By the laws of the church she was still his wife, no matter what the
years had brought forth. So Mike took her hand and held it and spoke
softly to her in a breath of full forgiveness and passed away. Without
the door sat the woman whom he had called his wife--Dora, whom he had
won from a husband and to whom he had been faithful until he stepped
to the brink of his grave.
This was the last straw that crushed the spirit of Dora McDonald.
The body of Webster Guerin was removed to McNally & Duffy's
undertaking rooms at 516 Wabash avenue.
Detective Wooldridge took up the work of gathering the evidence and
prepared the case for the Coroner and Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury indictment placed Dora McDonald seemingly beyond the
pale of bail, but Mike worked assiduously and finally secured her
release from prison on $50,000 bonds. Then Mike became ill and died in
St. Anthony's Hospital.
Before he gave way to his broken heart McDonald drew up a will. He
set aside a defense fund with which the woman might be given adequate
chance for freedom in the court, and left her "such rights and only
such rights as she may be entitled to as widow."