The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1895, Page 12

OB, BROWN'S ACCUSER THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1895. EIVES A NEW THEORY e | Mrs. Davidson Says M.rs.‘ Baddin May Never i Appear. THE DOCTOR AT CHURCH " did have a Sunday-school class here, but Miss Overman Denies That She * Tried to Sell a Damag: ing Story. TRUSTEES DEFEND THE PASTCR. Captain Lees Believes That Mrs. Dav id son Has Clever Accomplices in Her Plot. | The clouds are lifting from about Dr. C. 0. Brown, pastor of the First Congre; & | tional Church, and Miss Mattie Overman, | the young tady who is associated with P{im in recent statements, and are settling| about their accuser, Mrs. M Abbott Davidson, in a very ominous w Dr. Brown adaressed his congregation | y rday as usual and brief statements of | the ca were made by both. It seems | that the pastor is practically indorsed by | his congregation. Miss Overman cor- | roborates his statement as far as she is permitted by legal authorities to speak. | Mrs. Davidson’s statements were some- | what inconerent sterday and she ad- y that Dr. Brown vances the peculiar the and Miss Overman made Mrs, Baddin their accomplice, in fact that she was hired by them for that purpose of working ruin to Mrs. Davidson. This appears at variance with her pricr statement that the nfessions were not made by either until Baddin had made her charges. Captain Lees 1s of the opinion that Mrs. Davidson is incapable of so clever a plot and that she has accomnplices. The Rev. Dr 0. Brown told his con- gation yesterday that the scandalous story associated with his name must be | carried to a conclusion in a court of jus- | tice even though the ordeal killed him. | He had come out from his study silently and with slightly bowed head. TaKing his accustomed chair behind the reading- stand be sat pensiv ncing oceasion- ally over the a m and up at the galleries as the congregation came in and adually formed a comfortable-sized audience befcre him. The clergyman’s brows would knit, and then with an evi- dent little effort he wouid assume a calm and indiiferent air—but again the look of agitation would return. He was in the position of a man who feels distressed and | is conscious that the people looking at him | expect bim to show some sigus ot agita- | tion. The regular services continued without | any digression or explanation from the | pastor until he had finished reading the | various announcements. Then, grasping the sides oi the reading-stand and straight- | ening up, he annonnce: “Deacon Morse has a statement to make | to you.” | ‘Phere was a perceptible tilting forward of heads as Deacon Morse left his place in theaudience and went forward. Every ear was on the zlert when, having reached the platform, the deacon began: “As the moderaior ot this society and as one of the board of officers of this church it seems fitting that I should make an official statement. It is in regard to this matter you have seen in this morning’s papers. “Last Monday Dr. Brown called Deacon Dexter and myself to him and placed be- fore us his complete statem:nt—a much mote complete and ample statement than | that which appeared in the newspapers | from him. The result was we decided to put the matter into the hands of the police. Orders were given to arrest the woman | wherever she might be found, but she | could not be found at once. She bas been | arrested and she is now in izil. “We will do all we can to protect the | good name of this congregation and the good name of the pastor. “The poiice think that this woman is one of the most clever of her kind. “You should thank Dr. Brown forthe prompt and energetic action he bhas taken.” g Dr. Brown’s face perceptibly brightened. The shadow seemed to leave his forehead. He pressed the deacon’s hand and whis- pered a few words to him Theé ice had been broken. The suspense had been removed. The pastor himself stepped forward and said: »Adding to the painful subject Deacon Morse mentioned, and at his suggestion, 1 would say that after all the evidence was presented voices said, ‘Let it be kept quiet for the sake of the church; lev the woman leave town.” Butin spite of these whisper- ings I decided to follow, the disazreeable matter out to the very end. It must be done notwithstandinz the extreme pain it may be to tiis church; no matter what pain it may be to myself. “If it kills me the case must be carried out. It mus: be taken into court. “She was not a member of our church, and so is not amenable; but it must all come out under