The San Francisco call., 1898-08-24

on the way to this city 10 secure her extradition. The suspected woman is accused of sending a box of poisoned candy to the wife of the man she loved, causing the death of Mrs. J. P. Dun ming and Mrs. J. D. Deane.
 The box of deadly bonbons reached Dover. Del, Wednesday afternoon, August 10, and that evening, after sup Der. the two victims and several others partook of 1t. Mrs. Deane died the fol- lowing day. Mrs. Dunning died on the night of August 12.
 Assuming that Mrs. Botkin is guilty of the f1endish crime, the accepted the ory is that she prepared the box in this city and posted 1t just before she left for Healdsburg on August 4. The mes senger of death would have been deliv- cred at its destination August or 10. These dates are regarded as suggest lively significant by the detectives.
 STOCKTON. Aug. 23-Mrs. Ada Bot kin was arrested at the Windsor Hotel this evening on two warrants charging her with the most horrible double mur- der chronicled in many years. She Is officially accused of assassinatin~ Mrs. John p. Cunning and Mrs J. D. Deane. who unsuspectingly ate poisoned bon hons which had been sent all the way from San Francisco = Dover, Del
 When taken into custody Mrs. Bot kin was as calm as she was excitable when the finger of suspicion was first directed at her as the poisoner of Mrs. Cunning and Mrs. Deane. The arrest was expected, and when Detective Ed Gibson of San Francisco and Chief Of Police J. b. Gall stepped into her apartments at the Windsor at s:SO they were greeted with a cheery Good even Ing. gentlemen"
 Detective Gibson came up on the evening train. He went at once to the office of the Chief of Police and remain ed with Chief Gall few moments. The officers came out and walked leisureiy across to the hotel. They were not de- tained at the door. Mir. Botkin opened It and intuitively divining the purpose stepped back to admit the ofhcers- II there was occasion for any emoarrass- ment it was dispelled when the woman gave them a cheerful greeting
 :, Detective Gibson had delivered the warrant to Chief Gall and the latter ex- pIained that 1t became his duty to place Mrs. Botkin under arrest, and reouested her to listen to the reading D. ed near the center of the room, while her husband stood near by, as calm as though the ceremonial was any other than one which made his wife and the mother of his son a prisoner charged with a most foul crime. Opposite the woman who is now a prisoner sat Mrs. Ruoff, faithful nurse, who has cared for her during the excitement or lhe last few days. Mrs. Botktn was attired da dark hue It might have been made fot a travelling costume. but there was some irony in the fact that the journey was to be one of but a few blocks, end ing at the County Jail.
 As Chief Gall began to read the war rant the little woman arose from her chair with a dignif1ed air and stood Iucing him, but with dOwncast eye. Her face was calm but her breath came quick and short, showing that there was an agitation within which was not written on the face. There were two warrants, identical only that in one the charge was the murder of Mrs. Cunning and in the other Mrs. Deane. When Chief Gall had finished the first he hesitated and inquired if she waived the reading of the second 'Oh, yes. waive that" said the prisoner, and she sank into a chair. Her husband, dignified looking man, now drew near ar as though to shield his wife but he had not word to say. The grim Jail now seemed to flash before the woman for the first time.
 May I remain here under guard ?" she interrogated suddenly. Chief Gall replied that the law left him no alter native but to remove her to a cell The officers then gathered every scrap of paper on which was any writing, and told her that they must have her trunk and contents as evidence. The woman arose and assisted by her husband and nurse began to pack the trunk The officers kept close watch and handed her such envelopes and papers as they desired.
 T feel quite calm now" the woman said; ?" the excitement and shocks of the past few days are no more"
 Turning to her husband. whom she addressed as Pop" she asked that he send for her son Beverly. A reporter went on this mission and found the young man in the saloon with a friend making the wine fly. When told of his mothers arrest and desire to see him he waved the matter aside as not de- serving his attention. He has taken the developments of the past few days much to heart, and the drunken con dition in which he was found this even ing was his normal condition of the last few days. When the trunk had been packed it was strapped by Mir. Botkin and Mrs. Ruoff assisted the prisoner in putting on her bonnet. She drew dark veil over her eyes.
 The prisoner was removed to a large cell upstairs. The light in the cell was soon out and silence prevailed Later. when a Call reporter approached the cell 1t seemed that the woman was talking to herself It was dark. and at the call Mrs. Botkin," she replied. ''Tho is it. please?" To every question which was asked her about her plans. concerning Cunning or her past her answer was always. "I have nothing to say" Not another word would a question elicit. When the cell door was closed upon her she requested the jailer to admit no reporters as she Never wished to see one again
 Detective Gibson will take his pris- oner to San Francisco on the morning train. arriving there by the 11:90 boat. Her husband will accompany her. and