New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-14
TIE LAST CHICAGO SENSATION.
A Tragedy Of Bleed.

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AChicago Dispatch of the tenth instant
says:
The sad tragedy which occurred in this
city ON Friday Last is still the theme of ex-
cited controversy and discussion. Every
rumor having any reference to the tragedy
u caught Up and spread with wondrou.
as to the facts. The statement Of Mrs.
Scanland, implicating the wife Of Colonel
Farrar, Of the ,EuesixQ Journal, has been
laid before the public, and opinioni is divided
upon the abatement therein contained. The
Journal of this evening contains response
from the friends Of Mrs. Farrar, in which
the statements of Mrs. Scanland are con
troverted or explained in such q manner a.
to dispel all idea of criminality on the part
Of Mrs. Farrar. The statement is a. follows:
+" It is not unknown to the many readers of
this paper that the lady whose name has
been brought in such Objectionable promi-
nence in connection with this unhappy
event is very near and dear to its proprietor,
but under NO circumstances would either
relationship or affection induce him to shield
wrOngdOing if any actually existed.
The facts, however, are far otherwise, and
it would be unjust to both the public and
himself were not this statement made. It
is not intended to add to the woes Of the
uIVuIICI WIZ ~ SuuuOu1y was c6Al6U uUUu
to lament the untimely end Of one whom
she dearly loved. and with whom she looked
forward to years of happiness, not to affect
in any manner the vindication Of the un-
happy young man who finds himself today
the tenant Of felon's cell. For in that
respect this article is confined to the barest
statement of few facts essential to the pro-
lection of the reputation of the lady in
question. We will say, then, that the im-
Patations ,io upon @ that : reputation are utterly
graph Of Mrs. Scanland and Mrs. Farraf,
taken long before the marriage or even be-
throthal Of either Of them, and belonging to
the former. whose possession of it can
scarcely be deemed singular in view of the
intimate friendship which had existed be-
tween these ladies for years. 3.
The alleged interview between the de-
ceased, his wife and this lady at his Office
did indeed take place, but it was in the
presence Of 2 third party, and transpired
that Office, and was tho tho result Of the efforts
of Colonel Farrar himself to bring about a
reconciliation of the estranged couple. 1t
was Colonel Farrar, and not his wife, who
was visited by the doctor, and made aware
of his design to have himself conveyed to q
hospital, and it was in vieY of so lament
able an occurrence that the effort was made
to avert it. The alleged horse-car rides and
buggy drives, all Of which trans pired on
the same day, were entirely accidental, and
were known to Mrs. Farrar's husband, who
sympathized with the Affections of the par
ties and joined with his wife in the endeavor
to allay them a. far as possible. At the
time it occurred neither to this lady nor to
her husband that any misapprehension
could exist, or that there had been any
thing susceptible of misconstruction in what
had transpired.
Itappears that some enemy of Mrs. Farrar,
90 declared by him or her in the communi-
cation, wrote an anonymous letter to Mrs.
Scanland during the latter's absence in
Missouri, and it is to this that. the changed
state of his (Scanland'sl feelings, and the
be attributed. It is unnecessary to add
that the assertions in this base attempt to
produce trouble, unhappily too successful,
were entirely gr0undless. More might be
said. yet the situation of the immediate
parties to the tragedy preclude elaboration.
Our object is to repel the intimations and
against the fair name of one
who, as she has hitherto been, is still irre-
probable in every walk of life, without un-
or to increase the difficulties which surround
any member Of this unhappy family.
The Chicago Erening Post says editorially:
The killing of DR.. Scanland by his broth.
MI. Leonard, ON Friday evening,
has created widespread and profound
sensation, not only on account of the prolni-
nence Of some of the parties involved, but
also because of the peculiar character Of
the antecedent circumstances. The facts,
as developed by the corOner's inquest on
are briefly stated:
There was q sharp hostility existing be-
tween the homicide and his victim, origin
ating in the fact that Mrs. Scanland and
her brother Mr.. Leonard, believed that
was guilty of . Irritation" with
lady who was Ostensibly merely patient,
and the resulting fact that Leonard took
his sisters part and remOpstrated against
the intimacy. Scanland was q tall, power
full man, irregular in his habits, and in the
that were held seems invariably
to have fallen into passion aud abused
Leonard, sometimes threatening to chas-
tise him and even striking him on at least
one occasion. Leonard universally bore
the reputation of an exceptionally excel
lent young man, and being physically infe-
riOr to Scanland, and, withal, temperate,
modest in his demeanOr and peaceful in his
found himself subject to the doctors un-
rage. Once, indeed, he sought
The intervention of the police, but the ser
geant on duty failed to respond to his re-
quest.
The fatal collision was precipitated by the
fact that Leonard desired Scanland to seek
board elsewhere, at the same time removing
rom his walls portrait Of the lady whose
conduct was in controversy; and the ulti-
nate consequences were doubtless aggra-
vated by the circumstance that, a few days
before. DR.. Scanland had abused Leonard's
sister, and attempted to choke her to compel
1er to disclose the hiding-plac of the por-
ralt, and that he had the day before threat
,ned Leonard with an uplifted cane. Leon
lrd procured a pistol, and resolved to defend
himself. Scapland was again betrayed into
! passionate assault in which he drove
Leonard out of his own house to the side
walk. and followed him up with aggressive
nenaces.
Rolf Obermeyer testifes that he stood
within ten or fifteen feet of them, and that
being persistently followed up and
threatened, told Scanland, '.It you don't
Ieep away I'll shoot you" The angry man
till advanced, and strove to get near
nough to strike Leonard, when the latter
hot and killed him.
We have no desire to violate uniform pre-
,edents, and the law of obvious propriety,
y expressing any opinion as to culpability
a the case; but there is no doubt that it
would have been far better and wiser if
'Oung Leonard, instead of arming and
of his assailant, and again sought
he presence and protection Of the police.
The 1Iagazine street Railroaa.
We are informed that Theodore judi and
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