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2 were ill. while all those who ate the same supper and did not eat the candy were not ill, and he concluded from that circumstance that there was some noxious principle In the candy. Mrs. Dunning would not retain any medicine given her during that day longer than five or ten minutes. In the afternoon, seeing that they already had gastro-enteritls, I began the use demulcent drinks, white of the egg, acacia water with ice, but could not relieve vomiting until after of the same day.

After that time they both continued to take nourishment, all of which was retained until they Mrs. Deane died at about 4:30 m. August 11 anil Mrs. Dunning at about 5:45 p. m.

August 12. As soon as I discovered ili.tt there was gastroenteritis set up, I knew there was some local pOtCOD that had produced such a condition. From the and condition of the two patents 1 know they rame to their death by poison. On the morning of August John B. gave me five pieces of chocolate covered candy, which he took from a box which had locked in a bureau drawer In his residence; that he saw him unlock a drawer and take therefrom a box and that he (this affiant) took the five pieces from the box; that this affiant placed the five pieces of candy in another box and delivered the box and candy to Dr.

T. R. Wolf, State Chemist at Newark, on the same day. L. A.

H. BISHOP. State of Delaware, Kent County. S. deposes and says: That he is 43 years old, that he Is a practicing physician and has been so for twenty years; has resided In the town of Dover, Kent County.

nineteen yearn; that he was called in consultation with Dr. Bishop to the house of Mrs. John P. Dunning, In the town of Dover, on Friday, August last at about 8 a. m.

that he found her In a state of collapse with cold, clammy perspiration, her eyes and face swollen and congested, with a livid condition of the akin, not fully developed, lips livid, mucous membrane of the nvuth reddened and covered with a Filmy substance; no pulse could be detected nt wrist, thu heart not possessing sufficient strength to produce a pulse from lack of nerve force; respirations ware labored and irregular, showing a threatened paralysis of nerve centers. She complained of a benumbed and tingling sensation In legs and feet and a burning and boiling sensation at the stomach. Those symptoms continued until death, but with Increased Intensity. Prom the history of the case as given by Dr. and the symptoms and conditions which 1 found I know she came to her death by poison.

P. S. DOWNEB. M.D. State of Delaware, Ni-woastle County ss.

Dr. Theodore R. Wolf deposes anl Ban: That he Is a resident of the town of Newark In the State Delaware and is professor of chemistry at Delawarp Collage at Newark. and lias been for twenty-seven years last past; that he Is a graduate of Heidelhurg University of Germany and has been engaged in general and analytical chemistry since 1873; that on August 16. JS9B.

between the hours of 11 and 12 a Dr. L. A. H. Bishop of Dover, handed him In his home in Newark.

five pieces of chocolate-covered candy and requested him to make an analysis of the same for the purpose of determining whether It contained poison of any character, but more particularly as to whether it contained arsenic; that he received the candy and upon making the usual tests discovered that it contained large quantities of white arsenic (arsenous oxide); that he examined three pieces of the candy delivered to him and found therein about twelve grains of white arsenic, a quantity sufficient to cauee the death of four persons; that he examined the remaining pieces of can.ly handed him as aforesaid and discovered by the naked eye that it contained lumps of white arsenic THEODORE R. WOLF. State of Delaware, Kent County. John P. Dunning deposes and says: That he is the husband of Elizabeth Dunning, who died at Dover, Delaware, on the 12th from eating poisoned chocolate-covered bonbons, which appear to have been sent to Dover from San Francisco, California.

That deponent further says that he is familiar with the handwriting of Ada Botkin, otherwise called Cordelia Botkin; that he has seen the anonymous letter now in the possession of Detective Bernard J. McVey in San Francisco, addressed to Mrs. J. P. Dunning, which reached Dover in July, 1897.

and that he believes the handwriting on the envelope which enclosed said anonymous letter is the handwriting of the said Ada BotHn. That deponent further says that he has not seen the writing on the wrapper which enclosed the box of poisoned candy and is therefore unable to state in whose hand the same is written. Further the deponent sayeth not. JOHN P. DUNNING.

State of Delaware, Kent To any constable of said county: Whereas. John B. Pennlngton of Dover, Delaware, In behalf of the State of Delaware, hath this day before me, Peter L. Cooper One of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in and fnr the county aforesaid, oath in due form of law that a certain Adelaide C. Botkin, alias Ada Botkln.

Cordelia Botkln, at county aforesaid, on the 9th day of August, 1898. did murder one Elizabeth Dunning by the use of poisoned candy and against the law, peace and dignity of the said State. Wherefore, the paid John B. Pennington prays that the said Adelaide C. Botkln, alias Ada Botkln, alia? Cordelia Botkin, may be forthwith apprehended and held to answer this complaint and to be further dealt with as the law directs JOHN B.

PENNINOTON. Forasmuch as the foregoing complaint hath been made before me in manner aforesaid, these are therefore in the name of the State of Delaware to require and command you forthwith to apprehend the said Adelaide Botkln. alias Ada Botkln. alias Cordelia Botkin. and bring her before me, or some other Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, that she may be examined touching the premises and to be further dealt with as to law and Justice shall appertain.

And you are likewise required to summon the complainant, John B. Pennlngton, to appear and give evidence relative to the subject-matter of said complaint, and when and where you have the said Adelaide C. alias Ada Botkln alias Cordelia Botkin. Given under my hand and seal at Dover the day and year aforesaid. (Seal) PETER L.

