the woman he loved while she was trying to get a divorce, something that was not well received generally by the public in the 1860s. Sage McFarland and Richardson got advice from his friend Vice President Schuyler Colfax on using Indiana divorce laws for the fastest results. McFarland shot and wounded Richardson in March 1867, but the latter recovered. But on November 25, 1869, McFarland shot Richardson in the offices of the New York Tribune in front of the night clerk Daniel Frohman (later a famous Broadway producer). Richarson was fatally shot, but lived for over a week. By this time Abby Sage had gotten her divorce, and Richardson married her at a special bedside marriage performed by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The trial was a farce, with Tammany connections and dislike for the people who worked at the Tribune being used fairly shamelessly to protect McFarland. He was shown by his defenders to be a defender of the home and hearth against a seducer, as Harry K. Thaw would be shown to be in his 1907 trial for the murder of Stanford White. McFarland was acquitted among cheering crowds. But his ex-wife did not return to him and spent the rest of her life as Abby Richardson, working in the theater as play reader. She died in 1900. McFarland went west. In the words of the criminal historian Edmund Pearson, it did not take him long to drink himself to death. Looked at today the story has a modern ring because of Abby being the victim of domestic violence. Yet even sixty years later the historian Claude G. Bowers in his partisan history The Tragic Era (1929) showed a mean comfort in the fate of Richardson, and the tarnishing of Beecher, Colfax, and Greeley by the scandal (as though they were responsible, not McFarland). Journalist Leander Richardson was the son of Albert and Mary Louise. Books (reprint edition, June 1, 1967, by Johnson Reprint Corp, ) A Personal History of Ulysses S Grant. American Publishing Company; Hartford, CT; 1868. Garnered Sheaves. Columbian Book Company; Hartford, CT; 1871 (a collection of his writings published posthumously by his wife). (A new book about Junius Henri Browne and Richardson) See also Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant References . Edmund Lester Pearson, More Studies in Murder (New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1936), p. 196-203: "The Birth of the Brainstorm". Andie