Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — SENATOR M’DONALD'S WIDOW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR M’DONALD'S WIDOW.

A. Real Romance in Krery-Day LifeDrain a tic Feature*. Seldom, outside of the pages o.f fiction, does a woman have such ex-

pertences as the beautiful young widow who is now defending the property left to her by her aged husband, the late Senator McDonald of I n d i a n a. After the fact became public that Senator McDonald had left his

entire estate to his wife followed Tumors, soon verified, that the will was to be contested pn the ground that the instrument probated was not the will which Senator McDonald had made. Additional interest was aroused by recallings the romance which surrounded and connected the liree of the deceased Senator and his

second wife. The amount in con* troversy is about $40,000, and includes a lot on Washington street in Indianapolis. On two occasions during his last illness the Senator told bis friends that he intended tc leave his Washington street property to his children, but when his will was opened it was found that he had left that also to Mrs. McDonald. It : is to set aside this bequest that the | suit is tiled, and in the inquiry Mrs. ' McDonald has been summoned to appearand answer questions under oath. Other phases of the case are both dramatic and supernatural. In the Senator's office was a clerk named Arthur Hutchins, and he copied the will or wrote it at the Senator’s dictation. One day he went home from the office, and as he did not return it was found that he had gone insane. The contestants assert that his mental wreck was due to remorse for having mutilated the will. Then, in confirmation of this theory, a young lady living in Washington dreamed that she saw Mrs. McDonald ana some young man whom she did not know in close consultation together in an office. She afterward came to Indianapolis, and in the asylum where Hutchins is now confined identified him as the young man of her dream.

MRS. J. E. M’DONALD.