The morning call., 1893-05-09
JOINTLY CHARGED.
The Verdict Against the
Worthingtons.
THE HUSBAND IN PRISON
The Coroner's Inquest Throws Some
Additional Light on the Story
of the Baddeley Murder.

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The jury deliberated over the testimony
for half an hour and then their foreman,
II. Z. +. Williams, announced that they
agreed upon the verdict: III. j. Badde-
ley was murdered by Mrs. Louisa Worth
ington. and we charge William Worthing-
ton. her husba nd, as an accessory before
the fact"
There was no eQuivocation about that
verdict, and the Coroner said that he did
not see how any other conclusion could
have been reached by the jurymen with
the facts as set forth in the proceedings
The tragic story that was slowly re-
veaed by the sworn utterances of the wit
nesses intensely interested as many people
as were able to force their way into the
gloomy rooms and corridor
Annie Kelly was the central object of
interest at the Inquest 1t was known that
she was to testify yesterday. and to catch
glimpse of her was the object OF the out
siders-the girl who had written out for
all the world to read, in her fatal letters to
Baddeley. the happenings leading up to
the murder and the record in black and
white that displayed her own character.
j. II. Brannan, fireman on the steamer
Mary Garratt, was the first 10 be sworn.
He was an eyewitness TO the shooting on
the Washington-street wharf and de-
scribed again how Baddeley was killed.
He helped to carry the PROSTATE victim
into the little office on the wharf. and he
said that when he asked Baddeley who
shot him, the reply was. That woman,
Mrs. Worthington, has been my ruina-
ton"
Phillip HennesSey, laborer. who also
was on the wharf not more than twelve
feet away when the shooting took place,
recOGnted the circumstances and Illus
trated in theatrical fashion before the
jury how Mrs. WorthngtOn stood over
Baddeey as he lay head downward over
pile OF bags and fired her pistol once.
twice, thrice, into his body.
Sergeant Thomas Mahoney, who is
regularly detailed on the water front, testi-
fed that Baddeley drew the famous packet
of letters from his pocket when he was
lying In the office at the wharf. saving:
You better take these. They may be OF
some use to you"
The sergeant further testified that when
he was going TO the station with Mrs.
WorthiDgtol, she said there was time
enough to talk about the case later on, bnt
at the station she said: That man took
me away from my home and then l went
back. My husband was good enough tp
take me back, and now he comes back and
tries to persuade me to 60 away again.
Mahoney read the letter of March 16 to
Mrs. Worthington at the time, where
she implores Baddeley to return, as she is
sick, but she would not admit that she wrote
1t.
All of Mrs. Worthington's letters to
Baddeley, which have already been pub
lished, were read to the jury, and the one
where she tells him that her husband has
threatened to kill her if she does not shoot
Baddeley had marked effect.
Ex-Judge Robert Ferral, who has taken
Lawyer Foote's place in Mrs Worthing-
toms behalf, sat by the Coroner's side and
continued 10 take copious notes of the pro-
ceedings.
One could almost hear a fiy walk in that
rHoIn 1yhen Annia L Eallv WINS pallad
She merged with quick, noiseless step
from the refuge behind the stove and
dropped Into the witness chair.
Her cheeks and ears were burning red.
Her deep-set brown eyes blaZed. There
was no hint of tears but half-fri ghtened,
hunted look on her jaded but rather hand
| sons face.
She showed that she understood thor
oughly the horrible predcament she
| was in.
She listened while her moral character
was riddled by the texts of her own letters
| and certified that it was true.
She identified all the tel-'ale pencil
| screeds she sent to Mrs. Worthington and
| Baddeley.
When some of the unprintable portions
| of her epstles were read she would gaze
| at the patent-leather tip OF her laced boot.
or put her neatly glOYed hand up to her
| cheek for an instant These were The
| only signs of emotion.
| In HoI tcotllupUY HileT ueE leIleTS naQ
| been read, which was continued for more
| than an hour, she recounted the whole his
! tory of her acquaintance with the Worth
| ington family. She said she first went to
work as a nurse for Mrs. WorthingtOn
| four years ago, and that her last engage
ment was as nurse and COMPANION during
| Mr.. Worthington's stay abroad. While
| the husband was away she said Baddeey
| spent every evening for a month alone
with Mrs WOrthington.
! She went on to say: Il wrote the let
| terS for Mrs. Worthington, and she paid
me for it, in order to induce him to come
back and take her away again. Harry did
| 10. Intend to come back, as he wrote to
me heswas tired of her.
The last time l saw him was the after
| noon that she fired three shots at him in
! her house week before he was killed.
| He said she fired at him because he would
! not consent to go away with her again. |
! told Mr.. WOrthington all about il when he
asked me where his wife had gone after
| they had unaway. The watch mentioned
| was not pawned, but left at a jewelers. to
| be repaired"
+. NJ. Harmon. theater properly
man. who uses tie professional name of
! +. Clark. was called next He swore that
he had been friend OF Baddeley's and
| knew considerable about his affairs lust
| prior to his death. In conversation Bad
deley had explained 10 him, he testified,
| that he came back to San Francisco be-
| cause Mrs. WOrthington had written that
she would Kill herself if he did not return.
| Baddeley said that he did not want scan
] dal and was trying to prevent one.
Harmon testified among other things:
Zone day L went with Baddeey and met
| the Worthngton woman and Annie Kelly
| ON Fremont street. After Miss Kelly had
| gone away and / was patting the children
/ heard Mrs Worthiugton say to Bad
deley, II you leave town without me l will
| kill you.'
| "She then went down Third street, saw
| ing she was going TO the newspaper office
| where her husband was employed. to get
| $50 Tor Baddeley's support until she could
get $500 from her husband to run away
| with.
"Baddeley told me the day she SHOT at
| him three times in her house that she shot
| because she could not get him to promise
to go away with her again. That was a
| week before he was killed. He said he be-
| Ileved the husband was in the next room
| listening all the time and thatTt was a put
up job to kill him. The night before he
| was killed we went TO the Worthington
| home. II the blinds were up 1t was tht
| signal that Mr. Worthipgton was away and
Baddeley could come in. but if the blinds
| were down that meant for Baddeley to
| stay away. We then went up to Annie
| Kelly's house. After he came down he
asked me If he had better wait until morn
| Ing or 90 away that night As friend /
advised him to go right away that night
and not get mixed up in any married
| woman scrape."
| This ended the testimony. 1t did not
take the jury long to bring in their verdict,
! which charges Mr. and Mrs. Worthington
| Jointly with the murder of Baddeey
| AS soon as Coroner Hughes saw the yer-
! diet he issued a warrant Tor William
| Worthington's arrest.
At about 40 p. NJ. when Worthington
| was carrying his wife'S supper to her on q
| trAy al tUp CIV Prison hq efonnab hv
| Corporal Parrotte, who had charge of the
| desk, and the warrant for his arrest was
| read to him.
He exclaimed. "All right, my lord, Tn
ready" Then he was taken in custody. a
| charge OF being accessory to the crime of
murder booked against hun, and he was
| given quarters in the prison hospital, but
| separate from Mrs. Worihington.a He re-
fused point blank TO make any statement
| for publication.
| Soon after his arrest Worthiugtnn sent
| for representative of the newspaper
where he has been employed as an artist