oath. And for that we must wait. Itisaduty I owe the church to foliow this up.” There was no other reference to the sub- ject during the service. Dr. Brown’s ser- mon was a discourse on time, its compara- tive shortness where human life is con- ¢ rned, its incalculable length with, regard to the age of this earth and in the mea ure of eternity. He closed with an exhorta- tion to make better use of life while it lasts, for he said there are only 135,000 | working hours in a litetime of three score | vears and ten. He referred to the seeming drag of time (o tiie boy who longs to bé a man, and warned such to be patient, that time will pass fast enougi for them wheuw they are old. Wi.en seen afer hig sermon Dr. Brown | caid that he would make no further state. wents, as the police had advised him-to | stock in any of Mrs. Davidson's charges. | | As for denying any of them in particular, | | present. say nothing about the case. He added however, that he had engaged Reuben H. | | duti Lloyd as counsel to represent him in court, | one of the officers of the church having suggested the name to him. Deacon I. H. Morse said: “I take no | there is no necessity for that. = Tiiey are all false. We krnow Dr. Brown too well; we | know the life he has led. “No effort has been made to learn any- | thing of Mrs. Davidson’s antecedents. She as not a member of this church. Miss Overman, I believe, is at Dr. Brown’s house. She was not present at this morning’s services in the church. “I suppose the case will come up for hearing to-morrow. ‘Iam going off ona trip for five or six weeks and shall prob- | ably not be present at the trial. i “T have no evidence to give. facts will come out in court. “It was last Monday afternoon that Dr. Brown first summoned Deacon Dexter and | myself and laid his explanation before us. | e All the until about half-past four. Dr. Brown | the unfortunate affair to canse the slight” est interruntion. ill as the result of the attending the matter. She was lying propped up by pillows in her room at Dr. Brown’s home when seen by a CarL reporter. She isa slender fair women with reddish bair and dark blue eyes. Her features are ordinary, but her smile, which was frequent, notwithstand- ing her evident realization of the gravity of the situation, made them attractive. “I have nothing to add to Dr. Brown's statement,” she said, ‘‘except that the story that I offered to make a statement, incriminating to him, in a morning paper is malciously false. I never dreamed of such a thing. I want to talk—you don’t know how much—but we must obey Cap- tain Lees’ instructions to talk to no one. I will say, however, that the Miss Overman to whom the telegram from Tacoma ai- luded as a music-teacher is my younger sister. My occupation is that of a dress- maker.”” Mrs. Davidson greeted reporters more warmly yesterday than on the previous evening. She was willing and even anxious to talk. She bad slept well, be- cause of her fatigue, she said, and was bearing the confinement very well. Her | We did not finish discussing the subject | surroundings detracted in no wise from her aristocratic appearance. She had the | wanted a warrant sworn out at once; but | ssme dignified carriage. Her dress and // (A6 e REV. C. 0. BROWN THE MEMBERS OF THE MAKING A STATEMENT YESTERDAY MORNING TO FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. [Sketched by a *“Call” artist.] it would have been an awful thing for the church to have such a disagreeable subject made public. So we talked the matter over and finally decided to take the state- ment to Captain Lees and act upon what | he thought ought to be done. He said we should have the woman arrested. Her house was watched by tre detectives for | several days, and we thought at first that she bad left town. The evening service at the First Con- gregational Church was a continuation of the Rev. Dr. Brown’s splendid course on | composers of great oratorios. No mention was made of the unpleasantness in which the pastor’s name has so recently been associated. Dr. Brown appeared more cheerfu! than he did during the morning service previous to his remarks regarding cloak were neatly brushed. The modish bonnet was " placed at the same’ accurate angle on the snowy hair, the dainty white veil drawn lizhtly over it, and the wearer looked with the same benign, speculative gaze t rough gold-rimmed glasses. Her story was substantially the same as that told on the day previous. But she has a theory which she had not advanced pefore, “I believe,” she said, “that I am the victim