The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
The Mother of the Murdered
Babe Says Flynn Took
1t Away.
MRS. SHANE PROMISED TO PAY.
The Prisoner Charged With Killing
The Child-He Refuses to
Talk.

In this now famous case of the babe that
was left to die in vacant lot on Twelfth
street, in which John T. Flynn stands &C
cused of murder. there were two very con-
trary and conflicting statements made
yesterday.
The first and most important of these
was given by DR.. Z. A. Bohm, who will
appear to-day as a most important witness
before the Coroner's jury. The second
statement was made by Mrs. Browning, at
the instance Of Detective Gibson.
Hitherto DR.. Bohne has kept to himself
his knowledge of the crime, having made
up his mind TO say nothing until his evi-
dence was called for by the Coroner. But
yesterday to a CALL man he made the fol-
lowing statement.
As you related in to-day's CALL was called
to attend Mrs. Browning on the night of her
accouchment, and l did not see any OF the
family afterward until the afternoon of the
Goth. had been TO the Morgue on that date
where met the Coroner and told him q II l knew
regarding the case, and was proceeding down
Ninth street TO visit patient when was ac-
costed by Mrs. Shane on the sidewalk in front
OF 1907 Ninth street. She approached me
with the remark:
Doctor, called you by telephone the other
night, didn't II"
replied that she had not called me by tele-
phone, but that I had been summoned by the
two children of Mrs. Browning.
''Well," she said, ''you can say that I called
you by telephone; l have already made that
statement TO the detectives
But" said l, 81 have already made state
J1ent to the Coroner, and viii not change my
statement
Mrs. Shane then said:
"Don't say anything about the case doctor
They can't hurt me anyhow, because the baby
was alive when they found II. They found It
all out through DR.. Quigley. He asked me
what other physician I had called and | told
him that DR.. Bohm, my family doctor, was sent
for ct the same time that he was called, and
told him that if you had attended the case
there would have been no publicity l don't
see why doctors can't keep their secrets any
how"
She said she did not look at the baby simply
wrapped it up in towel and put it in a
drawer, but did not close the drawer.
/ asked her ii she remained with her sister
on the eventfrl night, and she said that she
had.
Just then Mrs. McNaughton, the wife of one
OF my patients, came up and spoke TO me- and
introduced her TO Mrs. Shane. Before leav-
ing the latter said: "Doctor, you need not
would give it TO you.
81 did not know of the murder of the babe
until read it in the papers. These facts as l
have told them to you l will tell tomorrow
before the Coroner's jury" concluded the
doctor,
The name of John T. Flynn, the man
charged with the murder of the dead and
abandoned infant, was transferred to
the big police book yesterday. The awful
word murder was at the other end of the
line.
This transfer may have been due to
Chief Crowley's becoming tired of having
the name OF such an important prisoner
on the petty record, or it may have been
the result of the new and additional state
ment made by Mrs. Browning, the mother
OF the sacrificed infant
That statement, which Is printed in full
below, was made at the request of De-
tective Gibson in Mrs. Browning's house,
al 1907 Ninth street. Thursday afternoon.
The accused man was seen late yes.
terday afternoon. and after being in
formed of the nature of the statement he
declined to say anything until he had seen
his attorney, George A. Knight.
Mrs. Browning's statement made in the
presence OF Detective Wren, Mrs. Shane
and her daughter Tessie was submitted to
Captain Lees by Detective Gibson, as fol-
lows:
The evening gave birth to the child sent
my little boy with a note tc Flynn-this was
about 7:30 p. M.-for him to call on me- He
came about an hour afterward, and suggested
that send for his brother-in-law, Dr. Farnum
and everything would be all right and he
would pay the bill. told him that did not
want Dr.. Farnum; that had sent for M sis
Ter, and that she would be there in a few min
utes. Flynn then said that he would go and
get some other doctor, and he sent for DR.
Quigley.
After the child was born my sister and nv
daughter wen out of the room on an erran
While they were gone-this was abou,
1880 to the best of my recollection-Mr
Flynn came in and told me he had been
waiting downstairs for quite a while. He
asked me where the baby was and told him i,
was in the bureau drawer. The drawer was
partly open. He took the baby out and
started to leave the room.
l asked him where he was going and he
said he would take the baby and put it in an
asylum. He said the baby would be all right
He never called on me again, and l have
never seen him since. When he took the bab,
expected him TO do as he said. He told me
he would have to hurry up as there was 8
friend waiting at the door.
Mrs. Shane and my daughter came back
shortly afterward and stayed with me the
balance of the night. The statement of Mrs
Shane that she did not know Flynn is correct
as he was in the honse one day when she
called and at his request l introduced him tc
her as Mr.. Jones. He did not go out with my
daughter the night the baby was born that
know. He has walked several times with ms
10 my sisters house on Larkin street, but
never took him in the house. He gave me
go TO give TO physician prior to the birth
leeI better now that have told the truth il
this matter.
GIBSON AND WREN, Detective Officers