Evening journal., 1898-12-30
He SCORED THE POLICE
Mrs. Botkin's Attorney Hauls
Prosecution Over the Goals.
DUNEING COMES IN FOR A SHARE

AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHITE,
OF DELAWARE, WAS ALSO AT
Tackled BY LAWYER FRANK
MGOwAN-QUESTION OF ARSE
MIC SHOULD BE CAREFULLY
CONSIDERED - INSTRUCTIONS
SATURDAY.
San Francisco Dec. sO.-A large
crowd was drawn to Judge Cooks
court room yesterday to hear the ar
gumenes in the case of Mrs. Cordeha
Botkin.
The police held the crowd in check
with difficulty and for hours before the
commencement Of the arguments by
the defense's attorney, Frank Nc
Gowan, the corridors were flied with
crowd anxious to catch few words
of the scathing arraignment Of the
police and the methods of the prosecu-
tion which had been whispered about
would be the main feature OF Nc
Gowans address. Nor were the rumors
without foundation. MCGOWAN hauled
the police over the Goals royalty. He
charged the prosecution with all kinds
of infhmy in the handling Of it's case,
and roasted several Of the witnesses to
crisp.
PROSECUTION ATTACKED.
He went over the case from begin
ming tn end and said that the defense
had not made a technical fight; that IL
had not bickered over the admission Of
evidence and had kept nothing back
He attributed directly opposite meth
ods to the prosecution. He said that
were his client guilty she would have
attempted to hide everything hurtful
to her case. He admonfshed the jury
regarding circumEtantial evidence, and
limited upon the dishonesty of prose-
cutors In many cases to secure convic-
tons on such evidence.
MCGOWAN attacked Attorney General
Whites argument. He accused the
Delaware attorney Of appealing to the
sympathy OF the jury. He said that
Mr.. White had made misrepresenta-
tiOns, especially with regard to the ar
rival of the box Of candy at the Della
ware post office. Mr.. MCGOWAN said
that its arrival had not been proved
and that an emplOye Of the Dover pest
office might have placed the package
in the bag as easily as not.
Referring to the anonymous letters
Mr.. MCGOWAN said that they had not
been traced to Mrs Botkin and that
she had no reason for writing them
The identification of Mrs Botkin by
several of the witnesses for the prose
ton, continued Mr.. MCGOWAN, was
fiimsy and unreliable. and that actor
in such cases must be carefully consid
cred. Mr.. McGowan said that no mo
tive had been proved: that the conten
tion of the prosecution that Mrs. Bot
kin was enamored OF Dunning had no'
been proved by the facts in the case;
in fact, the opposite held good. Mr.
MCGOWAN entered a bitter attack upor
John p DunninG
After declaring that he was a mar
for whom no woman would commit {
crime to marry, he asserted that the
court should have compelled him L
give names of the women with whom
he had been intimate, any one Of whom
. might had more incentive to remove
| DuAAnAn1 AAAatAA MIS- Al0NhAns
ARSENICAL POISONING.
Mr.. MCGOWAN reserved the subject o
arseniCal poisoning for the concluding
feature Of his argument. He held tha
arsenical poisoning had not beer
proved. and even If it had the attend
, ing physicians had stated that luml
arsenic had been used. whereas the drul
! clerk from whom Mrs. Botkin pur
/ chased arsenic entered the purchas
upon the poison book of the druggist
= specifying powdered arsenic.
\ Every point throughout the case, de
4 clared McGowan, was shrouded il
: doubt, and he urged that the jury q
: not bring in a verdict opposed 70 tn
Y facts adduced in the defense.
District Attorney Hogmer, who wi
close for the prosecution, is likely t
take an Of to-day in presenting tn
state's case against the prisoner, an
! il now looks as though the jury woul
: not be instructed before to-morro'
J. | morning