The morning call., 1893-09-15
HE DOGGED HER.
How G. r. Bennett Used
to Treat Miss Gray.
SHE TELLS A SAD STORY.
The Intense Interest Manifested by
OakIanders in the Trial of
q. w. Gray.

! OAKLAND.-Interesti in the trial of G.
! w. Gray for assault to murder G. r. Ben
nett is not a whit diminished. Judge
! Greene's department was crowded to its
! full standing capacity when Captain Pc
ters0n raped for order yesterday morning
and the Judge marched in and took his
seat.
Miss Gray was recalled to the stand and
took up the thread of her testimony where
she had dropped it at adjournment the day
before.
The story was one of continued persecu-
tiOn.
II could not get away from the man."
she said "he followed me everywhere.
He would take cars ahead of me or behind
me. cross on the same ferry With me and
dog my footsteps everywhere.
"Once on the ferry boat he said: Come,
! Ella. let's go and take a ride out to the
park, but L said: No! / don't want any
thing TO do with you
HE would, by threats, compel me to 60
to his room. had to submit for fear he
would publish our intimacy. AT times he
would take my purse or handkerchief 10
keep NE from going away from his office.
''On one occasion he tried to get me into
a room on Mason street, and at another
time into one on California street, but
| would not so.
AT one time | was so sick of the whole
trouble in which l was placed that had
serious thoughts of suicide. i thought the
! best way would be To turn on the gas. 1t
was either TO die or tell father.
Mother persuaded me to tell him after
all.
''Mr. Bennett said that l should take the
sacrament. as l had not done so in some
time and people at the church might sus-
pect or make remarks"
The interview at the Boys and Girls
Aid Society was described, and the letter
| from Heap to Bennett and the reply OF
Bennett introduced in evidence.
These letters were as follows:
The California Society for ihe Suppression of
! Vice. Organized August Is. 1SS4) Office:
GOA Merchant street, san Francisco. Ira p.
Rankin, President; r. Il. McDOuad Jr., Treas
urer; {. r. Beunett. Secretary.
Section / l of the constitution declares: "The
objects of this society shall be To secure the en-
actment ana enforcement OF laws Tor The sup
preston OF the trade in and circulation OF
obscene literature, Illustrations, advertise
ments and articles OF Indecent and immoral
use"
April 8, 1892.
D0uid Heap Esq, Superintendent Boys aud
Girls Hid Society. sun FTOHciSco, Cdi.-YOur
letter OF the Sin INST. Is received. have never
made any such charge as that which you
quOe-twce. | think it Is already Il case of
StraIuiDg az a gBat and swallowing a canal
She appeared entirely ''Out OF sorts' yesterday
aud WAS indignant because l asked her the
same question did you about the fellow IN
light clothes"
As you told me she had every other Sunday
of l wanted 10 know why she did not come
once IN d while 10 church, out she was ,n-
Dr1uOuS ana haSty she wouldn't listen and
came 10 wrong conclusions.
There has been clearly misunderstanding.
Yours very truly c. R. BENNETT. Secretary.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 8, 1892.
{. r. Beniet Esq, >ecretdTy of the Society
for the Suppression OF Ttce-DEAR SIR: Miss
Gray tells me that you charge her with being
win some OF our young fellows.
If any such doingS are gcing or here naturally
enough want 10 Know II.
WIN you please favor me with The details an d
also your authority? Ii Miss Gray is guilty iu
the sense Indicated clearly she ought NOT 10 re-
main here moment longer, hence trust 10
receive reply al once. Yours faithfully.
DAVID HEAP, Superintendent.
The second letter was dictated by Mr..
Heap and typewriter by Miss Gray.
The meeting at the City Attorneys
Office was entered into.
Bennett was also charged with having
wanted to take Miss Gray to Los Angeles
on trip and visit her while there.
Subsequent to having declined to have
anything 10 do with him the witness said
Bennett had annoyed her by pointing her
out on the boat.
At the opening of the afternoon session
Miss Gray was again called TO the stand.
AIR. Chapman asked if witness ever had
heard Bennett speak of a watch
Answer-"Yes. We. Mr.. Bennett and /
went out to the Gilt House once and saw
little gold watch lying IN the path in
SutIo's Gardens. He said we had better
not take it as it might have been placed
there TO trap US. Afterward he gave it to
his sister,"
Witness told of visit of Benefits to
her house, at which time he had told Ben
nett of things told Mrs. Gray by Mrs Ben
nett This matter referred TO an expert
ence bad by Bennett with a woman in New
York City whom he had ruined. This he
was trying TO do with her.
Between Bennett and his wife blows
had been exchanged, and the latter was
Knocked to the floor.
At an interview had between Bennett
and Miss Gray in August 1890, in the
Office of the Society for the Prevention of
Vice. Bennett had said that running girl
was not an unusual thing; that he had
done so before. as plenty other men had.
The defense said that it was through
with the witness. and ex-Judge Nusbau-
mer began the cross-examination.
In response 10 questions, the witness
detailed all she had learned about Ben
netts mistress in New York; now that
intimacy had grown, and now he had
thrown the girl over. The acquaintance
between Miss Gray and Mrs. Bennett was
gone over and IL was told how they met at
the Christian church.
The names of a number Of Miss Gray's
friends were mentioned, as showing from
whom the yOung lady had first heard Of
Benefits being married. Miss Gray OBJ
jected to revealing these names 81 don't
like to tell of them in this public way"
she said, Il VIII lose many good friends
by it," but Judge Green said she must give
them.
Mr.. Nusbaumer than asked many Quss-
tions about the $50 that Bennett is alleged
10 have given Miss Gray to pay the ex-
penses for criminal operation. Witness
told how in October, 1890, she had gone to
a specialist on Kearny street, San Fran
cisco, paid the $50 and received medical
advice and remedies
Nusbaumer wanted to know why Miss
Grav had tried to get the letters and lhe
$50 back. She sad it was because the
doctor had agreed to treat the case for $50
aud that the letters showed it, but that
later on the doctor demanded $50 instead
of $50. A druggist friend of Miss Gray's
said he could force the doctor to keep his
| aUroameuf or give nm tna mnpaU This