The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-22
FRANK GRAY
IN HONOLULU.
Nemesis Of Mrs. BOtkin
Is Here.
TESTIFIED AGAINST HER
A Principal Witness in Celebrated
Poisoning Case With
7. W. Hebron.

While Mrs. CordeIia Botkln pace
her prison cell in the county Jail .:
san Francisco. alert and eager for TIA.
new trial which II is said viii b.
granted her-while her attorneys and
half the other great expounders Of the
law in that city are sharpening their
wits and lingering their law books IN
nervous anticipation Of the second
trial OF the big sensational murder
case. very few Of them are aware that
one of the most important links in the
chain OF evidence that threatens yet
to send Mrs. Botkin to the scaffoid mas
drifted To the peaceful city of Homo
lulu, In the far-off Islands of the Pa
cifc.
Frank Gray. the clerk at the Owl
drug store who sold Mrs. Botkin the
arsenic which IL was once decided
brought death to the two innocent
women in Delaware. is now in the
employ Of the Hebron Drug Company,
IcCrnsr Of Fort and King streets. this
lefty.
/ Mr.. Gray. when interviewed by "A rep
resentative Of the Advertiser yester-
day. said that he had "a yet received
no notice from San Francisco that his
testimony will again be required. As
he has had quite enough notoriety
through the first trial Of the case he
says he Is not at all anxious TO be
summoned.
| n viii be remembered that the dis
covery Of the place from which the
arsenic was sold was made at time
when the authorities had begun TO de-
spair OF ever ascertaininE the truth as
% where the drug was obtained. and
the entry upon the Owl Drug Com
pany's books to the effect that pow
dered arsenic had been sold 10 one
"Mrs. Botkin" for the purpose oi
bleaching hats. some two months be
fors the murder practically completed
1.-THE chain Of circumstantial evidence
that In the eyes 81 the jury proved
the prisoner guilty and brought dowr
upon her the sentence % Imprisonment
for life.
Mr. Gray. upon being called into th'
cnse. testified that ne remembered tn
sale. Identified Mrs. Botkin as thu
woman 20 whom he had sold u an,
caused general CONSERVATION amonl
the legal forces for the defense. WheI
confronted with the conclusive testi
mony Of the druggists. the prisoner TO
the first time broke down and wept bit
terly. n was the most sensational o
all the sensational Developments Of tn
famous case.
should the new trial be granted
which Is almost certain to be the case
Mr.. Gray viii undoubtedly be- sent for
The second trial is 20 BE- allowed. II !
said. upon the citation Of the recen
decision In the Hoff case. that a certai
Q instruction % the jury. identically tn
same as that given by the same Judg
lin the Botkin case. was reversed b
the Supreme Court.
on account Of the widely separate
a states 81 California and Delaware. bot
being legally concerned IN the case. tn
FIRST trial caused much CONNER
lthroughout the United states. and IN
second trial will undoubtedly Great
much discussion throughout the who
country. a vigorous fight over techn
lcalities. as 20 which state has jurisdiS
ton oversize prisoner. is expected.
II possible that Mr.. Gray viii be con
PEELED 20 take n trim 20 Delaware.