The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
Miss Overman Is Not Admired
by Her Former Tacoma
Associates.
BROWN STRONGLY INDORsED
The Accused Woman, in a Statement
Written Ten Days Ago, Scores
the Pastor.

The last twenty-four hours have brought
many startling changes IN the Brown
Davidson blackmail suit. The former
seems in fair way to substantiate his
charge of extortion, while the latter is
overwhelmed with a record of past sinful
ness, which, if true, must certainly
weaken her charges of gross immortality
against the pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church.
From Lynn, Mass, comes the statement
that Mrs. Davidson served twelve months
in the woman's prison of that State for
selling property which was not her own.
In addition to this it is said that she had
some trouble with minister at Lynn, and
was guilty of many acts not consistent
with her professions of Christianity.
To all of this Mrs. Davidson makes no
reply. She positively refuses at this time
to discuss her Eastern record, saying that
II due time everything will come out
straight.
Il trust implicitly,in God" she said yes
terday, land while DR.. Brown, with his
Svengali eye and powerful influence, may
succeed in sending me to States prison,
that will not by any means make me guilty
Of wrong-doing.
my attorney has statement in which
have reviewed the case at length. Just
whether | will be able to prove all these
charges at tie present time is another
matter but ] do know that Gods Justice
will be done in the end"
The mysterious Mrs. Baddin Is still
among the missing. Captain Lees has
searched for some trace of her existence
but up to this time has not been able to
locate her. The impression prevails that
Mrs. Baddin, so far as the present case Is
concerned, exists in fancy only.
DR.. Browns former congregation at Ia
coma speak we'll of him, though they are
not kindly disposed toward Miss Over
man. 1t appears that she has been m ar
ried. but secured divorce prior to coming
to San Francisco
DR.. Brown is in receipt of letters and
kilograms from friends and acquaintances
in different parts of the country express
ing confidence and sympathy. He says he
is perfectly confident that the trial will
j., show his entire innocence. Till then he
does not care to talk much, but
he stated last night that Mrs. Davidson
has evidently been nourishing cher black
mailing scheme" from the moment she be-
came aware that young lady resided in
his house.
"She was evidently seeking for some one
to blackmail, and she saw possibility OF
working up tale as soon as she learned
Miss Overman resided with u.s. Mrs.
Brown distrusted the woman from the
moment she met her, and if l had trusted
TO my wife's instincts we should
never have had anything to do with
Mrs. Davidson. She showed great
anxiety to cultivate our acquaintance,
came to the house on more than one occa-
sion, no doubt in the pursuit of her
scheme. All the time she corresponded
with Miss 0verman it must have been
with an eye to matchmaking"
DR.. Brown emphatically denies having
paid Mrs. Tunnels fare north, and both
he and Mrs. Brown stated yesterday tha:
when he himself travelled north with Miss
Overman it was at Mrs. Browns sugges-
ton, and the family came to see them off
Mrs. F. a. Gardner, 1913 Howard street,
stated yesterday that she had known Mrs.
Davidson for year, but her acqualnt-
anceship was only OF business nature.
"Mrs. Davidson appeared to me to be
lduy vi Tic ItSpcCtdDillIY, Sd1Q
Mrs. Gardener. II did not know her
intimately, but from what saw OF her
formed an excellent opinion of her
character. She seemed to be one of those
womanly, motherly good souls which
does one good to meet, and also thor
ough Christian. do not know anything
OF DR.. Brown nor of Miss Overman, but
the risking of that $500 looks strange,
doesn't it? l am constrained to think
that Mrs. Davidson is not altogether as
black as she is being painted"
William Marshall, who introduced Mrs.
Davidson to Mrs. Tunnel, was seen yester-
day at Smiths Cash Store on Davis street.
where he is employed. When asked re-
garding the matter ne affected an
air OF mystery deeper than ever plum
met sounded. After assuring himself
that the world would never know his
answer he assured the reporter that he
knew nothing about any of the parties, at
least not hing of Importance, and straight
way became silent
Miss Overman and Mrs. Tunnel are still
at DR.. Browns house, but are not allowed
to receive visitors. DR.. Brown says that at
the proper time they will tell what they
know of the charges made by Mrs. David
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