Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-07-17
DICK MoonALo's WIFE IN JNL



ST Louis. July l1.-~Mrs. Elixa Mcdonald.
reported 70 have fed from San Francisco
with $4,000 belonging to her husband
Richard II. Mcdonald. Jr.. now I'm jail In
that city awaiting trial for forgery and
embexxlement In connection with wrecking
the Pacific bank. was located In this city
today. She II with her sister-in-iaw. Mrs.
John Carlton, ssss North Garrison avenue.
At first she would not admit her indenti-
~. but after reading the report OF her al
legged flight she acknowledged she was the
wife Of Richard II. Mcdonald. She then
said.
The report that fed with my husbands
money is untrue. ! have not handled any
of his money for three months-then the
amount was not more than ss.ooo. This
was all that was intrusted 70 me for de-
Tending my husband, and II was ali he
had
She related the story OF her FIRST meet
Ing with Mcdonald. and told OF their mar
riage In 1885. Three months after mar
riage. she continued. the trouble came on.
Richard II. Mcdonald. sr.. my father
tn-iaw. went 10 New York and sent for
u.s. she said. when we arrived there
he asked my husband to take me and go
abroad. My husband said ne was innocent.
and he would go back to San Francisco
and face the charges Then his father
begged him to go. and even offered to pay
our expenses. stiii my husband refused.
and the result was we went 20 san Fran
cisco. his father remaining In New York.
where he Is at present. Then followed my
husbands arrest and all this trouble. of
which know nothing.
Il am totally innocent of my husbands
financial dealings. therefore am not In a
position 10 talk OF them. But l know my
husband is innocent Of the charges against
him, and Ii the victim of a political con-
spiracy. That IL why his father wanted
him to 20 abroad. ms he said our enemies
In San Francisco would resort to. any
means to pull Us down.
''The conspiracy. or as much as under
stand of IL. was this: There was a plot
gotten up by some politicians to secure
the chief Justices seat. The McDonaids
were the ruling power Of San Francisco at
the time. az tiie Pacific bank controlled
millions. and had other dealings OUTSIDE
OF financial ones, These politicians went
to work. and. without any good reason
appointed q receiver for the oank. They
declared II had gone under through the
fraudulent dealings OF the Mcdonald fam
:ly. and would have arrested my husband
his father and my brother-in-iaw at once
mad they not fed.
Frank v. Mcdonald. my brother-in-la law.
went to Japan. and now II Is said he took
10000 belonging TO the bank. This Is false
Only three months ago l had TO cable him
so, though he never received IL. One OF
our lawyers received the money from me
and never sent Il. Attorney Livinish.
who Is assisting the defense, Is doing so
for nothing He simply went into the case
TO try to make a reputation. This is our
side OF the charges against my husband .
Mrs. Mcdonald declares she has not
cent outside OF her actual living expenses.
She was engaged In cleaning house .'It
seems probable" she remarked sarcastic
ally, that ! would be doing this IL had
SlO0.0o0. doesn't it?" Mrs. Mcdonald says
she leaves for San Francisco In a few
days. to be present with her husband
when arraigned for trial