The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-06
MCDONALD SHORTAGE.
Said to Cause a Loss of Over
$4,000 in Raleigh.
The Losers Are Emphatic in Their DeruLcialion
Of The Man They Hold Responsible
For Their Loss.

of discussion on the streets yesterday.
Even baseball had to take a second
place beside it. Men with hot hearts
talked, and talked plainly.
II went into the Knights of Honor
about twenty-five years ago." said one
man, land 1 have been paying my dues
falcaton of the treasurer, | am not only
robbed of my money, but | have arriv
ed at the age and physical condition at
which | can obtain no other insurance.
Another said: Il see Mcdonald says
in the News ana Observer that he will
make it all straight. Straight? He
can't do it. He might pay back every
cent he has taken from us and il would
not straighten it. He can't give us
back our age and health and make il
possible to get the insurance that we
have so many years been carrying and
would now have but for his action.
Still another declared that not only
the dead but the living as we'll had
been robbed. He thought Maj. Martins
shortage in the State Treasurer office
far the smaller crime of the two. He
added: Martins wrong can be repair
ed by a simple repayment Of the money.
McDonalds can't"
One man had tears in his eyes as he
told how for twenty-one years he AMI
his wife had saved from their earnings.
month by month the money to pay his
assessment as it fell due. I'VE often
talked it over" he added, land some
times it was mighty hard to pay; we
so needed the money, but we always
reconciled ourselves by the thought
that our children when left alone in
the world would have something to
keep them from want. Now we find
it all gone, and our hardships and saw
ings have been for nothing"
1t is estimated that by the failure of
Mr.. Mcdonald to pay into the head Of
flee of the Knights of Honor the money
collected by him, thus causing the
lodge here to be suspended, there has
been lost to families of members living
in this city not less than 1000 III
money, to say nothing of the fact that
many of them cannot now get insurance
from any company. There are among
them men who are old in years and in
firm in body, men who have stinted
themselves and saved to meet their
monthly uueS tndI tnelF INSURANCE
policy might not be allowed to lapse.
1t is this class of men that feel most
deeply the misfortune that has thus
oVertaken them.
The sons of MIR. c. w. Lambeth.
whose policy is now due, say they will
have the money 10000 or they will
prosecute Mcdonald to the full extent
of the law. They have put the matter
into the hands of Mr.. Charles NJ. Bus
bee. as their attorney. He is of opinion
that the policy is perfectly valid. and
will be so held by the courts. If the
local collector is simply the agent of.
the local lodge then the Lambeth heirs
lose If he is the agent of the Supreme
Lodge, as Mr. Busbee contends. that
is responsible. In the case Of McGraW
VS.. the knights of Pythias and Ladies
Of Honor, from Beaufort county, the
North Carolina Supreme court has de-
cided that the local collecting agent is
the representative of the Supreme
Lodge or home office and if this deci-
sion covers this case. as Mr.. Busbee
thinks, then the Supreme Lodge will
have 10 pay the Lambeth estate the ST.
600 insurance.