Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-10-17
MaCFarland Reads and
Explains Bunny Letters

| letters) portions where divorce or
wedding are mentioned?" was the
first question asked by McDermit
Page 1884," began the prisoner. re-
ferring to the printed volume of tes-
timony taken at the first trial. "Un-
: der date of September 13, 1910, at the
bottom OF the page, she writes:
! "'Oh, Christmas! am looking
forward to this Christmas as 1 never
did toSany other. You for Christ
mas present will mean Just heaven
to me! Do try and AK 10 for then,'
THAT was Christmas 1910.
THE next is page 217. under date OF
December 90 1910, just before the
Christmas referred to-the middle Of
the page. 1t was in response to thai
letter l had written her regarding de-
lay occasioned by my business con-
dition. She writes:
do want you to H III (mean-
ing hurry, hurry. OF course,
! see that you are doing the best
way. The money is, of course,
necessary, but after this trip you
will start things. won't YOU
I'm that letter I referred to a trir
that would take three or four weeks
Page 231, on the day of Februar,
4, 1911. In my last letter I had writ.
ten her that my business affairs die
not develop as / had expected, ant
the date which she had set up or
that assumption was merely an as.
sumption and nothing more.
my whole heart Is looking for
ward tn the sDrin gtiuae.'
"The next, on 234, is dated Febru
airy 4, 1911. Before that last letter
had said not to set any importunatt
date She writes this:
"'But l will be (married) soon
won't I? Say yes!'
Page 239. In reference to that let
ter ! did not name any special date
I simply told her that / could not tel
her definitely anything about it. Feb
ruary 10 she writes:
"'Yes, i think 1t would be best TO
wait until next August IL you can
really get it that way, but she may
wish to come to you before that. and
am so afraid our relations will be
found out. IL is like playing with
fire. Our desire to be with
one another may lead us to take
risks. I only pray we can be good
that long
above that is this: so you are
going to can your troubles in Jer-
sey. tool" Just below occurs some
thing, in response to this paragraph
/ had written about not telling every
body our affairs:
1--WE mustn't let your folks know
your plans. / don't want her to
have a chance to interfere and
drag you in. In the divorce 1t
might be stipulated | couldn't
marry you.'
| Page 299, under date of August
at the top of the page, she writes:
""Poor dearest. realize that this
divorce business is extremely dis
tasteful to you nd that you insist In
doing IL shows You love me and
makes me adore you more than
And below:
Yes, l must be very careful
of the letters | received from you
down at. the shore. Maybe you
had better not tell any of your
plans.
THAT was in response to corre-
spondence in regard to the same SUD-
iect l read on page 2S9.
Referring to 313, on the same sub
ject, top of the page, under date OF
September 1, 1911:
"T am afraid my parents will take
steps to break our love. No matter
what happens / know i love you and
will marry YOU as soon as you are
Free
Page 312, bottom of the page:
Promise me, love of mine
that no matter what happens, you
will never give me up. That
would kill me- can stand any
thing but that
"On May 10. 1911:
They tell me that ii is foolish
to be doing what I am, that some
day you will make trouble for me.
/ let them rant, but / was so upset
/ could not sleep all night
sThe next page
"'wouIdn't ii be awful II weS got
caught, It would break my heart II
anything happened to spoil my
chances of getting married to you
now. We have waited so long, so
very long, that it would spoil things
II anything should interfere. We
must be very, very careful. Our
whole future might be spoiled IL we
made any misstep now
She referred to the letter I had
written warning her.
"On page 241, dated February 27,
1911.
" You say that the Paterson ex-
pert knocked you cold in your
New York advice. In what way,
dear? Then suppose 1 will have
you for my next Christmas box
Page 245, dated March 5, 1911, IN
reply to a letter l had written her
which was rather indefinite as TO
when we might get any definite