The grave out at Mount Olivet that closed over the body of "Mike"
McDonald refused a final sanctuary to the life-tragedy of the
political boss and millionaire gambling king.
The same hand of death that closed his eyes on his triumphs and
afflictions raised the curtain on an unforseen last act in this drama
of Chicago life.
In this new part of the plot Mrs. Dora Feldman McDonald, who turned
the old gambler's head and broke his heart through the shooting of
Webster Guerin, appears as a wife solemnly repudiated in death-bed
rites. At the same time Mrs. Mary Noonan McDonald, the divorced and
exiled first wife, steps upon the scene to cleanse her name of the
scandals to which it has been linked for twenty years.
While the two wives and the relatives stood before the coffin it came
out that McDonald, shortly before his death at St. Anthony de Padua
hospital, had uttered a formal repudiation of his second marriage, in
the presence of the Rev. Maurice J. Dorney, pastor of St. Gabriel's
Catholic Church, and several witnesses, in the persons of hospital
attendants. This having been done, McDonald was permitted the last
sacraments of the church and burial under the Roman ritual.