The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-25
B0TKIN TAKES
MORPHINE
For Her Nerves But She
Had Enough to End
! Her Life.
SUSPICION is VERY STRONG.
Evidence Not Yet Disclos=
ed May Have An Inn
portant Bearing. A
Cell in Dover
Jail for
THE SUSPECTED WOMAN.

| Stockton, CAL, August 24.-Mrs. Ads
Botkin, who has been arres'e here or
suspicion of having mailed the poisone
chocolate candies that killed Mrs. John
p. DunniDg and her sister, Mrs. J. d
Deane. at Dover, Del, spent rather rest
less night in her cell in the county jail
here last night after having been arrested
for the alleged murder Of Mrs Dunning
and Mrs. Denne. She had changed her
tactcs and had nothing to say. however.
Indeed, che positively refused to soc re-
porters. aSS
Dr. Stone, who had been giving Mrs.
Botkin morphine for hsr nerves. informed
tho jailer that she had enough Of the drug
to kill hor If she had taken 1t all at once,
so 1t was tnkon from her shortly after her
arrival ot the Jail.
TAKEN TO SAN FRANCISCO.
The accused woman was taken from the
Jail in this city this morning In hack and
driven to the Southern Pacific station,
where she left for San Francisco ON the
$50 train, accompanied by Chief Of Police
GALL Of Stockton; Detective Gibson, OF
San Francisco, and her husband.
When Mrs. Botkin was arres. ed late last
night and the first warrant charging her
with murder was read, she remarked:
so this is the result. OF one Of them. I
have been sufficiently humliatol. This is
the beginning Of the end of this trying
situation. Ihavo said all that l have to
say in the case, save that am confident in
the position in which stand of my inno-
cence of the charges against me-"
BEGGED To KEEP OUT OF JAIL.
"Ihave another warrant which you must
listen to-" said Chief Of Police Call.
"Shall read it now.
"If you are not too tired" said the pris-
cner, and she returned her fixed gaze to
the face of tho reader. There was little or
no sign Of agitation on the part Of the wo-
man when the second warrant was finish
ed, and she asked IL 1t would not be pos
sible for the officer to appoint deputy
and permit her to remain at the hotel dur
ing the night. She was told that she
could not; that she would have to 60 to
jail.
HUSBAND STANDS BY HER
Mr.. Botkin remained with her for q
time, oonversing In low tone. When he
stepped to the door Of the office for a mo-
lnent her face, which had been heavily
veiled from the moment she was ready to
leave her own room for the jail, sank on
her breast, and she raised it only when her
husband stepped back to her chair, and she
started for the female department of lh o
Jail.
EXPECTS HER TO COLLAPSE.
Detective Gibson thinks that Mrs. Bot
kin will entirely collapse. and has taken
precautions to prevent her from commit
ting suicide Although much agitated
when told she would have to stand trial
on o charge Of murder, she soon recovered
herself.
A trunk belonging to Mrs Botkin was
seized In San Francisco to-day by Deteo.
tive Seymour Chief Of Police Lees has not
yet orened it, and will not do SO until
formal cxtradition papers are received
from Delaware.
In the web woaving around the
poisoner Of Mrs. J. P. Dunning
and Mrs. J. d. Deane, daughters
of ex-Congressman Pennington, Of Dover,
tho Wilmington authorities think that
ono woman will DO completely entangled
and that she will be convicted Of the crime
in Delaware Court. This woman is Mrs.
Ada Botkin who was arrested in Califor-
mia last evening. 1t Is true that two other
women arc undor suspicion, and the afii-
dnvits Of Mr.. Pennington implicato them,
but to-day the authorities are said to be-
lieve that finally case will be made out
against Mrs Botkln only.
TALK THAT BEGINS TO COUNT.
AS one closely connected with the case
said this afternoon: "These women out
there aro doing great deal OF talking and
ripping each other up the back, but tho
evidence will finally centre around one
woman"
Soms surprise was caused TO day by an
alleged statement by Mr.. Dunning in q
New York paper, that he knows who the
polsoncr of his wife is, and has known all
along ever since he heard of the crime. 1t
is certain that Mr.. Dunning made no such
statement to the authorities during the
conference at Dover.
Another meeting has been arranged to
take place in this oity, probably Friday.
when Mr.. Dunning, Attorney General
White and Deputy Cooper are expected to
60 over the case again.
BUT FEW MISSING LlNKs, sss1.
There are only few missing links in
the evidence against the accused woman.
Thcs,, it is expected, will be forged when
State Detective McVey arrives In San
Francisco, and the handwriting on the
fatal package and in the inclosad note can
be compared with that OF The Botkin wo.
man.
Nj. Cooper, who Is very reticent about
the case. would not admit to-day that he
had besn officially ot!h.d Of the arrest Of
the woman. He did admit however. that
the aiIidavits OF Mr.. Pennington Ind been
Mr. Cooper does not put much
credence in the story of mysterious
blonde in San Francisco, who Is said to
have been connected With the matter.
1t is said that the authorities have some
evidenco against Mrs. Botkin
which has not been made pablo, and that
his will 60 strongly toward making out
tho case against her. Mr.. Cooper will
neither deny nor confirm this report.
Attorney General White, who was in
Dover to-day. stated that he expected q
conviction OF tha poi.ome-,
Thp Officers think that when Mr. Dun
ling Is again questioned he viii tel! much
more about the ease than he did at the Do.
7eE meeting.
SDover, Del, August 94,-Not since the
lay 1t WAS announced that Mrs. j, d.
Eeanc aud Mrs. j. y. Dunnng had been
murdered by an unknown person-who
ent death to tho two women in BOX OF
chocolates filed with arsenic, mailed at
san Franc:sco-ha the people here been
lrousod as they arc at present. The news