Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-07-26


it. In the evening they left the place
altogether. Mrs. Mcdonald always
objected to the servants doing the
work in the room and said she pre-
ferred to make up the bed herself.
The bed clothing was found TO be
bloody when they left.
The inability of physicians to tell
what was the cause of the death of
the child, owing to the advanced
stage of decomposition of the body,
practically places at an end all chance
of criminal prosecution. A charge
might be brought under the statute
providing fine for the concealment
of dead body. This will probably
be done next week, unless unlocked
for developments occur.
At the coroner's inquest Monday
afternoon Mcdonald told highly sem
sational tale of how the case came
about. He said the dead infant was
the illegitimate child of daughter of
well-to-do farmer of Mineralpoint,
whose name he gave. That he had
been called to attend the girl and was
told at that time that the young wo-
man was the victim of an assault by
an Italian.
DR.. Mcdonald swore that a plan
was found to make way with the
child at on &c, step in which he re-
fused TO aid He claimed he was
asked to chloroform the child and it
was finally decided to put the baby
into an asylum of some sort and with
this end in view he came to Milwau-
kee with it. The child was not well,
and after arriving in Milwaukee was
taken sick and died at the Clipper
house on Sunday. He then wrote to
its parents asking for instructions,
but receiving no word from them he
was in a quandry. As a result he
left 1T at the drug store. The strang-
est thing about the case appears to be
what prompted the doctor to deposit
the grip containing the remains in the
Spiegel drug store when he might
just as we'll have dropped it into the
river at some secluded spot.
Both people are confirmed users of
cocaine and morphine. During the
excitement attendant upon his arrest
the doctor, in his cell, swallowed an
overdose of cocaine pills and had to
be placed under physicians care for
several hours. On the next day he
was in sad state being deprived of
| his free use of the drugs. In his cell
he huddles up in blanket, even COW
ering his head, and seems to be unable
to gather any warmth. He is drowsy
most of the time.
Mrs. McDonald's condition is such
that it was simply impossible for the
matron at the station TO attend her.
The woman is in a pitiable condition
from hypodermic injections. herar
being literally raw from the insertions
of the syringe. Her husband is in a
still worse condition. His lower
| limbs are mass of red flesh where
the syringe has pricked from time to
time. When given an injection
yesterday he was asked if he wanted
the contents of the bottle and he
laughed. There is not enough in that
bottle to hurt me-" he said. He ex-
planned how he came to take an over.
dose. Friday afternoon he says that
he was chewing some tobacco and the
pills were lying loose in his pocket.
He mixed them up with the tobacco
and got too many.
The case has excited interest
throughout the state. Five people,
residents of Mineral Point, were in
Milwaukee to see the prisoners first
of the week but were refused The
fact that the mother of the infant en-
trusted it to the care of the doctor
and his wife, in view of heir addiction
to the indiscriminate use of drugs has
excited deal of comment. The case,
startling as it is in itself, is made all
the more so because every feature of
it is so absolutely beyond the juris-
diction of the law.
LATER: Today's papers announce
that DIR. Mcdonald and wife were re-
leased from custody Tuesday evening,
as there was no law under which the
evidence received would warrant their
being held. On Monday it was
thought by the authorities that the
law would allow line of 800, but
further investigation showed that
prosecution would be practically use
less, so yesterday morning the couple
were discharged.
After his release DR. Mcdonald said
that he would return to Mineral Point
and resume his practice there.
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