As the second wife passed under the ban, the first one came forward
to claim that of which she had been dispossessed by human passion.
Sitting in her apartment last night at the Vincennes hotel, Vincennes
avenue and Thirty-sixth street. Mary Noonan McDonald gave her version
of the romance and tragedy that have measured forty years of her life.
"For the sake of my two boys, it is now my duty to tell the
world the truth about the slanders with which my name has
been blackened," she said. "I am not perfect, and I have
done things for which I am sorry, but I am guiltless of the
charges with which I have been hounded about the world for
twenty years. This I can prove, and to do so I shall remain
in Chicago as long as necessary."