Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-23
By MOONLIGHT.
DR.. David c. McLaren Joins the
American Colony in
Canada.
The Liebig Worlds Dispensary
Robbed of $1,8oo-A
Dual Life.

obOhAoo =
Robbed of $I,soo-A
Dual Life.
From Saturdays Daily.
Since election night the haunts which
knew DR.. David G. McLaren have known
him not. He has gone. not where the wood
bine twineth, but where American laws arr
not obeyed and beyond the reach Of extra
dition. He was q bright companionable
fellow. fond Of his glass and gay company
and lavish with his money. In appearance
ne was comely-tall, dark, and straight.
He usually wore a tall silk hat and at the
time Of his departure q snort dark full
beard and moustache concealed his feat.
ures. In public he was q man OF the world;
among his intimate male acquaintance, q
hale fellow with ar eye 10 the beautiful in
ismininity; at his own Preside, preiessedly
q devout and consistent Christian gehtle-
man OF incorruptible morals and
ing fidelity. In TACT he led that double life
the knowledge Of which destroys mems con
fidcnce in human nature and tinges wo-
mems thoughts with cynicism.
DR.. McLaren, u graduate OF McGill's
College, Montreal. was brought here in May
OF this year by DR.. Stoddard, one OF the
proprietors OF the Liebig Worlds Dispen-
sary. His railroad fare was paid from
Kansas City and he was given exclusive
control Of the practice Of the company at
this point. After he had been here q short
time DR.. Bruce who manages the finances Of
the branch Office and makes the invest
ments-the company owns several houses
and lots here-noticed q discrepancy in the
practitioners accounts. Under the agree
ment with Mr.. McLaren he was to receiveall
the fees and the moneys derived from the
sale OF medicines and al to turn them
over to DR.. Bruce. When McLaren made an
accounting latein September and showed by
his figures that the gross receipts OF four
months been had only $3.50, suspicion was
strengthened and q more vigorous enquiry
Enough was learned to satisfy his su-
periors that their hired practitioner was
accepting fees OF which he made NO entry
except in his own pocket and selling the
medicines for which no returns were forth.
coming.
At the time OF the transfer OF the
business from DR.. Spinney to DR.. Stod-
dard, or the Liebig World Dispensary
company, there passed from the one to the
other q lease book" in which was q list of
Spinney's patients, together with an &C.
count showing the debts and credits in
those patients accounts. Il was agreed az
part OF the bargain that the retiring prac-
titioner's patients should be treated by
the in-comers. The case book disappeared
in an incomprehensible n and was
restored to the Office only when McLaren
was given to understand that the help of
the law W. Md be invoked in it's recovery.
From that book it appeared that there
were no entries OF fees which DR.. Bruce
knew had been paid, and that erasure OF
other amounts paid in had been made. DR..
Stoddard wanted to nave McLaren ar
rested, but DR.. Bruce considered the pro-
ceeding as one that would bring pain to a
most worthy and exemplary wife and dis
grace to the name borne by w handsome
little boys, and dissuaded the head Of the
firm from carrying out his design.
The close watch kept upon McLaren pre-
vented further peculation, and his past
misdeeds were passed over in silence. No
further trouble was experienced until cleo
ton day, when the young doctor told DR..
Bruce that he was going to vote. He said
that he had registered and would escape
detection, but after much urging he was
convinced that some one who knew the
date OF his arrival here might have seen
him register and might be lying in wait to
arrest him in case he attempted to cast q
ballot. This view OF the circumstances
alarmed him and he determined upon
fight. He concealed himself at DR.. Bruce's
house for the remainder Of the day, sur.
rendered his correspondence, which DR..
Bruce pretended to burn, and made his
arrangement for immediate departure.
DR.. Bruce had q feeling OF pity for him, and
provided him with q ticket to st. Paul.
McI.aren had about SIS in money. With
this and the ticket he set out. He dreaded
to board the train in Butte lest an officer
should be waiting to arrest him for illegal
registration. So he walked to Woodville
and boarded the train there. He wrote to
his wife from st. Paul, telling her that he
had unwittingl' been drawn into the COM
mission OF q serious iniraction OF the law
and that he had been Obliged to leave the
country hurriedly: told her that he would
20 to Winnipeg and send for her and the
children: Mrs. McLarsn wrote to her
brother, q lawyer in st. Paul, and learned
from him that her husband was q rascal.
The brother offered his sister and nephews
q home with him, and thither they will 60.
It ia thought that McLaren did not 60 to |
Winnipeg at all, but turned his steps
toward Guelph, Canada, where his father, |
aid to be q wealthy manufacturer OIL boots
and shoes, resides.
Not until the culprit had perfected his
fight was the full extent OF his villainy and
duplicity known. The correspondence
which DR.. Bruce did not burn told the
whole story OF endorsement and marital
infdelity. One letter vas from q frail
damsel in Kansas City asking for $500 for
the trouble McLaren had caused her. The
missive was unsigned. Another, also m
signed, but in the same handwriting as the
one first mentioned, acknowledged the re-
ceipt Of $3.50, and the writer said
that she would try to be content
1900 shares OF stock in the Argentine
mining company and q deed to q quarter
interest in the Saturday Night claim in 81
.unorganized district in Telegraph Gulch.
Other letters showed that McLaren had
violated his contract with his new employ
ers by soliciting and getting practice for
bis personal account when visiting neigh
boring towns and mines ostensibly in the
interest OF the D~ispensary. 1t appeared
also from his correspondents Tn e the
willy doctor had q frolicsome female friend
in Helena. She is supposed to have been
the attraction which kept him in the CAPT.
tai city two nights and q day on business
that should have been transacted between
the rising and the setting OF the sun.
The exact amount Of McLaren's steal.
ings il not known but is estimated at
1880. The salary he received was 500
a month ami yet he was able to providefor
a wife and two children; pay the demands
OF q Kansas City attachment to whom he
had represented himself as o single man;
buy 5000 shares Of Argentine mining
stock and a quarter interest in q claim
valued at 5000; and hold up his end with
the boys'' when he roamed around town
from 8 D. m. to one or two O'Clock In the
morning while his un~suspecting wife slept
peacefully at home dreaming p~erchance OF
him and his matchless devotion as he toiled
OF the Office earning q livelihood for her
and her little ones.
The mining stock and deed and some OF
Abe Heyman's bar spoons are left behind
as assets, but the hundreds OF dollars re-
ceiyed for medicines and the other hundreds
received in fees are irrevocably gone. Mrs.
McLaren returned to- DR.. Bruce the other day
1900 OF the 5000 mining shares and the
Saturday night claim was SO we'll thought
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