The Republican journal., 1870-05-19
MRS. RICHARDSON'S DEFENCE.

NEW YORK, MAY TO-
The Tribune publishes Mrs Albert y. Richard
sons full statement and history Of her married life
the circumstances Of her separation from her hls-
band, her acquaintance with Mrs Calhoun
Richardson and other friends, together with a
confidential statement in writing from Richardson
to ,junius Henri Browne, dated Dec. l, 1861. and
first opened by Mr. Browne some time after Rich
ardson'S death. Mrs Richardson says Now,
after have waited in patience for verdict of the
newspapers, of the public and Of Il New \ lork
court and jury, have decided that will speak the
first and last words shall ever speak for myself
And this is what mean to do: TO write AS exactly
can the whole and simple truth to the hnt'te>t
detail, reseryng nothing and cXtenuatlng nothing
in doing this | neither ask nor expect sympathy
or justice from the press or the public. | married
Daniel Mcfarland i'll 1887, and was gIrl OF nlne-
teen, born in Massachusetts, and educated III New
England schools. / had been teacher, and was
Just beginning to write Il little for the press. Dan
ie Mcfarland was an lrshman, OF - or -, who
had receVeda partial course at Dartmouth College,
and had, seven years before knew him, been adj
mitted to the Massachusetts bar When | married
him, he represented himself to be Il member of the
bar in Madison, Wisconsin, with Il lourishing law
practice, brilliant political prospects, and possessed
of property to the amount of from 100000 to $50 900
He also protessed to be man of temperate habits,
of the purest morals and, previous to my marriage,
appeared neither Incorporate, nor brutal, nor pro
| fame
| AFTER MARRIAGE
they first went to Madison, Wisconsin, being de-
| tained till Mr. Mcfarland could borrow money to
continue the Journey. They returned to New York
in February, 1885, Mr., Mcfarland leaving his watch
and chain in pawn at a Rochester hotel 10 pay h>
board bill In less than three months after their
marriage, Mrs. Mcfarland went home and for
fourteen days did not hear from her husband,
whom she left IN New York. In answer to tee-
gram he came to Mr.. Sage's, in New Hampshire,
and then for the first time She had suspicion that
he might be Incorporate During the summer OF
| 1858 Mrs Mcfarland remained at her fathers, and in
the Fall returned to BROOKLYN, living with her
| bno oha,,I in, two or he hen
| first began to come home intoxicated. He would
also come home sober bringing with him bottles
called Scheidam Schnapps, containing Quart or 50
of liquor and he would put them by his bedside
and drink sometimes the whole before morning
"When begged him not to do 50, he said his brain
was on fire., and that this made him sleep. This is
the first time that he began to tell me about his
brain being on fire. which was i;ivOrite expires
sion with him after he had been drinking, and to
which so many people have testified to his using
on his recent trial for his life. As this was two ol
three months before my first child was born, and
all my senses were nervOuSly acute, and as was
also, as | believe, woman Of refined taste, and
feelings, his breath and whole body steami.g with
the vile liquor which he drank during these nights
] while I lay awake beside him, made him very OBJ
noxolls to me; so that before had been married
to him year my affection for him was very much
chilled might say nearly destroyed.
HER ALLEGED WRONGS.
| Mrs Richardson then reces at length the story
of her husbands increasing brutality and the pow
houses and lodging rooms, her narrow and stra1ten
ed circumstances, feeble health and utterly deplor-
able condition. The narrative covers the time from
1859 to 1856, and the following are among the most
striking incidents: At Christmas, in 1862, was so
anxious to have Percy with me, and felt SO hope
full of doing we'll during the Winter with the dr,-
matte readings which had begun, that | sent Mr..
Mcfarland ON to New Hampshire, to get Percy,
who had been all this time at my fathers. On this
occasion Mr.. Mcfarland took with him all the little
stock of Jewels possessed-my rings, brooches
watch and chain, which had by this time been so
frequently pawned and repawned that did not
care for them, and sold them all in Boston. These
were the last jewels ever possessed except plain
gold ring which is the wedding ring placed on my
\ hand by my dead husband. Mr.. Mcfarland was
unspeakably cruel to me this Fall ana Winter OF
1869 and 1863 while we boarded at 80 Varick street
We occupied the only sleeping apartments the
parlor floor, and he could give full scope to his
furies without fear of being overheard. He would
lock himself into the room with me and give way
to such terrible fury that only the EXTREMIST pride
and selfcontrol prevented me from making my
misery known. He brought home what he con
fessei was prussic acid and threatened to take il
and to force me to take it also. He would snatch
nv scissors from my workbasket and living open hi.
breast, he would brandish them about swearing that
he would let out his hearts blood" before me
He told me, then shrinking girl, that he kep
loaded pistols with which he would at any momen
shoot me. He eft one evening, declaring that ht
should shoot a gentleman because he had been in
vited to Join himself his wife and another lady il
a party to some public picture gallery, although