The Union and journal., 1870-05-20
.Uisceiiaae0ssS.
The Mcfarland Trial.

publish Mrs Albert ID. Richardson's full statement
and history Of the married le the circumstances OF
her separation frOm her husband, her acquaintance
with Mrs Calhoun, Richardson, and other friends.
together with q confidential statement In writing
ftom Richardson n Junlus Henri Browne, dated
time amer Richardson's death. Mr. Richardson
sys wow. after have waited In patience for
yeriiet Of the newsPaPers OF the public and OF New
York court and nry, have decided that will
speak the hrst and last words shall ever speak for
myself, and this Is what mean 10 do, to write as
exactly As can the whole and sslple truth to the
minutost detail, reserying nothing and extenuating
nothing. In doing this neither ask nor expect
sympathy or justice nom the press or the public
married Daniel Mcfarland In 1851. was girl OF
~. born in Massachusetts,, and educated In New
England shools. i had been teacher and was just
beginning 10 write a little for the prcss. Daniel
Mcfarland was an Irishman Of u or d who had re-
ceiyed partial eOurse at DamOuth College, and
had seven years before knew him been admitted
% the Massachusetts, bar. When married him no
represented himself 10 be member cf the bar In
Madison, Wisconsin, with anourishing law practice
brilliant political prospects and possessed Of proper
~ 10 the amount OF from sD,OO 20 fp,0O. lie also
professed 10 be q man Of temperate habits, Of tho
purcst morals, and previous 10 my marriage appear
ed neither intemperate nor brutal nor Proane After
% ,a1nsd nm '" Mr. M MePars1d eoald borrow money 70
continue the journey. We returned ~ New York In
Feburary, lS,S, Mcf. leaving his watch and chain
In pawn st Rochester hotel 10 pay his board bill.
In less than three months aftsr the marriage Mrs.
McP. went home and f6r fourteen days did not hear
nom her husband, whom she len in New York. In
answer To q telegram he came 20 Mr.. Sage's In New
Hampshire, and then TOR the hrst time she had
suspicion that he might bo intemperate.
During the summer OF 1888 Mrs. Mcf. remained Mt
her ther's and In the Gall returned to Brooklyn, liv-
ing with her husband In two or three hired rooms,
but no here nrst began 70 come intoxicated. lie
would also como home sober bringing with him bot
ties called scheidam schnaPPs containing quart OF
of vile liquor and he would put them by his bed
side and drink sometimes the whole before morning.
When beyyed him not 10 do 80 he said his brain
was on are and this made him sleep. This Is the
nrst time that he began 10 tell me about his brain
him after he had been drinking and 30 which 80
many people have testified 10 his using on his recent
trial for his life. As this was two or three months
before my first child was born, and rs all my senses
were neryously acute and was also, as believe,
woman OF refined taste and feeling his breath his
whole body steamng with the vile liquor which he
drank during those nights while lay awake beside
1 had been married. 90 him year my Affection for
Hun was very much chilled, might say nearly de-
strOyed.
OF her husbands increasing brutality and the pow
erty OF their rowing life among New York boarding
houses and lodging rooms, her narrow and straight
ened circumstances, feeble health and utterly de-
plorable conditions. The narrative covers the
time fOm ISjg to lS66, and tho following are among
the most striking incidents
AZ Christmas. iSss2, was 50 anxious 10 have Per.
ey with me and felt 50 hopeful OF doing well eur.
ing the winter with the dramatic readings which L
had begun, that sent ". McF. on 10 New llamp-
shire 20 get Percy, who had been all this time at
him all the little stock of jewels possessed, my
rings, brooches, watch and chain, which had by
this time been ~ frequently pawnci and redeemed
that did not caro- rOr them, and sold them all In
In Boston. These were tho last jewels 1 ever pos
scsscd, except plain gold ring which Is tho wed.
ding ring placed ON my hand by my dead husband.
