The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1904, Page 16

e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 5 1904 ARTILLERY WILL | CHANGE PLACES S TR Companies at the Presidio \re to Relieve the Forces Now Stationed at Honolulu WILL DRILL TO-MORROW roopers of Ninth- to Give Problem Exercise, Full Review a New Followed by —e n of the Pres succeeded ir Insane Hosp Klizabeth r a hard . which was bes storms, floods and b . Percy Silver, who Presidio, regiment rt Crook N led yesterday a big TOW( me here is drawing Civil Service Officials Coming Alfre W Ce ted soley, Ut Wa Goodwin NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NO ACCIDENTS IN NATURE. Every Calamity, No Matter Mow Great, Has & Definite Beginning. in nature a There & accidents that without shes headlong ich s the cause feeds silently and ve on the scalp Baldness and when New- Send 10c. The Herpicide Co in De- 210 Grant ave 1819 Devisadero 3006 Sixteenth fi21 Montg’ ave. 2516 Mission 2772 24th 1419 Polk 705 Larkin, 355 Hayes 52 Market 146 Ninth 469 Fourth 266 Third 2 + BOT KIN DEFENSE PRODUCES AN IMPORTANT DEPOSITION Ex-Coroner Walls, Who Conducted Inquest‘ Over the Remains of Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane, Deposes to Facts Strongly in Favor of the Defendant-——-Day’s Proceedings Lack Incident the Botkin case yester- he deposition of William David now a resident of Jersey City, N. J., and during t year 1898 Coroner of Kent County, Delaware, in which the city of Dover is situated. It was on August 9 of that year, it charged, that Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Joshua D. Deane partook of a box of poisoned candy sent them from this city by Mrs. Cordelia Botkin and died the effe For sending this Mrs. Dunning’s address Mrs. is now on a charge of murder. sulted in conviction and sentence to life impr which verdict versed by the Supreme Court State on technical grounds Walls’ affidavit was as vindication of the defendant icial occupying his position at could extend after a jury over which he presided had rendered a verd that the ath of the twp women was due senical poisoning. His affidavit was apparently intend- ed by the defense to establish a failure of the cution to prove the corpus deli sth cases, and to that end the interrogatories of the defense were admirably iramed. Walls testified that he voluntarily the day following the death of Mrs. Dunning and suggested to him that in view of the fact that there was a great deal of talk regarding the cause of Mrs. Dunning’s and Mrs. Deane’s death it might be advisable to hold an in- quest DOCTOR UNDETERMINED. At that time Dr. Bishop stated that he had not fully concluded whether or not their deaths were due to ptomaine or arsenical poisoning. He admitted that he had neglected to treat either of his patients for the latter trouble until it absorption of the poison by their sys- tems. On the Monday following, the de- ponent testified, Dr. Bishop informed him that he deemed an inquiry neces- sary, and a list of jurors was furnished the deponent, either by Dr. Bishop or was re- of this “oroner Lenrehan, the undertaker in charge of | the bodies, with the statement that they had been prepared by John P. Pennington, father of the dead women, and that he names presented. The jury was then summoned and viewed the bodies on that day. On Tuesday, the deponent testified, he met Dr. Bishop and was informed by him that the box of candy partaken of by Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane had been ascertained by Professor Wolfe of the Delaware State University to have been full of arsenic. This was the first time that any direct mention of the candy had been made to the deponent. Later that evening he called at the Pennington home in company with Charles Morris, one of the jurors and cashier of the Farmers’' Bank of Dover. Pennington produced a box of candy al- | leged to have been received by Mrs, Dunning one week beforé and handed it into the custody of Morris. NOT IN CORONER'S CARE. “At any time before, during or after the inquest was a box of candy alleged | to have been poisoned ever. in your of- her second trial on| Her first trial re-| went to Dr. Bishop on | was too late to prevent the lethal | was satisfied with the | | ever,” was the answer. “I saw a | box of candy on the table during the inquest, but did not handle it or mark it for identification.” | “To whom was this over at the conclusion of the inquest.” “I do not know of my own knowl- edge.” The only question asked in the