The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-01
No, II Is Not Homicide Cunning
" TO Force Your Helpmeet
IS to Kill Herself!
YOU MAY EVEN LEAVE
POISON NEAR HER HAND
That's What a Jersey Jury De-
cided in Freeing Allison
M. Mcfarland
by HARRY p. HUTTON.

NEWARK. n. j., Nov. Its per
fectly legal to drive your wife TO sui
eide 20 that you will be free to marry
The new idol OF your affections!
This may not be very humane. nor
very Christian-like, but IL has full le-
Rpl eanction--at least In Newark
where the trial OF Allison M. McFar-
iand for wife-murder ended in acquit-.
tai for him and the right, IL ne 30
chooses, 70 marry his Bunny" the
woman because of whom the mother
OF his two little babies took her life!
NJ. The Jury decided Mcfarland did not
give his wife poison. He put some
cyanide In a bottle that had contained
bromide and she, in desperation, took
AZ. So she was a suicide" and Nc
Farland got his liberty
Yet on the stand here are the things
which Mcfarland declared he did to
HIS young wife and which. he Gays.
were doubtless responsible for her
taking her own life:
He beat her
He boasted of his infidelity to her.
He told her he did not love her any
longer.
He tainted her with his love for
Bunny"
He demanded that she divorce him.
He gave her little or no money,
And did Mcfarland hesitate TO tell
these things? Were they dragged out
or him by the prosecution, word by
word? Not at all. They were the
things which Mcfarland wanted to
tell because they were the things
which constituted his defense-by
which he hoped to get his freedom.
Sworn, he willingly admitted himself
brute, migrate, liar, thief and libertine
everything but murderer And II
worked out his wayne was let go!
Trouble began with the McFariands
soon after the birth or their second
child. II came simultaneously with
the meeting of Mcfarland and Flor
cnce Bromley. of Philadelphia. dash
ing young divorcee. An attachment
sprang up Immediately between the
two and little Mrs. Mcfarland was
soon totally neglected.
For over a wear this went on. Tales
of her husbands infidelity were
brought to the Young wife and openly
admitted BY Mcfarland. Her heart
Was broken Mcfarland told her he
cared no longer for her; that he
wanted a divorce so he could marry
Miss Bramley. And when his wife
refused this fer the sake OF her
babies. he commenced his brutal
treatment OF ner. He says he peat
ner. tainted her. ana gave her very
little money
And then one day, this woman took
the bottle OF poison Mcfarland admits
he provided, and drank 1t.
~ trial Ysfa nv ~ HE lotf0Ta
from Miss Bromley We're exhibited.
,rhey were signed Bunny" and the
Contents were often unprintable. But
they showed that Mrs. Mcfarland had
instincation for doing almost any
thing desperate. even to taking her
life.
Miss Bromley herself was ready to |
TESTIFY In McFarland's behalf. She
sat In an adjacent room. but the de-
Tense did not consider. at the last, ]
that * needed her evidence. As soon
as the trial was over, she and McFar-
land rushed TO the courthouse 10 get
h marriage license. but II was refused
because Miss Bromley did not have
her divorce papers with her.
But there are new complications In !
the way OF this marriage, to be built
II II is bnilt at all. upon the death or
4 heart-broken girimother. One or
these'fs sudden. bitter opposition TO
the union on the part of Bunny's faith
or and the other seems to lie with
Mcfarland himself.
For. now that ne Is free. he does !
not appear to care so much for
Sunny" He IL talking about the adj |
'rantaees of waiting until he has .
home" and until the scandal dies