COOPER, J. P. To His Excellency, the Governor of the State of California: I. Robert C. White, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, do hereby certify that the following facts are true to the best of mv knowledge and belief: Extradition Is asked for Adelaide C.

Botkln. otherwise called Ada Botkin, otherwise called Cordelia Botkln, and the proposed agent for this State is Bernard J. McVey. In my opinion the ends of public justice require that the alleged criminal be brought to this State for trial at the public expense. I believe we have sufficient evidence to secure the conviction of the fugitive.

The person named as agent Is the proper person and has no private Interest in the arrest of the fugitive. The fugitive is now under criminal arrest in the State of California and city of Pan Francisco. This application Is not made for the purpose of enforcing the collection of a debt or for any private prurpose whatever and if the requisition applied for be granted the criminal proceeding shall not be used for any of said objects. The crime with which she is charged of having here committed is murder of Elizabeth Dunning, and our statute fixing the punishment for the same is chapter IS7. page 823.

revised code of the State of Delaware, death. The crime charged to have been committed In this State was on the 9th day of August, ROTIKRT C. WHITE Attorney General of Delaware-. Dover, August 29. 1898.

State of Delaware I. James H. Hughes, Secretary of State of the Btate of Delaware, do hereby certify that Robert C. White, whose genuine signature appears to the above and foregoing certificates was at the time of making the same and now la Attorney General In and for the State aforesaid, duly commissioned and auallfled, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Dover, this J9th day of August.

A. D. (Seal) H. HUGHES, Secretary of State. MRS.

BOTKIN'S STATEMENT The Story Told Chief Lees by the Prisoner at the Time of Her Arrest. In the affidavits of Chief Lees is incorporated the made to him by Mrs. Botkln, in which she detailed her movements at about the time the poisoned candy was sent from this city up to the time of her arrest. The statement of the prisoner is' as follows: I left San Francisco on the evening of the 17th of July by boat for Stockton and arrived the next morning early, July 28. I remained in Stockton until the 3Cth of July, having had a doctor attending me all the time.

I was there from having taken cold and going on the boat. (To Chief Lees) You can get the doctor's address in Stockton. I arrived here in San Francisco the night of the 30th of July. After I arrived here I called in Dr. Tyrrell and I was sick Sunday and Monday.

I ill on the 31et of July and on the Ist and 2d of Aufust, Monday and Tuesday, respectively. On ueeday. August 2, I packed up at the Hotel Victoria and placed my things in the large corridor, that fc the 2d of August. On 3d I rested In the forenoon and In the afternoon I visited a friend, a Mrs. Carter, at the Wentworth on street, between Powell and Stockton, and spent the afternoon there.

I returned home and had my dinner. This was the 3d. In the forenoon of the 4th of August, I think, I finished up some little things and packed my small portmanteau, be; cause I was nut going to have my trunk at St. I Helena, but It was going on to Healdsburg, after stopping at the sanitarium, as I told you. I did not go out until I packed my portmanteau and took the train fur St.

Helena. I left here on the afternoon train, the time, I think, was went out at the invitation of M. C. McClure, my brother-in-law, and remained there the balance of the 4th of August and then left there, St. Helena, on Sunday, the 7th of August, and went to my sister's and drove across country thirty-five miles In her carriage to my plster's in Healdsburg.

I arrived at Healdsburg at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the 7th of August, then the following Sunday, the 14th, I picked up the Examiner and found an hcrount of the deadly tragedy, the death of Mre. Deane and Mrs. Dunning. Q. (To the Chief by Mrs.

Botkin). Shall I say of having read the article to my stster? A. Yes, If you wish. I read the article to my sister In absolute consternation (to Mrs. that was Sunday afternoon, August 4.

Q. (By Mrs. Botkin to the Chief). Shall I say to you how I passed the remainder of the afternoon? The Answer just as you please. A.

We went through the afternoon In the regular routine household work. On Tuesday, August 16, Miss Llvtrrnush, sent by the Examiner to interview me, asked me what I knew about the death of these people at Dover (Mrs. Deane and Mrs. Dunning). I said I knew nothing, as I never knew Mrs.

Dunning nor Mrs. Deane. On the morning of Wednesday, the 17th, she came again to my sister's at Healdsburg and informed me that the Examiner said that I was very strongly suspected of this crime. After pulling myself up from the shock I took the next morning's train to my husband in Stockton. This Examiner reporter insisted upon accompanying me.

She did accompany me and said she was doing so out of the must extreme heartfeii sympathy, thereby leaving my sister in a more comfortable frame of mind than if I had gone alene. I wired my husband to meet me at the train, which he did. We went to the hotel with my husband and remained there until to-day (Wednesday) rather until last night, but remained In Stockton up to the 24th (to-day). I was arrested on the night of the 23d of August, and came to San Francisco on the morning of the 24th, accompanied by my husband and officers. (To the And you know where I am now.

Q. (By Chief Lees). When was the last time you purchased candy? A. The last time I purchased candy Was about the Ist of last June, at 1 o'clock, when I bought some lemon drops for my nephew, who was visiting me. Q.

Where did you buy It? A. I bought it as we were taking the car to go to Camp Merritt from a man with a box who sold chewing gum. I bought 10 cents' wonh of lemon drops and save them to Charlie. Q. Have you read a description of this bnx that was to have been sent to Dover, Delaware, to Mrs.

Dunning? A. I have read what the papers say. Q. That It was a 'white-glazed one-pound box tied with a Pinkish ribbon? A. I do not remember the description the paper gave.

