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12 KNIGHT ARRAIGNS POLICE METHODS Scores the Manner of Identifying Mrs. Botkin. Dramatic Scene With Candy Girls in Courtroom and Prison. Thursday there will be a hearing: which ie to determine whether or not Cordelia Fotkin shall be taken to Delaware, there to be tried for her life In a community which, if reports be true, has already decided and declared her guilty. Little marvel that, if the blood be on her soul or it be free of this stain, she shrinks from an ordeal the outcome of which could hardly be other than conviction.

Through her counsel she will make as hard a light as the cunning of the law can devise against being transferred to a distant and hostile commonwealth. Extradition Is sought. It will be combated, and to-morrow the strupele is to open. Ever since the arrest of Mrs. Botkln, charged with double murder, the assumption that she is the malign wretch who committed the deed has been apparent in almost every- act of official precedure.

Strangely enough, some of the papers of this city have taken a similar view, and Instead of setting forth dispassionately the facts as they have been developed, or the surmises as the detectives chose to give them currency, have steadily tried to darken the outlook for the prisoner, to belltt.e the possibility that she may be a victim of circumstances, to exaggerate every scrap of evidence tending to make more deep the shadows about her, to throw aside such information as pointed to the chance of innocence. Two women had been murdered, a sacrifice was demanded, and here was a convenient victim for the altar. The animus of this Journalistic course may be left to the conjecture of intelligence. There would be no warrant for the declaration that Mrs. liotkln had been wrongfully accused.

There are things whii must be explained away, for they stand between her and the hope of freedom, but does not follow that these cannot be explained away. Much has been made of trifles. Anybody who has followed the case closely will admit this. Perhaps despite the familiarity of the public with published details, a brief review would not be amiss. Alter having partaken of some candy Mrs.

punning and Mrs. Deane, of Dover, died with every symptom of arsenical poisoning. Analysis 01' the candy showed that it contained arsenic in deadly quantity. Investigation established that the bad been received through the maiis. that the fatal package had been purchased in San Francisco, that it had been consigned to the postoftice August 4.

There was Inclosed in the package a note couched in friendly terms, but only signed "Mrs. Aii the astutrr.c-ss ofthe poll. nf two States has foiled to establish the Identity --Mrs. with any approach of certainty. There was also In OX a small handkerchief.

The purof the candy at the confectionery establishment of Haas has been confirmed. It was lound that the box was of a kind used only in this city by Haas. Countless similar boxes have been sold. The sale of a box of candy in a large store devoted to this purpose does not create a sensation. One girl thought she remembered selling that particular box There were details ol the transaction which had to be called to her mind by another girl, who had apparently taken a Btrango interest in a sale so common.

The handkerchief wa? from the stock of a local store known as the City of Paris. The Importance of this, in the absence of any recollection that Mrs. Botkiri was in the store on the day of the sale, the laj mind fails to grasp. There can be no de ni.il that the natural place to secure candy Is a candy-store, and that one in quest of a handkeri tnef would turn to a dry goods store. No one at either con cern has identified Mrs.

Botkin. and there will be no denial of the assertion that on the day of sale there were other womei in the city, and doubtless a number them went shopping. Suspicion was directed toward Mrs Botkin because her relations with Dun nir.g were known to have been Intimate They had been companions at the race track and in revelry. He had made of her a confidante. He had squandered money In her company, and when he was penniless, out of work and in distress she had given him funds for his pressing needs After his departure from San Francisco they had exchanged letters, every line breathing affection.

Yet he had a wife and child, and she a husband. At the same time Dunning made long-distance love to her he was writing to Mrs. Dunning, and that faithful woman never thought that her lot had been cast with a blackguard, and died not knowing Dunning unworthy. For this episode in Mrs Botkin's career there can be no palliation' and nobody would think of framing an excuse. She is a woman of mature years with a son years old.

