Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-28
SOCIAL SCANDAL.
A sequel TO the -. Louis whisky
Fruuds-The wife of General John
A. m'DOnaId suing for
u Divorce.
some Testimony Showing the Gener-
ais Relations with the Nymph
"SyIph.-
spec,al to the Cincinnati Enquirer

Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer
Sr LOUIS, June 25.-Some very sensa-
tiopal developments are promised IN the d.
yorce case now pending IN the Wisconsin
court, between general John NJ Donald, OF
whisky-ring fame, and his wife. One or two
noints in the evidence were evolved to day,
which are of unusual interest to those who
delight in the scandal of social life. The
res Gestae of the case is the proof of acts OF
adultery between the gay general and his
paramour, Mrs. Mary Lamothe, otherwise
koowp as 1.-The Sylph." heterogeneous
have been propounded to several persons in
St. Louis to establish acts OF intimacy, and
among them is Margaret Lloyd, a servant
woman, who was in the employ of Mrs. La
mothe when she kept house at No. $40 Locust
street. According to the answers OF the
LLOYD woman, whose testimony was taken
before commissioner to-day, IL appears tnat
while General M'Donald was IN prison IN this
city in June, 1875, deputy under-jail
Schulter was in the habit of slipping him
from the Jail at an early hour of the night
and taking him to the residence OF Mrs. La
mothe, on Locust street. where he would re-
main until the ''wee sma' hours, when he
would be hurriedly reconveyed to his
fairly broken. Her answers to the ques-
ton may be generally summed up as follows:
81 know General NJ Donald and Mrs. La
mothe; was servant In Slrs. Lamothe
house. No. $40 Locust street, in 1876; have
seen General M'Donald there often, both be-
fore and after he was in prison; he stayed IN
Mrs. Lamothe's room before he was in prison;
knew him to stay there perhaps ten times; do
not know that he stayed IN the same bed with
her: he stayed all night In the same room
with her, and there was only one bed in the
room; there was a couch In the room; when
the general was IN prison, he came there sew
eral times, each time about ten o'clock at
L. oh, aJr,bt 1ntIl oh n oU-
light the following morning; deputy Jaller
was there and renamed IN another room;
they drank wine; the general occupied the
same room with Mrs. Lamothe; do not know
that they occupied the same bed, but there
was but one bed in the room; have seen them
on the same bed; he called her Dolly and
she called him Papa" This testimony is
only part of what is to follow in st. Louis,
| and it Is stated on good authority that the
| interrogatories already here will establish the
| fact of criminal relations between General
M'Donald and "The Sylph, not only at 80
| Locust street, but IN the general 8 prison CELL
| as we'll as at room No lS6 Llndell hotel, also
! No. 1919 Chestnut street, and also at the
penitentiary hospital in Jefferson City.
| The evidence is overwhelming, and the
courts cannot fail to readily grant decree
of divorce 'The Sylph" is a woman Of
| surprising beauty, and 1t Is known to certain
parties in st. LOUIS that in addition to gain
| ing complete control of General M Donald,
and winning him from his family, she has
succeeded in victimizing him to the extent OF
| a princely sum In United States bonds. 1t
| has been a matter of notoriety here for some
time that of ninety thousand dollars in United
States gold bonds left with her for safe-keep-
ing when the general went to the peniten-
t1ary, he only received forty thousand dollars
when he came out, and, in spite of his tre-
mendous levy on the whisky rings cash, the
charming female villain has been enabled to
pursue her victim to the extent of disruphng
| his family and perhaps other pecuniary profits.
She is a woman of extraordinary shrewdness,
and is admitted of previous unsullied respect
ability, damaging reports to the contrary not
withs taudipg. 1t is believed that her llaison
with NJ Donald is her first. and that, once IN,
she has played bold and desperate game.
While Nj Donald pleads poverty in the Wis
consn courts, Mrs. Lamothe has a bank ac-
count in St. Louis that foots up over forty
thousand dollars.