The San Francisco call., 1898-11-30
WITNESSES IN
 THE BOTKIN
 CASE COMING Large Party Left De- yer Yesterday. CUNNING WILL BE ON HAND PROSECUTORS CONFIDENT OF A
 CONVICTION. Attorney General White Claims to Have @ Case That Will With stand All Legal As
 saults.
CUNNING WILL BE ON HAND
PROSECUTORS CONFIDENT OF A
 CONVICTION.

WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. 29.-The Delaware witnesses for the Botkin case left Wilmington at 7:36 o'clock this evening over the Pennsylvania Railroad for San Francisco. They go over the Pennsylvania route to New Orleans and thence over the Sunset route. The party was composed of At torney General Robert (. White, who will assist. in the prosecution; State Detective Bernard J. McVey, who as- sisted Tn working up the case; ex-Con- gresslnan John B. Pennington, the venerable father of the murdered wo- men; Joshua D. Deane, the husband of one of the murdered women; pr. Lem- uel A. H. Bishop and Dr. Presley Downes. who attended the patients; ex- Postmaster Thomas Gooden, who was Postmaster and placed the box of candy in the Pennington mail box Della Deane, a daughter of one of the mur- dered women, who ate some of the candy; Miss Josephine Bateman and Miss Ethel Clark who also ate of the poisoned candy but escaped; Miss Ethel Millington who also ate some of the candy; Harry Pennington. who carried the box home and gave 1t to his aunt, Mrs. Dunning. and pr. Theodore R. Wolfe, the State chemist, who made the analysis of the poisoned candy.
 The party occupied a special Pull man car and will be looked after by Attorney General White and Detective McVey.
 John P. Cunning, the husband of the woman to whom the poisoned candy was sent, is in Chicago, and will go to San Francisco from there.
 pr. DoWneS at first refused to go, be- cause the authorities were not willing to compensate him sufficiently for leav- ing his practice for such a long period, but he was finally prevailed upon to go and consented so late that he scarcely had time to pack his clothing.
 Walter Morris, the cashier of the Farmers Bank, who was summoned as a witness, could not go because he has been summoned to appear as a wit ness in the case of United States Sena- tor Richard R. Kenney, charged with aiding and abetting in misapplying the funds of the First National Bank of Dover and the Government insisted upon him remaining here.
 Attorney General White in discussing the case said: .
 We will be successful, no doubt, if We, get a good jury and a good court; we will secure conviction of Mrs. Bot kin, for. We have the case against her. We have a complete case and unless outside circumstances over which we have no control occur or unless outside influence is exerted we surely ought to convict.
 T do: not know very much of the California law under which she is be- ing tried, but l understand there is punishment for the crime if 1t is com mitted wholly or in part in that State, and under such conditions we should surely secure a conviction"
 Do you think the California authori- ties would hang Mrs. Botktn if she were convicted?' MT. White was asked by The Call correspondent
 T don't know whether they will hang her, but they surely should convict her. A fair field and no favor is all we. ask there"