The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-15
MRS. BOTKIN'S
PREMONITIONS
Miss LiverDosh and Mrs.
Rouof Deal With Her Cop
LESSONS and Feurs.

Through the columns of The Call the
evidence of Miss Lizzie Livernash has
been previously given. Miss Livernash
was the constant companion of Mrs. Bot
kin during the trip from Healdsburg to
Stockton by way of San Francisco, and
in her affidavit deals solely with the
hysterical condition of Mrs. Botkin at
that time, as well as with her admissions
of intimacy with Dunning. The orgies at
927 Geary street are described at length,
as is the scene in Stockton upon the first
meeting of Mrs. Botkin with her husband
after she had learned that suspicion
had rested upon her.
Or this Miss LivernaSh says:
AT Stockton we were met at the train by
Mr.. Botkin; he conducted us to the Imperial
Hotel; as soon Mr.. Botllin appeared Mrs.
Botktn was again yisibly affected TO such an
extent that IL required both of to assist
her to the hotel; arriving there Mr.. Botkin
requested to be left alone with his wife for
a few moments and standing in the corridor.
right near the door, the transom being open,
l could distinctly hear every word Mrs. Botkin
said to her husband. She beseeched and i'm
for publication in the Examiner saying that
the fault was his that they lived apart She
said You must do it-you must do IT. you
saVe ' m s'eid life me you must save my }e you
must say that the fault is yours that we live
apart; if you do not help me, If you do not
save my life will hound that woman TO the
very ends of hell.
Speaking Of the quarrel with her dis
solute son, Beverly Botkin, which was an
episode of the same meeting, Miss Liver
nash says:
When 1 stepped into the room Mrs. Botkin
was on her knees before her son crying and
carrying on in a very hysterical manner; her
son was also crying. He exclaimed, why,
Jack Dunning loves my mother Mrs. Botkin
exclaimed, Beverly, Beverly, you will ruin
me-
'.Alone in our own rooms after we had left
the son and husband. Mrs. Botkin exclaimed to
me that her son had the power to damn her.
The knowledge that Mrs. Almira Raouf
of Healdsburg might have of the case
has been much speculated upon, but her
affidavit develops that what she knows
can be used only as corroborative evil
dence. 1t rambles through many mat
tiers of utter insignificance, and Is only
saved from valuelessness by two or three
points.
OF these her ready Identification of Mrs.
Botkin's handwriting with that Of the
Concerning that point Mrs. Raouf says:
Lam acquainted with Mrs. Cordelia Butkin
and have known her between seven and eight
written by herself, having been in CORES pond
ence with her for two years and upwards. 1
have been shown the anonymous letters. also
the original envelope addressed to Mrs. John
P. Cunning, Dover, Delaware also the orig
nal used as 1oh1 and eontnmns
Delaware also the note, With love to your
self and baby. Mrs; c. and in my opinion
these several originals are in the handwriting
of Mrs Cordelia Botl1in.'
Relative to the handkerchief alleged to
have been bought at the City of Paris,
Mrs. Raouf says:
1 have been shown the handkerchief of
which exhibit Is a Photographic copy. saw
one similar to that when I was in company
with Mrs Botkin in the City of Paris marked
r25 cents / was there with her and she asked
me If did not think they were handsome. She
did not purchase any at that time.
ION the 1st day of June called to Mrs.
Botkin at the Hotel Victoria, California
and Hyde streets, in this city and county. hav-
ing just come from Stockton. 1t was about IL
o. clock in the forenoon. She asked me, when
was in the millinery business what I used
for Bleaching hats. told her I never did that
sort Of work, but always sent 1t out. She asked