All her life she seems to have been frivolous, with an inclination toward a series of experiences such as society classes among improprieties. It would seem that a carousal has been her idea of joy. She appears to lack brains and to be devoid of the instincts which make clear to ordinary perception the niceties of life. Shallow, vain and Imprudent, there has nothing been shown to prove that she ever felt in her heart the impulse of murder. That she is now in a cell she has herself to thank.

Had she. lived as a wife and mother Is supposed to live, or had she been less open In the display of her mode of life she would not have been singled out as a monster and an effort been made, not to find if she is guilty or innocent, but to make plain that she is guilty. That this is the accepted belief of the authorities must be acknowledged. In a measure, as intimated, they are being by the press. In this much of the work has fallen to women reporters, and that they have cheerfully essayed the task of giving a member of their sex an impetus toward a felon's doom is generally recognized.

Mrs. Botkin calls them "petticoated pests," and cannot be blamed. In their analyses of her they have been unfeeling and illogical and ever bitter. To the public mind, aside from the natural prejudice created by the exposures of the of Mrs. IJotkin, there is a single circumstance which weighs against her.

This is the purchase of arsenic There was no secret about the purchase; she made a declaration of the use to which she expected to put the drug, and is understood to claim that she can demonstrate that it was employed in the bleaching of a hat No vast importance can attach to the occasional hysteria which is credited to Mrs. Botkin, with intent to damage One of the privileges of femininity is hysterics The value of certain anonymous letters will depend upon the possibility of tracing the authorship to the prisoner. In this process the word of Dunning will cut a figure, and the Word of Dunning, the man who has acted in a way so despicable aa to find not single defender, Is at a discount. These truths are cited to show there are two sides to the question. One Bide has been overlooked.

As to the tendency to exaggerate trifles there needs only to be mentioned an article in the Chronicle of Monday, wherein was much ado about the finding of a string and seal such as are usea to decorate Haas' boxes of candy. These articles were found in a room once occupied by Mrs. Botkin, but in which she had not been for more than a month. Such a Btrlng possesses no more significance than would a burned match or the butt of a clgaratte. It is as common as a scrap of MRS.

BOTKIN TURNS ON HER TORMENTORS. paper. Hundreds" like It are sold every week, naturally finding their way ultimately to the dust bin. Yet the Chronicle would take this string and therewith nans: Mrs. Botkin.

The necessity for this is not plain. That paper already had her guilty, condemned only awaiting the formality of a judicial approval of its verdict. It had her guilty Because somebody had bought a 25-cent handkerchief, be: cause a pretty clerk thinks perhaps she sold a box of -candy: because in many i respects Botkin has: not been above reproach because the prisoner, connned, harassed and subject to jthe hounding of gossipmongers does not maintain an aspect invariably sunny. And, after all, the reported: finding of the string was a fabrication. Nevertheless, the intricate story woven by the police is one.

of thrilling interest. It they can establish its verity in detail the chain will be complete and strong In every link. People do not seem to reflect upon the magnitude of this task, but, on the contrary, to regard as accomplished that which Is scarce begun. It remains to be proved that Mis. Botkin bought' the i candy or had knowledge of It; that she ever saw the -andkerchief; that she wrote the superscription on the box or sent- the anonymous letters.

In fact, every allegation remains still to be established. Whatever the outcome, Mrs. Botkin has passed under a cloud from -which she can never emerge. With pitiless exactitude her character has been portrayed; the cloak of respectability has been torn from her; her secrets laW To be an outcast will be her punishment for evil associations and flagrant disregard of sacred canons, the rights and dignity of There is a wide difference between being a' wanton and being able to plan and carry out a horrible, motiveless murder. Yet the conclusion seems have be en jumped to that because she was one she did the other.

i Th is Mrs. Edwards, who may thank her lucky stars that she did not fail into the hands of the police before they a 7u? Cl to place the crime upon Mrs. Botkin. Mr Edwards sustained associations with: Dunning. She sold candy, she tters 1 she new all his' family Her reputation, possibly, was not of I the best.

