The herald., 1896-11-02
marriage A Ia MODE
DR.. r. E. MacdOnald's Di=
vorce at Chicago
MOST EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES
The Wife Attempted the Life of
Her husband
PLAYED AMATEUR DETECTIVE
And Euchred Her Husbands Attorneys
in Two Cities
Now in Torento. canada, Posing as a Gov.
ernment Emissary
PLAYED AMATEUR DETECTIVE
And Euchred Her Husbands Attorneys
in Two Cities
Now In Torento Canada, Posing as a Gov.
ernment Emissary
Mrs. Mary A. Macdonald Is Lady of
Many Graces of Manner and Ad-
dress-Her Father One of the
Mountain Meadow Mormons.

\
The ears of the grandes DANES in Los
Angeles and San Bernardino drawing
rooms are being tickled now by the de-
tails of a divorce now on the tapis, the
| parties to which are well known
| throughout Southern California.
The inner details of this latest scan
dal in high life are known. as yet. to
very few, for the complaint in divorce
has been filed at Chicago in the circuit
court of Cook county, where the hus-
band has resided for sufficient length
of time to comply with the condition of
| the law regarding divorce proceedings
DR.. Reginald e. Macdonald and Mary
| A. Macdonald, the parties to the suit,
| are well known throughout Southern
| California by reason of the wealth OF
| their respective families, their social po-
| sition and the high connections of the
| husband. DR.. Macdonald belongs to the
| family of Macdonalds, several members
of which are prominent in this city, that
has made such a striking figure in Ca
| madam politics for many years. and of
which the late Sir John Macdonald. un-
| der several governments the premier
cut the most striking figure
! The doctor, who is the plaintiff in the
divorce suit quite recently began in Chi
cago, came from Canada to San Fran
cisco, where he studied medicine and
took his degree. He then established
himself in practice at San Bernardino
about 1885. He was quite popular there
and became enamored with Mrs. Mary
A. Seely the then widow of the we'll
known lawyer and politician, the Hon.
John W. Satterwhite. This lady was
and indeed is possessed of a most
charming manner, and a graceful ap-
pearance. albeit she was the mother of
four children. OF these one son is now
practicing law in San Francisco, and
another is practicing at the bar of this
city. Mrs Satterwhite was reputed at
that time to be worth about $40 900. left
| to her by her husband who had earned
! it in his practice of law. When she mar
| ried the handsome, athletic young doe
tor. many years her junior, much sur
! prise was expressed that young fellow
| with the world before him. and sup
| ported by relatives of wealth ard high
social position should make what was
considered as such an unwise match.
On January IA, 1886. the marriage took
presumably, life was an "airy, fairy
dream of sweet delight"
A SHORT HONEYMOON.
True, it is not even hinted that this
was so, but it is just as well to give the
couple the benefit of the doubt for. in
any case, a speedy change took place
and husband and wife lived from thence
on most unhappy life. If the hades
of the "unco guid"-the real, good old
time sulphurous variety of hades-has
boundaries, then it was very fairly rep
resented on this earth by the Macdon-
aid household in San Bernardino The
wife began by exhibiting the most
| cranky ideas. She refused to permit
any servants in the house, and on the
| other hand. most religiously abstained
from soiling her dainty fingers by at
tending to such necessary, if unpleasant
details of every day life herself. AS
| matter of absolute necessity the doctor
was compelled to play general utility
man. and act as cook, chambermaid
and dshwasher. Mrs. Macdonald. too,
had the temper of Old Nick himself, and
by direct Inheritance. some assert and
did not fail to berate her husband with
all the virulent abuse of which an un-
governed temper was capable, when
things did not go just to suit her
But this kind of life was monotonous
separated
from his wife. Probably this step would
not have been taken at that time had it
not been that Mrs. Macdonald attained
some unpleasant notoriety by reason of
her participation in certain land deals.
For it is always to be remembered that
this lady is smart and shrewd business
woman. and the patrimony left her by
her first husband has been multiplied
many times by her skill. The doctor
20 n oft nd hao y ic
practice as physician, but his wife
who couldn't be happy with him failed
to find happiness away from him. She
followed him to Los Angeles and pur-
chased her present home at 1922 South
Flower street, where she still resides
1t was her desire that her husband
should play the part of penitent, and re-
turn and live with her, and as he persist
emily failed to see things as she wished
she adopted vigorous measures to coerce
him into the way she would have him
go.
| SANDERS ENVENOMED TONGUE.
First of all she spread abroad all kinds
| of rumors regarding him, both as ply
| sician and man, and frequently would
| call to see the doctor, who was then liv-
| ing with his mother at the very beauti-
| full home she had built not very far from
| where the younger Mrs. Macdonald had
eSldDllSIltu HeTSelI. vi COURSE size was
| not a welcome guest Her husband did
not want to see her; his mother didn't
crave to look upon her face, and so she
was eventually denied admittance That
! didn't feaze this resourceful lady,
however, she just forced an entrance
and more than once the family We're
| compelled to barricade themselves in
| the rear portion of the mansion, leaving
the pugnacious wife in complete pos
| session of the front portion of the prem
ises. She held them thus at bay for sew
| eral days but upon making retreat they
had strategetically fallen back upon
| ihat portion of the house where the
| larder and kitchen We're situated, and
thus preserved their base of supplies. :"
They thus could not be starved into sub
| mission, and when the besieging force
got good and ready it evacuated the ter
ritory. But all the same it was regard
| ed as enemy's country, and was several
| times overrun in this manner
Seriously viewed, this was sad state
of affairs, and owing to the intervention
and pleading of the wife's friends. a
] reconciliation was brought about in 1893.