The San Francisco call., 1896-03-13

the fact that DR.. Brown paid Mrs. David
son $500 in November, nearly month
before he called upon Mrs. Davidson at the
prayer meeting as Sister Davidson.
The witness, on the cross-eXaminatlon,
expressed himself as certain about the
date and about the fact that DR.. Brown
invited her by name to pray or make some
remarks. AS near as he could remem Der
this happened on Wednesday, December
Is. He believed also that Mrs. Davidson
spoke and prayed at the meeting of De-
cember II. The witness was positive that
DR.. Brown called upon her by name, and
the cross examination by Mr.. Nagle failed
to shake him.
DR.. Brown took up the witness where
Mr.. Nagle had dropped him and asked:
"Are you aware that five persons have
already testified before this council that
not only did not call upon Mrs. Davidson
but that there was positive look OF dis
gust on my face when she arose?"
The witness replied that he was not
present when that testimony was given.
DR.. Brown assured him that such was the
fact, but Deacon Hatch persisted in his
statement that he was confident that DR..
Brown called upon Mrs. Davidson to
speak.
Deacon Dewing came next, and testified
that Mrs. Davidson took part in the
prayer-meetiugs during the month of
not remem ber that DR.. Brown called upon
her.
In reply to a question by Judge AGvo-
cate Woodlands, the witness replied that
he did not know of DR.. Brown having re-
ceived call to an Eastern church in the
latter part of November.
DR.. Brown, with an air of alertness, arose
to his feet and asked the Judge advocate
what was the purport of the question
about the call to the Eastern church. Mr..
Woodlands replied that he wanted to
know why Mrs. Davidson knew that he
had had call TO another church when the
deacons OF the church did not know it.
Deacon Morse, DR.. Browns right-hand
friend. took the witness-chair and told the
council that DR.. Brown had informed him
last November that he had the expectancy
of call to church IN Philadelphia and
to another in Brooklyn, n. Y. DR.. Brown
had expressed himself in favor of accept
ing the call should it come.
DR.. Brown explained to the council that
Mrs. Davidson had only guessed about the
call from certain remarks that had been
dropped by him.
Mrs. Evans, an elderly woman, testified
Davidson on the night of Wednesday,
December Is. and she remembered dis.
tinctly that Dr. Brown neither asked Mrs.
Davidson to pray, nor commended her
after she had finished. It was this unusual
omission on the part of Or. Brown that
attracted her attention to the fact that
Mrs. Davidson had not been asked on that
occasion. She added:
when my daughter read the news
about Mrs. Davidson 8 arrest she said to
me That explains the reason why DR..
Brown had such look of disgust on his
face that night when Mrs. Davidson was
speaking
Deacon Barnard was recalled and swore
that DR.. Brown called upon Mrs. David
son on the evenings of the 11th and 18th
of December. On the last-named evening
the subject of Mrs. Davidson's remarks
was Prophecy"
"You feel so sure, that the testimony of
others to the contrary does not make you
waver in your belief?" asked DR.. Tenney-
yes. sir; 1 am positive that DR.. Brown
called upon her by name. On the evening
OF the 18th of Decem Der she read some
thing out of the Bible"
Are you as positive that he called on
her on the evening of the 11th as you are
that he called on her on the 1Sth," asked
Mr.. Nagle.
Yes, sir.''
Suppose it should turn out that she was
not here on the 11th, but that she was at
tending meeting somewhere else"
sIf she was not there, replied Deacon
Barnard, 81 would be mistaken"
Judge Advocate Woodlands asked DR..
Brown as to the names of the witnesses
who had testified that Mrs. Davidson was
absent on the evening of the l1th of De-
cember. DR.. Brown replied that he be-
lieved that Miss Overman had so testified,
whereupon the faces of a majority of the
members of the council were overspread
with a smile like unto that with which
Bret Harte's heather Chinee sat down to
the historic poker game.
The Judge Advocate read from a morn
ing paper copies of letters written by
Miss Oyerman to Mrs. Davidson, in which