Altogether, there is so far as the i F.nV'^.f 3 11 3ge -x a wronger circumstantial case against Mrs. Edwards now than against Mrs. Botkin. Yet the former even escapes suspicion. iormer The story to be entire must begin back at the time the Botkins lived in passable accord and Dunning was a hard-working man, happy in his family.

All this has been incidentally brought out It is not vital, perhaps, but in It is a theme for- the moralist. The Botkins became estranged the Dunnings drifted apart: and by the merest accident Dunning and Mrs Botkin became friends. Soon ere were drink bouts, days at. the races, or at de East to rfe carousal vT me correspondent on the field of battle or brave- the perils oorf the Chkln haVe not 'According to the detective alleirn tinnu Mrs. Botktn bought poison 6 about a month later was raving over Ihe effects of arsenic.

The last day of July they have her buying candy handkerchief August 4 mailing fhenackage. Then followed in quick success on the arrest, arrival here and the round of existence in prison Not is the hear when mmor must assume me solidity of truth or be dissipated Thro ur hou th da 8 Bln ce her arrest Mrs. Botkin has deported herself with the utmost coolness. An effort has been made to turn this against her. Had THE SAN FKAKCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SJCJPXJCMiSJEK 14, 1898.

nervous, tearful, that also would have been turned against her. The conduct of a person charged with murder is always to be construed as damning. It is for Lie purpose of thus construing it that it is subjected to such close scrutiny. There is in the story of Mrs. Botkin an opportunity for preaching a sermon, an opportunity already seized by one pulpit orator.

In the attributes of the woman there is a a chance for the analyst who delights in writing fine phrases about his own notions, usually erroneous. The simple truth is best, and requires no adorning. The simple truth is that a woman accused ot awful murder is about to be placed virtually on trial; that representatives of the law declare her guilty; that they intend, if possible, to take her to Delaware, where she has been all but condemned in advance. Since her detention she has been looked upon as the slayer of two estimable and inoffensive young women. There is in the evidence thus far made public to warrant this view.

Perhaps the police are holding something in reserve. A life is at stake. There has been one tragedy; there is vague promise of another. Curiosity has taken the form of si clamor for justice, and is willing to be appeased by injustice. There are many to whom the contemplation of suffering seems to be a pleasure, and who delight in the unfolding of any situation which blasts a reputation or crushes a hope.

These will watch keenly the proceedings In behalf of extradition. But there will be others conscious that the law may have made a mistake and not ashamed to confess to sympathy for the woman in whose vision, sleeping or waking, there must appear the grim outlines of the gallows. These do not believe in conviction without trial. They want the assassin punished, but recognize that first the assassin must be caught. KNIGHT ATTACKS THE METHODS OF POLICE Objects to the Manner Adopted by Chief Lees to Connect Mrs.

Botkin With the Purchase of Candy. The Botkin habeas corpus proceedings have been postponed by Judge Carroll Cook, this time until Monday morning of next week, and again upon the request of the prosecution. The ca.se came up regularly yesterday morning, and it was evident from the moment that Mrs. Botkin and the others of the defense entered the court room that there was something more in Eight than. the usual routine.

It was not many moments before Attorney George A. Knight injected into the proceedings an episode that almost attained the dramatic in Its intensity. It was evident that Knight was angry, angry clear through, and Judge Cook had scarcely granted the prosecution's request for a further continuance when, In a caustic arraignment of Chief Lees for the police court methods he has pursued throughout the case. Knight made the reason for it known. It had been practically prearranged between prosecution and dVfense that the hearing due for yesterday morning should be again continued, and the defense had expected that the mere formality sary would occupy but a few moments time.

