"I saw that if I was to live peacefully I must bury my
identity, and so, assuming the name of Mrs. Grashoff, I
went to New York, and obtained employment with the Board
of Charities at Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, of
which Mr. Van Vordenberg was the head. For fifteen years I
have been in charitable work. I founded the Destitute Old
Ladies' Home at Paterson, N. J., and at present my work is
with the Crittenden Rescue Homes for Unfortunate Girls. It
is not the least solace for my many misfortunes that I have
been able to save many girls from continuing their wayward
careers.
"So much for the lies circulated about me for twenty years.
I never saw Father Price after he left Chicago, nor Father
Moysant after I went to Mrs. McGuire's. Both are living, so
far as I know, but where, I do not know."
But the records show, according to Mrs. Mary McDonald, that her
husband repented of the wrongs he had heaped upon her, and called her
to his bedside when he was dying, acknowledging her as his wife, and
begging her forgiveness. They were reunited, and a few days later
McDonald died.