Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-18
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come back, and that he did thai not
because he wanted to renew MS
marital relations with her, not be-
cause he had any abiding affection
for her. not even because he wanted
his children back, but because ne
wanted her back in his house, when
he provided, for the purpose of hnally
making definite arrangements with
her looking to a divorce, and that ne
chose that method rather than u
correspond with her upon the SUI
iect because he thought that II ne
wrote making such a suggestion she
might communicate the subject mat
Ter of the letter to her parents ano
thew would oppose it. So his pur-
nose. he says, in getting his VIE
back-getting her to come to new
ark to live with him here-was to get
a divorce from her, and that al
though she came back, their marltal
relations were never resumed.
And he almost at once broacneo
the subject of divorce, and from time
to time, from the 10th to the 10Th OF
July. when she came there, until the
very time of her death almost that
was a matter of frequent discussion
between them, and he went so rar as
10 offer to supply her with statutory
grounds IL she would be the Leading
MARTY In the divorce. l think, u l
am not certain enough to say that II
liz SOL will ask you whether you
don't recollect that either on Tue
witness stand or else in a letter nat
he wrote after his arrest to Florence
BROMLEY. that he said that these mat
ters had practically been arranged
between himself and his wiie' II any
such thing does occur in ms teStf-
mony. 1t is an important thlng 10 re-
member. 1t seems to me. II 1t doeshl |,
az course. Danish what | have salo
from your mind.
Relations Described by Himself.
rNow there is a description OF the
relations existing between tine oe-
endan and his wife %
a period of some Ave years, as we
have IT from him and from MS VIII
ings.
..If that was the true relationship
mat exists. il on the 18th of OCTOBER
last this unfortunate woman hne"
that her husband was seeking 10 put
her away from him, that he went So
FAR as to offer to supply her WIN
statntory ground so that she could pe
the acting party, he not having any
grounds for divorcing her-h she
knew that his affection for her hau,
shall | say, been absolutely destroseo
lis 1t likely that, when, after a series
Of conversations such as MacFarland
saws took place between him and her
between July and October, is it like
u that the finding in his dress-sult
case certain letters written to him by
o woman showing intimate relation
ship between them, would nave lea
that wife. who knew herself to be, 1t
seems to me it would be reasonable
NJ assume. an abandoned wife, TO
take her W life?
%y.Now these are saliant facts, II
seems to me, gentlemen, to be consid-
ered in determining the question as
10 whether this woman took her own
life.
.But. of course, the fact that Mac
9rarland has testified that these were
The relations. as ] have descrlpea
Them, as they existed between MIN
Self and his wife at the time OF her
aeath-you may think them not true'
"If they are not true, IL this wife
supposed that she was asked to come
hack to Newark by a loving
s0r the purpose of renewing their
marital relations, IL she never knew
that he was untrue to her, even IN
thought, the effect of such a discoV-
cry as II has peer suggested had been