The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-24
MISS OLIVER
WILL TELL A
STRANGE TALE
Brandes' Letter to Be
Produced.
PROOF OF HIS DUAL LIFE
BE REPRESENTED HIMSELF AS
BIS BROTHER.
The Prosecution Is Still Putting
on It's Witnesses in the
Trial of the Murdered
Girls Father.
Oakland ONCE San Francisco Call


9OS Broadway, Feb. %.
Emma oliver will be the most interest
ing witness against w. A. Brandes, now
on trial for murder. Her testimony can
not fail to materially aid the prosecution.
It will show Brandes to have been an
adept at leading a dual existence, I'M
faithful to his wife and dishonest to his
, employers, inasmuch as he was making
love to the young girl In Alameda dur
ing those hours of the early night for
which he was paid by Berkeley property
owners to protect them from thieves and
burglars.
Miss Oliver has required great deal
of coaxing before she could be induced
to admit that she knew anything about
Brandes or his love making. She con-
tradicted the exclusive story regarding
her acquaintance with Brandes pEb-
lshed in The Call two months ago, and
declared that she had no letter from him
and had never received one. After a lit
tie questioning Miss Oliver broke down
and admitted TO the Prosecuting Attorney
that everything published in The Call ia
true, and also admitted a great deal
more.
Miss Oliver received over a hundred
gushing letters from Brandes. For sew
eral months prior to the murder of Lillian
he visited her at her employers residence
in Alameda three or tour times week.
He took her out walking and buggy rid
ing, but never reached the point of pro-
posing marriage. Miss OllVer says mat
BrandeS always represented himself as
William kalpn, and that not until she
found an envelope in his pocket, on which
was memorandum from his wife, did
She realize that he was Brandes
The letter she received from him after
his arrest is carefully treasured by the
girl, but she has promised District At
1orney Allen that she Will produce il in
court. In it Brandes tells the girl that
he is in great distress on account of his
arrested,
(Brandes) explains his inability to keep
further company with Miss Oliver, on the
ground that he is going to spend several
, months in the East raising the fund for
his brothers relief. He gives Miss Oil
yer some good advice about marriage and
tells her that she is altogether too good
TO marry a waiter or a Spaniard.
Miss Oliver has stated that she will tes-
tify TO these facts. She also tells a most
vivid story of the last visit Brandes made
which was to her mothers house at
Fourth and Clay. This occurred on the
her that his brothers girl had died. He
was trembling like a leaf was cold as
ice, perspiratlon poured from his hands
and face and his demeanor was such that
Miss Oliver says she asked him If he
were crazy. The girl tells her story in
q most truthful manner and the details
differ nothing from her interview pub
uShed some months ago.
The further cross-eXamination Of DR..
H. S. Buteau at the Brandes murder trial
to-day resulted dtsastrously for the de-
Tense. Attorney Bennett challenged a
statement made by witness; the challenge
was promptly accepted. DIR. Buteau won
out, supported by authorities cited by the
defense.
DR.. Buteau had just testified that the
apron with which the defense claims Lii
liam BrandeS hanged herself could not
possibly contracted the muscles of the
neck, driven out the blood and made the
skin appear brown and parched, and that
q brown parched appearance of the skin
of the neck of person hanged occurs
only where the body has remained sus-
pended hours.
that Attorney Bennett challenged DR.. Bu-
teau He sneeringly questioned the sound
ness OF DIR. Buteau'S opinion and asked
for authorities, challenging him to prove
% his assertion.
Would Mitthaus and Becker support
you in this?" asked Attorney Bennett, al
ready having turned to a page in that au-
thority which he believed refuted the ex-
"You mean that as challenge. sup.
pose?'' replied DR.. Buteau. We'll, l an
certain l am supported by all good au-
Attorney Bennett then requested wit.
ness to read a paragraph from Witthaus
and Becker, which he pointed out. DR.
Buteau, however, ignored this, since II
! was but quotation from Taylor, and in
stead read an extract from Witthaus an(
Becker's opinion, which bore .out hi:
statement without the slightest diverg.
ence, almost to the language used.
Then Bennett complained that ButeaC
was trying to draw a distinction. ButeaJ
caught the remark and responded:
. II am not trying to draw any distinc-
fion. L met your challenge, and If yoC
got the worse of it you should stanC
by it."
Bennett then wanted to know whether
the mark On a persons neck suspended
after death could be red, or pink or The
color of an actress tights.
&c, Witness answered that it might be red
dish in color if there was flesh, but that
he had never seen pink in person
dead or alive.
The examination then drifted to menin-
gifts as the cause of death, and here Juror
e. A. Randlett asked this most important
question of witness: In this girls case
of meningitis, do you consider that she
would have been able to hang herself?
DR.. .Buteau uttered an emphatical mo. "
Later Juror Randlett asked witness
what conditions, in his opinion, had pro-
. dueed meningitis The doctor replied: 81
found no conditions in this childs case
that would account for meningitis except
the blows upon the head"
This concluded DIR. Buteau's testimony
and at o'clock he was EXCUSED. He had
been on the stand all last Friday, last
Tuesday and nearly all of to-day. The
most elaborate and extensive cross-ex-
animation failed to reveal the smallest
vista of doubt that Lillian Brandes was
brutally murdered by her father.
DR.. Hubert NJ Rowel Of Berkeley, who
was present at the autopsy, was next
called, and his testimony, so far as II
went to-day, was similar to that given
by the expert who had preceded him.