That there was a handkerchief Inside, a white cambric one with a price mark, 25 cents, containing three kinds of candles. I will read from the paper (reading): The box Is a stock box (one held in stock) and contains the words "bon bons" printed on top. i lnterrupting) I see. The chief (continuing). The candy was of three kinds: "Chocolate caramels.

were evidently purchased at the store, chocolate bonbons, which were evidently purchased the same way, and cream chocolates, which might have been home-made. The candy was of a medium grade." Q. Did you ever purchase such a box or manufacture such a box? A. Never Q. Did you ever mail to Mrs.

J. p. Dunning of Dover, such a box containing the candies heretofore named? A. I never did. Q.

Did you direct in your handwriting the box or the note which was placed Inside of it? A. I never did. Q. Did you place a cheap pocket handkerchief Inside the box? A. I never did.

(Chief reading from paper: "The postmark on the package containing the candy may be San Francisco. That the poisoning" was the work of a woman there Is no doubt, and friends uf the family who are in a "nMtion to knew the suspicion say the authorities had better look for the woman in the case. The writing on the Inside of the box and the wrapper to the box Is the writing of a woman, but whether they were written by the same person cannot be decided. The appearances indicate that they were. The note on the Inside looks like a stupid attempt to disguise the handwriting, while the writing on the outside of the box appears like a natural hand.

Q. Henrlng the above read to you, did you prepare and mall a box such as I have read to you? A. So help me God, no. Q. You know that Mrs.

Dunning and Mrs. Deane are dead, don't you? A. From what the papers say. Q. You know that they died at Dover, A.

Prom what the papers say. Q. Do you know that the package was received at Dover, on the 9th of August, A. As the Dajiers say. Q.

Are you aware that that package must have been mailed upon the 4th day of August BELIEVES HE SOLD THE POISON. David Green, in an Affidavit, Gives the Police Some New State of California- City and County of San Francisco. David Green, being first duly sworn, on his oath deposes and pays: My name is David Green. I reside at 722 Franklin street in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California. My occupation is that of drug clerk for Mr.

Gleason on the southeast corner of Clay and Kearny streets In this city and county. During the months of May and June, 189S, I was employed at the Star Drug Store at 1002 Market street, this city and county. In the latter part of May, or the first or second week in June, a woman came to the Star Drug Store, where 1 was employed, and asked me' for arsenic. I sold her about 25 cents' worth in crystals and lumps, some large and some small. When I sold it to her I asked her what she wanted it for.

She said she wanted it for bleaching straw and the fact that she wartted it for the purpose she mentioned brought the occasion back to my memory. I asked her how she used it, and she said she would dissolve the arsenic in water and soak the straw in It. She was in the store about five minutes walking up and down, talking all the time. She said something about the Owl Drug Store, which I do not remember. She either said they would not sell it to her there, or she had been in the habit of getting it there I made no entry of the sale of the arsenic.

When I sold it there was no sale-book of poisons kept in the store. It was kept on tagrs in the rear of the store whenever there was a record kept. I have seen Mrs. Cordelia Botkln, the woman under arrest charged with the murders of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunning and Mrs.

Ida H. Deane, and in build and general bearing she resembles the woman to whom I sold the arsenic at the time mentioned and to the best of my impression and recollection she is the same woman. DAVID GREEN to have reached Dover when it did? A. Not without calculating. (By the Chief).

It would tako five and onehalf days. Q. A package from here to Dover, would have to be mailed at least on the 4th of August to reach Dover, on the afternoon of August A. I suppose bo. Q.

That was the day, August 4, 'you left the city? A. I left the city August I was in the city four or five daye previous' to this. I left on the afternoon train for St. Helena, 3 something, I think. Q.

Up to that time you had been In San Francisco four or five dayo previous? A. I remained from the 30th of July, or rather I returned from Stockton the evening of the SOth of July and remained here until the 4th of August. I took my things on the 2d of August out at the Hotel Victoria, California and Hyde streets. Having had doctor I rested the 3d of August and left the 4th. I visited Mrs.

Carter on the afternoon of the 3d on Bush street, between Stockton and Powell. Q. Have you said all you wanted to in relation to the receipt of this box or package at Dover, this package of candy, containing a cheap handkerchief, containing a note signed Mrs. C. I will read a better description of it.

(Mrs. Botkln. Interrupting) Tou asked me these questions preceding this article, and I can assure you I have said all I possibly can on the subject. I know no more. Please read that last answer to me (turning to Heyneman).

Reads. Mrs. Botkln: Thank you, that Is correct. The Chief The box le of white glazed variety, Is oblong In shape (designating) and made to hold a pound of candy. Around the ends are narrow pink satin ribbons tied in a bow knot, and on the top In gold letters are the words "bonbons." The wrapper Is of the common light-brown kind and is in no way of the variety usually in use by confectioners.

There are four or five cent stamps and one 2-cent stamp on the wrapper, on but one of which Is the cancellation mark legible. The address is evidently written with a cramped hand or with an effort at disguise. Within the box was a common plain white handkerchief, with the price mark, 25 cents, still In one corner. The note written Mrs. C.

is written on ruled white paper in lead pencil and the words "with love to yourself and baby" are written jerkily and in an entirely different hand from the superscription, very like a woman's hand. There are three kinds of chocolate candy in the box, one hard and similar to a confectioner's make, the other soft, with every appearance of being home made. The impression of Dr. Bishop is that will be found in the latter kind. Q.

