The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1904, Page 3

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL - B 1904. ATTORNEYS FOR MRS. CORDELIA BOTKIN ADDRESS THE McGowan Delivers Forceful Talk on Evidence. Knight Makes the Effort of His Life. kin following A 3 McGowan, made the opening address for the de- fense. For three hours he spoke without fatigue, arguing that his client d4id not rend poisoped candy ning i» Dover in 1898 ey used such arts as he Possesses the jury and auditors to sympathy. When he ferred to the parents of the prisoner bar and pictured her child hood, she wrung her hands, as if deeply At one time her fin- i hearing those yesterday, who tc to move re- at the she put ber ears to av ¢ her at For the fir was a demon- and a num- thered around frered words ton will close z, and the case w after ADVERTISEMENTS. |E ROY ume CIGARS FOR ALL MEN 153 (RosBY STNY. LLER & SONS Some grocers sell Schilling’s Best - baking powter anices eoffes favoring estracte soda moheyback ; some don’t. They have their reasons both ways. e his argument | Mrs. John | ( | |1 | | | | | | A7 TORNEY 4 Frank 17 GowWAN. ArToRNEY Grorge>A AmIGHT nt into the ques- velt upon the He said w that hesitated. he the lawyer desired script of Green's er trial, but k de- former trial in reply to a question of the Judge had said that Mrs. Botkin was not the woman. DENUNCIATION OF DUNNING. | He next discussed Mrs. Tuchler’s | testimony and declared that he had no inclination to cast aspersion on any witness, but asked the jury to remem- | ber her appearance on the stand. He | said: i jaunty seemed hollc She appeared in style, t was a of branding e said that she resembled the woman hased the handkerchief. Judge Ferral talks of higher law, but is no higher law than justice. there Mrs Botkin t edition of Jeffries, the prize s nothing about the case any is an ted to_condemnation hn P. Dunning stung the hand that rateful man that decency cannibal wn shame. composition t for the ho f6d and assisted him in his dis- Instead he endeavors to blacken her, | es like that, covered with the slime rotten, depraved origin,. seek to de- | thers. #le is intrinsically rotten and ved and his name will be the synonym he history of the city of depravity, rotten- and sin the | ding must be from MANUFACTURED EVIDENCE. | | the tr ipt of testimony in the pres- | The speaker then took the witness er t He then read from the | Rosell in hand and argued that t ript to show that Green at the | testimony about the seal bore the R IPRRET & . - WEALTHY CHICAGO YOUTH SUIT TO RECOVER ON SUING FOR DIVORCE Charles McEnery Claims He Was Driven From Home by Conduct of His Spouse. arles McEnery. 2 wealthy Chicago seeking a divorce from Lucy | youtn | F. McEnery for cruelty. He alleges in the complaint filed yesterday that she is insanely jealous of him and that once she attacked him with a knife and that quite frequently she threatened shoot him. Her con- | duct, he says, drove him from home. | Crueity is also alleged in the com- | plaint for divorce filed by Marguerite | Cole against Charles Cole. | Mary A. Keith wants a divorce from | Ch r G. Keith for desertion. Intem- | perance is the ground upon which | Mary A. Daly is suing Thomas B. Daly "fmv divorce. It is also the ground in | the comp nt filed by T. H. Osborn | against Kate Osborn. Cruelty is al- ced by Amy | leged lcy . Casey. | George M. Drum, a blind newsdealer, secured a divorce from Lottie Drum in Judge Seawell's court. He testified that | she would attack him with a club while | he was dozing in a chair and that once she broke a mirror over his head. He only married her last November. | Judge Murasky gave Edward Brown |a divorce from Rosie Brown for cruelty Richard R. Lowe, the Klondiker, who is a defendant in a suit for divorce brought by Virgie Graves Lowe. de- nies in an answer to her suit that he is intemperate. He asks the court to dismiss her action. Elias Keyser, a building and loan solicitor, in an answer to the suit for givorce filed by Carrie Keyser, denles that he ever treated her cruelly. In a cross-complaint he charges that she is the one to blame for their present difficulty. —_——— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, April 6.