Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-09
The Richa rdsOn Tradgcdy.

which has since resulted in RICHARDSON s
death has created considerable excite,
ment, at least in newsp per circles Mr..
Richardson died on the ID inst, at five
o'clock, having been married to Mrs Nc.
Farland-the lady who primarily caused
his death, III. w. Beecher performing
the marriage service. His funeral took
place on Saturday, at which Mr., Beecher
ofhciated, eulogizing the dead man and
the unfortunate widow in the highest
terms, The Evening Wisconsin, gives
the following history of the affair which
resulted so tragically.
Some two years ago Mr., Richardson
made the acquaintance of Il lawyer named
Mcfarland and his wife, residents in
New York city. Mr. Mex. is cry dis
sipated man, and it is alleged, was in the
habit of abusing his wife; though he and
his friends deny this, and affirm that he
never treated her otherwise than with
the greatest kindness, BE this as it NAV,
not lar from the time that Mr. Richard,
son made the acquaintance of the lady,
she lett her husband for some cause, and
expressed the determination never again
to live with him. Mcfarland alleges that
Richardson influenced her to this course,
and their relations were more intimate
thar they ought to be. Richardson de-
MED this in emphatic terms, stating that
his conduct toward Mrs McF. was of the
most honorable kind and that her de-
termination to cave her husband was
taken before he had become intimately
acquainted with her, and withoutany ad
vice or instigation on bis part and that
her husbands crueltyand dissipated hab.
its were the sole cause of the separation
MIR r. further stated that some time af-
ter the separation had taken place, and
the lady had expressed the determination
to procure divorce, 1T came to be un-
derstood between them that if ever she
should become legally separated from her
husband they (Mr. Il. and Mrs. McF.)
shoad be married.
Separated from her husband, Mrs. Nc.
FarMnd was thrown upon her own re-
sources for the support of herself and
her two children. Being a lady of Gull
ture, she wrote articles for the magazines,
and acquired some celebrity as an ac-
tress in some Of the New York theatres,
1t was while she was returning to her
house from performance in one of these
theatres, escorted, by Mr. Richardson,
that her husband, who had been watch
ing them and had his passions reused by
jealousy and strong drink, followed them,
and when part way home, stole up close
behind them and commenced firing a re-
volver upon Richardson Wheeling
round, the latter closed with his assai-
ant threw him to the ground and held
hin till Il policeman came and took him
ia charge, when it was discovered who
he was Richardson was only slightly
wounded in one lee, and to save the lady
from undue notOriett. refused to prose.
cute his would-be assassin Mcfarland
was released and the matter soon passed
from the public mind,
Last spring the matter was revived
through the publication of letter by
Mcfarland charging Richardson with
alternating the affections of his wife and
being much in her company, and deny
ing that he had ever maltreated her
RICHARDSON replied to this denying all of
Mcfarland statements, saying that he
bad seen Mrs McF. only few times
since the shooting scrape, and then al,
ways in the presence Of her friends
The matter again dropped until week
or two ago, when Mcfarland hearing that
his wife had obtained divorce, sought
out Richardson, and, finding him in the
Tribune Office, in New York, shot him
through the bowels from the effects of
which he died as above stated.
The Chicago Tribnne gives the follow
Ing sketch of the murdered man life:
The life of Mr.. Richardson has been
as eventiul as its end is tragic In the
!, rsut of his profession as u journalist
he has had many escapes of death, liter>
a. bv food and field, to be overtaken at
HIST III u pIUCo anu III u lluHUtT iDe lcdSb
to be anticipated or guarded against AS
newspaper correspondent he passed
through all of the Kansas war, with the
thousand hazards of that sa age border
warfare, taking an active and important
part in the settlement of the Affairs OF
the State when the warfare ceased When
the southern rebellion broke oet, he was
at the South, as correspondent OF the \,
Y. Tribune, and encountered not only
the ordinary risks to which any Northern
man was at that time exposed there, bnt
the still greater ones, attaching to writ
err whose business it was to obserye and
expose the purposes of the leaders in re-
belIion, and encounter the rage and mad
ness of an insurgent populace lie es-
cared with some difficulty to the north,
and from that time TIL he was taken
prisoner in the front Of Vicksburg, was
one of the indelatigab.e us well as one
of the ablcst, of the correspondents who
kept the country so constantly advised OF
every step in the progress of the war