The San Francisco call., 1898-12-24

part of them required one answer and the
 other a contrary one Judge Cook lee
 tured him severely upon his evasions ot
 questions the first time he has felt called
 upon to do so during the progress of the
 trial.
 The witness who had frightened the
 gloom of the tragic trial reeking with ar
 senic, poisoned candy and tales of illicit
 love, finally gave way to Mrs. A. F.
 Grant, music teacher at Healdsburg Col
 lege. She repeated the oft-told tale of the
 manner in which Miss Lizzie A. Livernash
 gained the confidence of Mrs. Botkin.
 Miss Lfvernash told Mrs. Grant that she
 had told Mrs Botk'n she was woman of
 1he world. To Mir. Hosmer she said she
 bore no i'll will toward Miss Livernash.
 Mrs. Botkin was the next and the last
 witness for the defense and with the con-
 rlusion of her cross-examination MT.
 Knight said That is our case, if your Honor please"
 Under MT. Knights careful questioning the defendant went on with the carefully worded narrative she commenced the day
 before. She first said that the letters in her trunk from her husband all discussed the divorce he seemed so o1Xious to se- cure from her, to the end that he might bestow his cooled affections elsewhere. In response to questions regarding her cor respondence with Cunning, she said that
 
 its battlefelds they had an understanding that a rePular correspondence was to be kept up. He was to write of the war and the stirring incidents through which he passed and also to tell her with what sue cess he had pullo7 himself together to be what he was not at that period.
 He had written her three letters en route. Her letters to him were equal in number to those he wrote, perhaps more, she said.
 When we parted there was no under standing that our friendship was severed for all time, but, on the contrary, we were to follow up one another's movements. He was anxious to know of my success in dealing with my husband. I admon- ished him that it was best that he should be with his family, where temptation would not be strong. We never at any time discussed the matter of each of us getting a divorce and being thus able to marry. I would not consider the matter of a divorce, and my husband has no way of procuring one, although he has repeat edly asked for one.
 My friendship with MT. Cunning was open and above board. We went about with my husbands consent, as he wanted me to have a good time so long as I was in the company of gentlemen. While I was at 927 Geary street MT. Dunning's financial condition was pitiable in the ex- treme. It was such that it would excite pity in any woman. He was in extreme want, and I helped him. I do not care to refer to what have done for him. About this time he went to Salt Lake, in an attempt to better his condition. He remained away. five months, but did noth- ing, and then wanted money on which he could return. He wired for funds so that he could return here, and I sent him the necessary funds. When he left here he thought he had gone for good and that he would never return. While he was in Salt Lake he sent me what purported to be an anonymous letter. With it he wrote me that he had received it from his wife and that he did not know who had sent it. To his wife he had laid the blame at the door of Mrs. Calimbertie, but he really did not know who wrote it. He said that his enemies and mine apparently did not intend to let us alone. thought the letter was the work of some one who had lived at 927 Geary street and who had not en- joyed the good times we had there.
 T also suspected Mrs Seeley, who had an enmity toward me. l had seen Mrs. | Dunning's handwriting, as he had shown his wife's letters to myself, Mrs. Seeley 1 and my son Beverly. He would read to us what she had to say about their little ! girl, of whom he was very fond. The | anonymous letter was not a copy in the | handwriting of Mrs. Cunning, as has been | testified to in this case. As well as ones memory can be depended upon, the letter was a perfect counterpart of the other anonymous letters"
 Did you on August 4 send by mail a box of candy?" asked Knight.
 II did not" was the answer.
 Did you ever send a box of candy to Mrs. Dunning?'
 T never did"
 q never spoke to Mrs. Ruoff about rates 1 of postage as I knew all about such mat ters and freight charges from the wide eX- perience I had as a purchasing agent never wrote to Mrs. Cunning and l never addressed a letter John P. Dunning.' It | was always J. P. Cunning Esq l had | no enmity toward Mrs. Cunning. l had | never seen the woman in my life and | never sent her a letter of any kind. | certainly never saw the box of candy | until it was shown here and was never in | the candy shop. 1 never went to the Owl ! drug store. l do not know MT. Grey. | never met him and never had any talk | with him. 1 never made purchase of | arsenic in me life in San Francisco or in any other place. I never purchased the | handkerchief shown here and never had | anything delivered to me from any shop | Tn lnlS clly.
 "When MT Botl5in was discussing the | question of us being divorced I consulted 1 Attorney w. H. L. Barnes with view to l resisting his efforts in that direction. | When Mr. Dunning went East we had no discussion and no understanding as to my | joining him there.. I hoped for the best | for him and never contemplated that mat | ters would be otherwise. On July 31 | was i'll in bed and did not leave my room | with the exception of the time 1 went to | telephone Dr. Terrill. The Jap served ! dinner to me in my room and placed it . near my couch. On the following day, ! August 1, I gathered myself together and, after making myself presentable, 1 went i to the shop downstairs and made a num- Der of purchases of eatables. They had . no buns which l desired, so l took loaf ! of bread and some fruit. I then went to a chemists shop and made some pur- chases of toilet articles and returned to the hotel. On the stairs l met Mrs. Price, who reprimanded me, saying that in my illness l should have had the Jap or her lad to serve me. I had these parcels when I met Mrs. Price.
 MT. Cunning never told me his wife was passionately fond of candy. He used to say that with her high ideals of life she was too good for him. I always ad- vised him to go to his wife. I never dis ollSSpd rnarriapa him IT r.,o,,l5 bo