Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-12-09
From the New York Tribune, Nov. D.
ALBERT I'D. RICHARDSON.
Particulars Of the Attack upon
Him.

At about $50 yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. Albert d. Richardson, and old
and value aitache of the Tribune,
we'll known to the country as one OF
the war correspondents of the paper
during the rebellion, and as the au-
thor of Beyond the Mississippi, and
other works, was fired upon and shot
! in the publication office of the Tribune,
! by Daniel Mcfarland. Mr.. McFar-
land, it appears, had been in the office
about an hour before Mr.. Richard
sons arrival, and seemed to have
KIN wn that the latter would call at or
about 5 o'clock. At the time of Mr..
Richardson's enterance into the room,
Mcfarland was standing behind the
desk opposite the right hand door
opening on Nassau street, and was
therefore concealed from view. Mr..
Richardson, entirely unconscious of
the dang er impending over him, and
| ignorant of the presence Of McFar-
land, advanced to the lower end Of
the counter, and asked for his letters.
Between him and Mcfarland, and
outside the counter, a gentleman was
reading the paper, or searching the
pages of the Directory. AS Mr.. Rich
ardson leaned over toward the desk
of the advertising clerk. Mcfarland
rushed from his hiding place, raised
his pistol, and aiming directly over
the head of the stranger at Mr.. Rich
ardsOn, fired. The ball entered the
body of the victim at a point midway
between the breast and the abdomen,
and lodged in the stomach. The
wounded man turned, and for the
first time saw his assailant. Without
speaking a word he walked to the
Spruce street door, thence into the
street, and up four flights of stairs to
the editorial rooms, where he quietly
lay down upon a sofa, called a gentle
man to him, remarked that he was
badly wounded, and asked to have a
surgeon sent for at once. In a few
minutes physician arrived, and Mr..
Richardson was removed to the AstOT
House. So apparently unmOved was
ne on leaving the publication room,
that the fact of his being wounded
was not known to the clerks until the
the arrival of the surgeon. In the
meantime Mcfarland had escaped.
Detectives were put upon his track,
and at ten O'Clock he was arrested at
the corner Of Irving place and Six
teenth street, by Captain Allaire, of
the Fourth Precinct, and Detective
Finn, who at once carried their pris-
oner to the room of the wounded man
at the AstOr House. On being asked
whether the prisoner was the man
who shot him, Mr.. Richardson ans
wered quietly in the affirmative, and
Mcfarland was then taken to the
Fourth Precinct Station House and
locked up.
The trouble which led to this unfOr-
tunate occurrence dates back to the
spring Of 1867, when Mr.. Richardson
occupied rooms in the same house in
which Mrs. Mcfarland, wife of Dan
iel Mcfarland, was a boarder. The
lady was a member of a theatrical
company, and was at this time living
on bad terms with her husband.
Mr.. Richardson frequently escorted
Mrs. Mcfarland home from the thea
ire in which she was employed; and
this fact, coupled with the desire of
his wife to be separated from him, in
furiated Mcfarland. On the evening
of the 18th of March, 1867, as Mr.
Richardson and Mrs. Mcfarland Were
returning to the boarding house, they
were met by Mcfarland, who, with
out a word of warning, drew a pistol
and fired, the shot taking effect in
Mr.. Richardson's thigh. The affair
created some excitement at the time,
but as the wound did not Prove fatal,
and as it was not eemed advisable 70
give the matter more publicity, the
assassin was not molested.
Long after Mr Richardson's reeoy-
cry Mr., Mcfarland asked for an in
sertion of his version Of the difficulty