The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-07
ANOTHER
ACCUSER.
Candy Girl Says Mrs. Bot
kin Bought Choco-
lates From Her.

/, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 6. Mis-
Emma Hurber. the clerk in the candy stol
Of George Haas, on Market street, took be
, turn last night In furnishing sensatio
for the Dunning Deane poisoning case. Sh
, told the Chief Lees that on Sunday, Jul
81, between $50 and 42O p. m., short
! stout, full faced woman entered the stor
and bought box Of candy. She WAS In
hurry. and said that she had no time t.
lose. She had an English accent. Her re
guest was for special box-one that was
unmarked in any way. She wanted to sent
1t to some fliends. She particularly wish.
cd ch ocolate candy only, and the box was
not to be filled, because she wanted room
left for another present.
BOX AND WRAPPER SIMILAR.
Miss Hurber supplied her with the box,
as required. Miss Hurber, when shown the
box sent to Dover. DEL, with the poisoned
candy that killed Mrs. Dunning and Mrs.
peane, said that the paper in the box and
the paper wrapper were exactly similar to
to the paper she used in doing up the pur-
chase.
Frank Gray, tho drug clerk, was taken
10 the prison today to take look at Mrs.
Botkin. He identified her as the pure haser
from him of the arsenic on June l. He
subsequently made an affidavit Of tho
Identification, and be also swore to a mar
rative of circumstances attending the sale,
HABEAs CORPUS CASE PUT OFF.
At 10 a. m today the habeas corpus case
was called in Judge Cooks Court. Attor-
ney Knight asked for a continuance until
next Tuesday, as by tina. time the Cover
nor would have passed ON the extradition
question. II the Governor refused the ap-
plication, then further habeas corpus pro-
ceedings would be unnecessary. If, how
ever, the Governor granted the application
The battle would be renewed Oh habeas
corpus lines Continuance was ordered
until September 13, with consent of nil
concerned.
MRS. BoTKIN PRESENT AND SMILING
Mrs. Botkiu was present in Court Sho
smiled occasionally and gazed about the
court room and at times whispered to her
attorney. Messrs. Knight. McGowan and
Wheeler agreed with Chief Lees that the
case in the Police Court should be contiu-
ued for week. Chief Lees also agreed to
give Mrs Botkin's attorneys duo notice
when the Governor would be applied to
for mandate Of extraditiou.
COMPARING HANDWRITING.
Chief Leos has had an expert compare
The and writing on the box of candy with
'ne of the anonymous letters In the opin
on OF Expert kytha the penmanship was
'he work OF the same hand. Duuning also
Identified 1t at Dover.
In this letter the writer, presumably Mrs.
6otkin, says: From the hour you left to
20 to your home after he returned
rom trip to Los Angeles, he was con-
tantly with this interesting aud pretty
woman, who. by tho way, is au En ylis b
woman.
She Is now divorced from her husband
III owing to the marked intimacy with
lr. Dunning. Her husband Is now free
rom her' and your husband was the CORE.
pondent In the case, She has come of an
ingllsh Income, and Is interesting in
aany ways to degree She Is and was a
'dy by birth and education, and then, on
he other hand, they both Of them lived in |
he extreme delight of quiet bohemian
Ife."
CLlNCHING THE TESTIMONY.
Dover, pel, Sept. 6-Fearing that the
'ilure to hold in autopsy upon the bodies
Mrs Desne and Mrs Dunning might
ave loop-hole for Mrs. Botkin's escape.
eputy Attorney General Peter L. Cooper
r" spent to-day securing additional evil
ence. Drs. L. A. H. Bishop and Presley
Downes and Coroner w. d. Walls went
efore Magistrate Cooper and swore out
cw papers, which are believed to cover
'rtaln point, which, in the judgment of
10 San Francisco authorities, was want
g. DR.. Bishop In his new affidavit de-
ribes the symptoms of | 9th women. aud
wv he discovered their system was poi
med by arsenic crystals, but that this
scovery was made too late tu administer
~ thing but restoratives. The affidavit
DR.. Downcs tells how he judged tho
mptoms of Mrs. Dunnng as arsenical
soning.
Coroner Walls testified to the facts of
Q Inquest. Attorney General While to-
y received collection Of photographs
>m Chief Of Police Lees. Sheriff Shaw
lted tonight that tho special Oyer and
'rminer jury to try tho case of Mrs Bot.
II will not he drawn before October l.
A SHARP LETTER.
San Francisco, Cal, September 4.-In
@ of her interviews Mrs Rauff sold: -. .
The statement made by Marshal Ingalls,
d detective Meu to tho effect that 1
ped to God l might never be called to
witness stand that Mrs. Botkin would ,
Ike u clean breast of everything before I
1t time came, is incorrect" saii she in !
,aking of the case.
Those gentlemen are mistaken. did |
say anything Of the kind, or use lam q
age which could be so perverted. What r
i'd say was that If Mrs. Botkin were a
lily, hoped she would make confess /
n.
4 say now, and have always said. that i
he is guilty ofthat terrible crime hope J
will be made to suffer for it. s
If she is innocent, lot her prove 1t. lam y
shielding Mrs. Botkin, nor would l do A
If possessed any knowledge as to her g
1t, Ishould :.
MOST CERTAINLY DISCLOSE IT; n
t do not. As to what my personal L
nion may be, ihatis another question Y
tou' have no weight or hearing.
hay, said before that Mrs Bo;kin al a
VS. came urannounced. That is true 81
as never glad to see her come. She was !,
'ays rather repulsiveto me, and could i
entirely concoal tho fact She observed al
alluded to it many times. But could , Il
help 1t. did not like Mrs. Botkin. p
was ever study to me, and during 81
my assosciations with her felt never al
|erst ood the woman. She was not what W W
assumed to be. ii
5hei clever actress, and I felt she
such woman of many, many moods, 81