—The follow- ing Californians are registered here: ¥From San Francisco—J. D. Johnson, at the St. Dennis. From Los Angeles—G. T. Cline, at the Cosmopolitan; D. L. Snedaker, at &he Spalding. ) A M1 Four Hundred Thousand Dollars De- manded of C. W. Clark and Others for Breach of Agreement. Charles W. Clark of San Mateo, Frank L. Sizer of Helena and William Falconer, administrator of the estate of Edward L. Whitmore of Butte City, | G CONTRACT Mont., are defendants in a suit brought _ in the United States Circuit Court by the Rosario Mining and Milling Company, with head offices at Fort Worth, Tex., to recover $400,000 for breach of con-! tract. The complaint alleges that the mining company gave the defendants an option on the following named mines in the district of Mina, in Chi- huahua, Mexico: Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Nankipr—Anexo La Nina del Rosario and the Maraquita, and two water supplies and streams named | Guadalupe y Calco and La Periquera. In addition an option was given on thirty-six million square varas of land in the vicinity of the mine and the ma- chinery of a ten-stamp mill. It was agreed, according to the com- plaint, that Clark should take posses- sion of the mine on May 1, 1902, for the purpose of exploring it and that he was to pay $400,000 on July 27, 1903, for the properties mentioned. It is alleged that Clark refused to carry out the contract. e 1 Reopens Boehm Case. | The suit of Fred Boehm, nephew, of | the late Daniel Boehm, against K. A. White of the Southern Pacific Com- pany to recover $3600 he alleges White is withholding from his uncle’s estate, was reopened in Judge Sloss’ court yesterday for the purpose of admitting evidence for #pe plaintiff that was the subject of a dispute at the original hearing of the suit. The evidence in fuestion was furnished by Boehm's nurse and related to several conver- sations she alleged she overheard be- tween White and the deceased, which would tend to show that the money sued for was intrusted to White's care by Boehm. % A PRl et o A i ERTY OF MRS. BOTKIN AND DRAMATIC SCENE THAT | OF SYMPATHETIC FRIENDS SURROUNDED THE AC- | 2 o 3 marks of manufactured evidence and if it was necessary to get the seal it was necessary for the prosecution to get other things. Expert testimony also came in for a scoring 2t the attorney’s hands. He said: “Expert testimony is in general disrepute in the courts throughout the country. It comes into court with the dirty pieces of silver in its pockets and the testimony is not as te facts, but to conclusions. It would be the eighth ¥ | wonder of the world if an _expert tes- tified adversely to the side which em- ployed him. to Devils Island upon expert testi- mony, and that condemnation shook the very foundation of the French re- public. Look at the present status of that case. The expert in that case is now condemned by his fellow men and Dreyfus is honored. After reviewing Dr. Terrill's testi- mony for the defense, the letter of June 17, 1897, and circumstantial evi- dence general, McGowan concluded with: the draperies of the couch about you to lie down to the last sleep you can | say to those about you: ‘Thank God, T depart this life without thinking that I wronged any one!’ ™ The noon hour having arrived, an | adjournment was taken until 2 o’'clock. Knight's powerful voice was in ex- cellent condition when he began his | address in behalf of Mrs. Botkin after he neon recess. He said: Judge Ferral has =2id that my services in Is case were worth §10,000. Before the eter- nal God, whom I expect to meet, not one farth- Ing of that woman's money came to my pocket. She is pennilees, alone, forsaken, a derelict on . the ocean of life, | from an old friend, Mrs. Corbally. | with murder. | she was suspected. | whom Dreyfus was condemned | I want you to render a verdict | in this case so that when you wrap | JURORS IN HER BEHALF Many Women Offer Sympathy to Accused. Dunning Scorched by Lawyers for Defense. i G - —p Before God, T bellave there 18 no evidence to convict Cordella Botkin of murder. The more atrociousy the crime the stronger the suspicion and the easier it is to believe the accused guflty. Look at the primitive methods of Dr. Bishop. Go back. Dr. Bishop, fifty vears and read up. What old fogy. what cruel practitioner would give strychnia through the stomach for arseni- | cal_poisoning? You can't make believe that old man Fen- | nington's famlily were so ravenous for candy | that they would gorge themselves and not | know whence it came. It was the judgment | of the women who died that the candy cams | Mrs. Dun- ning must have been able to pass upon the genuineness of the handwriting of Mrs, Cor- bally. | Walking over to where his client sat and placing his hand on her shoulder, Knight said: “‘Mrs. Botkin is charged Here is a woman. ac- cording to the theories of the prosecu- | tion, whe planned murder, and with arsenic. She bought two kinds, they ! say, powdered arsenic and lump | arsenic, which is rarely sold. What | did she want of two kinds of arsenic?"” | Miss Livernash's testimony was here. reviewed relative to Mrs. Botkin's | statement upon being informed that “It is not true, and. a statement of that kind could never emante from any brain but one sired | by a Livernash.” Continuing, the at- torney said: i Mre. Botkin 'would never give her husband | a divorce, and the evidence shows that mar- | riage was never thought of between her and Dunning, and vet that is the basis of the pros- | ecution ‘n this case Did that cur, that cowardly taken money from two women. did he let her know that he intended to abandon her? No; kissed her good-by, took the lJunch she pre- pared for him to eat on the train, and wrote to_her from time to time. Would vou trust the reputation of a_mangy, | skulking, rellow dog in his keeping? He says she fed him; he swears that he took money from her, and that spe nurtured him. He was a defaulter to the Press Association thief. Thcre he is swiniming in the poo cuttiefish the dogfish—with his wife? with his wife's fg who gave him $800, and | e admits visiting often in her apart- dog that has ments . let us take Mrs. Rueff, a Christian The first we hear of her fs that she let Dunning clandestinely into Mr. McClure's | house, where she was living, to see Mrs. Bot- | kin, and stood watch for the adulterous lnl'r-i course ! Witness Rosell “also came in for a scorching, and Knight continued: 1 would go down to the very dregs of hell to save this poor woman from her persecution. This derelict on life's sea comes to me with no | recommendativn but the fact that father, | ichard Brown, was the best friend I ever Look at that amdience and you can see what we have to contend with. Woman's worst | friend i3 woman. Is there one of your whe has ever come to this poor woman an even said, "I hope you will have a fair trial. There you are around this woman as you | would go down out of curlosity to see a horri- ble sight in the Morgue. | In concluding, Knight dwelt upon the inconsistency of the photographic en- largements and the fact that the (‘am-/ era does not always tell the truth/ “These exverts,” he said, “are cnly | licensed by the court telling the jury | to look out'for them. They are just | as purchasable on one side as the other. | You hire them the same as a man cuts your cordwood. | “Mrs. Botkin believes in this jury. She selected it, and she has never cast | one thing in the way. No cne has been emissary on the outside, and nobody but McGowan and myself to speak for her.” | Here Knight referred feelingly to the : silver-haired old mother in Healdsburg, | wondering what was to be the fate of { her child. This broke down Mrs. Bet- | kin altogether, and she wrung her hands and sobbed. Soon after this re- markahble scene was enacted women of all classes to the number of seventy- five or more filed by the accused wo- man and showed their sudden change of heart by lavishing affection upon her. cution will be heard this morning al‘ 10 o’clock. | CLAIM NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDS IMPROVEMENTS ' Residents of the Sunset District Will Ask City for Appropriations for Their Street Work. The Sunset District Improvement Club met Tuesday evening, the Sth, with W. W. Allen Jr. in the chair and I. D. Bluxome as secretary. Mr. Allen reported, as chairman of the executive committee, that the im- provement of the grounds surrounding the Affiliated Colleges was to be begun at once, the appropriation for the work having been granted at the last session of the Legislature. A special committee, consisting of Joe Rosen- berg, D. Foley, P. Diez, D. Strange and Mr. Ferguson, reported that the Board of Public Works was in favor of making H street a thoroughfare to the ocean beach—that is, to bitumin- ize and lay cement sidewalks -from First avenue to Seventh avenue and to macadamize the street from there on to the Ocean boulevard. Sol Getz, it was stated, is grading his property at that point, having lowered the road- way seven feet. The matter is to be recommended to the Supervisors at their next meet- ing. It is hoped that Welsbach lights may also be placed at intervals along the road. ———— Give Leap Year Social. St. Paul's Booth gave a leap year social at Mission Parlor Hall last night, which _was largely attended. A pftogramme replete with vocal and instrumental gems was followed by dancing, in which all partifipated. — & l FREE! FREE! FREE! “LIGHTNING BREAD KNIFE"” (Patented.) A useful household article. One of these premiums free to each ‘Want Advertiser in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALE. — & the resolution 3 “ | ST. MARY'S COLLEGE ALUMNI | ARE TO GIVE RARE TREAT | Performance for Benefit of Mater to Bring Out Noted People of Stage. St. Mary’s College alumni have se- cured some