Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-12
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Special 70 The Tribune.

sNSEE'WA4RlK, Il. j., Oct. 12.-Both.
sides are in readiness for the opening
OIL Monday next Of the second trial Of
Allison NJ. Mcfarland. who is charged
with the murder of his wife. .McITar.
land was indicted on October Is, 1911,
and his first trial took place in the
early part Of the present. The prose.
cution had little direct evidence In
that sensational case and the case
hinged practically upon the admis.
sion Of the BUNNY Letters, a number
of affectionate missives which McFar.
land had received from Miss Florence
Bromley, his former s%tenographer and
which tended to. show that Mcfarland
was IN love with the writer and had.
expressed the intention of riding him
self Of his wife. Notwithstanding the
strenuous objections OF the defense,
tile. letters we're admitted as evidence.
an after a trial extending over sever.
al weeks, Mcfarland al found gull
ty OF murdr In the first degree and
sentenced tc, death.
His lawyers appealed to the Court
OF Errors and Appeals and the latter,
after d careful review Of the case do.
cided that the, lower court had erred
III admitting the Funny Letters" as
evidence and that The justice 2resid.
ins at the trial had erred in his il.
strnctions to the jury, permitting the
jurors to base their Judgment upon
these letters. The decision of the
trial court was reversed and the case
remanded for . new trial. The latter
was finally set for next Monday.
Allison NJ. MacFarland was born in
Thomastcn, Me-, about thirty.lye
years ago and received a fair educa.
ti0n, including two years in high
Lsch0ol and a course at q commercial
school at Rockland, Ne. It was at
Rockland, in the fall Of 1897 that Nc.
Farland met Evelyn Crockett. They
became engaged and on October S,
1900 they were married at the Meth.
odist church at Rockland. For che
year or more they continued to live In:
Rockland, then they removed tc,
Quincy, Mass, where MacFarland OBJ
tained a position as foreman in the
Fore River Iron Works. One year later
they moved to New York, then to
Chicago, then to Michigan and finally
to Philadelphia. Willie in Philadel.
phia MacFarland invented mn auto.
mobile tire and a company Of wealthy
men was formed tc. put the Invention
on the market. Offices were opened
and Miss Florence Bromley was EN-.
gagged as stenographer.
MacTarland soon became infatuated
with his photographer and his atten.
tons to her became such. that it caus-
ed serious domestic trouble With Ills
wife. Finally she left him and return.
ed to her parents, where she remain.
ed two years, devoting herself tc the
bringing UP Of her two little children.
lii the meantime. the tire concern fail.
ed ai1d MacFarland obtained employ
ment with. the Croker Wheeler cci,,
pany in Newark. In 1911 the martial
troubles between MacFarland and his
wife were patched up and Mrs. Mac.
Farland with her two children return:
ed to him in the early part Of August
OF that year. M
AS 1t appeared later, the relations
between MacFarland and his former
stencgrapher had not ceased. They
kept up a lively correspondence and
frequently met BY appointment. on
the evening OF October II, 1911, Mac.
Farland went to New York with HIS
son, tc, take the little boy to one Of the
theatres. They remained in New
York over night and when they reach.
ed their home in Newark on the FOL-
lowing morning, they found Mrs. Mac.
Farldnd dead upcll her he'd, with her
little daughter playing near her.
At the Investigation by the coroner
It, was shown that Mrs. MacFarlafidI
had been poisoned by cyanide Of pD-
tassium, a solution CT which drug h14
been contained in a blue bottle TINT
had formerly contained bromide,
which Mrs. Mcfarland had been,4n
the habit OF taking for her frequent
headaches. 1t was suspected TINT,
MacFarland had placed the poison lna
the bottle with the expectation tint
his wife would take some Of the pois.s
ton ~ mistake, when IL need 81 4