The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-08
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cisco jail on the charge of poison
ing Mrs. Jofia p. Dunning and De~ sis
ter, Mrs. Deane, both of Delaware. says
Nettie Thompson Grove in KansaG City
Star
This year, however. brings the news
that her case will come to q final trial,
as ordered by the courts in Washing
ton, this month.
The prosecution announces that II
has no new evidence, but considers the
evidence produced at former. trials am
pie to secure a conviction again. It's
chief witness, Mr.. Pennington, how
ever, has died. Mr.. Heggerty, for the
defense, not only has his old evidence
in shape to reproduce, but announces
that he has fresh evidence, and ne is
again confident that mo fair-minded
jury will convict his client in the face
of the evidence" to be produced by both
sides.
The prosecution and defense will both
import witnesses from Delaware. Not
ably, for the defense. it is reported.
will appear a physician from that state
to testify that neither woman died Of
arsenical poisoning.
Judge Carroll Cook, who pronounced
life sentence over Mrs. Botkin at her
last trial, will again preside.
There will also be reproduced at the
coming trial drug clerk and a profess
sional nurse. The clerk will again tes-
tify that he sold a woman. whom he, of
course, Identifies as Mrs. Botkin, arse
mic for the alleged purpose of cleaning
a hat: that he insisted that he had
other drugs better adapted for her pur-
pose than arsenic, but Mrs. Botkin, as
Stunning his Identification to be correct.
insisted on buying the arsenic, which
was in the powdered form. The arsenic
found in Mrs. Cummings box of candy
was in the crystal form, and had been
forced into the bOnbOns. Expert chem
lists will again testify that powdered
arsenic cannot be transformed into the
crystal form. and the defense viii
again establish the fact that it has not
been able TO find drug store in San
Francisco-remarkabl exception in
thus losing a chance of a connection
with this most notorious crime-that
had sold any arsenic in this particular
form.
The prosecution will also reintroduce
one Mrs. Raouf. nurse, who most OPP
portunely recalls several very singu-
lar questions" asked her by Mrs. Bot
kin shortly before the crime. Singu-
lar are they indeed to have come from
a woman of Mrs. Botkin's age and
worldly experience. They speak for
themselves.
'Boes one have to tell a doctor or
lawyer the truth when he is engaged
professionally?
The second question is worthy of a
Mojave squaw:
When a parcel is sent by registered
mail does the sender have to sign his
manner"
The third question is also Indicative
of a high order of intelligence:
How much arsenic does. it take to
kill a person."
It may be pertinent to recall here the
fact that at the time of the first trial
an obscure little weekly paper pub
lished an account of the cross question
ing of women witnesses by Mr. Heg-
gerty. They were severely handled.
The question of money being intro
duced. one admitted having received
forty pieces of silver, ten more than
her illustTious predecessor received''-
to quote Mrs. Botkin.
County Jail No. 3, the Jail provided
Tor the women prisoners in San Fran
cisco. is well out on the old San Jose
road 1t is a solitary location cut off
from a view of the ocean or of the
city by high ranges of foothills The
building is not jail-like in appearance,
in fact, was once a school building. II
sits high in terraced grounds that are
as carefully kept as though surround
ing private residence. Mrs. Botkin
occupies a large square room on the
nrst floor in one corner of the building
formerly lumber room. It is reached
only through one of the wards usually
well filled with prisoners of the drug
hend type. 1t is finely lighted, having
large windows on two sides.
Mrs Botkin has transformed the bare
room into the appearance of a luxllri-
Gus living room. A closer inspection.
however, reveals that that which seems
10 civ,
ized by exquisite cleanliness and the
utilization of inexpensive materials.
The draperies are kept freshly laun-
Fdered and when put up are nut IN
hrmiy with no fiimsy bows of ribbon
IN impossible places. The windows are.
unshaded save by simple white lace
curtains
The writer's for housekeeping tour-
nails on the pet themes of how tn fur-
nish an eight-room fiat on SS9.'' or how
70 evolve an easy chair from a flour
barrel and two yards of cretonne."
could gain in practical knowledge bv
an inspection of Mrs. BOtkin's quarters
in county jail No. 3. They would find
there practical adaptation of economy
winch insures solid comfort without
sacrificing the artistic.
The apartment certainly deserves the
ute, living room, for within its com
PASS are round the means for satisfy
ing the conditions of daily existence
The corner to the left as the room is
entered is filed by a tiny stove serving
the tWo-fold purpose of heating and
COOKING. The dressing table is across
the second corner and the dining table
graces the third. while against the wall
space between the two fianked on either
size Dy window, is placed the bed. The
SINK and china closet occupy the fourth
corner, before which is placed a taU
screen Of japanese mating. a speci-
men Of Mrs. BOtkin's work. In fact. in
this work Of Transformation she has in
turn been seamstress, painter and car
penter.
The floor is entirely bare save for a
couple of small rugs. The walls. paint
ed by Mrs. Botkin. are in a rather
strong yellow The drop ceiling is of
a paler tint of the same color while at
the 1uncture Of the two shades is built
around the room a plate shelf-a specf-
men of the occupants carpentry.
The furnishings, which were all mr.
chased by Mrs. Botkin, are accordingly
simple and we're procured second hand
The dressing table and chest were first
sandpapered and then painted pa1e vel
low with deeper trimmings. The iron
Dedstead was similarly renovated and
treated to color scheme Of white and
yellow. The draperies to the dressing
table and canopied bed are of sheer
yellow and white printed muslin, mex
Pensive yet dainty and artistic
Among the familiar reproducfions
which break the monotony of the plain
yellow walls may be noted Napoleon