Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-02-16
The Defence Of Mcfarland.

A New York correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer says:
1t is announced that the theory of the defence
in the Mcfarland trial, to commence March q.
will be to prove that as far back As 1853 Mr..
Richardson and his friends began their finally
successful work of impressing himself and their
that in the practical alliance Mrs. Mcfarland
yielded to those influences. Many incidents
hitherto unknown, except to a few, are for the
first time to be brought to light in this investi-
cation, and will be sought to be established,
going to show her long time ago estrangement
from him, and her studious Misrepresentation
OF their circumstances and their mutual rela-
tions. To this end inquiry is likely to be insti-
tuted in regard to Mrs. McFarland's
first public appearance as a ieader and
declaimer in Trenton, New Jersey, in Is63-6i
at that period the lady suddenly appeared at the
quiet capital OF New Jersey; that she ingratiated
herself into the good graces of several literary
and leading gentlemen of the town, such a.
Messrs. Chaven, Prof. Phelps, Gsv. Olden,
Chancellor Green, Henry Il. Pierce and others.
and that under their own and other local auspi-
ces, she successfully conducted a series of read
ings in the Middle School Hall, and Temperance
Hall, respectively. Moreover, that the repre-
sentatiOns then submitted were that her hus-
band, who was stated to be an educated and ell
egant Irish lawyer, was a wholly helpless
paralytic, Of formerly aifiuent but now reduced
circumstances, and that her friends and her ne
cessities had impelled her to appear as public
reader The references used by the lady will, il
m.
Horace Greeley, MIR. Samuel Sinclair, Mr..
Albert ID. Richardson, and other persons OF
like pursuits and similar notoriety. The
defence will not carry out all these purposes
unless they succeed as they proDOse, i'm showing
that those readings of Mrs. McF arland i'm Tren-
ton were without the knowledge and consent OF
her husband; also, that her husbands mean q
were at that time amply sufficient to provide foi
herself and the children in comfort; that her
husband was no paralytic, nor never was, nor
ever has been; that Mrs. McFarland's use OF
Messrs. Richardson's, Sinclair's, and Greeley's
names as long back as then was a surprise to her
husband, who was unaware that they knew his
wife, or she them, and that such use Of them, a.
said, is at least indicative OF an intimacy for
longer period than has hitherto been maintained
or thought TO be capable of being established.
This Trenton episode will be the starting point
In the defense. 1t is given out that there will be
no gap Of time left unaccOunted for, and the
presence of Richardson as a visitor and friend
of Mrs. Mcfarland will be traced week by week
and month by month and year by year from the
time when Richardson escaped from Confed-
crate captivity down to the event when he was
mOrtally shot in the Tribune office. A great
deal Of the facts, as alleged facts, have been al
ready published. There IL declared, however,
to be a lot Of entirely new testimony, which
doyetails into this theory Of the defense OF q
serial and successive and systematic estrange-
ment Of Mrs. Mcfarland by Richardson.