Now this Mrs. Botkln, I want to ask you, after having read the above description, if you purchased. If you packed, if you addressed or if you placed the handkerchief and note In that package and if you placed four 6-cent stamps and one 2-cent stamp and if you mailed that package In San Francisco or any other point in this Ptate to Mrs. J. P.

Dunning at Dover, the wife of J. P. Dunning? A. To all your questions I say 1 did not. Q.

Do you know anything whatever about It? A. Nothing whatever. Q. Have you ever seen this above described package? A. Never.

Q. Did you ever authorise any one to send It? A. I did not. Q. Tou have no knowledge of any one sending it? A.

I have not. Q. None whatever? A. None whatever. Q.

I am to understand that you know nothing whatever, positively nothing of this package or of its being mailed? A. Nothing whatever: nothing. By the Q. Now, Mrs. Botkln, I want THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 159 F.

to ask you this question: This package I have above described arrived at Dover, August 9, 1898. Mrs. Joshua D. Deane. otherwise known as Ida Deane, and Mrs.

J. Dunning, otherwise known p.s Elizabeth Dunning, partook of the contents of this package the night of its arrival. Mrs. Deane died at 4:30 p. August 11.

and Mrs. Dunning lingered until August 12. Now do you know of your own knowledge or did you participate in any way in causing to be administered the poisons contained in the above described candy to either of these persons? A. I never did. Q.

You know nothing whatever about It? A. Nothing whatever. Q. Do you know any person or persons who had anything to do with mailing the same? A. I do not.

Q. There were other persons. Miss Betterim. Miss Wellington and Miss Parked, who Were tUmo made sick but recovered. Do you know anything about who sent the box of poison to these people? A.

1 do not. Q. Is there anything else you desire to say about this matter? One moment. Q. Did you direct In your own handwriting this package or write the note contained therein or place that handkerchief In that box or have anything to do with it at A.

No, sir. In no way whatever, shape or form. Q. (To the Chief, by Mrs. Botkin.) Q.

Will you please tell me If this is a court statement? A. This Is the statement made for the benefit of the police for the purposes of their investigation to get a start for future investigation. A. That being the case I will not say anything further than I have said. I have said all 1 know.

I know nothing more. Q. You say you were in you say you left July 27 for Stockton? A. I did. Q.

You left there on the 30th? A. Yes. Q. When jrou were in Stockton at any time did you purchase any candy from anybody at all in Stockton similar to the one I have heretofore described? A. I purchased nothing whatever while in Stockton.

Q. Did you cause any one to purchase for you? A. I did not; I was 111 in bed. Q. Did you have a nurse? A.

I did, Mrs Rauoff Q. Did you purchase or did you cause to toe purchased through by yourself any candy in Stockton? A. None whatever: not 5 cents' worth or anything Pise; I was not In the shop. Q. If there is a person In Ptooktnft who deals In candy states that you or anybody else for you or through an agent, that they did sell such stuff to you or such agent on your behalf, is this true or false? A.

It is false Not 5 cents' worth did I purchase while in fotocKt on. i Qa.lQ a. I I present you with candy Stockton? A. No. I had a very severe liver attack and was under the doctor's care and was presented with no candy Q.

Have you at any time or at any Dlace within this State at any point; have you purchased any candy lately except that which you have named as having bought en route to Camp Merritt? A. I have not. Q. You have not received any from any one? A. I nave not, and am not fond of It anyway Q.

I wish to repeat again if a person in Stockton who deals In candy and who says that he sold candy to a person about three weeks ago there (interrupting) three weeks ago that It is not so? A. It Is not. Q. No one purchased any for you? Tou had no one purchase any for you? You did not cause any to be purchased? A. No, no no Q.

What Is your full name? A. Cordelia Botkln. Q. Your husband? A. Welcome A.

Botkln The above statement is correct. MRB. CORDELIA BOTKIN. DUNNING'S NOTES TO MRS. BOTKIN Chief Lees Incorporates "My Dear Ada" Letters With His Deposition.

The "My Dear Ada" letters written by John P. DunnlnK to Mrs. Botkin while he was at the seat of war, are Incorporated In the deposition of Chief of Police I. W. Lees.

In the deposition Chief Leea gives a list of all the evidence which has come into his possession. The Dunning letters were found In Mrs. Botkln's trunk. The letters follow: KEY WEST, April 14. 1898.

My Dear Ada: I suppose you have Judged by the papers that I have left Havana: we had to get out. I arrived here three days ago. The town Is full of correspondents and navai officers and tho only thing one hears Is war. I don't ses how war can be avoided now, and all that is worrying nic is how I am suing to ace It. I am doing my best to set on the flagship New York, but it looks as if the Navy Department would not allow any one to accompany the fleet when it leaves here.

It has my ambition for years to be on a man-of-war In action and I am willing to risk everything to get there this time. So far as the Spaniards are concerned I don't think it will take us long to settle them. I hope you have sent me a letter addressed to Key West. If any of your recent letters have gone to Havana I don't know when, I will get them. You had better send everything to the Hotel Key West, Key West, Fla.

If I leave here I will orders about having mall forwarded. This going to be a very short letter, but It Is the best 1 can do now and it is sent to let you know I am alive and well and want to hear from you, and I hope with all my heart that everything Is well with you. PORT ANTONIO. May 30, 189g. Dear Ada: I have been on the high seas in a tugboat chasing Spaniards and American fleets for ten days paat, having left Key West suddenly.