They were accordingly surprised when Chief Lees appeared demanded that, though her presence was not njcessary, Mrs. Botkin should be brought into court. After some argument Mr. Knight agreed to the plan, and with Attorneys McGo wan and Wheeler, went to the City Prison to get the prisoner. The secret of Chief Lees' desire for Mrs.

kins' presence was soon apparent, as just outside Captain Seymour's cozy office sat Miss Heney and Miss Dettmer, candy girls, who were there to attempt, for the third time, the identification of the prisoner. Mrs. Botkin, accompanied by her sister, Miss Dora Brown, and the three attorneys, had scarcely left the prison door when Mr. Knight discovered that they were closely followed by the two candy girls. Angry to a white heat, he clutched Mrs.

kin's arm and quickly brought her face to face with the two startled witnesses. "Mrs. snid he, "do you know these women?" "I do not," replied the prisoner, "but I presume they are the candy girls who followed me last time. Have you- brought another box of bonbons?" Knight was fairly natured again, and with a laugh the party resumed its way to' 1 the court room, closely -followed by the two persistent young women of the prosecution and by' Captain Seymour. The chase was continued Into the court room, where- the two took seats within view of the prisoner.

1 Upon discovering this Knight's anger went and 'in consenting to the continuance the case he took occasion to grill 'the prosecution. "Addressing himself- to Judge Cook he said: "Your Honor, I object- to such a proceeding on the part of the police. It is reasonably known i that those young ladies are here this morning to Identify the prisoner. Now, claim that such identification is part of this case and should be done in open court. Let those ladies step to the front 1 right now.

Mrs. Botkin is not afraid to confront them. She will take off i her hat, her veil and anything else these ladies may require to be taken off. Let them identity her openly. This secret business "is not to my liking.

I request your Here Mr. Hosmer felt i called to interrupt and for; a moment the voices of the two attorneys were merged Into a harangue I that even Clerk Tolle could not Interpret. It was only quieted by the cool tones of Judge. Cook, who arose from his. bench and said "Be seated, gentlemen.

Just a moment," Mr. Hosmer. I don't see how this court at the present time has any business to take the testimony of these young ladies, We are not trying a question of fact. It is purely a matter of law before the court and the point raised by Mr. Knight is out of order.

(. "It has been ordered that the hearing of this petition in habeas, corpus go over until next Monday. 'What is next. Mr. Clerk?" Knight subsided with a look of duty done.

Mr. Hosmer i unhooked his arm, which he had ready for -more serious business, and the party filed out of court, followed 'as i faithfully cas before by t. the prosecution and its string of witnesses. Mrs. Botkin, aside from a the- result of three weeks' close confinement in the City Prison, is 'in good mental and physical health.

Her sisters- Miss Dora Brown and Mrs. N. C. McClure with her every day. Yesterday Mr Botkin came down: from Stockton, and was with his wife from early in I the forenoon until 3:30 rp.

when he i took the train return his business. Mr. Botkin would not talk for publication further than say Ahi i wife was well and not at all apprehensive regarding the outcome of the case. He expressed deep Indignation at the exaggerated statements regarding the finding of a piece of a candy-box seal In the room at the Victoria which was formerly occupied by Mrs. Botkin.

It is intimated that the candy girls have identified Mrs. Botkin as the purchaser of the box of bonbons. The case against Mrs. Botkin will be called In Judge Joachimsen's court this morning. By consent of all the parties at Interest It will go over for one week.

The public will soon know the evidence which Chief Lees has guarded so jealously in the case. Governor Budd goes to Sacramento on State business this morning and will return on the late train to-night. He was notified yesterday by Chief Lees that all papers and affidavits in the extradition proceedings will be delivered at his office in the Palace Hotel to-night. Copies will be given to the press at the same time. The inquiry will go on at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning the Maple room.

Palace Hotel. Chief Lees received the following telegram yesterday: "GEORGETOWN, Sept. positively identify handwriting on paper inside candy box as Mrs. Botkin's. "WHITE.

Attor.iey General." Specimens of Mrs. Boikin's handwriting were sent to the officials and the foregoing is the result of their Investigations. HE BELIEVES IN HER INNOCENCE Captain Taylor Has Known Mrs. Cordelia Botkin for Twenty- Five Years. Captain Charles Fletcher Taylor, the well-known capitalist and member of the Bohemian Club, is an old friend of Mr.

and Mrs. W. A. Botkin. He believes Mrs.

