The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14
DECISION RESERVED.

acquttting the defendant, and frequently
showed its approval by applause when any
point was made in Mr.. Beecher's favor.
DECISION RESERVED.
No decision was rendered. The case, il
is expected, will come up again on next
Friday evening, when it will be finally dis
posed of, 50 far as trial proceedings are con
:erned.
AN EXPLANATION BY MR.. GREELEY.
Mr.. Greeley was interviewed on Friday
by MIR. Isaac G. Reed, a reporter for the
San. From the result Of that interview We
make the following extracts {:
Reporter Mr.. Greeley, it has been stated
that you deny ever having asked Mr.
Beecher to marry Albert D. Richardson tc
Mrs. Mcfarland.
Mr.. Greeley Certainly. I never asked
Mr.. Beecher anything of the sort.
Reporter Then, sir, there must be some
Misunderstanding for Mr. Beecher most
assuredly told me in his own house that you
did ask him, or at least that he was led tc
understand that you so asked him.
Mr.. Greeley: Whom did Mr.. Becchel
name as representing me in this request, OF
III leading him to understand that made it
Reporter Mrs. Calhoun.
Mr.. Greeley: / can explain that. / wa:
not we'll acquainted or personally intimate
with Mr. Richardson, nor did know Mrs
Mcfarland; but Mrs. Calhoun said she
knew all about them. So wrote letter
Of introduction for her to Mr.. Beecher
telling him that she would explain hel
business and | presume she did. But
knew very little, next to nothing, about
the matter, and ! certainly never asked Mr.
Beecher, or anybody else, to marry them
or anybody else in the whole course Of my
life. | have other things to think about be.
| sides getting people married. Besides, why
didn't you ask Mr.. Beecher to show you'll
letter ! wrote to him introducing Mrs. Cal
houn? If he told you all the rest, he would
have been willing enough, should think
to show you the letter if you had asked him
for it.
Reporter: Well, all I can say is, Mr.
Greeley, that Mr.. Beecher certainly must
have imagined and believed, from what he
old me, that it was your wish that the mar
i'iagc should be consummated, or he woulC
never have promised Mrs. Calhoun, even
conditionally, to solemniZe it. He certainly
said that he considered Mrs. Calhoun a:
your representative.
Mr.. Greeley l have not The slightest
doubt that Mrs. Calhoun told Mr.. Beechel
the truth-that you may be sure of. 1t was
understood that the marriage was not to be
consummated unless Richardson was abou
to die. Tn that case nobody could be hur
by the marriage. 1t was only q matter o
bene1iting the children.
Reporter (innocently): Whose children
McFarland's?
MIR. Greeley: No; they had protector
at least they had their father. But Richard
sons children I mean. 1t was to leave h,
children with parent-it was for Richard
sons children that the thing was done
Mind, don't back out Of it (emphatically)
not a bit of it. think it was rightly done
that this woman should be called Mrs. Rich
ardSon. not Mrs. Mcfarland.
Reporter: But what had Mr.. Richard
sons dying got to do with his right to Nc
Farland's wife?
Greeley: Why, as ! understand it, though
haven't given the subject much attention
there was divorce between the orgina
parties, which seems TO me to have been al
right enough in justice, though I~don'
know about the technicalities of the case
and besides all this, Mr.. Mcfarland haC
given up all his right in his wife long ago
Everybody knows | have always defended
marriage in all my writings, and speeches
and controversies, and all those sorts o
things, but it don't matter much to me
like the ecls, have got used to skinning
but they do tell some outrageous lies in tn
paper though-some outrageous lies.