The evening world., 1911-10-24
Newark Man, Held as Wife
Slayer, Repeats Phrase From
] Florence Bromley's Note.
GIVES OUT HIS LETTER.
TITS a Shame" He Admits He
Wrote to Dearest Bunny"
After His Arrest.

Knowing that letters he received from
Florence Bromley OF Philadelphia are
IN the hands OF the police and THAI a
letter he wrote to the giri nfter he was
sfrested In Newark. y. j., on n charge OF
killing his wife IL in the possession OF
Prosecutor Mott. Allison Mcfarland.
through his counsel. Frank VI. McDer-
NIT. W out extracts from two OF tho
spistles to-day. His object. he says Ia
10 forestaIl whatever effect they have
II given out by the prosecution.
According TO McDermit. h says he
thinks his client IL a slave to bro
mides, Mcfarland got n lettcr from
MiAs Bromley about W months ago
that he 10 anxious about. This letter.
IL n believed. was seised with others
in Netherlands house. A paragraph
reads:
~ careful. Ton know what thsy
ala 20 Dr.. Crippsn."
Mr.. McDermit was asked II he did not
sage in a letter written TO his client
when he Is not sure the prosecution has
q copy Of tho letter.
He replied that Mcfarland wished the
statement made public. and that tho
. whole text Of the letter. which McF'ar-
. was not able to recall. would ex-
plain this particular passage.
MCFARLAND WROTE LETTER TO
"DEAREsT BUNNY"
Mr.. AoDcrmit. at the request OF his
client made public the fact that Nc
yariand. after his arrest last Thurs
day. wrote . letter to Miss Bromley In
The Fifth District station house and
save Il 70 . policeman to mail. The
policeman turned the letter over to
Prosecutor Mott
Tor some reason, MCFARLAND wanted
the public to know he wrote that let
~ and addressed Mias Bromley as
Dearest Bunny" He added that he
quctsd the following. Lines In the letter
from memory:
s0AssF y.
901AG d smoothly ana ny wife had
aGsssa - svssyshaAS.
sDeaS yea ears, for q the wsest
~ 80 oaly AZ.
~ Pa peohaSly Q Dlstshs, ~ my
re laAA't know about No but, Of
ss1sss. she AisAt have done II pur-
vsssly."
NJ. McDermit said Mcfarland was
very anxious TO sec reporters and give
out Q fun statement that would explain
many things that look u~nfavorable.
Prosecutor Mott will allow no m to
- Mcfarland put his oounsei.
ThA ta-vae MAJ Asrka<H how NEcIS.r-
land could explain his statement In
his letter that his wife didn't know
shout ~" in tho light Of other state
ments he has made TO the effect hat
hs wlfe knew all about tho Bromley
woman and had agreed to get a d.
vsrcs 20 Mcfarland could marry her.
WIPE DIDN'T KNOW THEIR
PLAN TO MARRY.
The explanation given by McDermit
VA that Mrs. Mcfarland. while she
knew OF the friendship between her
husband and Mrs. Bromley, had no
idea that the pair had entered on an
agreement TO marry when Mcfarland
should obtain his divorce.
''Whiie Mcfarland was IN New York
last Tuesday night" said Mr.. McDer-
NIT. his wife broke into his trunk and
got out and read a lot of his personal
lotters. Mcfarland found them stre.yn
all over the foor around the trunk
when he got home the next morning
and his wife was dead In the next room,
'8he read a lot OF letters tina Miss
Bromley had written Mcfarland. In
some of these letters Miss Bromle,
urged Mcfarland to hurry up and re,
his divorce. Mcfarland tells me nj,
wife did not know he was going tc
marry Miss Bromley, but I understand
no has made a different statement &c
the police.
Besides the letters from another
woman to her husband. Mrs. MCFARLAND
found correspondence which showed tina
$4,000 worth of jewelry her husband h,t
pawned in Milwaukee some years ar,
had been lost because he had not ken,
Up the interest.
mcfarland says he had repeatedIy
assured his wife that the p~awnbroker',
interest had been paid, He thinks IN,
shook OF finding that her jewelry wa,
lost and that her husband had beer
trying to divorce her IN order that n,
might marry Miss Bromley might hay,
led her TO suicide"
LAWYER THINKS M'FARL.ANc