The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-25
BAIL is REDUCED.
Dick Mcdonald Given One
Last Chance
Decided by Judge Murphy That the
Bail Be Reduced From $780,
600 to $4,000.

Dick Mcdonald is to be given chance
of obtaining a reasonable bail and 81
escaping the monotony of Jail life pending
the trial of the several charges recorded
against him. The amount of bis bail wa:
reduced by Judge Murphy yesterday from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Dick mas had hard time of it lately
For months now he has langutsbed in jai
without the smallest hope OF being able tC
obtain even a moments respite from tor.
ture. Indictments have been piing III
against him. and the amount of his bal
increasing at every step. When the Grand
Jury fled its first indictment against Dick
charging him with the embeZzIement oil
$4,000 from the Pacific Bank, Judge Heb
bard fixed the bail at $4,000
Then shortly afterward there followed
another indictment charging Dick, in COM
plicity with Directors Graves, jenkins and
Montgomery, with embeZZlng the Swan
berg securities from the Peoples Home
Bank; in this case also the bail was fixed
at $50, 200. After this Mcdonald was in
dicted for classifying entries aud for swear
ing to a false statement. In each OF these
two last cases the bail was fixed at $1,000
Dick Mcdonald appeared before Judge
Murphy yesterday with an application TO
have his bail reduced. He was attended
| by his faithful wife, who has lust re-
turned from visit TO the country, and
both looked brighter and more hopeful
than before. Dicks petition was pre-.
sented by Attorney Livernash. who repre-
scented that it was out of all reason to
expect his client to furnish bail in SO
large a sum as S120.000 aud that he ought
to be given chance TO obtain his tempo
| rarY release on easier terms. His client
| had already suffered much from his long
captivity in jail.
Judge Murphy stated that he was In
| favor of giving the prisoner a chance TO
obtain bail. but that he could do nothing
without the consent of presiding Judge
| Hebbard, to whom the indictments had
been presented by the Grand Jury, and
who had fixed the bail in each case. A
message was then dispatched by his
Honor to Judge Hebbard, with the result
that the presiding Judge took his seat on
| the bench beside Judge Murphy and heard
what Livernash had to say.
Judge Hebbard made no opposition to a
| reasonable reduction of the bail. He said
that in the first instance he had fixed an
unusually large sum because he had heard
| on all sides that it was the intention of
| Mcdonald to leave the State, and public
opinion ran very high just then. He
! thought. however, that, taking into con-
sideration the number of indictments now
pcuuluS dBSluSb MCDOuhlu, some T6uuc-
ton might be made in the aggregate.
1t was finally decided by Judge Murphy
to reduce the bail money in the Pacific
Bank case from $4,000 to $50, 900. The
| other amounts would be left unchanged,
! This decision takes $4,000 off the amount
of bail required. An order was at once
made to that effect, Livernasb, while
stating that he expected a greater reduc.
tIOB, at the same time expressed gratitude
on behalf of his client for the favor
granted.
"Do you think you will he able to raise
the S75.000?" was asked of Dick Melon.
| aid later.
II am IN the hands of nv ATTORNEYS. .
was the guarded response. Nevertheless
he looked confident and happy, and so die
Mrs. Mcdonald