Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-07-19
DICK M'ooNALD's WIFE IN JAIL


Arrested in St. Louis, Believed to Have
| Doodle in Her Possession.
st. Louis. July 12.-Mrs. Eliza Mcdonald
reported to have fed from San Francisco
with 100000 belonging to her husband
Richard III. Mcdonald. Jr.. now in jail In
That city awaiting trial for forgery and
| embezzlement In connection with wrecking
| the Pacific bank, was located in this city
| today. She Is with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
John Carlton, 260S North Garrison avenue.
AT first she would not admit her indenti-
| ty 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 fled with my husbands
money Is untrue. 1 have not handled any
OF his money for three months-then the
amount was not more than 5000. This
was all that was intrusted to me for de-
Tending my husband, and it was all he
had"
She related the story of her first meet
ing with Mcdonald. and told of their mar
riage in 1893. Three months after mar
riage, she continued. the trouble came on.
Richard ii. Mcdonald, Sr., my father
in-law, went to 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 he 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. Still my husband refused
and the result was we went to 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
81 am totally innocent of my husbands
financial dealings, therefore am not in a
position to talk of them. But l know my
a is rff
him. and Is the victim of political CON
spiracy. That Is why his father wanted
him to go abroad. as 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 1t. was this: There was a plot
gotten up by some politicians to secure
the chief Justices seat. The McDonalds
were the ruling power of San Francisco at
the time, as the Pacific bank controlled
millions, and had other dealings outside
OF financial ones. These politicians went
to work, and, without any good reason,
appointed a receiver for the bank. They
declared 1t had gone under through the
fraudulent dealings OF the Mcdonald fam
lily. and would have arrested my husband
his father and my brother-in-law at once
mad they not fled
Frank V. Mcdonald, my brother-in-law
went to Japan. and now 1t is said he took
100000 belonging to the bank. This is false.
only three months ago l had to cable him
$25o. though he never received it. one OF
our lawyers received the money from me
ana never sent 1t. Attorney Livinish
who is assisting the defense. is doing so
FOR nothing. He simply went into the case
to try TO make reputation. This is our
SIDE OF the charges against my husband"
Mrs. Mcdonald declares she has not q
cent outside of her actual living expenses.
She was engaged in cleaning house. 1T
seems probable" she remarked sarcastic
ally. that ! would be doing this If l he'd
100000, 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