Mr. Mel. was unspeakahly cruel to me during
the Gall and winter Of lct2J. While We boarded
nj ~ NJ. rick street we occupied the only sleeping
APARTMENTS on the parlOr nOOr, and he could give
fall scope 10 his firics without fear Of being over
heard. lie would lock himself into the room with
me ami give way 10 such terrible Jury that only
the extremest pride and self cOntr0l prevented me
ffOm making my misery known. lie brought home
what he prOiesscd was prussie acid and Threatened
10 take II and 90 force me 10 take Il also lie would
snatch my scissors frOm my work basket and lay
ing open hrs breast he would brandish them about,
swearing hi would leg out his hearts b1cd before
ei pistols with which he would shoot Inc. He leu
one evening declaring that he would shoot q gcn-
tleman because he had been asked to Join himself
picture gallery, although had at the most
general acquaintance with tho party and refused
the invitation ~ soon as made. One morning dur
Mr. MeP. had been out nearly all night in DRINK.
eli oryie and had risen nom bed In one OF his worst
tempers, approached as he stood by tho mirror
hni.slns his toilet and bean 70 ny SO sSSTs,n,ng ,
which feared was soon coming. lie turned around
and struck me a blow scrosc my face which made
me reel backwards From thai Time took an en-.
these f,iries I she'd great many tears under his
cruelty and tried to reason with him and had tried
entreaties and PeruasiOns. After this whichever
Ell them, never moved of spoke but Kept perfect
ly self controlled. As ar ss 1 could sat quiet.
always keeping my eye on him, because always
would not do me any mortal violence, I believe
now ~ I believed then. that my life was sayci by
this silence and self control.
Is has so@es. sppresshsd win his nsnd' s, s,sssd
clutch my throat, and cried How 1 shoad like to
strsnsle yos or our IRE = bound soms'ime 70 end
hesis and has, ss thiak. ben rcstrsnei becanse
Simply look~ az him without raising word In these
vas =, hand. ss%ps. glasses ar,rrors and sssetI@ss
the HEAVIER nrufure of the rooul. Often he would
,ssr,ns assy ali he bed sethns tearing m shrsds
his own nixh clothing. thrc-inx anything he could
% M, 4, - se,sS h., me- th., s,v,a y. M ,so,e
nouium than that IN which lived and all this he
-cali ~ without exrsanai,os or even spretext hr
excited him than babe unborn he woad sometimes
kee M this conduct and this sbas or hours withoat
~sn them barsi into isars, SegsinT nav PARDON "a,
vas The eest woman that ever ised, aud then 20 10
asSp ,Sl..as,sd: soms,%cs ne said .yoar damned
winter g ~ s.i ", W. ~erc a, Mr. sioelsir- neigh
bruised aa siseiI"s e nom ses.s S .irss, 6rs%i ssas
occsrence oa his part, thsi VAS obliged ts call
oaly OF ihres weeks esrr ibe death Of my yeans.
s.esid- .r shoald not have done an This event
kert Nc. Mcf. In his room for more than sweek.
csrred his meals 10 him myself that his disgrace might
M, b. 80. ssi eommentesi among the bosriers.
Mrs. kirhsrison slso nsrrstes her charts to sapport
berself ard her ehnrra BY writing fer p.pers and mar
.,,Is. ,h, <rs.ier par, q her ..ns. bs .prrepri.
moan nsotlse- which woald allow her 10 rrc-i,e
charity. and menti.as of Mersrisnd-. prccarinr .
Thousand dollars IN January, i~, by black mAiiins AN
All lspi owner of mia afenlnr m sxr,.
irregularities I'm his Income returns N he did not give
him money. In the winter of i>s she nrst met Mrs
Calhoun. and January ~ is1 AFTER an aaasasly harsh
e l.ttrf giving the statrusnt % her wrongs sud a-
nasallnx OR sympathy AMI advice. which Mr. Calhoan
sns~.v~d IN Ne letters shhn m were on tne trial