We put Into thie place, which is a British possession, for coal two days ago, intending to leave right away und return to the American fleet off the southern coast of Cuba, but we tell up against the British Government and a British man-of-war here good and hard. They would not let us buy any coal here, claiming they would be violating the neutrality laws in doing so, as they claimed we were connected with the United States navy. They tied us up here for two days without coal, during which time we made very vigorous kicks, finally the Governor General of the island relented and told us we could have all the coal we wanted. We are taking it aboard now and me piling it all over the deck, so that we will have enough to last a week or so. We are going to leave here In an hour or two and try and find the fleet again off Cuba, ac there seems every possibility of a fight with the Spanish fleet any minute, provided the Americans can find the Spaniards, which they have not able to do up to date.

1 have got the war fever bad and am out for gore. The name of the b.nt I am on is the Dandy, and Khe is one of the A. S. S. V.

Press boats. so that If you see anything in the papers about her you will know 1 am there. I have no idea when I will get back to Key West. I suppoEe there are one or two letters waiting there I'nr me from you. I am very well and have gained over ten pounds since I started into this war racket.

With my love. MARCH 16. Dear Ada: I have been too much rushed for the last few days to send you a line. I am now on my way by train from New York Key West, and will take the steamer from the latter place for Cuba. I will reach Havana Saturday morning, March 19.

My address will be Hotel Ingeltarra, Havana, Cuba. You must understand that the chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that all incoming letters to Havana are opened by the Spanish authorities there, so please be very careful ami do not write anything relating to the nlted State-Spain controversy or I will probably never get them. I learned this in New I have been treated most kindly by the New York papers which I represent and they have practically assured me that I shall have a nice position when I return to New York; that will probably be my permanent home when I get back. I am going to try with all my power to live down the past with all its sorrows and if anything arises in Cuba to give me a chance to do something I believe that my future Is assured. God grant that everything is well with you.

I want to hear from you. POUT ANTONIO, June 16. Dean Ada: Please excuae the typewriter, but one handy and urin use it to let you know that up to date I anl all right. 1 hate not 'written for a week or two for I have been ashore- very little In that time and had no opportunity to mall letters. I have not had a letter from a soul for a month and don't know how I am going to get one, for I can't tell whether I will be In this part of the world a week or four or five months, though it Is beginning to look like the latter.

When you get tfils I wish you would address a line to me and let me know if you are all right. Send It to me as follows: On steamer Dandy, care of Tlchfleld Hotel, Port Antonio, Jamaica. I may get it or I may not. Anyhow I will like to hear from you. I have spent most of the last week over at Guantanamo, Cuba, forty miles east of Santiago, on the southeastern coast of the Island.

There are 600 American marines there and there has been a small fight nearly every day. I have slept in trenches and rifle pits at the American camp and have had a glorious time listening to bullets whistling over my. head. These Spaniards cannot hit the side of a house. We are expecting the troops from the United States dally and when they come I may follow them into Cuba or remain on the boat to see the naval end of the fight.

I can't tell you Just yet what will be my I never felt better in my life and I think' I am In my element, though I get as dirty as a pig on the old boat and knocking about around camp. I had nil my hair taken off yesterday and look like a singed cat. I have not been able to do as much for my paper as I would like, as the nrltlsh" cable facilities in this country are the worst that can be Imagined and it Is almost impossible to get anything through. However, I send what I can and also send something by mall. I suppose you have seen some of It if you still get the papers.

It Is hotter than blue blazes and I can't wear anything but linen clothes. Don't feel any alarm about me at nil. I will pull out of this all right. With my love. KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 24.

My Dear Ada: I am leaving here to-day for Porto Rleo, as the campaign at Southeastern Cuba Is practically closed. As you know by the papers we have taken Santiago and smashed the Spanish fleet, so there Is nothing more there to conquer. Five of us are going to Porto Rloo on our yacht "'Wanda." I do not believe the campaign there will last long and there may not be much fighting. After we take vne place I Buppose the next thing will be Havana, but we will hardly attack that before October on account of the climate. I have ordered my mall forwarded in care of the United States Consul at St.

Thomas, Danish West Indies, but 1 can't say whether I will get any there or not, as my movements for the present are too uncertain. But please address me there for the present, as it is the only address I can give now. I know that my letters must very few and far between and very' unsatisfactory, but living In the rush and excitement that I am la now it If almost impossible for to settle myself at any time to write any letters. I have not understood quite onef or two of your recent letters. You spoke of having come into some kind of a windfall financially, but did not give any particulars, but God knows If any good fortune of that kind has befallen you, no one Is any more glad of It than I am; for myself I can say that everything seems to be working out all right.

I have seen nearly nil the big events of the war, Including the destruction or Cervera's fleet, and the account of the great affair which you read In the papers was mine. I am simply Imbued with the war fever and I can barely put my mind on anything else. I have gone through all kinds of experiences, sea fights and land and have also lived In that yellow fever camp near Santiago, and I haven't a scar or a blemish on me yet and never felt better than I do now. It Is more healthy In Porto Rico than it is In Cuba and there Is no danger of oontaglon there. Do not feel any alarm about me, for I am bound to come out all right.

