The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-24
M'FARLANDANDMISS BROMLEY
MS ALLEGED ATTENTIONS TO
PHILADELPHTA GIRL.
Her Father said 10 Have Taken the Matter
10 the Head Of the Police Failure Of
Detective TO Get Letters sent Her by
MacFariand Admissions by Prisoner.

Allison mcfarland. who is under arrest
his wife, vest erday told his counsel. Frank
NJ McDermit. that his wife found letters
written TO him by Miss Florence Bromley
Of 4237 Viola street, Philadelphia. which
are now in the possession Of Prosecutor
Mott. Detective Godfrey Of the Prose-
cutors Office was sent to Philadelphia
with four or five of the letters and was
inst ructed by the Prosecutor to get IL
possible letters that MacFarland wrote
to Miss Bromley. The detective re-
ported that the mother Of Miss Bromley
refused him admission to the house.
A despatch from Philadelphia says
that more than u year ago the attentions
Of MacFarland to Miss Bromley. who is
a relative of John Bromley, the tile manu-
facturer. caused her parents much
anxiety The MacFarlands during most
OF the time they were in that city lived
almos, next door 70 the Bromleys and the
two families we're friendly. II is said
that mcfarland and his wife often spent
an evening AT the Bromley home. The
discovery on the part Of the girls parents
that she and MacFarland occasionally
went ont together caused break between
he two families
The father Of the girl is said 10 have
taken her to task and afterward to have
gone To the Office of Superintendent of
Police Tavlor and had an interview with
him He il said to have gone over the
situation in detail with Supt Taylor and
appealed to him to do something that
would compel Mac cFarland to keep away
At first Supt Taylor did not ace how he
could interfere but he finally decided to
send for MacFarand
MacFarland answered promptly re-
quest from Supt. Taylor to call. 1t isvery
likely that | may have to put you in one
of our cells upstairs IL you and | cannot
reach an agreement in matter am
going to talk to you about" IL the way
Supt. TAYLOR il said to have begun his
talk with MacFarland. Then. il is said, he
went over the situation with Nlacf Ariand:
who is said to have declared that ne loved
,he Young woman and told the superin-
| teudent that he would iot keep away
| from her After some sharp talk by
| TAYLOR, il is said. MacFarland agreed TO
| go no further in his attentions to Miss
| Bromley. The superintendent heard no
more complaints from the Bromley
family and shortly afterward the Mac
Farlands removed from Philadeiphia
| to Newark. =,
| MacFarland's counsel will make appli-
cation before Police Judge Herr in the
Second Criminal Court to-day Tor an
examination of the prisoner II Prose,
Jury return an indictment before the
case is brought ny in the police court II
will head of MacFarland'- arraigninent
in that court for examination,
According to statement MADE ny
mcfarland TO his lawyer h,s wife gov
New York last Tuesday night and learned
from them that he had lost her iewelry
valued at 1000. MacFarland said that
she had supposed the jewelry was safe IN
storage in Michigan He said that hit
wife evidently became discouraged when
she made this discovery and. knowing
that the cyanide Of potassium was on q
shelf in the medicine chest killed herscl!
with it.
MIR McDermit said that MacFarland
and his wife had threatened divorce pro
c.etings Immediately after Mr.. Me,
Dermii was engaged as counsel he held
A conference with the Prosecutor and
made a demand for u chemical analysis
of the contents OF Mrs. Macfariand
stomach The demand was refused
Developments yesterday reVea!ed sew
eral contradictory features 10 Macfar
lands statement TO the authorities. he
did not tell anything about visit ne made
10 Philadelphia a week ago Friday. me
authorities say that there was dis
turhauce d, the mcfarland house The
| | Friday nlKh' previous 10 'ue uaS ny
body was found The quarrel II IL SAID
was over the discovery made by Mrs
MacFarland that her husband was II
Philadelphia that night and sent her a
Telegram informing her that he would
remain there over night
In a de-patch received in Newark yes
,erdav from Rockland, Me. George
Crockett, father of the dead woman. say'
that h. believes that mcfarland is in
nocent Of the charge against him They
can say what they like" the father IL
quoted ls saving. but don't believe
that MIR MacFarland placed poison ~
. that medicine bottle with the intention
of killing Evelyn" In regard TO le't"'
Mr. Crockett received from his daughter
: last Tuesday. the day she took the poison
r Mr. Crockett. according to the despatch
, said that there wiss nothing IN the le,te
tina, would cause any one To believe ina
, EVELYN was in an unhappy mood