depo- sition by the prosecution was: “What was the verdict of the Coro- inquest on the deaths of ring and Mrs. Deane? Mrs. candy turned | w 1 NCISCO PHYSICIAN WHO TESTIFIED THAT HE HAD ATTENDED MRS. CORDELIA BOTKIN ON THE DAY AND H TIME SHE 1S CHARGED WITH HAVING PURCHASED THE BOX OF CANDY, BUT WHO PROVED A RATHER — —t v for identification?” was asked. Walls' testimony is new on this rial, not having been introduced at the last hearing, and disinterested at- orneys who attended the session yes- terday when it was read thought it 8 the strongest piece of evidence =0 far adduced by the defense. The only witness who contributed | any particular interest to the day's | | | To the neading of this the defense in- | terposed an objection, as being incom- | petent, irrelevant and immaterial, and the court took the matter under ad- visement. It is particularly important to the prosecution to have this verdict g0 into the record, as Dr. Bishop's tes | timony was anything but convineing Dunning a The de- | Dr. Downs only saw Mrs | few hours before her dem! | fense has all along maintained theories | of ptomaine poisoning, deaths from | natura! causes, indiscriminate handiing leged to have béen poisoned by Mrs. Botkin, and a general desire to fasten | the crime on her by the police of this city and by the Delaware authorities vindicate themselves in the face public sentiment. | EARLY CLOSE PROMISED. | The remaining proceedings of the | day were prolific of mothing in the way of advantage to either side. At the close it was announced that the de- fense would conclude introducing tes- timony at noon to-day, and the prose- | cution agreed that its rebuttal could be put in during the afternoon. The opening argument of the prosecution | will occupy most of Wednesday morn- | ing and the defense promises to con- clude in the afternoon. On Thursday morning the prosecution will ¢conclude its argument and Judge Cook believes that the issue will be submitted to the | Jury by Thursday afternoon. This promise of an early conclusion of the trial is refreshing in contrast to the last hearing of the accusation | against Mrs. Botkin, when the defense dragged out one weary week in the production of many unimportant events in connection with the case. So far in this trial there has been nothing startling adduced by the de- fense aside from the opening testi- | mony of the defendant while on the stand and the reading of the deposi- tion of ex-Coroner Walls, formerly and at the time of the alleged mur- | ders acting in his official capacity at Dover, Delaware. Walls' affidavit as read is undoubt- edly the hit of the defense, Presum- ably he is a disinterested party, friendly to the Pennington family and | to the physicians who testified against | the' defendant. The fact that the candy In evidence and alleged to | have been sent by Mrs. Botkin in this city to Mrs. Dunning never came into the view of the Coroner until inter- ested parties had secured an analysis of it and kept it in their possession for one week before submitting it to the Coroner's jury, - and the further fact that the Coroner where the crime is alleged to have been committed never had the candy, in his official possession, must undoubtedly strike a San Francisco jury as peculiar in mur- ficial custedy or marked by you in any | der proceedings for days and even months of candy al- | | tered regarding the cause of the deaths, and | proceedings was Dr. George W. Terrill, who has offices at 121 Geary street. He testified on direct examination that he sited Mrs. Botkin on the afternoon of July 21, 1898, between the hours of 3 and 5 o'clock and found her suffering from a severe headache and a gener- ally bilious condition. - She was lying a couch and wearing a yellow He fixed the date as he did > he had performed a surgical ion on the same date and en- it on his book. Following the operation he returned to his office at ope | 2 o'clock, as was his custom on Sun- days, and there received a telephone 1 to attend Mrs. Botkin at the Vic- | toria Hotel. On* cross-examination "the deadly record of the nrevious trial was cited for Doctor Terrill and he wandered off in the land of doubt as readily, as he had testified to the date and hours six years previous. The hours and the date in question are particularly im- portant to the prosecution, fas it was on July 31, between 4 and 5 o'clock |in the afternoon, that Mrs. .Botkin is alleged to have purchased the box of candy from Haas & Son's, which was subsequently poisvned and sent from ! this city to Mrs, Dunning at Dover. | After reviewing his testimony at the | former trial, the witness admitted | many indefinite impressions of the facts and generally failed to be con- vincing. Particularly so was he in his | statement that, although he made a | practice of entering in a book every | visit he paid to a patient, he had failed to discover any call he made on Mrs. Botkin in his records. “DOUBLE" DISQUALFFIED. The question of “a double” for the defendant was brought up at the open- ing of the morning session, when Sheriff Lackmann was called to tes- tify that on April 22, 1898, when Judge | Cook thought he saw her on a street car, she was in the County Jail. Un- der objections from the District At- torney this line of questioning was ruled out. Miss Carrie Cunningham, | a reporter for a local paper, who was called relative to interviews with Mrs. Corbally, upon whom the defense has attempted to cast suspicion of having committed a like crime, was likewise refused a hearing by Judge Cook and she left the stand with her story un- told. NO RECORDS OF SALE. F. C. Roberts, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Botkin and whose wife has con- stantly attended the defendant during the trial, was called to testify that on | | Hartman, | ning, Dover, Del. | the strain is telling on her, June 17, 1897, when one of the anony- mous letters was mailed from this city to Mrs. Dunning, the defendant was at his residence in Humboldt County. | The prosecution claims that this let- ter was mailed on a steamer and re- ceived its postmark after it had reach- - ed this city. On rebuttal it expects to prove the possibility of this. William | Speegle, proprietor of the HBureka L,Dally Standard, gave some unimport- ant testimony from the files of his GAIN ENTRANCE THROUGH ROOF Bfirglars Remove Skylight of a Saloon and Steal Coin, Liquors and Cigars SRS, POLICE SUSPECT GANG Believe Organized Band of Criminals Committed This and Many Other Crimes e om e, Burglars looted the saloon of Marcus northeast corner of Pacific and Stockton streets, early yesterday morning. They stole the contents of the cash register, $36, and a quantity of liquors and cigars. Hartman closed his saloon yesterday ! morning at 2 o’clock and took partic- ular pains to see that all of the win- dows and doors were locked.- When he opened the front door in the morning he was surprised to find that the cash register was gone from the shelf be- hind the bar. Search revealed the reg- ister in a small back room off the bar- rocm. It had been broken open by the , crooks and everything in the shape of money extracted from it. The burglars gained entrance by cut- ting the lock off a wooden skylight frame and removing tnree large iron bars that stretched across the opening. They lowered themselves through the aperature and ransacked the place. A large new steel “jimmy~ was left lying on the bar by the burglars. The police believe that they must have been | frightened away befcre they completed the crime, or they would not have left | the “jimmy.” They took the register into the back room, it is presumed, so that the night | bartender, who lived next door, might not hear the bell ring when the box was opened. Several boxes of choice cigars and bottles of whisky were taken. Hartman thought he had a clew to the perpertators of the crime and 1 worked all day yesterday to locate the suspects. Last night he reported the matter to Captain Martin and special detectives were detailed on the case. Captain Martin attributes the crime to a gang of ex-convicts he says has been working in the North Beach sec- tion of the city for some time: R PR A B Thousands Go East. It is estimated that more Californians will go to the St. Louis World's Fair this | summer than have ever left the State on | any single occasion before. Hundreds are inquiring what rates and accommo- dations may be had. The Santa Fe has speclal clerks to answer inquiries as soon as received. The Santa Fe is the short, quick way and has made the re- duced rate good on the finest trains. If interested, write at once for infor- mation to 641 Market street, San Fran- cisco. . —— et Alcatraz Masked Ball. Alcatraz Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, will give its first masked ball in Native Sons’ Hall to-morrow night. The committee in charge ex- pects to make this one of the most attractive affairs of the kind that has ever been given in that hall. — e Try Piso's Cure for asthma. It often lleves at once. All druggists. 