The San Francisco call., 1898-12-28

VI that time twelve men will weigh
 carefully the evidence that has
 been presented both for and against her during the past two weeks, and will decide whether she shall step forth shortly a free woman or else mount those thirteen dreadful steps at San Quentin leading to the gallows tree. If she be acquitted of the charge upon which she is on trial she still has hanging over her head the charge of murdering Mrs. Deane The evidence is the same in each case and if she IS ever brought to trial a conviction is not expected in the second, as no mo- tive can be advanced.
 The last witnesses testified yesterday and each side gained something there by. Through an inadvertence Attorney Knight drew from one of the witnesses for the prosecution an important bit of evidence that the public prosecutor had overlooked. She was called to weaken the testimony of Dr. Terrill to the effect that he had attended Mrs. Botkin on Sunday afternoon. July 31- The doc tor could not find his way to his pa tient's room, and while searching for a servant to show him the way he en- tered the dining-room and knocked at the kitchen door and was answered by Miss Smith.
 She remembered the medico's visit and then fixed the day by a series of deductions that would do credit to Sherlock Holmes or any other modern HsWksha:w It was not Sunday, be- cause, first, she was in charge or the house and in all the time of her ser vice this duty never deVolVed upon her on a Sunday, that being her busy day preparing the special dinner always served on that day, and, secondly, she was making vegetable soup. This hXed the date absolutely for her, as she never made vegetable soup on sunday.
 It was by this same deep reasoning that she knew Mrs. Botkin was lll-she had prepared a trayful of food, which the waiter had taken to Mrs. Botkin. This was the testimony the prosecution wished to bring out, as 1t cast a doubt mon pr. Terrilrs testimony as to a visit to which he did not attach sufh- cient importance to enter in isIs DOCKS: MT. Knight had hardly commenced upon the witness before he unwittlngly brought out an answer he neither eX- pected nor desired.
 The witness had stated that Mrs. Rotl,in was i'll on Monday and the at torney apparently thought she would say the accused woman was Ill ana Tn bed on Sunday also. To his horror the witness replied: No! She was out or tba house on Sunday I saw her come in late in the afternoon and speak to Mrs Price. the landlady, in the nall way I stood just behind Mrs. Price. This corroborates Mrs. Price, who tes- tified early in the proceedings that Mrs' Rotkin came in with packages late, on inc afternoon that Sylvia Heney says 9 woman. whom she believes to be the nrisoner. bought a box Of canoy rom her The prosecution beamed when thls innnortant bit of testimony that IL nao overlooked was brought out by the other side.
 Mrs. Clara Arbogast, tall,. pioIluE anu tS, ,r{Ilowv. was produced unexpectedly py the nrosecution to the palpable surprise of Mrs Botkin and her legal advisers. Accordine to the testimony adduced d,,,ine the trial Mrs. Arbogast, who is said to be a grandmother, but does not look it. is the woman who stands pc tween Mrs: Botkin and her porlE spouse, Welcome Botkin- one mas en1 deavored. to avoid being witness ana it was only at the eleventh hour that she was located by the prosecution. Promoted by Mrs. Botkin, Knight was probing deeply into the relations eAisl7 ing between the woman ana MT. bolhlh' but finally desisted before ara" "lie from her any shameful confession She might nave been III d pooiei1ti "
 The only point scored by the uelense 5 during the morning session, which was marked by the acrimonious depate oI counsel, was in regard to the carryihs of mail between Eureka and tnls GUY One of the anonymous letters was post marked in this city June IS of the pres ent year. Mrs. Botkin was in Eureka all through that month. The prosecu- tion claimed that the letter was writ ten in Eureka on the 17th, which IS the date it bears. It was then dropped into. the mail bag according to the prosecution, ana brought to this city as is the custom, without being marked in any manner.
 The steamer Farailon arrived here on inc day in question at 4:10 a. m. The nurser affirms that it is the rule to de- nosit all letters, of which the men in his position are custodians. in the Post office foot of Market street within one hour after arrival. The anonymous let fer hears the imprint of the cancelng stamp with the hour 1:30 D. m In ad- dition to this, discrepancy Mrs. Botkin' $ sister affirrns that the accused woman did not leave the house on the day which the letter must have been mailed in order to come by the Farallon.
 Mrs. Botkin was not happy yesterday. All day long she fdgeted about in her chair as though under unusual nervous