I do not think I will be on our dispatch boat much from now on; will probably bo on shore in Porto Rico with the army. If you could see my make-up you would think me a dream tan top boots and riding breeches, with a broad sombrero and belt and revolver and all the other paraphernalia of war. It is a dead hard life I can assure you, with little to eat hard biscuits and bacon, but am getting fat on it and am enjoying it. I find myself getting very cold blooded with constant contact with all kinds of scenes of war. As a sample of some of my recent exploits I will tell you that a few days ago I went aboard the wreck of the Vlscaya, one of the Spanish war vessels that we destroyed on July and cut oft part of the skull of a dead Spaniard I found on the deck.

I wanted It as a souvenir, but I afterward threw it away, as it was anything but attar of roses. God bless you and don't be alarmed If my letters are infrequent. With my love. Letter brought to I. W.

Lees, Chief of Police and opened by I. W. Lees and Attorney Qeorge A. Knight after consultation with and consent of George A. Knight.

(In separate letter brought by postal authorities.) PONCE, Porto Rico, Saturday, Aug 13 Dear Ada: I have been here about dead to the world for about two or three weeks, without any means of getting any mall and very little chance of sending any away. Just befora I left Kingston I wrote to you asking you to addrees me at St. Thomar but I have never been there yet, having come here direct and I have received no mall. We got the news to-day that peace had been declared and I suppose I will be going to New YorK soon, but I know nothing positive about it. I will have to send you an address when I get to New York, and you had better not send any more mall to St.

Thomas, as I probably will not fo there This Is (he most beautiful Island I have ever seen and I have been almost constantly in the saddle, wearing holes In my anatomy. I am really sorry the war is over, for I have certainly enjoyed it and I am considerably uncertain about the kind of work I will do when I get to New York. I am perfectly well, but It Is hottpr than blue blazes here. I hope everything will contintfe to be well with you. With my love.

CANDY GIRLS ARE NOT SURE Recognize Mrs. BotKin Chiefly Through General Appearance. Neither Miss Heney nor Miss Dettmer, the candy girls, recognize Mrs. Botkin positively as the woman who bought the candy. Miss Heney says: I am employed as saleslady at the candy store of George Haas Son, 810 Market street.

On Sunday afternoon, the 31st of July. IS9B, I was on duty In said store and I remember a ludy coming In about 4 o'clock In the afternoon. She was a lady about 5 feet 1 inch in height, stout full round build, full round fleshy face; her complexion was not very light nor very dark; age about 42 or 43. I think she wore a tan or gray street dress. 1 would not be sure, but I beleive Fhe wore a dotted light veil.

bought a box similar to the 1 box shown me by Chief Lees. It was the same size and shape, but I cannot remember as to the shade. When this lady came In she called for a fancy box. She said she wanted to see prime fancy boxes, and I brought her over to the fancy candy boxes and asked her what size box, and she told me she wanted a box that would hold about a pound of candy. I do not remember whether she had much trouble in picking one out or not, but she selected and bought a box similar to the one shown me and above described.

I took it over to the candy counter to fill It with candy, and she told me she did not care for any other candies except chocolate creams. While I was filling up the box she told me not to fill it (juite full, because she wanted to put something else Into the box. I forgot whether she said a present. Several times she told me to hury up. There was another young saleslady behind the counter at the same tirrte, Mlbb Kitty Dettmer, -amd I called to her to get the tissue paper out for wrap the- fancy tjox In, and Xhe, ribbon to tie it up, which she did.

1 remember remarking to Miss Dettmer at the time that I had charged only 40 cents for the candy Instead of 50 cents because the ludy did not want the box full. I have examined the candy shown me by Chief contained in the box shown me as aforesaid, which I recognize as chocolate candies of the size, shape and manufacture and sold by George Haas Son and sold over counter at his store on Market street on Jpty 31, 1898, and they are the Bame style, size and shape of candles that were put up by me for the lady, above described, in the box sold to her on the 31st of July, IX9S. While I was filling it this lady appeared to be in haste, and several times requested me to hurry up, and finally when she left the store "she walked hastily tn the door. She was very active in her manner and movements. Being shown the wrapper containing the address "Mrs.

John P. Dunning, Dover, Delaware," with four 5 cent and one 2 cent post-, age stamps thereon canceled, I recognize the wrapper now shown me as the same character of paper that was used as an outside wrapper of a box of candy purchased by the lady as I have herein stated. It corresponds in color, texture and lines of folding with that in which the package was wrapped by me at the time of sale and delivery. I have seen Mrs. Botkin now under arrest on the charge of murdering Mrs.

J. P. Dunning. Her height, bulk! and manner of carriage, walking and bodily movement are the same as the woman who bought the candy of me on July 31, 1898. I have not had a full view of her face as to enable me to know whether I recognize her features, and do not know as I have sufficient recollection of It to know it if fully oeen.

I have been shown what I recognize to be a part of a seal of light color and printing an was used in the store of George Haas Son, and which have been used during the five or six months last past continuously and was used on the 31st day of July, 1898. Such seal, to the best of my recollection, being placed on sold box of candy as sold July 31 Kitty Dettmer Bald: I am employed as saleslady in the candy store of George Son at 810 Market street. On Sunday afternoon, the 31st of July, IK9B, I was on duty as saleslady In said store, and Sylvia Henejr, another saleslady In the store, was also on duty that afternoon. Betwpen 3 and 4:30 o'clock of the afternoon of that day I rvmember a lady coming in and Sylvia waiting on her. I did not give particular attention to the lady, but noticed that she was shorter and stouter in build than Sylvia Heney, and as I was waiting on different customers 1 paid very little attention to the lady until Sylvia Heney.

who had nearly finished filling a box of candy, turned to me and asked ma to get the tissue paper for her for the first wrapper of the box. I had, however, noticed that when Sylvia Heney commenced the filling of the box she selected candles from the rows ot chocolate candles. When she requested me to get the tissue paper I compiled with her request and paid no more attention to the matter until the woman went out Sylvia Heney then asked me my opinion about charging 40 cents for the chocolates, as the woman did not get the box full, and I said she did perfectly right. Ac long as the woman did not get the full pound of chocolate she charged 40 cents. To the best' of my recollection I heard a remark passed that she did not want the box filled, as she wanted to put a amall present In It.