of a plot in which Dr. Brown and Miss Overman are the principals and Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Baddin the accessory and instrument. I do not think she will ever be found. “When Dr. Brown and Miss Overman found that I knew so mach of their crime —a crime upon crime it was—they resolved MISS MATTIE OVERMAN, [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] his determination to follow the scandal to the bitter end, regardless of the pain it amight cause him. | £ fter the service, as at the morning ob- | servance, the clercyman received words of encouragement from a score or more of tbe congregation, who linzered to grasp | his hand. Mrs. Brown was present in the evening, and a larce number of her frienns pressed her hand as they moved quietly | out of the church. Overman was not | She remained at Dr. Brown’s home. Dr. Brown was seen a' his home, 1703 | Geary street, yesterday afternoon, but de- clined to make any statement further than that t e believed his traducer wounld pay the penalty of her crime behind prison bars. To a representative of the morning paper to whose city editor Miss Overman is alleged to have ma ie an offer to give an incrimiratine story of Dr. Brown, he saia iie had no faith whatever in that tale. He declared his intention to attend to his s as pastor as before, not permitting Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Govt Report Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE to send the womau to me to catch me in their trap.” When reminded that the Badd in woman according to Mrs. Davidson’s statement, had called twice before Miss Overman maie her confession or Dr. Brown con- firmed it, she hesitated, but finally said: “Oh, T know a lot. When Matiie re- turned from Tacoma I commented on her changed appearance. She said: ‘There has been cause.” When she told me of her visit to the office of a mornin- paper to sell the story of the man who had wroneed her, I thought the man was Dr. Brown. When he called the next day to pay me $25 which 1 was to give her, thus confirm- ing her statement that the man who wronged her -had promised to pay that amount, and after she had completed her stenographic course to try to secure a po- sition for her, 1 was sure of it. She told me that night Dr. Brown was the man who wronged her, and said she would tell me all about it sometime. “Mrs. Baddin calied the second time, and told me I was harboring a woman who bad visited & Sixth-street lodging-house, not her own, with Dr, Brown. I told Miss Overman of it, and she confessed that they were the parties, and that the woman's statement that the visit was made on No- vember 24, 1894, was true. “I saw Dr. Brown soon after, and told him the whole story. He said: ‘It is true, all of it, and more.” He asked me to help him, and I said I would if he would prom- ise to lead a better life. He promised, and we prayed together about it. I told him of the woeman’s demands, and he said he was willing to meet them as far as he was able. “Miss Overman is a deep woman. the time she made the remark that she was ‘not a chicken,’ the words of a vile woman, I distrusted her, or had less re- ;pbct for her, but was still resolved to help er. “Her friend Mrs. Tunnel was a dark, spare woman of about 60 years of age. There was something craity about her ex- pression that repelled me and I wondered at their intimacy, considering the disparity in their vears. *‘Miss Overman said to me once that sometimes she loved, sometimes hated Dr. Brown, but that she would follow him to the ends of the earth. He should not | shake her off. She believed they would be | married sometime. “In one of her angry moments she told me Dr. Brown had been unduly intimate with a woman in his congregation, whose name 1 am not sure of, and that he had paid her $600 hush money. A prominent man, whose name I am not sure of, was called upon to act as arbitrator.” A new feature of Mrs. Davidson’s story was a gcraphical recital of a conversation with Dr. Brown, in which he asked her to’ keep Mattie Overman away from his office, for her visits revived the old love. “Be- sides, I do not want you or any other woman to come here in the evening,’’ he had said. “It will make the sexton and others suspicious.”” It was deeply impressed upon the woman's mind that Miss Overman had saidt on the alleged last interview: “Dr. Brown, she is a Richelieu. She has us by the throats. We must do something”; and that she laughed when Dr. Brown said: *I was not fool enough to pay you that money without a special