The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-12
THE CAPTURE OF GOICouRIA.
Particulars of the Execution.
Condition of Buenos Ayres.
Mcfarland, the Maniac, at Large.
Etc., ETC.. ETC., Etc, Etc.
M'FARLAND.
His Criticism Upon his wife,s Amdaylt.

The New York World of to-day says
Daniel Mcfarland was an angry man at 10
o'clock yesterday morning His coffee tasted
worse than ever, if he may be believed when
he found his wife could, as he says, publish
such tissue of lies against him as appeared In
the New York Tribune over her semi-formal
affidavit"
An attache of the World met Mcfarland in
one of the Eighth avenue cars yesterday morn
ing riding down town. He had a copy of the
Tribune in one hand and a copy of the World
in the other. Occasionally he would read with
unsteady eye few pages of the supplement to
the Tribune, clap it down on his knee, and
commence muttering and mumbling to himself,
till he happened to see that he was observed.
The following conversation took place between
Mcfarland and the reporter
ALL A FALsEHooD.
''Its lie, sir, one huge lie from beginning
to end. I don't believe my wife" Che always
calls her my wife," with a perceptbe
emphasis on the possessive pronoun, and this
no matter how rapid his speech-never very
slow). 81 don't believe my wife ever wrote a
line of it. Now, sir, leave it to your own
common sense, whatever my conduct was
towards her she knew it, 1t was not with her
matter of belief. Why does she swear accord
ing to her belief, and not in the more positive
legal form? Tell me that. / tell you it is all a
id fabrication by Mrs. Calhoun, furnished up
by Henri Browne"
Reporter-You mean Junius Browne?
McFarland-Yes, that same Junus Henri
Browne. Why, see for yourself. 1t is weakly
written, to be sure, but Browne is q weak
writer; and yet, bad as it is, it is better than
Abby could write.
R.-But she wrote for the independently
McF.-That be -. She wrote for Oliver
Johnson and that crowd tried to make her
think she was o sort of Mrs. Austin. They
fattered her in every way.
But she also wrote for the RiUerside
Magazine?
McF.-Yes, one or two child stories-simple
things. Abby had Imagination. but no strength
of thought no talent for writer.
LIBEL FROM FIRST TO LAST.
R.-The statements in this affidavit are clear
enough and most positive.
McF.-Clear falsehoods and positive lies.
tell you it's libel from first to last I'll sue the
paper that published it, and any paper that
copies it; I'll sue any one that dares to quote it,
See here, why didn't they prove this constant
drunkenness on the trial? Hackett allowed them
to try it,
R.-Don't be excited, Mr.. Mcfarland. You
have the verdict of jury in your favor.
McF.-I know; yes, know. But now ask
you did not my associate in the Appraisers
office swear / was sober man while there ?
Did not every one in the Enrolment office swear
/ was a sober man-all except one, who, because
he was disloya discharged from his office?
"sHE NEVER WROTE IT."
R.-Mr Mcfarland, am not defending Mrs.
McFarland's affidavit, but simply inquiring--
McF.-What is there TO inquire about Isn't
it all clear? Getting excited0 l tell you again
it is not her affidavit. She may have sworn to
it, but she never wrote IL. ltS Brownies ain
davit. Its Mrs. Calhoun's affidavit. It's Mrs
Sinclairs affidavit. It's the affidavit of that
id free-love crowd. It's not my wife's affi-
davit. You know nothing about it. How she
could ever be led, even now, to sign her name
to such tissue of d-d lies, when she knew
her letter protesting such deep love and affec-
ton for me, and its increase, too, was read IN
open court, is more than can understand.
NEVER STRUCK HIS WIFE.
R.-But your wife states here you struck her.
McF.-It's lie, sir; lie, lie! l never did
never could! Read her letter to me; il was pub
lshed. Read it and see if a woman could write
that way TO a man who struck her or ill-used hel
as they say did.
R.-She claims all her intercourse with Rich
ardson was free of guilt.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
McF.-Now that's sensible remark from
sensible man, isn't it? OF course she does; an(
they make her say in that affidavit that all the
letters Richardson wrote to her were written by
a stenographer Was that intercepted lette
given in evidence on the trial, that letter il
which Richardson pines to have my wife in his
arms was that letter written for Bayard by
stenographer and delivered unsealed? Ant
they say how she suffered when fought to kee
my children. suppose it was the act OF brut
for me to want my own children. 1t was bruta
of me to wish to take care of them myself
rather than to have the seducer of my wife rea
them up for me in free-love doctrines, spiritual
ism, and all other phases of Tribune morality.