The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11

that paper SAYS: "The new developments
in the case call to mind incidents which
were forgotten after McDonald'S departure
from Sarnia. Just shortly after his mar
riage to Miss Smith rumor had 1t that Nc
Donald had wife and family in Scotland
Whether this was so or not has never been
established but a paragraph which went
the rounds of the newspapers in November
or last yeaE gave more sensational tone
to Miss Smiths escapade. Here is the par
agraph as it appeared in the Toronto News
and other papers in the early part of No
9 Thomas Miller. the school teacher and
Sunday school superintendent who, on July
j, married a Miss W nix at Copper Cliff AL
gonna, while he still had a wife and six
children at Clinton. Ont, has deserted his
SECOND wife and left for the States. His du-
pllcity was discovered through the advent IN
Copper Cliff OF a Clinton man named Per-
due who brought with him five of Miers
children. Miller took charge of the little
ones and left Miss Wink, coming as far as
Toronto with them. Here he put the inno-
cents on the train for Clinton and jumped
on another train and proceeded to Port HUI
ron. Since then he has not been heard of.
There were several features connected
with the Smith episode which led Sarnia
people to believe that Miller, OF Copper Chn
was the same man who married the Sarnla
girl under the name of Mcdonald. First or
all. Mcdonald represented to several that he
came from that section. He also said that
he had a brother in Fort William, and 1t
turned out the mans attitude in Sarnla IN
regard to church and school matters was
the same as that ascribed to the man who
went by the name of Miller in Copper Cliff.
Mrs. Thomas returned to Woodstock after
going as far as Chicago with her daughter.
According to the Woodstock paper she mas
made efforts to discover whether the Alex
ander Mcdonald that married Miss Smith,
Of Sarnia, was the same man that AFTER
ward married her daughter under the name
of A. +. Mcdonald, but Will not diVulge the
went to Woodstock Miss Smith had no
picture Of the man she had married, put
gave minute descriptions OF nm that IN.
dictate Alexander and A. Z. McDonaid are
one and the same man. Whether Miller; OF
Copper Cliff, was also another alias or NC
Donald and whether he has wives IN Eu-
rope has not been discovered. Efforts are
being made to connect him with the Dean
and other swindling stock exchanges ana
dianapolis, Chicago and other places where
the different so-called speculative concerns
with get-rich-quick features attached were
HIS SOCIETY NOTES.
While he was in indianapolis it was Nc
Donald's fad to send sensational society
notes" to the newspapers, conveying the in
formation that various English notables,
members of Parliament and scions of the
nobility were to visit him. Needless to add
they never appeared for the edification OF
society in the Hoosier capital
An illustration of the mans gall and
impudence is furnished by two letters he
wrote the Woodstock Sentinel-Review from
Indianapolis-one dated July g. containing
the notice of Mrs. Thomas's visit at ms
house here, and the other scoring the editor
of the paper for not publishing the notice
promptly. The second letter was dated
from indianapolis the day the personal
finally got into the paper. They follow:
indianapolis, July S-Please insert IN
vour personal notices, in the next issue or
your paper, the notice attached or some
thing to that effect. inclose my check for
one years subscription to your paper.
tha TO ll2O stevenson
building, Indianapolis, to commence at
once. If I can do you any FAVOR IN the
future use me and don't be at all back
ward. My wife is much admired here, she
s a credit to Woodstock. have often heard
the praises of Woodstock girls sung in the
Cast. l have the honor of introducing one
# her prettiest daughters to the South
and I am mighty proud OF her. we We're
quietly married on May by Judge OToole,
4 friend of mine in Chicago. gave my
vide as a wedding present the DEEDS 10 a
valuable Indianapolis property. which Will
provide her an income for life. am mem
Der of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Judge
Mccarthy, of the United States Supreme
,ourt, said to me Sesterday-' Canada will
ventually become a great independent ma
ion. The sooner we as nation recognize
this the better for our future welfare as a
,eople' We are awakening to this fact.
Yours very truly Z. A M'Donald.'
The notice did not appear in the Sentinel
leview Immediately after its receipt On
he day it was printed, however, the fol-
owing letter was sent to the editor by Mr..
Mcdonald from Indianapolis to the editor:
Il beg to thank you for the personal no
ice which we did not get in your paper the
pther day We are used to receiving such
avors from the newspapers of our own
ountry and the Toronto and Montreal dali
les, therefore, the Woodstock Sentinel-Re-
Jew has given us quite a change from the
Ommon order of things. | gave you certain
Information, but left it to your discretion
o say anything you thought fit. You COM
)lied with my request for this favor by
aging nothing. Perhaps in this case silence
$ golden and may be the Sentinel-Re-
lew s method of comforting high honor and
lattery upon the advertisement-seekin
americans. / am a Chicagoan and there
fore exist in great measure upon wind rari-
led in it's passage through my Jonathan
goatee. / am very busy just now or there
ire other peculiarities l might mention. /
nave met the proprietor of your paper on
wo occasions and when / meet him again
his fall his memory will rot fail him. IT
vas only for Mrs. Thomass sake that l
,sked for notice at all. We have several
etters here from Woodstock asking for in
ormation about Margaret and myself
'erhaps if we had travelled no further than
fngersoll we might have received a gra-
suitous notice such as you gave my wife
,efore she met Yours truly, p. r. Nc
Donald"
Mcdonald afterward apologized for the
econd letter when he was furnished with
I marked copy of the paper containing the
notice he was solicitous to have printed