Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-16
GOVERNOR BUDD HAS TO BE SHOWN
IN MRS. BOTKIN's CASE.
ExTRADITION HEARING BEGUN
ACCUSED WOMAN MAY NOT BE GIVEN
up TO DELAWARE.
Governor Demands to Know If Della
ware Will Pay Expense of Wit
nesses-Chief of Police Lees
Has His Evidence in
Shape.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.-The hearing
of the matter of extradition in the case
of Mrs. Botkin, accused of the poisoning of
Mrs. John T. Dunning and her sister, Mrs
Deane, did not progress very far to-day.
Governor Budd objected to the form of
complaint. In fact, he claimed that no
actual complaint had been made. District
Attorney Hosmer and Detective McVey en-
deavored to explain the intricacies of the
Delaware code, and claimed that the COM
plant was embodied in the warrant. This
explanation did not satisfy the governor.
The governors objection to the docu-
ment proposed as a complaint was that ex-
pressions were in the past tense. 1t said:
Pennington made OATH" not makes
OATH and was therefore. the governor
held. not a complaint, but a narrative of
the fact that complaint had been made.
1t did not purport to be copy of the COM
plant.
The governor suddenly dropped the ar
gument over the form of the papers and
asked Detective McVey, the Delaware Of
ficial, If his state was willing to pay the
expenses of witnesses in the case. The
detective replied that he would have to ask
for Information, upon which the governor
replied that the answer to this question
would have an important bearing on his
decision.
took the stand that many of the afhdavits
were based upon insufficient information,
and implored Governor Budd to act only on
the information before Governor Tunnel,
of Delaware, when the latter made the
requisition, and not take into consideration
the evidence since accrued by the prose-
cution, especially the local authorities.
Chief of Police Lees has carefully COM
piled the evidence he will submit to Cover
nor Budd in the Botkin case. He has gath
cred between this city and Dover. Del,
nearly forty affidavits bearing on the muir
der of Mrs. ]. P. Dunning and her sister,
Mrs. Deane, by means of poisoned candy
sent by mail. The requisition from Cover
nor Tunnel, of Delaware, for the delivery
OF Mrs. Botkin to Detective McVey, of that
state, is accompanied by a warrant sworn
to by John B. Pennington, father of the
murdered women, charging Mrs. Botkin
with the murder of Mrs. Deane. Besides
the warrant are numerous affidavfts from
Kent county, Del. establishing the murder
of the two women. Other afffdavits give
in detail the circumstances of the case,
nearly all of which have heretofore been
published.
that he believes the handwriting on the
envelope of the anonymous letter which
reached his wife in July, 1897. was that of
writing on the box which contained the
candy, as he had not seen it. The only
new point is contained in the affidavit of
that during the latter part Of May Of. early
In June, while employed at 1902 Market
street he sold 25 cents worth of arsenic to
a woman who said she wanted 1t for the
purpose of bleaching straw hats. Her ap-
pearance, he said. resembled that of Mrs.
Botkin.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin and the attorneys
for the defense claim to have no fear of the
evidence that will be presented to Governor
Budd by the prosecution. They base their
cused woman to establish a complete alibi.
The alibi will cover a period dating from
the day Clerk Frank Grey claims he
store to the day she was arrested in Stock
ton.