North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-05-18
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We give large part of our space to
this great trial of Murder rs. Seduction.
Everybody has become interested in it.
The N. Y. Tribune, as the special defend
er of Richardson and Mrs. Mcfarland or
rather as the enemy of Mcfarland and
thejapologist Of those who imprudently 1--WE
think meddled themselves in this family
matter. Beccher, rockingham. Greedy,
Colfax L Co. gives = long statement
from Mrs. R., detailing her reasons for
the intimacy which led to the death of the
man whose dying moments attestedltheir
mutual affection. Below will be found
MRS. ALBERT D. RICHARDSON'S STATEMENT.
The Tribune prints the statement of
Mrs. Albert d. Richardson, written, not.
she says for her own vindication, but for
the sake of the noble men and women
who have stood by her through all the
revilings, often without explanation from
her, and always in full faith that she
was cruelty wronged, and for his sake
who lost his life in her behalf. Mrs.
Richardson says she married Daniel Nc.
Farland in 1857, he representing himself
at the time to be a member of the bar at
Madison, Wis, with fourishing practice,
brilliant political prospects, and personal
property to the amount of 500, 900 or $780,.
600. He also protested to be of temper
ate habits, purest morals, and previous to
marriage appeared neither intemperate
nor brutal. During the bridal tour he
borrowed money to get back to the West,
and soon after their arrival in Madison he
informed her he was going to move to
New York that all his property consisted
in Wisconsin State lands, on which only a
small amount was paid. He had no mon
ey, but sufficient to pay their fares to New
York. lie never had any law practice of
consequence, having devoted himself SOL
ely to land speculations in the West.
They came to New York in February 1858.
She was taken i'll on the way with VIC.
lent cold, and detained in Rochester ten
days. On leaving Rochester he had to
leave his watch and chain in pawn for the
board bill. In New York he hept her
three or four weeks, and then, taking all
the jewelry she had to the pawnbrokers
to pay the board bill, sent her home to
her fathers, in New Hampshire, for four
teen days. She never heard from him,
and, nearly beside herself with anxiety,
went to New Haven and telegraphed to .
friend for news of him. lie appeared in
two or three days, and for the first time
she suspected he might be Incorporate.
A week or two after she returned to her
fathers and remained through the sum-
mer Of 1858. He came once or twice to
visit her, and seemed attached to her, but
during the short time she had lived with
him she discovered he was not temperate /;
that he was terribly profane in her pres
ence that his temper was fitful and pas
sionate, and that !or some slight or fan
cied cause: he would become sullen and
morose, not speaking to her for a day or
two. Returning te New York in the fall
of 1858, Mcfarland hired a cottage in
Brooklyn and furnished two or three
rooms. Some of rhe time-perhaps half
he was good to her and professed mos,
passionate devotion, but here he first be-
gan to come home drunk. He would also
come home sober, bring bottles called
Scheidam Schnapps, containing a quarter
or so of vile liquor, put them by his bed
side and drink sometimes the whole before
morning. When she begged him not to
do this he said ''his brain was on fire, and
this made him Sleep AS this was emily
two or three months before her first child
was born, his breath and whole body
steaming with vile liquor during the night
when she lay awake beside him made him
very odious to her, so that before she had
been married year her affection was very
much chilled, if not really destroyed.
During the fall Of 1858, he had made two
or three trades of his Wisconsin lands for
real estate, ana made what he called ex.
cellent bargains. During all this time she
was oppressed with want Of money, and
with great difficulty got scanty ward.
robe for her taby, which was born in
December. In November her sister visi
ted her. Mcfarland took her to a matinee,
at theatre, left her, and returned ut the
close of the matinee grossly intoxicated
made love to her in his drunken foolish.
ness, and frightened her exceedingly.
When reproached for his conduct he sworc
he would never drink again, and drew up
written pledge to that effect, which he
kept several months. Early in the spring
of 1859 she went home again. Her baby
died and her father paid the funeral ex.
penses.
In July she returned to Mcfarland with
heart sorely bruised. She was less able
to bear the brutality and violence of his
temper. His treatment was so bad that
she went back to her fathers in October
and remained till August, 1850. Had she
had courage to have told her father and
mother Of her troubled life she would
never have returned to this man. But
her ideas of wife's duty were most con-
servative. She believed she should suffer
unto death rather than resist the laws of
marriage. Part of this time, for the first
and only time Of her married life, she
paid small sum for her board. Two OF
her children were bora there, and the ex-
penses came principally upon her father,
although at the birth Of the youngest child
she paid the physicians bin with the re-
salt of public reading. In 1860, afte,
she returned to Mcfarland, suit for the
recovery of borrowed capital, with which
his western lands were purchased, was
decided against him, and she was ordered
to pack her trunks and be ready to leave
the city, as he might ut any time be ar.
reeted, 90 in December she was sent back
to her fathers with her baby. Mcfarland
soon followed, and staid until February
when they, with 81 200 in their possession
obtained from the sale Of piece Of prop
erty put out Of his hands when judgment
was obtained against him, went to Phila
delphia, and he went to Washington te
seek Office. In few weeks he returned
disappointed, and they went once more te
Wisconsin. There they resided year and
two months, the happiest time of her life
with him, but he never earned any money
and they lived with extreme economy on
what was left Of the 81, 200. At the ex-
piration of this time Mcfarland became
exceedingly morose and ill-tempered, ant
finally told her he was getting out Of mon