Year: 1871

lady whose name has been brought


into such Objectionable prominence in
| connection with this unhappy event


is very near and dear to its prOprie-
! tor; but under no circumstances


would either relationship or affection
| induce him to shield wTOng-dOing if


any actually existed. The facts, how
ever, are far otherwise, and it would
] be unjust to both the public and HIM
| self were not this statement made in
! asserting the innocence Of any, the
slightest culpability even in that care
| lessness which sometimes precipitates
unhappy events. It is not intended
| to add to the woes of that mourning
widow so suddenly called on to lament
the untimely end of one who was
doubtless dearly loved, and with
whom she looked forward to
years of happiness, nor to affect
in any manner the VindicatiOn of
the unhappy young man who
finds himself to-day the tenant OF
felOn's cell for in that aspect this
article is confined to the 5arest state
ment of a few facts essential to the
protection of the lady in question.


We will say, then, that the imputa-
tiOns upon that reputation are utterly
baseless. The picture, respecting
which mention has been made, was
a Joint photograph Of Mrs. Scanland
and Mrs. Farrar, taken long before
the marriage, or even the betrothal
OF either of them, and belonged to the
former, whose possession of it can
hardly be deemed singular, in view
of the intimate friendship which had
existed between these ladies for years.
The alleged interview between the
deceased, his wife, and this lady at
his Office, did indeed take place; but
it was in the presence Of a third party.
It transpired wholly in the one room
which constituted that Office, and was
the result of the efforts of Colonel
Farrar himself to bring about a recon
ciliatiOn of the estranged couple. 1t
was Colonel Farrar, and not his wife,
who was visited by the doctor; and
1t was in view of so lamentable an
occurrence that the effort was made
to avert it.


1.-THE alleged hOrse-car rides and
buggy drives, all which transpired on
the same day,were entirely accidental
and were known to Mrs. Farrar's hus-
baud, who sympathized with the
afiiictiOns of the parties, and joined
with his wife in the endeavOr to allay
them as far as possible. At this time
it occurred neither 10 this lady nor to
her husband that any misapprehen-
sion could exist, or that there had been
anything susceptible of miscOnstruc-
ton in what had traHspired. 1t ap-
pears that some enemy of Mrs. Far
Tar, so declared by him or her in the
communication, wrote an anonymous
letter to Mrs. Scanland during the lat
ter's absence in Missouri, and it is to
this that the changed state of Mrs.
Scanlan's feelings and the unhappy
consequences that ensUed might be
attributed.


" 1t is unnecessary to add that the
assertions in this base attempt to pro-
dUce trouble, unhappily too success
full, were entirely grOundless. More
might be said, yet the situation of the
immediate parties to the tragedy pre-
cludes elaboration. One object is to
repel the intimations and insinUa-
tiOns against the fair fame of one who,
as she has hitherto been, is still ire
prOachable in every walk of life, with
out unnecessarily casting reprOach in
any quarter, or increasing the difficult
ties which surround any member of
this unhappy family"