25c. —_——————————— O’Neill's Injuries Fatal. Engineer John J. O’Neill, who was injured in the Poodle Dog restaurant building by the explosion of an am- monia tank last Saturday evening, died of his injuries yesterday morning at his residence, 708A Lombard street. O'Neill was a native of Pennsylvania, 59 years old. + paper regarding the sailing of steam- ers from Eureka to this city In the month of June, 1897. J. F. Walkington, cashier of the City of Paris, where Mrs. Botkin is al- leged to have purchased the handker- chief inclosed in the box of poisoned candy, testified as to the manner of recording sales in that establishment and said that he had failed to find any record of such a sale by Mrs. Isaac re- Tuchler, as was claimed by the prose- | cution. Frank Lee, shipping clerk of the store, testified that his records failed to show the delivery of the package to the defendant at the Viec- toria Hotel. H. C. Ford, in 1898 a clerk at the ferry postoffice, gave some unimport- ant testimony regarding the manner of handling packages and a conversation held with John P. Dunnigan, the man who claimed to have noticed the pack- age of candy in the mails on August 4, 1898, addressed to Mrs. John P. Dun- This morning the defense will introduce its remaining witnesses, which will close the case from Mrs. Botkin's standpoint. The defendant kept proceedings waiting for a few minutes yesterday by reason of her tardiness. Evidently as she was more excitable and nervous than at any previous hearing, even when the prosecution was bringing out its full array of damaging circumstances. In addition to her sister, Rev. N. C. McClure, one of her brothers-in-law, sat with her during the day and when Robarts had finished his testimony he Jjoined the group with the defendant. AILERS' TRIAL T0°END T0-DAY Former Sheriff Lackmann Tells About Confessions of Dasha and Dempsey PRISONERS ARE SILENT Three Witnesses Called for Defense to Show Reputa- tion of One of the Accused —_— The taking of testimony in the case of the United States vs. W. F. Dasha, | T. J. Dempsey and Hom Toon, charged | with conspiracy to land Chinese ille- | gally, was concluded yesterday after- | noon in the United States District | Court and counsel proceeded with their | arguments to the jury. United States | District Attorney Woodworth will | make the closing argument on behalf | of the Government at 11 o'clock this | morning. The session of yesterday began at 2| p. m. and only two witnesses for the Government, former Sheriff John Lack- | mann and United States Marshal John | H. Shine, were examined. This closed the Government’s side of the case. None of the defendants were called to the witness stand, but A. B. Potter, Louis Lyser and Gus Pohlmann, lhej latter a former member of the Legis- lature of this State, testified that the | general reputation of Dasha for truth, | honesty and integrity was good. Mr. Lackmann told about the con- fessions made bv Dasha and Demp- sey in the Russ House last September | in the presence of himself, L’nnedw[ States District Attorney Woodworth, | United States Marshal Shine and| United States Secret Service Agents | William J. Burns and Harry Moffitt. | An effort was made by Dasha’s coun- | sel to show that Burns had cursed‘ Dasha and called him a liar just be- | fore he made the confession, but the | witness testified that Mr. Burns did not call Dasha a liar and did not use any violent or profane language. Thei witness then related that Dasha ad- mitted having participated in ten or | twelve instances of substituting Chi- | nese prisoners and had been pald for | doing so. The witnesg told also about | Dempsey having confessed to the re- ceipt of $25 at one time and $30 at another from Dasha and Burnett. Mr. Lackmann’s testimony, which corroborated that of United States Se- cret Service Agent Burns, was cor- roborated by that of United States | Marshal Shine, who added that Dasha | was not in custody at the time he con- | fessed, but after the confession had been made the witness placed Dasha under arrest. ———————————— Electrotypers in Demand. The United States Civil Service | Commission announces an examination | on May 4, 1904, at San Francisco, Fresno, Los Angeles and Marysville, for the position of assistant electro- typer, Coast and Geodetic Survey, at a | salary of $700 per annum. Age limit, 20 years or over. Applicants must be | in sound physical condition and able to handle the large electrotype places prepared by the coast survey. 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