The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-26
SUICIDEOF GEN. MACDONALD
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containing a resume of the grave charges brought against him and en- bellished with the generals portrait in full uniform, came under his attention. He left the lobby, going to his room and the pistol shot followed soon after.
 No arrangements have yet been made as to the disposition of the body which is subject to the orders of the British authorities. Both the British embassy and Consul General Inglis have advised London of the tragedy and are await ing definite instructions. The generals suicide has profoundly shocked the Britishofficials here. Those about the ho- tel who have conversed with Sir Hector Macdonald recently say he showed no signs of excitement, or mental worry. They describe him as of soldierly bear ing, slightly under middle height, with bronzed face and a slight gray mous- tache.
 London, March 25.-The tragic end of Fighting, Mac," who, the son of a Highland Cottar, rose from a position of drapers assistant to be an honored general in the British army, has caused great surprise and deep sorrow in Lon don. The nature of the offenses with which he was charged had not become generally known to the public, but had been common gossip n military circles, and although in the army and among his Highlander comprades especially there is keen grief, their feeling is that 1t was better to die thus than to face dishonor''
 Sir Hector Macdonald was separated from hfo xrifo tefo he got his commission. He had never lived with her since. He leaves a son, who is being educated in an English public school
 Sir Hector MacDonald's great chance came when as a sergeant during the Afghan campaign of 1879 to 1880 with a small force he, by a furious bayonet charge, cleared out body of Afghans who were lying in ambush for Lord Roberts. For this feat Lord Roberts offered him the choice of Victoria Cross or commission. He chose the latter. His great military achievement was leading the Black Soudanese bri- gade in the Omdurman campaign against the Halifa.
 The official announcement made by the governor of Ceylon in the legisla- ture on Monday that MajorG General Mcdonald would be court-martialled and the publicity given to the affair were evidently the determined motives for the suicide. His friends attrbut e the unfortunate business to his broken health and shattered nerves, the out come of two campaigns in the Soudan and South Africa. An attack of dysen- tery and touch of sunstroke at Paar- deburg during the South African cam paign left serious effects, and wound he received in the leg healed badly. It is stated that he often complained of pains in the head, and in Ceylon his health and the depression from which he was suffering grew worse to such an extent that there was talk of invaliding him from the service.
 The newspapers here comment sym- pathetfcally on the inexpressibly pitiful end of brave soldier, and say that his countrymen will remember him best as @ man of whom, on his return from Omdurman, King Edward, then the Prince of Wales, greeting him, said:
 "In 1875 you were doing sentry duty in India, and now you are a general in the British army. I am proud to have met you"