Evening journal., 1898-08-26


represented to me that she has fec
from the justice of this state, and has
taken refuge within the State Of Cali.
fornia; now, therefore, pursuant to the
provisions of the Constitution and laws
OF the United States in such case made
and provided, l do hereby request that
the said Adelaide c. Botkin be de.iv-
erred up to one Bernard j. McVey. who
Is duly authorized to receive and con-
yey her to the State of Delaware, there
to be dealt with according to law. In
witness whereof I have here unto set
my hand and caused the great seal OF
the State OF Delaware to be affixed. at
Dover, this twenty-fifth day OF August
in the year Of our Lord one thousand.
eight hundred and ninety-eight, and OF
the Indpendense of the United States.
the one hundred and twenty second.
Signed by the governor,
EBE w. TUNNEL.
JAMES II. HUGHES,
Secretary of State.
Here followed the certificate OF Peter
L. Cooper. Jr., deputy attorney-general.
and the warrant OF John b. Penning-
ton, Of the town of Dover, county OF
Kent, State Of Delaware.
The extradition papers we're sent to
San Francisco, addressed to Detective
MsVey, in care Of Chief Of Police Lees.
Of San Francisco. They will reach
there almost as soon as the detective,
as McVey did not leave Philadelphia
until late on Tuesday morning, instead
of on Monday night, as had been ex-
pected. McVey will reach San Fran
cisco on Sunday morning, while the
papers will reach there on Monday
morning.
Governor Budd wired to the attor-
ney-general last evening that he would
honor the papers sent by the Delaware
authorities.
Detective Witsil and the Whining
ton police matron will probably bring
Mrs. Botkin here. The matron will
watch her at night and the detective by
day to prevent suicide.
The California witnesses will not be
summoned to Delaware until the trial
but their affidavits will be taken.
DRUMMING THE STAR WITNESS.
At the trial the star witness for the
state will be John Preston Dunning
He will be called upon to condemn tn,
woman with whom he had been closely
associated in the Golden Gate city fol
two years, while his wife lived in this
city-a woman to whom in letters he
had signed himself with love"
Dunning's evidence is expected To
prove conclusively that the woman he
claims was infatuated with him sent
to his wife the box OF innocent-loolx-
ing chocolates filled with arsenic, with
the note, with love to yourself and
baby" And that evidence, with NOR
that the state is to present, will, in the
opinion Of the attorney-general and
other officials, send the accused pris-
oner to the gallows.
Il am doing all can to bring K
justice the poisoner of my wife and
sister-in-iaw," were the words tee
graphed from New York to this city tC
Mr.. Deane by Dunning yesterday. ant
that he is sincere is affirmed by th'
attorney-general. In the formal state
ment to the latter, Dunning positively
identified the writing on the fata
package as that OF Mrs. BOtkin. Th'
attorney general stated that not only
the handwriting on the package haC
been identified as that of Mrs Botlzin
but that, according to Dunning, she
was the person who wrote the anony
nous letters received by Mrs. Dunnini
from San Francisco thirteen months
ago, he having also positively identi
fed the handwriting.
In the letters Mrs. Dunning was in
formed of her husbands relations will
a woman in San Francisco. The writ
ing in the letters, especially the ad
dress on the envelopes, is declared b,
the attorney-general to be exactly tn
same. In the address on the wrappe
that came on the candy box there ar
peculiarities in the writing. and M
White says the same peculiarities ar
plainly noticeable in the address on tn
envelope which contained the anony
nous letters.
The supposition OF the officials /
that the anonymous letters we're writ
ten with the purpose of causing trou
Bile between Mr.. and Mrs. Dunnins
and eventually a permanent separation
in which case Dunning would be en-
tirely free to resume his association
with Mrs. Botkin.
, The ey-general firmly believe
that Mrs. Botkin was alone the erigina
tor of her diabolical pan to rid her
self Of the woman she felt was in he
. way, and that she carried it out TO
successful end after the mission OF tn