Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-08
OoRDELIA BOTKlN IDENTIFIED.


Grey Says she Is the Woman Who Bought
Arsenic.
San Francisco, CAL, Sept. mira.
Cordelia Botein was in Judge Cooks
court yesterday. A motion to continue
tho haheas corpus proceedings one
week was granted, to await the action
of the governor on the application for
extrBdition.
Attorneys Knight, McGowan and
Whaeler agreed with Chief Lees that
the criminal case set for today in,
Judge Joachimsen'a police court should
be continued for one week.
Chief Lees also agreed to give tho
| attorneys for Mrs. botkin due notice
OF the time when the governor should
be applied to for ths mandate OF sx-
tradition.
| During the proceedings, Mrs. Botkin
smiled and gazed about the court
| room. She seemed not at all embar-
rassed.
notwithstanding Mrs. Botkin adj
mitted having bought arsenic at the
Owl drug store, Frank Grey, the sales
man, was. taken to the city prison yes
terday to identify the prisoner. Grey
recognized Mrs Botkiu as the woman
to whom he sold arsenic on June 1st
| He maids an affidavit to that effect, en-
| hodying also in the affidavit a nara
tion OF the sale OF the poison and the
information str ted in the record.
| Another fact VI strange circum-
| tantial import has been added by the
! police to the evidence that they are
collecting in their effort to prove Mrs.
Botkin the murderesH of Mrs. Dunning
and MrR. DeRne. Miss Emma Herbsr,
clerk TO George Haas. who told of the
mysterious woman who bought the box
Of candy, last night added new and
startling chapter to her recital She
4 was summoned before the chief oil
police, and to him made statement
that on Sunday. July 3lst, between
$50 p. IN. and 4.30 p. M. short,
stout full.faced woman entered tbs
Market street candy sturs and asked fol
box of candy. The woman said Hhe
was in hurry. Miss Herher noticed
lish accent The customer said sh,
wanted special box OF candy, or un
marked boz that she wished to sent
it to friends. She was particular Il
ask that only chocolate candies bt
placed 10 the hox and asked Mise Her
per not to fill it. as she intended t,
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woman's wishes were observed. Mis-
Iisrlisr took special. unmarked bo,
and filled 1t as instructed. The youn.
woman was shown the box Of poisoned
candy that was sent to Dover. Sh
looked at it moment and then sal,
that it was similar to the ooe shs hat
sold to her customer on July 3lst. TheI
the chief of police asked her to DIES
cribe the paper in which the box wa
wrapped. NJ ISIS Herhef did 30 ind sal
the wrapper on the death deslin
candies was similar to that which sh
had ussd.
Chief LseH hHa had an expert com
pare the handwriting on tbs box O
candy with one Of the anonymou
) letters. In the opinion of Exper
Kytka the penmanship was the wor
al the same hand. Dunning also iden
titled it at Dover. In this letter th
, writer, presumably Mrs. Botkin, says
From the hour you left to 60 to you
home after be returned from trip
Los Angeles, he was constantly wit
this interesting and pretty woman
! | who. by the way, il an English woman
She IL now divorced from her husband
/ all owing to the marked Intimacy wit
/ Mr.. Dunning. Her husband is no
i FREQ from her, and your husband We
the correspondent 10 the case. She tis
SOME Of an English income. and is IL
teresting in many ways TO degree
: She iS and was lady by birth an
s education, and then, on the othe
t hand. they both of them lived in th
, extreme delight of quiet bohemia
1 | life .,