The morning call., 1895-02-13
AS OTHERS saw HIM.
Dick MeDOnaId'S Character
Roughly Handled.
HIS PERSONAL AMBITIONS.
Extraordinary Private Traits Dis
clOsed by His Sister.
SURPRISES AWAITING THE DEFENSE.
Juror COWell Accuses Another Juror O1
Communicating With a
Witness.
SURPRISES AWAITING THE DEFENSE

| being as thoroughly turned inside out and
as freely commented upon as though
there never was such thing for him as
domestic privacy. His hopes and fears,
his petty ambitions as well as his extrava-
CANT ones, the defects of his youth, his
| cowardice, his marital troubles and his
business career are all dragged into the
courtroom and exploited at length, and in
it all there is not one thing said or remem-
bered which he can be proud of. His de-
fense will finish to-day, however, but even
then his troubles will not be over, for the
prosecution has last arrow in its quiver
which may prove the sharpest that has yet
pierced the air of studied abstraction
which has surrounded Mcdonald from the
| beginning.
| A J.. jenkins, an employe of the Pacific
Bank, and one who frequently executed
| commissions for r. III. Mcdonald, testified
that he had taken the bank statement to
Tharp, the notary; that he had not been
sworn as to its correctness, nor had it been
out of his sight long enough for any one
else to swear to its correctness. Upon this
fabric of fact built by Jenkins the defense
has based its claim that as there was no
actual oath administered there could be no
perjury. In rebuttal the prosecution in
tend to attack Jenkins veracity and relia-
bility by connecting him with some irregu-
lar transactions in the interest of McDon-
aid.
Witnesses will be put upon the stand to
swear that during the trouble between
r. H. Mcdonald and Clara Belle, Jenkins
was used to assist in establishing the fact
that Mcdonald had no money with which
to pay alimony TO his wife. Richard swore in
court, during Clara Bellies suit for ali
mony, that he was working in the Pacific
Bank for merely nominal salary, and
that beyond what his father gave him he
had not a penny of his own.
Witnesses will be brought forward to
prove that at that time jenkins was carry
ing around his waist belt full of money,
every cent of which belonged to McDon-
aid. There was $4,000, all in $1,000 bills,
which the prosecution intends to prove
was given by Mcdonald to Jenkins to keep
for him until the trouble blew over. In an
evil moment Jenkins showed his valuable
article of wearing apparel to a friend in one
of the other banks and told him its object.
His friend will testify as to the 1actS in
court to-day.
Another and more recent transaction,
which will be brought out as to Jenkins
willingness to do as he is told will be as to
the sudden disappearance of $50, 600 in coin
just after the Pacific Bank failed. Wit
nesses will testify that soon after the bank
JGnhluS
was bound for Dresden, and with him he
took $50 600, given him by R. II. Mcdonald
to deposit to his credit in Dresden Banks
Jenkins has but recently arrived in this
city, having come here from Japan. The
theory of the prosecution is that to avoid
suspicion he kept on travelling eastward
until he arrived at his starting point.
Jenkins testimony is considered the only
thing about the defense worthy of rebuttal,
and all its energies will be bent toward
showing that Jenkins testimony as to any
thing relating to Mcdonald is not worthy
of credence.
AS was expected Mrs. Mcdonald took
the stand yesterday morning, but it needed
only few minutes to finish her examina-
ton and, what was something of a surprise,
Mr.. Barnes refused to cross-examine.
She told how her husband would not eat
| meat, not because he was a vegetarian, but
because he considered it cruelty to animals
to kill them even for food. He was very
erratic too in his ideas of the table He
thought the dining-room and the family
dining table too common for him, and so
he ate alone in his own room except on
special occasions. He used to believe that
unless his wife held his head the ceiling
would fall upon him, and as consequence
she used to be compelled to sit for hours
holding her husbands head in her arms
and trying to reason him out of his fears.
He was very sensitive, too, about what
the newspapers said of him, and would
never let his wife read the accounts of the
bank trouble when they appeared in the
morning. He was also confirmed crank
upon illumination, and would allow moth
ing but candles in the house for lighting
purposes. ALI the great men in olden
times used candles, he said, and why
should not he use them, too. He never
cared much for society, nor was he very
extravagant, for his wife said he made her
do most OF the housework. In reply to a
question as to whether or not Mcdonald
had wanted to leave the State just prior to
his indictment, the witness said it was she
who had wanted to leave the State. She
wanted to get her husband away from all
the care and worry and danger of arrest,
but he told her he had done nothing wrong
and he would not leave the city.
Mrs. N. r. Rickard, a sister of the de-
| fendant, was then called. She testified as
to the way DR.. Mcdonald reared his chill
dren.
Her father was mechanical in his ideas
of education she said, and particularly
50 in regard to the education of herself and
her brothers. He laid down one rule and
then made all the children conform to it.
He was very am bilious for their success,
and one time on the occasion of big
charity dinner which he gave, and at which
he left his son Richard to do the honors,
he entered the dining-room suddenly and
found him seated on a chair set on the ta-
BILE, with. all the children bowling down be-
fore him. The old man thought this au-
cured favorably for future successful
career. As far as his mentality was con-
cerned, Mrs. Richards testimony was
pointed.
"Richard mentally" she said 'was
always considered the skeleton of the
flock. 1t was subject which was never
spoken of above whisper. He was natu-
rally of a morbid temperament, and the
fact of his erratic mind and his stunted
growth made him avoid the society of his
family, who were ali tall and well formed"
''How about his courage?" asked coun-
sci.
"Well, / remember once in Jena, the
student town wheres.every one is supposed
to fight duels, he became involved in some
trouble, and he asked an American friend
to fight his duel for him.
AT this point Mcdonald rose from his
seat.
"Will your Honor allow me to say some
thing?" he asked.
''Sit down, sit down." whispered his
wife and the friends who were sitting
around him, and Livernash addressed the
court directly.
81 would ask your Honor to prevent this
man from saving ANYTHING" he said de-