rare talent for the benefit | to be given the alma mater at the Al- hambra Theater on April 12. Theodore Bonnet and Dr. C. D. Mec- Gettigan have charge of the pro-| gramme and announce that Kolb and Dill, Miss Flossie Hope and Miss Gertie Emerson are to appear at the benefit and that Barney Bernard has wired his intention of taking part in the performance. Jean Logan, the national dancer; Nathan Landsberger, violinist; Mrs. Theodore Bonmet (Hel- en Merrill), the Tobin sisters and Miss Kruger will be among the foremost to appear. Harry James will have di- rection of the performance and Judge Murasky, class 83, will make an ad- dress on behalf of the alumni. —— e Loses Queue in Cable Siot, Little Ah Ging, aged 12 years, lost his queue through a peculiar accident last night at the corner of Sacramento and Dupont streets. Ging was sharp- ening the peg of his top on a wheel in the cable slot at °‘the point named. His queue dangling from his head dropped in the slot and was quickly amputated by the revolvihg wheel, The lad, who is the son of a prosper- ous merchant, set up a loud wail and ran to his dad. It will be many Alma | o At A A R i The clesing argument of the pmse-' \ suns before the “pigtall” grows out again. - ——— Schools Will Hold Discussion. There will be a debate between the Oakland Evening High School and the Wilmerding School to-morrow (Friday) evening, April 8, at the Wil- | merding School of Industrial Arts. The duestion that will be debated is: “Resolved, That the' acquisition of more foreign territory will be benefi- cial to the United States.” The Oak- land-High School will speak in favor of and the Wilmerding School against = - SHE REGAINE (Mrs. Redding » PERFECT HEALTH " Had Suffered With Female Weakness and. Nervousness. Pe-ru-na Cured Her.) MRS. LIZZIE REDDING. 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RUTHERFORD, District Passenger Agent, 623 Market St., San Francisco, Cal PERSONAL. Dr. W. C. Hall of Petaluma is at the Lick. the Grand. W. J. Pope, a cavnitalist of Chicago, is at the St. Francis. D. S. Rosenbaum, a banker Stockton, is at the St. Francis. Henry Eilers, a merchant of Port- land, Or., is at the St. Francis. Dr. D. E. Blackburn and wife -af Pescadero are guests at the Grand. Dr. W. G. Rodgers of Honolulu is at the Occidental on his way to New York. Captain and Mrs. Dick of London, who have been visiting the Orient, ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. John A. Merrill, the well known local merchant, and his family, who have been visiting Honolulu, returned yes- terday. i ‘Wong Yap, Chinese commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition, and three secretaries, arrived at the Palace yes- terday from the Orient. Z S. Fukasowa of Yokohama, newly appointed second secretary to the Jap- anese legation in Mexico, registered at the Occidental yesterday. Dr. R. H. Campbell, representing one of America’s big insurance companies in Singapore, arrived from the Orient yesterday on his way to' New York and is registered at the Palace. Hon. D. R. Williams and Judge Ed- win Block, who are connected with the judiciary devartment in Manila, were among the arrivals on the Korea yes- of Baron V. Bruggin of London is at] iterflay and are registered at the Pal- | ace. | A. C. Magnus, one of the leading hop merchants of St. Louis, who has been in the Orient several months for his health, returned on the Korea yes- terday and is registered at the St. Francis. T. Clirkson, a prominent newspa- Jer man of New Zealand, is in the city on his way to the St. Louis Ex- position. He represents the Lyttle- ton Times, the Dunedin Star and the tAuckland Star and will remain at his new post of duty until December. Mrs. Gladys Webster. wife of Hon. Arthur Harold Webster, private secre- tary to the Lord Chief Justice of Eng- land and daughter of Sir Francis Henry Evans, a banker of London and director of the International Sleeping Car Company, arrived here yesterday on the steamship Ventura from Aus- tralia and is at the Palace. Jocelyn Evans, a brother of the lady, came ‘West to meet his sister. Manager S. L. Ackerman of the Grand Opera-house is rapidly pro- gressing toward complete recovery and is now able to give attention to his business affairs. He attended the matinee last Saturday of “Hedda Gab- ler” to the great delight of his em- ployes. . He was also overwhelmed with congratulations by his many friends, not only on his restoration to health, but also on his brilllant suc- cess while in New York, which result- ed in the securing for the Grand Op- era-house of Mrs. Fiske, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Blanche Bates and other stars of magnitude, J