The San Francisco call., 1896-03-12

"CdU' artist
to teach the sunday-school class at my sugges-
tion. Mr.. Rea appointed her. Mrs. Stockton
made so good an impression that Mrs. French
had come to see something lovely in her and
invited her upon her programme to attend the
Turkish tea.
In response to further questions by Mr..
Tenney the witness said that he had never
received more than two notes from Mrs.
Stockton. The first was the one inviting
him to her house to see her On the oc-
casion of the hug and the kiss. That was
sent by her little girl. 1t was not in an
envelope, but folded up and turned down
at the corner. Not the little girl, but
the note" ADDED Mr.. Brown, with all the
facetiousness of robust health The Sec
ond note was that making date with him
for o'clock in the afternoon on the cor.
ner of Sutter and Montgomery streets.
He at once handed the second note to his
wife. That was on the next day after he
had visited Mrs. French in relation to the
Turkish tea incident and two or three days
before Mrs. Cooper told him and his wife
most damaging story about Mrs. Stock
ton. DR.. Brown proceeded to repeat it in
substance as follows:
Mrs. Cooper detained us at 232 sutter street
on Monday, May z. and told myself and Mrs.
Brown that she desired to have O private in-
terview with US. The conversation was one of
the most painful of my life. 1t began in a
way that was unusual. am not In the habit
OF being pledged TO absolute secrecy by any
one, but Mrs. Cooper pledged us to solemn se-
crecy. She said: "Mrs. French come to me
yesterday in perfect flame of fury and ragged
about Mrs. Stockton and the Turkish tea, and
! must tell you, my dear pastor and wife. that
Mrs. Stockton is bad woman, and | have
known it good while. 1t made me fairly
cringe to see you and Mrs. Brown in her com.
pany the other day"
Why" said. Mrs; Cooper, you introduced
me to that woman!' She said: ''Oh, DR..
Brown, that much was due to formality. That
woman was brought to me by u wealthy man
of this City-a subscriber to my kindergarten
fund. He wanted her educated for kinder
garten work. l complied with his request.
Then he wanted me TO give her employment,
and | said that l had no place for her He
came TO me twice on the matter, and upon my
If you have no place for Mrs. Stockton in your
kindergarten course you have no longer any
place Tor my support
Mrs. Cooper said: Against my own judg.
ment employed Mrs. stockton. and kent her
until / could keep her no longer, because
stories began to come to me about her, and l
said, Mr.. Tevis-'"
Here DR.. Brown paused abruptly and
said, "Well, l won't go on; having mad
vertently mentioned that name will pro-
ceed no further
go on, DOCTOR" advised Mr.. Nagle
cheerily.
Il will not do it," replied the witness
positively. 81 will take the dlspleasure of
this council rather than do it, / will con
slider the matter more carefully before I
proceed, and until then will take another
line
DR.. Brown then proceeded to put in
good word for Mrs. Stockton. He said:
do want to say this before go on. tina,
have made such investigation into the matter
that don't believe some of the rumors that
Mrs. Cooper reported to us that day in the old
building OF the Y. NJ. G. A. l don't believe that
any suspicion should attach to the paternity
OF Mrs. Stockton's oldest child for the marriage
records abundantly cover that question. If
the rest OF the rumors reported by Mrs Cooper
are as ungrounded as that she certainly slsn
Gered somebody that day
From the hour OF that interview we never
had any peaceable relations with Mrs Stock
Ion: lrlend OF mlne has sent me from San
Jose, where Mrs. Stockton was married The
records or her marriage. That is since this
trial began. The statement OF Mrs Cooner
with regard to the. Oldest child, was certainly
and absolutely unfounded
Mr.. Nagle-And what was related of Mp
Tevis in connection with that was wrongq
Now, after that explanation you can certainly
go on.
DR.. Brown-Excuse me, would rather not
1t will be remembered bv readers of THE
CALL that Mrs. Brown testified that Mrs
cooper was the worst enemy that she and
DIR. Brown ever had, and it was evident To
those who heard DR.. Brown testify yester-
day that he had got even with her by
breaking the pledge of secrecy which he
and Mrs Brown were alleged to have
made. When Mrs. Cooper was on the
stand few days ago she positively denied
having told the Browns that Mrs. Stockton
was a bad woman.
Dr. Brown went on to say that it was alb.
solutely false that he walked around the
square with Mrs. Davidson on Saturday
night He admitted that he walked
around the block conversing with her on a
Thursday night.
DIR. Tenney began his cross-examination
by asking DR.. Brown as to when he be-
came acquainted with Mrs. Tunnell DR..
Brown said that six months prior to Miss
Overman's visit to this City Mrs Tunnel
introduced herself to him in the church as
a friend of Miss Overman, and asked the
doctor whether he knew where Miss Over
man was, and he told her that the young
woman was in Tacoma. On second thought
the doctor did not think it could have been
more than two months prior to Miss
Overmaa's visit here. DIR. Brown went on
as follows:
During my journey to the north, and per.
haps after we were in Tacoma, Miss Overman
referred TO her aged friend, Mrs. Tunnel, aud
told me that small income which she had
been receiving from relatives or perhaps from
the rent of house, had been either largely or
altogether cut OFF, and she wanted to know if
l would interest myself little in her. Miss
Overman said that she had observed that it
was my custom 10 help people who needed
help, and said that would be very happy to
do so. When | got back that came TO my
mind that the aged lady might be somewhere
here suffering Tor the necessaries of life, ard
called on her at Mrs. Eatons when | had
round out her address. The conversation natur-
ally was largely about Miss Overman, because
Miss Overman had requested me to call on
her. don't think l stayed more than ten
minutes, although l might have remained
longer. ! satisfied myself upon the point
which wished to ascertain, and that was that
her physical condition and comfort were
cared for for the present
The witness then told of habit he had
had of walking around East Oakland and
other places to rest his brain. On one of
these occasions he found himself near Mrs.
Eaton's house, and he thought ne would