purpose. I have your acknowledgment of a contract.” Mrs. Davidson spoke kindly of her for- mer partner, Mrs. Meyer of 530 O’Farrell street, but it is said that that lady does not reciprocate her affection. She said substantially yesterday that she was not surprised at the denouement; that she considered her ex-associate & | hypnotist, who controlled her when in her | presence. It is also said that she hasen- gaged an attorney to straighten their busi- ness affairs, she having withdrawn from the business because of dissatisfaction with methods, although Mrs, Davidson main- tains they were according to strict rules of | business. Mrs. Davidson’s landlady, at 225 Geary street, said Mrs. Davidson was “too good to begood.” She regarded her as a fanatic. Mrs. Frank French, a prominent mem- ber of Dr. Brown’s congregation and an | intimate friend of Mrs. Davidson, remarked Saturday night that a Mrs. Julia Gillie, who lived at 803 Bryant street, corner of Sixth, was familiar with some parts of the scandal. “She would know where Mrs. | Baddin lived,” said Mrs. French. | About a year ago Mrs. Gillie moved to Sixth street from the house on Bryant | street, where she now follows the vocation | | of magnetic healer. Her view of the corner lodging-house was directiy opposite from | that of Mrs. French’s, and she appeared | indignant that the place should have been l mentioned in such a connection. She used | to attend the First Congregational Church, | and at the same time lived at Sixth and Bryant streets, yet she claimed to have been ignorant of the whole matter. “The house I lived in at the corner of Bryant,” she said, “‘could not under any possibility have been the place referred to. ‘Why, a very respectable family, well known in the neighborhood, has lived there for almost a generation, and it was not an or- dinary lodging-house. A few rooms at most were rented, and then only to strictly respectable people. I lived there with my former husband, Mr. Cronkheit. There must be a mistake if that house was men- tioned. No Mrs. Baddin ever kept it, and I never heard of her.” - There is a large lodging-house on an op- posite corner, but the occupants had no recollection of Dr. Brown having gone there in the company of a laay, nor did thev know anything of this Mrs. Badin. Mrs. Gillie thought the occasion war- ranted giving expression to her feelings toward Dr. Brown, and she talked quite | From | freely concerning the reverend gentleman. | Mr. Butler, in whose store on Market | street Mrs. Davidson rented a place to dis- play and sell corsets for which she was the local agent, declared he was astonished at | the woman’s arrest. | “She r.nted an bdffice in my store and re- | | ment from him yesterday morning of his mained there for a few months,” said he. “More than that I knew very little about ,‘ her, though she always appeared to me to | be a model Christian woman, refined, | gitted with elezance of manner and con- | versation and intensely religious. Well, I | am surprised. After a lifetime to think : that I could have bpeen so deceived. I | wonder if i have been? After this—pro- | vided, of course, that it be true—I believe | she would do anything. | “In the mornings, when she arrived, she | would say to me: ‘Oh, I've had a most | beautiful talk with my Maker. He con- versea with me ali the way down from my | home, and [ am very happy, indeea.’ | “It was always ‘my Maker’ with her, | and then, too, she was always so collected | and so apparently sincere. | *‘She could not pay her rent the last | month, and offered the stock of corsets as security. 1 did not want them, so she | vaid up the rent and went away. I heard | nothing of Mrs. Davidson until this morn- ing when this scandal was published.” Mrs. Halligan, the landlady at 225 Geary street, where Mrs. Davidson roomed, stated last evening that Mrs. Davidson took a | room at her house about the 1st of June | or July. Miss Overman came there to stay with Mr<. Davidson about four months | ago. She does not know bow many times Dr. Brown called on Mrs. Davidson, as he | mizht have done so without her knowl- edge, but she remembers he was there De- | cember 21, and twice last Saturday. | Mrs. Halligan emphatically states that she does not know anytning of the Brown- Overman affair as neither Dr. Brown nor | the woman ever confided in her in the | slightest. The two women were only | roomers in her house and she knew noth- | ing of their private affairs. Last evening Mrs. Davidson received a large number of her Sabbath-school | pupils, nearly all