I did not see the top at that time. I have seen Mrs. Botkin, now under on the charge of murdering Mrs. J. P.

Dunning. I have no recollection of her face, but In height, build and walk she sembles the woman who bought the candy from Sylvia Heney on July 31. 1S98; her movement of body and the way in which she carries her head are the same as the woman who bought the candy. DUNNING KNOWS HER HANDWRITING Detective McVey Tells of an Interview With Him on the Subject. Detective Bernard J.

McVey, who came from Delaware as the representative of that State to take Mrs. Botkln back, if the request for extradition be granted, tells of Dunnihg's Identification of Mrs. handwriting. The salient points of his affidavit follow: On Monday, the 23d day of August, 189S, I received at the town of Dover from Hon. John B.

Pennlngton, father of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunning, deceased, a package containing a box Inclosing chocolate candies, handkerchtef and the wrapper. I also received from the Hon. R. C.

White, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, a note and the writing known as the anonymous letter and envelope inclosing the same. The box and candy and contents were represented to me by Mr. Fenntngton as being the box and contents received by Mrs. Dunning through the mall at Dover, Delaware, on the 9th day of August, 1898, and the wrapper was also represented to me as being the wrapper containing the stamps and postmark which surrounded the box, candy and contents received by Mrs. Dunning on said August 1898.

I am acquainted with John P. Dunning, the husband of Elizabeth Dunning, deceased. Before starting; for California I saw him in the town of Dover. At the time of my interview with Mr. Dunning I had present the note and the letter known as the anonymous letter, and the envelope supposed to have Inclosed the anonymous letter.

All of the letters were shown to John P. Dunning. The Attorney General said: "Those are the anonymous letters received by your wife." Dunning then read the letters, making the remark: "She deceived me. She led me to believe that Mrs. Seely had written those letters.

I did not receive the original letter. It was a copy of this letter I received from my wife at Salt Lake City, which I forwarded to Mrs. Botkin at Ban Francisco, and she wrote me stating that It was Mrs. Seely's writing." Then the Attorney General asked him If he could Identify the writing. Dunning replied he knew It as Mrs.

Botkln's, as he had received over 300 letters from her and had also seen her write. Then the Attorney General handed Dunning the not" which was stated to have been the note Inclosed In the box of candy received by Mrs. Dunning from San Francisco, and asked him If he could identify that writing. His answer was "That Is consistent with the rest." Dunning said that he had written a letter to Mrs. Botkin.

telling her that he was going East to live with hlB wire as soon as the war was over, which would be In a few weeks. the reasons I have for thinking this case should be tried in the State of Delaware le tne fact that Hon. John B. Pennlngton. who would be one of the principal witnesses for the State, is a resident of Dover.

and Is a man 80 years of age or thereabouts and is in a feeble bodily condl-' Hon. I know he would not be physically able to stand the trip from Delaware to California to attend the trial of the case. There are also doctors who have been called in and by reason of their knowledge become witnesses In this case, and I do not believe they would be willing to leave their business In Dover, for the time that would necessarily be consumed In the trial of the case here, they not being amenable to the process of this State. MRS. BOTKIN'S PREMONITIONS Miss Livernash and Mrs.

Rauof Deal With Confessions and pears. Through the columns of The Call the evidence of Miss Lizzie Livernash has been previously given. Miss Livernash was the constant companion of Mrs. Botkin during the trip from Healdsburg to Stockton by way of San Francisco, and in her affidavit deals solely with the hysterical condition of Mrs. Botkin at that time, as well as with her admissions of intimacy with Dunning.

The orgies at 927 Geary street are described at length, as is the scene in Stockton upon the first meeting of Mrs. Botkin with her husband after she had learned that suspicion haa rested upon her. Of this Miss Livernash says: "At Stockton we were met at the train by Mr. Botkin; he conducted us to the Imperial Hotel; as soon as Mr. Botkin appeared Mrs.

Dotkin was again visibly affected to such an extent that it required both of us to assist her to the hotel; arriving there Mr. Botkin requested to be left alone with his wife for a few moments and standing in the corridor, right near the door, the transom being open, I could distinctly hear every word Mrs. Botkin said to her husband. She beseeched and implored and begged him to give me a statement for publication In the Examiner saying that the fault was his that they lived apart. Bhe said, 'You must do you must do It; you must shield me for you have the power to save my life; you must save my life; you must say that the fault is yours that we live apart; if you do not help me, If you do not save my life I will hound that woman to the very ends of Speaking of the quarrel with her dispolute son, Beverly Botkin, which was an episode of the same meeting, Miss Livernash says: "When I stepped Into the room Mrs.

Botkin was on her knees before her son crying and carrying on In a very hysterical manner; her son was also prying. He exclaimed, "Why, Jack Dunning loves my Mrs. Botkin exclaimed, 'Beverly, Beverly, you will ruin "Alone In our own rooms after we had left the son and husband. Mrs. Botkin exclaimed to me that her son had the power to damn her.

