The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-06-10
M,FARLAxp iINTERvaEwER.i

M'FARLAND jINTERvIEwEN.t2
Naw YonK, May I1.-AThe reporter
of morning paper has just hads eRs
interview with Mcfarland, in regard
to the affidavit and statement Or Mrs.
Richardson published this morningso
Nc Farland said It's enc huge her.
sir, from beginning 70 end. Ny wifs
never wrote a word of it. She hasfad
perfect knowledge Of nay conduct tor
ward her from first to last. Why does
she swear only according to her belief3t
It's id fabrication by Mrs. Calhoun,
furnished mp by Henri Browne. i
know it's child silly ". tie: n, and, bad
as it is, it is beaeri than Abbie could.
write"
Reporter Still, Mr. McFaf1ana. IT'S
statements are very clear and very
positive 4. -. ..~.,s9 r..
McFarIand-Clear falsehoods; pos
| tive lies. It's q libel from first 10.
I last. I'll sue the paper that publish
ed it, and any paper that dares to
copy it. 1 will sue any man that daress
to quote it. Why didn't they prove
this constant drunkenness on. the trial?
Did not all my associates IN the en-
rollment Office, except one that l. dis~g
charged for being id rebel, swear
that I was sober man, and didn't he
have his expenses and extras guaran1l
teed to him on the back of the very
subpoena that made him a purchased
Witness e2 @af II Es5zH-
3, Reporter-Mr. Mcfarland, I ana.
not arguing the truth or falsehood OF
Mrs. McFarland's affidavit. eea's szosg
Mcfarland (excitedly)--I tell you il
is not her affidavit. She may have
sworn to it, but she never could have
written It.. It's Browns affidavit; it,so
Mrs Calhoun's affidavit; it's Mrs.
Sinclair.s affidavit J, it's the affidavit OF
that id free-love crowd it's not my :
wife's affidavit. How she could ever
be led, even now, to sign her name 10
|such parcel of id lies, when she
knew her letter protesting such love
and affection for me had been proved
in open Court, Is more than can oun-s
derstand. Why, sir, anybody could
write such thing as that after the
trial to fit the case. Why didn't she
prove it on the trial?s They paid o
counsel to whitewash the crowd and
hang me-. Why didn't they prove it
then? Wait till you see the, afidayits
in the habeas corpus case. Wait tall
you see the hellish part they g0s
Schuyler Colfax to play IN taking my
wife away from me and getting her -
divorce. Why had / no notice OF hep.
application for divorce2 | wrote to-
every body in Indiana to find out if she
had applied for one, and the answer
was always 'tao. - t-sSI = f;.saH ie
Reporter-Rut, Mr. MeFarlandss
this affidavit states that you struck
her.
McFarland-H g lie. sir; i'E-a
lie; never did read her letter to me-;
and then see if she could ever haye
written such letter TO man who
had so brutally used her. Why, SD,
if had been given to such paroxysms
rs she talks about, they never could
have passed unnoticed in any board
ing-house. I saw you in the Court
several times. You saw the people
from the houses we boarded IN Did
their appearance or manner denotse
anything but respectabilityi People
who dress in silk and velvet don't live
in squalid houses Iten goa the
whole thing is a fabrication ON thse
face of it. What did Abbie know
about Sydney or Bayard? Yet look
what they make her write about Rich
ardson: "The age. of Sydney or of
Bayard should claim him as its sown-"
A pretty Bayard, surely, that MI.
Richardson, who spent his nights
eavesdropping at partition crack 5toa
hear the private communings of m4n
and wife They make her say, in that
affidavit that all the letters that Rich
ardson wrote to her were written by 3
stenographer. Was that intercepteds
letter, which was read in Court, stat
ing that Richardson wanted to fold nay
wife in his arms, written BIZ a stenog-
.rapher, and was it posted unsealed ~ ~
She says I fought her for my childreA.
I suppose it was the act of albrate for
q father to want his own children, and
prefer to take care of them. himself
rather than have the seducer Of his
wife rear them up in free-love doc
trines, spiritualism, and all ether 4nh-
,,re morality. = IF that was. being&
brute, then half the fathers in the
country are brutes, too. tell you
I have gone through enough of mem
tai suffering and agony of spirit IN
the last three years to seta ShakspeArba
crazy. Richardson says in one Of his,
letters tif it is he) that he was afraid
would shoot. II he had. done, moth
ing to provoke, how came he TO fbe :
afraid of me? Wait littlss ALI that
proofs in this case have not been ssepn,
yet, I tell you no other man that eyr,.
er lived, went through half the suffer
ing T have had to endure. 5alao a. y
AN IRIsHMAN's REpLY.-One ct ecar s
eminent lawyers, of Irish descent, was
engaged some time since tc defend an
Irishman who had been charged aWith
theft. Assuming the prerogative Of
his profession, the counsel, in Al pail
vate interview with his client said ato Z
him:l ssNow, Patrick, as Ilan to- sdssse
fend You Ilwant you to tell me frank
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