of whom were full-grown | men and women. They all demonstrated by their affectionate manner of greeting and parting their implicit confidence in their teache¥’s innocence of the crime of which she is accused. Each bade her bear up under her troubles and not become dis- couraged, although the clouds may be dark and threatening. More than one full-grown man and half-grown boy kissed the white-haired woman when they bade | her good-night, and more than one prom- | ised her all the support they were capable i of giving her. i Mrs. Davidson said that she had no de- sire to conceal anything of her past life, which she earnestly protests is above re- proach. She says that feeling confident that her accuser will not stop at any point in order to make out a gase against her she will follow her attorney’s advice and only discuss such matters as bear directly unon the case in question. In the course of con- versation, however, she did say that she was born in Bangor, Me. When scarcely past 1434 years of age she passed a success- ful examination as a school-teacher, and within a month she was teaching a district school. Mrs. Davidson followed the pro- fession of school-teaching off and on until she was 22, when she was married. ‘When the war broke out the young wife followed her soldier husband to the frout, and as a nurse did all in her power to alleviate the sufferings of the sick and wounded soldiers. Eight years ago Mrs. Dayidson became the general manager of the W. S. A. corset business for the New England States, and her headquarters were at 181 Tremont street, Boston. She held that position until the opening of the Midwinter Fair, when she came to San Francisco as a representative of the firm by whom she was employed. “I have the entire confidence and respeat of the firm,” she said ladt evening, “and only ye-terday [ received a letter from the company of a highly complimentary nature.” Walter Gallagher, the attorney for Mrs. Davidson, made strenuous efforts yester- -day and last evening to find some of the woman’s friends who would go on her bonds for $3000. As Sunday is a bad aay for such, business he was unable to secure his client’s release. The opinion at police headquarters is that Dr. Brown is the victim of a cleverly planned blackmailing scheme, and that Mrs. Davidson is not the only one who de- vised it. In bringing the scheme to a successful issue the fatal omission was made of not consulting Miss Overman with the object of ascertaining whether she would be a party toit. Her spirited denunciation of the infamous attack upon her honor was not anticipated. “I have every reason to believe,” said Captain Lees yesterday, “that it is a blackmailing scheme. If there is one thing more than another that would lead me to that conclusion it is the resolute and spirited way in which Miss Overman is acting to defend her honor. She is an exceptionally bright and intelligent young lady, and is just the one that I would ex- pect to feel intensely the slur cast upon her, and to show the stuff she was made of in such an emergency. “From what I have seen of her I feel sure the Chronicle must be mistaken in stating that she went to its office some months ago and offered a story on a prom- inent man for $1000. “Mrs. Davidson does not seem to me to have the face of a woman who could con- coct such a diabolical plot, and that leads me to the belief that there are others be- hind her. “I got the case last Monday morning and worked on it myself till Wednesday night when the hold.up at Ingleside ab- sorbed all my attention and I turned the case over to Detective Seymour. The gcheme interested me and I was anxious to see the woman who had concocted it, but I was not successful, as she had disap- peared from 225 Geary street and it turns out had gone to live with Mrs. French, where wedid nott:ink of looking for her.” A suit of Jaros Hygienic Underwear worth a barrel of cures. Morgen Bros., 229 Montg. st.* THE INGLESIDE ROBBERY. Welch, Gardiner and Middlemiss Formally Accused by Bronner. The Prisoners’ Friends and the Police | Disagree as to the Matter of Alibis. The impression is gaining ground that | the police have made a grave mistake in | arresting Middlemiss, Gardinerand Welch for the hold-up at the Ingleside race track on Wednesday night. R, Porter Ashe has been retained to de- fenda Middlemiss. He procured a state- movements on the day of the robbery, and he spent several hours in visiting the per- sons and places mentioned in the state- ment. 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