The knowledge that Mrs. Almlra Raouf of Healdsburg might have of the case has been much speculated upon, but her affidavit develops that what she knows can be used only as corroborative evidence. It rambles through many matters of utter insignificance, and is only saved from valuelessness by two or three points. Of these her ready Identification of Mrs. Botkln's handwriting with that of the anonymous letters Is most remarkable.

Concerning that point Mrs. Raouf says: "I am acquainted with Mrs. Cordelia Botkin and have known her seven and eight years. I have many (mm her wri.tten by herself, having been In with her for two years and I have been shown the anonymous letters, also the original envelope a'Mresaed to 'Mrs. John P.

Dunning, Dover. Delaware'; also the original paper used as a wrapper and containing two addresses. 'Mrs. John P. Dunning, Dover, also the note, 'With love to yourself and baby.

Mre. C' and in my opinion and Judgment all the writings contained in these several originals are in the handwriting of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin." Relative to the handkerchief alleged to have been bought at the City of Paris, Mrs. Raouf says: I have been shown the handkerchief of which exhibit 6 Is a photographic copy. I saw one similar to that when I was in company with Mrs.

JJotkln in the City of Paris, marked 'Z5 I was there with her and she asked me if I did not think they were handsome. She did not purehn.Be any at that time. "On the Ist day of June I called to see Mrs. Botkin at the Hotel Victoria, on California and Hyde streets, in this city and county, having Just come from Stockton. It was about 11 o'clock In the forenoon.

She asked me, when I was in the miiilnery businees what I used for WJeaehing hate I told her 1 never did that sort of work, but always sent It out. She asked ime If I ever heard of uajng arsenic. I tod her I never had, and she told me that Bhe been told that It was good, and I told her such were the case and she wanted to bleaci ts why. to use arsenic. She then asked nv' where she should get it.

and I told her to i to some drug store where she was acquainted lm what Bhe wanted It for and I thought she would have no trouble in getting HANDWRITING IS EXPECTED Kytka's Opinion of Mrs. Bot- K'O's Chirograprjy, Based on Comparison. He nema stenographer of the Police Department, being shown the original statement of Mrs. Botkin, made to Chief Lees, recognizes tne signature as being in her handwriting, it having been written in his presence. Theodore Kytka the handwriting expert and document photographer, testifies that he has carefully examined original writings of the letters and envelopes addressed to Mrs.

Price, and the canceled original writing containing the I address. "Mrs. W. A. Botkin, HeaJdsburg, care M.

C. McClure," and represented to be the handwriting of Mrs Botkin. He has compared these writings as exemplars with the original letters and envelopes addressed to Mrs. J. P.

Dunning, Dover, one dated June 17, 1897. anil the other July 10, 1887, and also with the original writing on purported wrapper of the candy box, and the original writ- Ing on the note in the box. Mr. Kytka expresses the opinion that all of th? handwriting above referred to 1 Including that in the letters and on the envelopes, wrapper and note, are In the handwriting of the same person who wrote the letter and envelope inclosing the same to Mrs. Price.

Mr. Kytka has also examined the original writing of Mrs. Botkin on her statement made to Chief Lees, and the writing other than the address, to wit, "For Mr. O. H.

Heynemann. New City Hall. San Francisco, California," consisting of the capital letter the words "Mrs." and "Cor." He has compared these writings as exemplars with the writing of the letter and envelope ad-J dressed to Mrs. Price, with the writing containing the address. "Mrs.

W. A. Botkin. Healdstrurg. California, care M.

C. McClure." and with the original letters and envelopes addressed to "Mrs. J. P. Dunning, Dover.

Delaware," the writing on the candy box wrapper and the note, and also the writing In the body, exclusive of the stub in the three orders for the change of address, and he is of the opinion that all of the handwriting above referred to is in the handwriting of the same person who wrote the signature, "Mrs. Cordelia Botkin to the statement made by Mrs. Botkin to Chief Lees. HANDKERCHIEF IS IDENTIFIED Mrs. Harris Recognizes It by the Price MarK.

Texture and Pattern. Mrs. Grace Harris, employed at the handkerchief counter in the City of Paris, testifies that the linen handkprchlef Is of the kind carried in stock by the company. The handkerchiefs sold at the City of Paris had upon them price marks and figures identical to those upon the handkerchief shown to the witness. printed them from a rubber type stamp.

In November and December. 1897, she occupied her spare time in price-marking the handkerchiefs, and from that time until the present all handkerchiefs sold in that store have those price marks. The handkerchief shown to the witness is of the same grade that has been sold all of the time mentioned for 25 cents. She Identifies the handkerchief In addition to the price mark by the texture and pattern. POSTAL MEN TRACE THE BOX Follow It on Its Fateful Course From This City to Dover.

Among the depositions taken here are those of James W. Erwin, United States Postofflce Inspector; John D. Dunnigan, a mailing clerk, and Oscar A. Forster, a letter carrier. The latter knew Mrs.

Botkin, having handled her mail while she resided at Victoria Hotel. He identifies certain orders regarding change of address as having been received by him from Mrs. Botkin in person. Mr. Erwln traced the fateful box of bonbons from the time they left this city on August 4 until they were delivered to Mrs.

Dunning in Dover on August 9. The times of their arrival at the principal points en route were all carefully noted to the minute. He identifies the canceling mark on the package as having been made at Station in this city. Mailing Clerk Dunnigan tells of handling a package aaaressed to John P. Dunning in August.

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