After the arrest of his wife, "Mike" McDonald announced that he
believed in her integrity and declared he would spend every cent of
his fortune to save her. The former gambling dictator was almost 70
years old and his health was failing rapidly. Four months after the
event he was taken to the St. Anthony de Padua Hospital, where he
remained until his death, August 9, 1907.
McDonald was still passing to his death when there crept into his room
a little, white-haired woman who had come from Newark, N. J. There
she was known as Mrs. Grashoff and a great charity worker, especially
in the interest of fallen girls in the Crittenden homes. Years before
Mike McDonald had called her his first wife.