The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-29
Mr.. Graham here read the interview

alluded 10. Mt. pretley uenieu SeNeIdi
portions of it, did not say that McFar-
land had given up all his claims to his
wife: did not say his testimony would
90 against Mac AT the trial did not say
Mac was u bad man; did not say he
was q dirty, deliberate id william;
did not swear one swear that was pub
lished; did not make any threats against
Mcfarland; did not consider il suffi-
cient for man to say that he relin-
quished all claim TO his wife to be a
competent divorce; did believe that he
had given up his wife; never said so to
Richardson: never encouraged Mrs.
Mcfarland in her attachment to
Richardson; did speak Of it to Mrs. s.
Sinclair never did TO Mrs. Calhoun
presumed he mentioned il to Mr.. Reed;
did not remember the prisoner having
called upon him for letter of recon-
mendation for the office of Register in
Bankruptcy: at his first interview the
prisoner spoke with considerable feeling;
did not cry: knew Mcfarland five years
before that time
Mr.. Graham showed two letters of
his TO Mcfarland; one was addressed
NV Friend" the other Dear Sir
These letters were a. truthful a. letters
of recommendation generally are. One
was to Mr. Draper, Collector of the
Port, and the other to Mr.. McElrath,
appraiser. Mr.. Greeley gave Mrs Cal
houn letter of Introduction to Henry
Ward Beecher when Richardson was on
his death-bed.
Q.-With what view did Won write
that letter?
The admission of this testimony was
objected to by Mr.. Garvin.
The person who interviewed him
aShed if Mr.. Greeley did not think they
would make Il good point on him in re-
gard to free love and marriage business
Greeley answered that he thought his
views and character were well enough
understood already; Mrs Sinclair had
spoken to witness III Netherlands favor,
but Mrs. Mcfarland never did solicit
any favor or recommendation for the
prisoner to Graham; did not know Of
a lltIldI'lHptl - IlllNllNl'l' w ~ W tii Hi7
tant place in the latter part of 1869.
Samuel Sinclair, publisher of the
Tribune, testified that he was acquaint-
Ell with the prisoner since 1857; knew
his wife; remembered the interview be-
tween them at the house Of the witness
in 1867,
, State what occurred.
Mr.. Mcfarland said the prisoner
wanted an interview with her; she re-
fused until her father would be present;
Mrs. Mcfarland told the prisoner that
his conduct toward her had driven out
all the affection she ever had for him,
and she would no longer live with him;
this interview occurred on the oath
of February, 1861 Mr.. Mcfarland
spoke to the witness that evening,
asking him to speak to Mr.. McElrath
in his favor: witness and Mcfarland
spoke about separation: witness tried
to put courage into him, though the
prisoner spoke to him oi becoming an
actor: witness told him now would he
the time 10 prove hinsclfa great lawyer
Mcfarland Saidhe never couldagaln live
with Mrs. Mcfarland; that the scpara
ton was total: prisoner was in the habit Of
calling on witness frequently; next time
witness saw prisoner he spoke sharply
/ to him about irving to prejudice his
son Percy against his mother: prisoner
often asked where Richardson was, and
sometimes where Mrs Mcfarland was;
last time he saw Mcfarland he merely
looked into his room; Richardson was
sitting in the room at the time: McFar-
land told witness that if Richardson ever
married. Mrs. Mcfarland he wonld
shoot him; in reference TO the first
shooting Mcfarland told him it was
when Richardson and his wife were 90
inc home from the theatre; went TO
prisoners house in 1854; found the
prisoner on the bed living on his face
very much intoxicated: prisoners : wife
told witness not to communicate the
fact to her father: witness stated that
he does not contribute to the expense Of
private counsel, but would contribute
to the cost of private counsel if asked;
never wrote or caused to he written in
the Tribune an article in reference TO
this case; had known Richardson Il
long time witness very likely said to
Mcfarland bear up like man, I'm
your friend did not exactly remember
what he said; his impression was that
Mcfarland and his wife were
both partly in the right and partly in
the wrong; never told Richardson that
Mcfarland regarded the separation as
final; he thought husband and wife
could separate, hut father and mother
should put up with anything rather than
separate; Mcfarland represented to his
wife that separation would affect her
self aud their children; witness in
March gave Mcfarland letter.
The letter was produced and read by
Mr. Graham; it was from Sinclair,
recommending Mcfarland to Mr. Chase
for treasury appointment and de
scribing the prisoner as most
worthy man, and one of the
very few Radical Irishmen
spoke with Mcfarland about week
after the first shooting; Richardson and
Mrs. Mcfarland found an asylum in
his house the night of the shooting
Mrs. Mcfarland remained longer than
Richardson; he first heard of the inten-
ton of Richardson and Mrs. McFar-
land to get married the morning after
the shooting; hr suggested that there
was improperly in it; told Mrs. Nc
Farland that her friends would think it
strange if they got married so soon after
the separation; she replied that they
were separated; she thought she had a
right to get married; never told Mrs. Nc
Farland she ought to endure anything
rather than break up family; did not
know when Richardson and Mcfarland
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