The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-11
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Mrs ucFarlau nd. Rich M dson,s NIanifesto-some
Choice Extracts Showing Her Relations to
Both Husbands.
According to the announcement made in the
morning papers, the Tribune of to-day comes to
us loaded down with eight-column state
ment, under oath, by Mrs. Abbie Mcfarland
Richardson, setting forth the secrets of her
married life and her relations to Mr.. Richard
son. The most we can do with this interminable
document is to give few choice extracts, hur-
riedly selected
Object of Her Statement.
Not for any attempt at my own vindcation do
write this explanation But for the sake OF the noble
men and women who have stood by me through ali
revilings, often without any explanation from me,
wronged for their sakes, and for his who lost his
life in my behalf, wish to tell the whole story of
lated good woman said to me, ''Do not be AFRAID
exactly you would tell it to your Maker and then
keep silence forever after"
Her Marriage to Mcfarland.
married Daniel Mcfarland in 1857. l was girl
OF nineteen, born in Massachusetts and educated in
New England schools. had been teacher, and
was just beginning to write a little for the press.
Daniel Mcfarland was Irishman, of thirty seven
Dartmouth College, and had seven years before
knew him, been admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
a member of the bar in Madison, Wisconsin. with a
nourisbing law practice brilliant political prospects,
to s30,0eo. He also professed to be man of tenn
perate habits, of the purest morals, and previous
my marriage. appeared neither incorporate, nor
brutal, nor profane
Beginning to Pawn Things Early.
We came to New York in February, 1865 was
taken i'll on the way with violent cold and fever,
leaving Rochester he had to leave his watch and
chain in pawn with the hotel-keeper for our board
weeks and then taking all the jewelry had to the
pawneroker,s, to pay the & board Dill, he sent nae
tell these things to give idea OF how they must
have affected young girl fresh from comfortable
brokers' shop was almost an unhe lrd-of institution,
and not TO convey the idea that 1t was his poverty
which shocked or estranged me-
Specimens of lncompatibIlItv.
In July of 1859 1 returned again to Mr.. McFar-
land. remained with him this time about three
months. My neart was sorely bruised by the death
the brutality and violence OF Mr.. DIcFarlands tenn
per. will not enter into the details OF his treat
SO bad that went back to my fathers in October
1852 and remained almost a year, TIL August
nome h had nad courage TO
told my mother and father OF my troubled
To @ But spes So
thing to tell. My ideas OF wife's duty were most
conservative. believed she should suffer almost
unto death rather than resist the laws OF marriage.
Ihad a conscience sensitive to any appeals against
itself, and tried hard to love my husband and
vince myself was in the wrong Besides, / was
expecting in a few months the birth of another
child. No one shall say mean this narrative as an
appeal to sympathy, but those who believe in my
truth must see my case was hard, and realize some
what the suffering endured. rH.s 300
How Mcfarland Supported His wife.
In April, 1859, my second child, Percy, was born.
While at home during these ten months Mr.. McFar-
land had represented to me that he was doing ex-
= 'ceediGgly well In business, and had made large
trades real estate to the amount OF many thou
sand dollars One OF these pieces OF property was in
Greenwich st., and was mortgaged to Trinity Church
for and afterwards sold to recover judgment
against him for $40 $780, The other property in
Rast Fourteenth street the river block OF tene
ment houses, which am inclined to believe were
mortLsged pretty nearly up to their whole value.
At ali events lived at my fathers during this year.
which he described as the "year OF his prosperity "
and did not share in it, Part OF this time, for the
first and only time In my married life, paid very
in my long and repeated visits TO my fathers house
mention this because Mr.. Mcfarland claims to
aaye suppop.eS r me whe hnm ~ y agd tSa w0 oc my
principally on my father, although at the birth Of
my youngest child paid my phvsiclans bill myself
with the results OF public reading which gave for
that purpose.
Mcfarland Grows Hi-Tempered, and Gives
His Vile Lessons in ElOcutien. n.
Mr. Mcfarland never did any work while in Madi-
ECONOMY, and he had sse0 or $500 left when he
reached Madison, which, with the addition OF $500
or $500 more which he received from the sale OF q
tract OF land which he owned somewhere bought
the furniture for our little house and supported as
for the fourteen months we lived there. at the ex-
piration OF this time Mr.. Mcfarland began to grow
more and more morose and ill-tempered, and told
had no way of getting any. He endeavored to gee a
public Office OF some kind In Madison, but was not
supported even by those on whom he counted as his
frlends had attracted some attention in private
circles by my reading, and bad given pnbllc read
ing for the benefit OF soldiers hospital. on this
Mr.. Mcfarland proposed to me that he should take
me to New York and have me lifted Tor the stage IN
the profession OF an actress. He also announced
that he should himself adopt the profession OF an
actor in case my success became assured. lie had
been at some time teacher OF eOcution in mill
tary school in Maryland, and he began training NE
in the reading OF stage parts.
In June, 1861, he sold all our little furniture IN
Madison, and brought me East, first going to my
fathers, in New Hampshire to leave my little
Percy, so that could devote all my time to the
stage He made no secret of this to my parents
who did approve OF this step on his part, but did
not inteTpose, ON the conservative Puritan ground
that the parents have no right to interfere II
the affairs OF husband and wife.
On the Move.
From the time he got his place In the Enromen
ONCE in 1868 until the fall OF 1854 Mr.. Mcfarland
! sent me home three times, and moved me I'd eigk
different boarding -houses. II, for one moment,
was peaceful in the possession of shelter his habit
or nis dissatisfied temper drove him TO change. A
last IN the fall Of 1854, Mr.. Sinclair offered us, rem
Tree, Ms unoccupied farm house on the Hudson
river, ana We moved there for the winter OF 1864
During TINS year my youngest boy Danny had beei
born on one OF my visits 70 my fathers house.
stayed al Croton, IN Mr.. Slnclair's house stage,
at Oroton, IN Mr.. sinsairs house, ali winter, and
during the summer, In a small tenement which WI
rented there, and which furnished yery cheapl
1athers