The daily Republican., 1902-11-05
MRS,BOTKIN HOPES
TO Be ACQUITTED
MURDERCHARGE.

gagged protest. sionally2"
This Is the gist OF the San Fran
cisco testimony. From the East will
come witnesses 10 tell of the 70 :sivin Z
OF the box OF candy by Mrs. Dunnine Z
> OF the handkerchief enclosed in>'tne
ooS and the message, with best
love, inscribed on a card of the can
dies which appeared to differ from
most OF those in the box, apparently
being home made creams; of the
Illness that followed after several
members Of the Pennington, houses
hold had partaken OF the candy, and
CT the death OF Mrs Deane two days
after it's arrival and Of Mrs DunnInp
three days after.
Mr.. Pennington. father OF Mrs,
Dunnlng, believed the writing found
IN the oox to be the same as tho,
writing In several anony nous letters
previously y received by Mrs. Dun
ming. These letters told of the
wrong doing OF her husband. The
prosecution asserted that Mrs. Bot.
kin was the writer in both cases. !
The defence calls this weak
point, Mrs. Botkin would not have
written anonymous letters ewes
mining at her own relations with !,
Dunnng, it says. "The writer Of I
an anonymous letters always implied
Gates a third person, not him or her. 4
self. X
DEFENCE ASKS FOR MOTIVE tss
Again the defence asks why Dun$
ming, who placed the crime upon .
Mrs. Botkin in the first place, should
lmplicate her any more than other
women who had as much reason
for being jealous of his wife or
more, for it declares she parted
with him on the most friendly
terms and had no desire to be IN ore
to him than she already was. She
could not have wanted to marry
him, for she was fighting her own
husbands suit for divorce. There.
fore there was no motive for the
crime.
The defence laughs at the evi-
dence Of the candy girl. She never
positively Identified Mrs. Botkin, nor
did the other girl in the same shop
VINO had been near at the time oE
the sale. They merely said that
tho buyer resembed Mrs. Botkin.
The shop is one of the busiest in
town. How could a saleswoman
remember any one to whom shei
had sold a pound of candy even as
much as week bsfors2 is asked.
Evidence OF the clerk who sold tho
handkerchief was attacked on the z
same ground. There was no posi-. n.
live Identification in this case.
'Iiher' The books of the dry goods
tote showed 90 record OF any suchI
ale to Mrs. Botkin and thsre
'old havs been such a record lf
he article lad been sent ont to Mrs. 4
''tkin's house by delivery boy,
3 the clerk asserted.
The clerk Of this drug store sold
lrs. Botkin powdered arsenic. The
olson found in the candy was in
IMP torn, Expert chemists testl.
ed that the powdered arsenic can
Jt be transformed into the lump
,rm.
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rriine1 To ba San Er,n.is,a ~ ma' ,.J u
ID th1t NIrs bnttin no''.o !'. ani
,e wa; arre,taI in Stocttnne I 8 1"T'' HaT
ken to San Fr,n,isco aod ' trtni H%
d S,ntaorsI vfthIn sIT ,,aa.L- HaI '''0N
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