The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-13

done anything and I did not expect
this. 1 wonder if I will ever get out
of this place"
After awhile she became more calm
and stubborn, refusing to talk or to
eat the food brought to her.
Mrs. Dickinson, who has been re-
graded as the dominating spirit Of the
alleged conspiracy, has upset all pre-
dictions by giving every evidence of
an early and complete break
night, and ads ali pASS day long e' she
walked the floor of her cell wrining
her hands and crying. Her condition is
rapidly approaching nervous prostra-
ton. Whether innocent or guilty the
woman is in a terrible plight mentally
and physically. She has lost her de-
fiant air and now presents such con-
trast to her former self as to create
| compassion in the breasts of her &C
cusers. She feels that all the world
is against her
Everybody has Stunned me and
talked about me-" she says, for the
last two years-ever since the murder.
know L am hated and have no friends.
but 1 don't know anything about this
case
The old woman appears to have even
been deserted by McEwen, whose mis-
tress she was. He has made no at
tempt to see her and has made no re-
secure counsel to defend her.
Under Sheriff Robinson drove out to
the McEwen ranch this afternoon and
sought to secure some information from
the old man, but without success. Nc
Even declared, with great vehemence,
that if Mrs. Dickinson was party to
the murder of Wilson she had not taken
him into her confidence and he had
nothing to tell. The old man sought
to convince the officer that there was
no good reason why he should be taken
to Jail. He gave promise to come to
the Sheriff's office tomorrow morning
to make q statement.
Miller maintains his air of confidence
and expects to prove an alibi with the
! testimony of the Sheean girls of Val
| lejo but the Sheriff and those who
have been working on the case are con-
! fident that the accused man will find
| his confidence misplaced. Miller Sc
| cured an attorney to-day to defend
| him. The alleged murderer sent for
Attorney Lamont, one of the leading
! lawyers of the county, to take his case,
! but Lamont refused to have anything
| to do with it. During the afternoon
| Max Robbins, a young attorney, visit
| ed the jail and offered to defend Miller.
! The accused prisoners are becoming
| confused, and before they are placed
on trial they are likely to be entangled
in contradictory statements regarding
their movements within forty eight
hours of the murder For instance
when Miller was informed to-day that
| the officers had positive evidence that
his mother and McEwen had been seen
! leaving his house about o'clock on
| the morning of the day on which the
murder was committed, he protested
! that they departed a little before mid
night McEwen thought they had left
Miller's house about or 10 o'clock
Thursday night, and Mrs. Dickinson
said it was as early as D. m. Mrs.
| Wilson's memory on this point was
even more defective She at first said
that McEwen and Mrs. Dickinson had
not visited Vallejo and had not seen
Miller for two weeks before the murder
! was committed but when she was
prompted she admitted that they went
| to Vallejo Thursday morning and
reached home some time the following
night at what she regarded reason
| able hour.
Mrs. Lille Baylard, the young mar
ried daughter of Mrs. Wilson, who was
| living on the McEwen ranch with her
mother when her father was asSaSSi-
mated, maintains that her mother was
outside the house when the fatal shot
was fired and that she came indoors
/ Immediately after and retired. This is
in direct contradiction of Mrs Wilson's
i statement. Mrs. Baylard says she will
| tell everything she knows that can be
used to help secure proper punishment
for the slayers of her father. She ex-
presses no sympathy for her mother
| or grandmother and no desire to see
them.
There is but one thing that appears
to worry Miller, and that is the refusal
of the Sheriff to allow him to confer
with his mother. His anxiety to see
her may be natural, but it is also due to
a plainly evident desire to compare
notes. and this is just what Sheriff
! Savage is determined to prevent.