Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-12
THE LADY LOCATED.
Mrs. Mcdonald Reported 10 Have Fled
With a Large Sum.
CHARGES AGAISsr MIR HUSBAND.
Nothing but Political Conspiracy, She
says-ller Version OF the Bank
Wrscklug.

sr. LOUIS, July I2.-Mrr. Elizs
Mcdonald, reported to have iiod from
san Ffancisco with 500, 900 belonging
to her husband, Richard u. Mcdonald
Jr', now In jail In that CITY, awaiting
trial for forgery and embczzlement In
connection with the .wtecklug Of the
Paclhu bank, was located In this city
today. She II with her slstet.iu.law,
Mts. John Carlton, 2jgs north CARR.
son avenue.
AZ ffst she would not admit her In.
IDENTIFY, but after reading tho report OF
her alleged fllgh,, she acknowledged
that she was the wife u Ricaatd IL,
Mcdonald. 5ho then said:
"Ihe report that iled with my hus.
band's money IL untrue. 1 have not
banded any OF his money for throo
mOnihs. The amount was not more
than 5000. This was all that was
entrusted to me for deiruulng my hus.
band, AM II was all ho had.O
she related the story Of her fret
meeting with McDlnAd Ia 1890, aud
told OF their marriage In 1888. Three
IN inths alter the marriage shs con.
tInued, "thc trouble came on, Richard
h. Mcdonald b., my fatnet-lu-lny,
went 10 New York and I. mt for u, %
she SAID; "whoa We arrived there ne
asked my husband to takO me and 20
abroad. My husband said he was In.
nocont and would 10 back to San
Ftanclfco and face tho charges.
Then his father begged him 10 20
anu even Offered TO pay our expenses.
SIN my husband refused. rha result
wns that We went back 10 San Fran
Cisco, his father remaining In New
YORK, where no IL Rt present. Theu
followed my husbands arrest AMI all
thip trouble OF which know nothing.
| am totally ignorant OF my husbands
financial dealings and, therefore, not
IN p0nitiOn 10 talk Of them, but 1
know that my husband IL Innocent OF
the charge against him aud the victim
OF apolitical conspiracy. That IL why
his father wanted him 10 70 abroad, AZ
he eAid bis enemies In Ban Francisco
would resort TO any means 10 pull us
down.
"lho conspiracy, or a. much asI
understand Of IL, was this: There was
plot gotten up by somo politicians to
secure the chief Justices seat. The Nc
Donalds were ruling power In San
Francisco n that time, rs the Pacific
bank controlled millions and had
other dealings outside the finanoisI
ones. These politicians set to work,
and without any good Ieason, appoint
ed receiver for the bank. They de-
clared 10 gone under through the
fraudulent dealings Of the Mcdonald
family, aud would have arrested my
husband, his father and my brother.
in'law At once, had they not ned.
Frank V. Mcdonald, my brothsr.in-
law, now II IL said, took 100000 be-
longing 10 the bank. That IL false.
Only three months ago had to cable
him $3.50, though no never received IL.
One OF cur lawyers received money
nom me but never t0nt II. Attorney
Leyinsch, who Is Asaisting the defense,
is doing 90 Tor nothing. He sim ply
went into the case ~ Try aud make a
reputation. This Ia our sids OF the
charges against my husbAnd.O
Mfs. Mcdonald declares she has not
got cent outside OF her actual living
expenses. She was engaged In clean.
ing the house. cit seems probable,D
shs remarked, saTcGBucslly, az would
be doing this, II 1 had slOO, 900, d0ssn't
lI?O
Mrs. Mcdonald says she will leave
for san Francisco In few days 10 be-
present with her husband when AZ
Tnigued Tor trial on July %.