Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-18

oiudon VI cydnAde OF potassium IN
where she could take it in mistake for
e habit of using
: At the time the fatal drausht was
taken MacFarland was in New York
city with his 6-year-old son Robert.
the dead body of his wife being found
by him on his return the following
morning, October 1e
The letters, numbering more than
100 in all, cover a period from Septem-
Der 2, 1910, to October 10. 1911. the date
Of the finding of the dead body of
Mrs. MacFarland. There are many
iapses in them owing to letters that
We're not found by the prosecutors
once, one of the longest lapses being
Just before the murder, when there
IS no letter in evidence between SEM
temoer rs, 1911. and October Is. 1911.
lAie letters run the entire course Of
human passion from the depths of des-
pair TO the widest heights of love and
happiness. Running through them at
an umes is the one idea that Mac
ariano divorce his wife so he can be
free to marry Miss Bromley.
At no time, in any way. did Miss
Hiohc any suggestion that
Macf ariand kill his wife. but there
are probably fifty references to the
divorce proposition.
Such expressions as s.yVb4 don,t -.
do the job up there?" meaning ..,nlr-
land, Me-. where Mrs. MacFarland was
at the time); When are Won eoinsr -
get rid of HERR" How much longer
before you will get your divorcees and
When will you be free to marry me ~.
are used very frequently.
| Many parts of the letters are ~,
printable in newspaper. and zrfls re-
lations between MacFarland and Miss
bromley are made very clear and :,
language that can leave no doubf
1t is also clear that the ei,.I 80
madly infatuated with MacFarland
ana 1t Is evident that she had the m
most faith IN him. In several of fbe
letters she relates the trouble she had
with her father over MacFarlaud's in
tentions to her and freely expresses
hersef as willing to run awav from
nome and leave her family for him h,,t
not until he has obtained his divorce
In other letters she threatens To kill
herseh If he does not get his freedom
ana marry her soon, while in one she
Degs him not to come to see her i,
Philadelphia, for fear her father win
shoot him, as he had threatened to 10
so, she wrote
IN stlil another letter she replies tn
rear that MacFarland had evidently
expressed that his wife might shoot or
lnJure him, and begs HON to be careful
She writes: Goodness, do You thirk
she might shoot you? Wouldn't that
be an awful mess? Then I would have
to shoot her before I died"
Extrayagant love expressions. the an
parent wall of the girl for the man she
is infatuated with, together with state
ments of mad desire to be with him
NIL every letter. The first instalment
is printed today and the balance win
appear in the Evening Star tomorrow.
In part the series of letters read as
follows:
First Letter September ?. 1914
The letters run from September Z.
1910 when the first one was sent to
MaeFariand at the st. Paul Hotel.
New York city, being written the same
night that MaeFarland had left ths
girl IN Philadelphia IL this letter she
says:
MY Own Very Dearest: When YOU
left me today I managed to control
myself with a great effort At lunch I
could hardly eat. I am happy. dear,
but everything here makes me think of
you, and when l realize you are not
coming back to the house feel as if
someone has knocked me in the solar
plexus.'
When I came through the alley on
my way home your garbage can was
.4~sz
1t in. The old house is dear to me
because you lived there, l feel as il /
were at funeral
"+ Your house looks so dark
and professions of happy times pass
through my mind l remember the
first night you kissed me on the porch.
and I remember how we used to kiss
each other over the back fence late at
night No more telephone. :. no
more tappings on the wall, no more
passing of dainties over the fence, no
more will / see your face at the dif-
fersnt windows. That is why I cry.
love you so and miss you so.
There Is no one SO precious as you in
all the world.
g" I want you so. Don't think
I am complaining. I will be good I
unO&tStduO. on lONt me. ana IudJ
makes me 30 happy. and we must be
separated a little while. so that we
can have the future privilege of living
together and loving each other always.
Put your strong arms around me.
dear; hold me close. Kiss me OH
Your kisses are the only ones. Come
meet your little Bunny in By-Byland
love you. I do. do. Don't ever
forget It. heart of mine"
In what the girl calls a second
edition Of this letter. mailed in the
same envelope. is enclosed a senti-