life. The knowledge th.t
the woman he hsd loved would soon be
lost to him beyond redemption. drove
him frantic. and the tragedy in the Tri-
buns office quickly followed. This 10
the side OF the story which demands sym.
pstby for the prisoner, and in view Of it
we cannot discover the Justice of the
malsdictions showersd upon him BY some
OF the New York Journals. and the calls
that are made for his blood, merely that
Richardson may be avenged. We can
imagine nothing more grievious than the
disgrace which has been heaped upon
Mcfarland and his children. and the more
terrible because It comes from the womsn
it is bis unhappy fate to love; bot .. the
same time there ia nothing more uuwiss. %
well as cowsrdly. than bis two attempts to
murder the destroyer Of bis psacs. Plse-
ed in the shoes Of Richardson. there are
few men who would not have acted pre-
cisely as he did. and thought such sctiou
manly in a certain way: but ct the same
time he and the wife of Mcfarland are
as amenable to the Law o. the wrongsd
husband ia. and they can be pnnished il
it is proved that they have broken it.
The prisoner is brutal: but there ia some
thing in the action Of his wife and her
seducer which is deliberately. cruelty
heartless. We certainly hope that Nc.
Farland will be punished to the full ex-
tent of the lsw; but We cannot iois in the
effort which is being made to give the man
who has wronged him the dignity Of .
martyr