The San Francisco call., 1898-12-17
Dramatic Warn. ing of Judge
 Cook.

"she next came to my house on Au- gust IS, and was accompanied by Miss Livernash. The story of the murders had then been published looked at her and said: For Gods sake, who sent you here? Have you read the stories printed in the papers?'
 "She said, Do you believe 1t? Why should you?
 kin laid down on couch. I asked her if she remembered the conversation she had
 had with the doctor. She said, You put
 all those thoughts in my head She then
 went into mysteries and fell over the floor. I went for the doctor, who came and attended her.
 ''The. first time heard of the anony--
 nous letters in this case she mentioned them. She said there were three, and
 that they referred to acts at 927 Geary | street I asked whom she thought did tell, unless it was that singed cat Mrs. Forcade.' She said, If ever you saw
 scrawl in all your life they are the worst She said MT. Cunning sent them to her she was a fool for doing so. She denied lot of things attributed to her in the paper, but finally said she had made the
 statements. but not for publication. She talked a great deal about Cunning, but I can't remember all.
 Tn May at the Victoria Hotel she asked me what I used for bleaching hats. I recommended sulphur. She asked If 1 had used arsenic. She had been told 1t WdS good Dleacn1nR purposes. MT. Knight took the witness for cross examination and had proceeded but a short distance when some of the specta- tors laughed at tart answer he received to one of his questions. Although the regular hour for adjournment had not ar rived, Judge Cook declared the noon re- cess and instructed the Sheriff not to ad-
 init more spectators at the afternoon ses- sion than could find seats
 Upon the opening of court for the after noon session Attorney Hosmer. for the prosecution. addressed Judge Cook. He said that during the examination of Mrs. Ruoff he had objected to a question ad- dressed to her by Mir. Knight. He thought that he might be misunderstood and de- Asylum" Mir Knight did not avail him.
 sef of the opportunity of asking the ques- | tion again, but it was afterward brought
 out by Mir. Hosmer that Mrs. Ruoff had
 been employed in the asylum for three years as an attendant. MT. Knight con Veyed the Impression that she had been 1 She. was then asked as to the whisky i sine drank at Mrs. Botkin's house on
 Geary street, and said that Mrs. Botkin
 handed It to her and insisted upon her drinking 1t, against her wishes She was
 asked if she was put to bed that night arunk, q, .l ana said she was not tippliag. She Was never il a condition where she could not go to bed without assistance. and she was not intoxicated. ''--
 han Mrs, $, Bo1kin first discussed poison with ner Tn June and asked particularly as to
 the deadly effects of poison, The morning
 or the publication of tNe story of the
 called on Mrs Ruoff and the latter ad-
 mitted that she thought the "Old Harry
 hau sent the woman to the house. The
 witness said that by that time she had put two and two together and thought in
 her heart that Mrs. Botkin was the guilty woman.
 MT. Knight asked her if, having found
 Mrs. Botkin. married woman. enter taining MT. Dunning, a married man. she
 had formed a favorable opinion of her
 The witness said she had not formed a
 recalled letting MT. Cunning clandestinely
 into her own house in Oakland, and said
 she she @ did not @ at that time. She also said she round Mrs. Botkin an unwelcome visi- tor. MT. Knight showed her a letter writ
 ten by the witness to Mrs. Mcclure, Mrs. Botkin's sister, in which she spoke of the
 .atter's latter, safe arrival at her house and of
 this difference of feeling by saying tha:
 she liked Mrs. Mcclure and did not want
 to hurt her feelings by letting her know her opinion of Mrs. Botkin
 She acknowledged having examined the
 pencil letter lover an hour, or long
 enough 6Ut I to satisfy Chief Lees"
 accommodating Knight.
 Mrs. Botkin appealed to her sympathy
 and as Christian woman she gave 1t to her, although many times since then she has wished that she had never met her. Regarding the two anonymous letters she was sure one was written by Mrs. Botkin.
 the words Bohemian life" being, she said, a dead give away" Asked as to the meaning of the latter expression she said it was a slang phrase applied i to something one has heard before from any person.
 Mrs. Ruoff dissected the letter. picking
 out all the earmarks of Mrs Botkin's
 writing and. going into detail as to arm
 movement finger movement and muscu-
 lar recoil, as though writing teacher
 She said her expenses were paid here
 when she appeared before the Grand Jury
 and once when she went to Stockton but
 she had been promised no compensation
 for her testimony. Asked as to the req
 son she went to Stockton looking for letters to aid the prosecution she said she did so for her own pleasure" Appar- ently she did not mean she was bounding Mrs. Botkin for the pleasure it gave her.
 but that one expression was all the satis-
 faction the defenders of Mrs. Botkin could extract from the unshaken testi-
 monv of the woman. The jurymen will hear of it again when the case is argued Captain of Police John Seymour and De- tective Edward Gibson testified that neither of them had placed the bit of a seal in the room formerly occupied by Mrs. Botkin in the Victoria Hotel. At torney Hosmer then asked for an ad- journment until Monday, as Miss Liver nash, the next witness he desired was out of town. The prosecution had six
 more witnesses and would conclude the
 presentation of It's case on Monday. The court adjourned until that time.