The morning call., 1894-05-04
ONE OF THE VAULTS OPEN.
Five Dollars Found in the Bank
Fund.
CRIMINAL ACTS ARE CHARGED.
What the Attorney for the Receiver
of the Peoples Home Savings
Bank Says.

Dick Mcdonald has resigned as a di-
rector and as vice-president of the Peo-
ple's Home Savings Bank. Within the
past month he has been threatened per-
sopaNv and by letter with assassination.
The directors room Of the Peoples Home
Savings Bank has been the scene of the
most violent quarrels, in which the vilest
epithets known to the English tongue
have been applied to the real head of the
bank, though nominally the man holding
the second place. Dick has Quarreled with
his attorneys. He has been saved from
personal attacks within the walls of the
bank only by the interference of others.
Dspositors within the last week entered
the bank with the avowed intention OF
stringing him up to the nearest lamp post.
On Wednesday night three depositors lay
in wait for him in front of his resideu ce
for good portion of the evening with the
purpose Of making an attack upon him to
wreak their vengeance tor the loss OF their
money through the peculiar management
of the institution in which they had
placed il.
To-day. in all likelihood, proceedings
will be instituted which may lead to his
criminal prosecution.
Dick Mcdonald last evening:
SAN FRANCISCO May 3, 1894.
TO the President and directors OF the Pco-
ple's Home Savings BGnk-GENTLEMEN: L
hereby respectfully resign my office OF director
and vice. president OF the Peoples Home Saw
ines Bank. This course Is prompted by the
conviction that by 1t the best interests OF the
bank and Its depOstors will be subserved. or
the charges of official or personal misconduct
which have been spread broadcast against me L
stand In no fear. am ready 10 meet them II they
shall ever assume such shape as 10 make II
possible 10 understand and answer them. 1t Is
undepia BILE, however, that such charges have
been made aud realize that thereby the pubic
mind has become pTejudiced and iDf1amed.
Under these circumstances my further connec-
nection with your institution might In some de-
gree impede the speedy and proper settlement
of lis affairs.
the real enemies OF the bank and wait with
patience for the refutation OF my defamers and
the vinoication of my conduct. With grea re-
spec!. II. H. MCDONALD Jh'
Receiver Sheehan was in consultation
with Judge Hebbard last evening. Legal
steps will be taken to-day 10 recover The
securities taken from the bank on
Tuesday.
There is every proba bility that another
big scandal will be developed to-day and
that Dick McDonsld and his associates
will be asked to explain the disappearance
of other securities and bank papers.
One of the vaults of the Peoples Home
Savings Bank was opened yesterday. 1t
is the one containing the safe-deposit
boxes. The other vault remained closed.
Under the direction Of Receiver Shee-
han, d. G. Dixon, who assisted X. FL.
Warfeld in exporting the accounts for tue
Bank Commissioners, and +. ). Mitchell.
the paying teller of the bank, made an ex-
animation of the vault. 1t was found that
the safe-deposlt boxes of the bank had not
been tampered with.
The contents of the paying teller's safe
were announced to be as follows:
SPECIAL DEPOSITS.