Botkin is innocent of the crime charged against her. The captain has just returned to the city after an absence of several weeks, and he called to see the accused woman early yesterday forenoon. Captain Taylor says: "I knew Mr. and Mrs. W.

A. Botkin over twenty-five years ago In Joplln, Missouri, and have been extremely friendly with them and their respective families ever since. The Browns, Mrs. Botkin's family, always muved in the best society, and until the present time their name has never been tarnished by even a breath. of scandal.

Mr. Botkin conducted a hank in Joplin, and I was also In the same business. We had many business dealings together and I can freely say that I always found him an honorable man in every sense. His wife and her sisters were respected by every family In their neighborhood. "Years ago Mr.

Botkin and his wife moved from Joplln, I think to Kansas City, and about the same time I came to California. Some time later I again met the Botkin here and our families resumed the friendly intercourse which existed bark in Missouri. "During all these years I never heard one word against the unfortunate woman now under suspicion of a crime which awakens a thrill of horror whenever mentioned. "I do not believe for an Instant that she is guilty. She is a bright, well-educated woman, of generous impulses and sympathetic instincts, and I believe her version of her relations with Dunning.

She is the kind of a woman who would go out of her way to assist any one in distress, and when she says she gave this man money and endeavored to straighten him up by friendly and counsel I believe she tells the truth. "Mrs. Botkin's demeanor during my visit to-day was not that of a guilty person. True, she is worried, and it is quite natural she should be. Her every movement is watched closely by the lynxeyed matron, and she is not left alone for an instant, day or night.

This surveillance would try any one's nerves. "The accused woman did not go into the details of her case. My visit was friendly, and I assured her I believed In her innocence. I am confident she will bo completely exonerated of the accusation against her. I cannot Imagine she is capable of committing such an atrocious crime.

Her antecedents, her education, hw temperament and her social surroundings, as I have known her, are sufficient to convince me of her innocence. "The accused woman feels very bitterly toward some of the newspapers of this city, because of the distorted descriptions of her actions and the exaggeration of incidents in her life. She feels an attempt is being made to railroad her to the gallows either here or In Delaware." MRS. EDWARDS DOES NOT SEEK NOTORIETY Regrets the Prominence Which Her Acquaintance With Dunning Has Thrust Upon Her. Mrs.

Frances C. Edwards, whose name has been mentioned in connection with the Botkin case, is incensed at the efforts of the Examiner to connect her, by inference, with the Dover tragedy. "They sent a female reporter to me," said Mrs. Edwards yesterday. "This woman, who is conspicuous owing to the eccentricities of her attire, plied me with questions for over two hours.

I gavft her a plain statement of what I knew of the case. This she distorted from first to last. She said I passed variously under the name of Parker and Barnes. The former was my maiden name, and the latter the name of my guardian, which explains why people called me by those names at different times in my life. "I have never concealed the fact that I have been a candy maker.

I did not say that arsenic Is sometimes used In the manufacture of chocolate creams. I know better than this. I say that it was used in wafers for the complexion, and that tannin and other poisons are used to preserve the color of candied fruita. "I explained that if I contemplated such a frightful deed I would have chosen some less easily recognizable candy than chocolate bonbonp. These are handmade, and there Is an individuality about them by which any candy maker can pick out the product of his shop.

"The woman reporter quoted me as saying that I had been a visitor at 927 Geary street, where the Dunning-Botkin orgies took place. I was never there. I have never sought notoriety In this matter and have shrunk from publicity at all times. When employed by the Marketstreet Railway Company I learned all about police methods. I know if they once undertake to convict a person of crime they will go to any extreme in the matter.

