The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-01
ply the vehicle through which D. S.
Dorm helped to fill his purse.
SECRET TRAGEDY OF DR. R. II. Nc
DONALD'S LIFE.

In this expose, which The Call feels
in duty bound to make, there is nothing
sadder to record than the dishonor
which falls upon DR.. R. H. Mcdonald.
After the collapse of the Pacific Bank
and the Peoples Home Savings Bank,
DIR. Mcdonald, who had held an hon
ored position in this community, was
sincerely pitied even by the thousands
who had lost their hard-earned money
in the wreck of the banks It was be-
lieved that the old man had been duped
by his dishonest sons, that the insti-
tuition of which he was president had
been led by knaves into dishonest
projects and that he, who had passed
20 years of age, was to bear the
odium of his sons thievery. All Of
this was one Of the gigantic decisions
which the conspirators created. The
Call feels it a duty to declare that DR..
Mcdonald was as dishonest as his sons
and has now in his possession property
that belongs to the depositors Of the
Pacific and the Peoples Home Savings
Banks. The old man not only knew of
his sons robbery, but was party to
it and in certain instances an instiga-
tor of it. The Call will prove over his
own signature, the signatures Of his
sons and the records of the Pacific
Bank that hundreds of thousands of
dollars belonging to these banks was
stolen by r. H Mcdonald ST.. This pa
per VIII prove that DIR. Mcdonald was
dishonest a year and a half before the
Pacific Bank failed and fled from this
city to evade the process of law. 1t
will show that one of his debts,
amounting to $142, 600, was swept from
existence by the criminal touch of the
pen commanded by r. H. Mcdonald Jrs
AS the remarkable story Of deceit, de-
ception, knavery and crime proceeds
The Call will show that DR.. Mcdonald
commanded from his sons, and through
them from the depositors of his banks,
more money for his daily needs. And
when the end was approaching the
old man, having deceived the Bank
Commissioners, and declined to keep
his solemn promise to pledge his pri-
vate fortune commanded his son Rich
ard to steal ten thousand dollars more
out of the wreck. In this dramatic
story The Call will produce for pub
lie consideration the records of the
crime. In the recital there will be an
element of the deepest pathos The
elder Mcdonald had reached an age
when he felt that the shadow of death
was upon him. He counseled his sons
to cherish their early lessons Of NOR
atty and of religion and of the Chris
tan spirit of fairness TO man. He
condemned his children for what he
considered their base ingratitude to him
and he mourned over what he believed
TO be the inevitable, closing dishonor to
an upright life,
He entered into a discussion deeply
in detail of his domestic affairs and of
those of his family. He warned his
son Richard against new love entangle-
ments and reminded him that it had
cost 100000 to get rid of one bad wo-
man and TO beware of another. With
a feeling of remarkable sincerity he
urged his sons to throw off the schem-
ers who were surrounding him and with
almost an avenging spirit he declared
that Sherman had ruined them and it
would break his heart to see the in
situations with which his name had
been so long connected go. down in
shameful wreck.