Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-17

your letters not in their accustomed
place in the valise and the other en-
velope open and the pawn tickets
and materials scattered. did you get
any impression from that
"I object" said Prosecutor Mott.
81 certainly am entitled to ask him
that" exclaimed Mr.. McDermit
heatedly.
II did" put in mcfarland calmly.
HE has answered. said Chief jus
tice Gummere.
Ibid you get home as early as you
had expected"
mo. I was considerably later than
/ had expected"
go on
II went into the kitchen and saw
nv wife ironing some clothes. The
boy was not there, n L called him
in. and she said something that was
not right. ! stayed there and we
had a discussion in which various
matters were brought up. She was
not feeling in a good humor.
.'She had taken that afternoon her
ministrations?'
j as. one was WV Ahc 49,
trouble in o general way, mentioning
grocery bills, and her trouble with the
boy and his clothes
Tells suicide Threat.
MacFarland told of eating lunch
in the kitchen and then getting the
boy ready to go out. Here his voice
lowered perceptibly. and he spoke
more slowly. "She came to the door,
and that was the last | nave ever
seer of her-alive."
There was a noticeable pause be-
fore Mr.. McDermit asked: She
waved 'good-by' or good riddance| =
II do not recollect.'
And that was the last you ever
saw of your wife,
Eyes"
Tension was high all through the
courtroom, and with the tacit appre-
citation of spectators as well as law
yers. Justice Gummere called a five
minute recess.
Returning to the witness-ehair
MacFarland was asked to give a
general account of his actions after
Re left Newark on the 1906 train.
He accounted for the entire afternoon
by business errands, recalling sew
eral of them by the fact that men
whom he had gone to see had played
with Robert and given him toys. In
the evening, after eating supper IN
an uptown restaurant, the pair went
to a theatre, where they witnessed a
burlesque show. Walking from the
theatre they arrived at the st. Pau
Hotel, Columbus avenue and Sixtieth
street. around midnight. There Mac
Farland was known, and after regis
tering he was given a room.
Here McDermit interrupted his
narrative with, While you We're
talking with Detective Godfrey did
you mention the fact that o had
been at the Saint Paul.
Yes. and I showed him the Key
Then the narrative was resumed.
Rising between 6 and Z. MacFar-
land and the boy ate breakfast near
the hotel and took an early train
back to Roseville, reaching there at
10 o'clock. Going Immediately to his
home, he opened the front door with
his key and entered the house where
his wife lay dead. 1t had beer rain
ing, and the umbrellas which both
carried had been wet, sc Robert was
sent to put them in the kitchen while
MacFarland mounted to the bath
room.
Found Wife Dead Upon Bed.
Tracing his actions on the chart of
the house with a pointer. MacFar-
land told OF finding his wife's body.
"Going up the front stairs l went
through my room into the bath
room. Standing in the bathroom
1 could look through my room,
through the passageway and into
my wife's room and could see
part of her bed. What first attracted
my attention was seeing the little
girl, Ruth, standing near the fooI
Of the bed in her night clothes. AS
/ looked l could see my wife lying
on the front side of the bed with
her head on her pillow and her night
clothes partly around her. She was
lying on her back in a natural. easy
position, but her head was in the
middle of the pillow and one OF her
lower limbs was sticking u from
the bedclothes resting on the floor.
Her nightdress had slipped up, and
her stocking had fallen low about her
ankle. so her leg from her knee to
the ankle was bare. My wife was
lying partly under the bedclothes,
and her clothes were held down by
her left limb. which was partly over
them. Her attitude was just exactly
as If she had been sitting up in bed