"I have received a from Dunning since he left here. It was written in Porto Rico and mailed in this think at Key West. For personal reasons I will not make public its contents Mr. Dunning was evidently angry when he wrote it, and I do not wish the notoriety which would attach to me if its contents were displayed to the world." WHY EVELYN HOLT FIRED AT FECKER LIVED WITH HEB AS HIS WIFE AND MARRIED ANOTHER. He Was Saved From Answering Delicate Questions by the Objections of the Prosecuting Attorney.

The preliminary examination of Evelyn Holt, the girl who fired a shot at Charles Fecker, hypnotist, real estate agent and insurance broker, on the night of September 5, was commenced before Low yesterday afternoon. Attorney Belr conducted the prosecution, and the defendant was represented by Attorneys Barrows and Boyer. The first witness was Dr. Galvin, who treated Fecker for the wound in his shoulder. He testified that after probing for the bullet for two hdurs it dropped out on the floor, where it was found by the janitor.

The wound was not serious, and did not necessitate Fecker taking to his bed. Fecker testified to the shooting. He had received threatening letters from the defendant, and once she had tried to poison him with icecream. He had known her for about a year. In cross-examination he said he knew of no reason why she should want to kill him.

Attorney Barrows introduced four letters which Fecker had written the defendant while she was in Los Angeles, and wanted to show the relations that had exl6ted between them. ecker and the defendant had lived together as man and wife, and she had been Introduced by him to his friends as such. Then he sent her to Los Angeles, and a few days later married another woman. After considerable argument the Judge sustained an objection by the prosecution to the relations of the pair being inquired into, on the ground that it would be time enough to do that when the defense was entered upon. George E.

Roy. an undertaker, who saw the shooting, and Policemen de Blois and McLane, who arrested the defendant, were examined and the prosecution rested. After consulting with the defendant her attorneys asked for a continuance till next Tuesday to enable them to prepare their defense, and it was agreed to. SUTRO'S ENTERPRISES WILL BE KEPT UP MONEY WELL PREVENT THEM FROM DEPRECIATING. Judge Coffey Authorizes the Executors of the Millionaire's Estate to Hake Certain Expenditures.

The executors of the Sutro estate do not propose that its varied interests shall depreciate in value if care and money will serve to protect them. Through their attorneys, Lloyd and Wood and ex-Judge McKinstry, they appeared before Judge Coffev yesterday in the Probate Court and asked for authority to make outlays with which to continue the enterprises controlled by the estate. Judge Coney granted the desired order. Mrs. Hattie Trundle, or Allen, as she was also known, died two years ago in Washington, D.

and the executors have instituted a search for her heirs, if any exist. She will be remembered as the beneficiary under the millionaire'- will to whom he bequeathed $50,000 as i public acknowledgment of injustice her many years ago. FREE PUBLIC MABKET. Chamber of Commerce Urges Harbor Commissioners to Take Action. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the principal subject discussed was that of the Free Public Market.

A resolution was passed setting forth the advantages of the projected market and that the Board of Harbor Commissioners assign the blocks of State property bounded by Davis, Pacific and East streets for the use of car ana sheds required uy tne market, the same also to be used for the receipt and delivery of ordinary merchandise so far as It may be practicable and the most convenient to the producers of the State. A resolution of apnroval and support was passed with reference to the California Manufacturers' Exposition of Home Products of Oakland. It was decldpd to requsst of the Board of Regents of the Stele University to make the study of the Spanish language a greater feature in the university. Tha reason for the request was that the Uuited States is very likely to acquire large possessions recently held by the Spanish and many of the students now attending college are sure to go into these new fields, and the knowledge of the language spoken there will be of great benefit to them. Resolutions memorial of the late J.

W. H. Campbell, who for thirty years was a member of the chamber, were passed. The following new members were elected: The George F. Eberhard Compan.

Hooker Samuel Huboard, Bisstnger Telsutaro Aokl, Garcia Maggini. Henry Cavell H. Taylor and Wilson Brother. Harry Jones Loses an Eye. Harry A.

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