Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-07-26
IN JAIL AT MILWAUKEE.
DR.. c. D. Mcdonald and Wife Arrested
There for Shocking 0ffense.
BODY OF CHILD IN SATCHEl.
Left at Drug Store Until Discovered
Through Stencil Therefrom.

Milwaukee Sentinel, July 2O.h:-
Employees of the drug house of A.
Spielgel company, West Water St
and Grand Ave, reported to the po-
lice last night that they had found
the body Of an infant, wrapped in n
towel and papers, in a telescope sat
chel, which had been left at the store
some days ago by some unknown
person. The body was so badly de-
composed that Identification will be
impossible. The child was between
one and two months of age, and had
been dead for II week or ten days.
The Sentinel, July 2lst:-Dr. Chas
ID. Mcdonald and wife of Mineral
Point, Wis, were arrested shortly
before noon yesterday by Detective
McManus, pending an Investigation
of their connection with the death Of
the two-months old child which was
left in grip at Spiegel's drug store
last Monday morning. 70 Chief
Jansen both admitted that the child
had died while in their care and that
it was DR.. Mcdonald who had left
the body at the drug store.
After making his admission Nc
Donald went to his cell in the police
station and took heavy dose of CO.
caiue. Though Mcdonald is ad-
dicted to the use of cocaine, in the
belief of Chief Jensen the drug was
swallowed with the intention of es-
Gaping by means of suicide the eX-
posure and disgrace the physician
saw was confronting him. The man
swallowed all of the drug he had
about him, but the dose was not suf-
flciently heavy to cause death. After
the application of IA stomach pump
and further treatment at Emergency
hospital, he was taken back to his
cell at the station practically restor-
ed to his normal condition.
The case is one the police are al
ready willing to admit will never be
cleared up in all its details. There
are entirely unexpected develop
ments. The decomposition of the
"hild's body was so FAR advanced
- - the physicians will not attempt
to make statement as to the cause
of its death.
What charge will be preferred
! against DR.. Mcdonald and his wife
will be determined to-day, when the
statements of the pair are laid before
| the district attorney for considera-
| ton. together with all known facts
1t is certain that the physician and
his wife will be held for concealment
of body, if for no more serious Of
Tense. The police are now ut a
standstill, having followed up to its
end every clue which could deter
mine the manner in which the child
came to its death.
Detective McManus got a descrip-
tion of the party who had left the
satchel from the janitor of the drug
store and found that DR.. Mcdonald
and wife had been at the SchlitZ no.
tel the Saturday previous, and had
been ordered away for the non-pay-
ment of board. Thence they Were
| traced to the Barnes house, Fourth
street, and there arrested. Before
going to the Schlitz hotel, the couple
had been mt the Clipper house on
Fourth street, presumably their first
stopping place in Milwaukee, and
Mrs, f.. May, proprietor of that hotel
says: "rhe man and woman came
to my house on the night of June 80
and at once went to a room where
they stayed for two days, sleeping
all the time. Their baggage con-
sisted of two trunks and grip, the
one in which the child was found
There was no child with them SO fal
as could see, and there was nc
sound Of a childs cry from the time
they came TO the house until | sent
them away last Saturday. When
they went they took the grip with
| them.
They acted very strangely all the
time they We're at my house. Only
twice i'm the whole time did they
both leave the room at the same
time, and then they carried the key
with them. They would not allow
anyone in the room, not even to dc
the room work, doing that them
selves. While they were there there
was a horrible smell coming from
the room every time the door open
ed, and | SOW q pail of black stuff in
| the corner.
81 supposed that the smell came
| from medicine which the doctor put
on sores on his neck. When the two