The San Francisco call., 1906-08-25
SAYS ROBSON USED
NAUGHTY WORDS.
Mrs. Minnie Davis Tells
About Trip She Made
With Her Aged Friend
OLD MAN JEALOUS.

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Throat trouble and change OF sleep
ing apartments, simultaneous with the
crossing of Mrs. Minnie Davis path by
certain vague DR.. York OF upper
Lake aroused jealous pangs In the aged
heart of Hugh p. Robson and ohgnted
the generous feeling which had
prompted the latter to make gift of
$1,000 to Mrs. Davis. She had thought
nothing of the gift. That, at least,
was the diagnosis made by Mrs. Davis
herself on the witness stand before a
jury in Judge Dunne's department or
the Superior Court yesterday when she
testified in the defense of herself and
husband. They are charged with the
embezzlement'o of the $1,000, which sum
Mrs. Davis declared she considered as
a gift. Mrs. Davis was quick to add
that the jealousy OF Robson was
groundless. es~
Mrs. Davis and her husband were
both witnesses yesterday. occupying
the entire session of the court with
the exception of, few minutes given
to the prosecution for rebuttal. Mon
day the arguments of the attorneys
will be made and the case given to the
jury.
1t came out that Mrs. Davis was but
bride of few weeks when RobSpns s
generous impulses eXerted themselves
and he gave her $1,000. snugly de-
posted in three banks, the bankbooks,
in their turn, being as snugly guarded
by the woman in whose name they
were inscribed. Her maiden name was
Morrison. When Mrs. Davis came up
for cross-examination William Hoff
Cook the prosecuting attorney. asked
her if she had a. child, and its age
There was boy of s years
When were you married?" asked
Cook
october 2, 1905" replied the woman
GUEST DURING HONEYMOON.
The limitations of the code of civil
procedure, probably more than the at
torney's gallantry, prevented further
consideration of the circumstance.
After her marriage adventures came
fast in the life of Mrs. Davis, her tes-
timony indicated. During her honey
took room, paying small sums for
his care He. was lin i'll health and
Mrs. Davis nursed him. She estimated
that she tended him during forty or
nifty sicknesses during their long Hum
boldt and San Francisco friendship
And she admits to but 25 years of age
Then came the day when Robson sug-
gested that he give his coin to Mrs.
Davis.
The witness said that she knew Rob-
son had great deal of money and was
not surprised when he volunteered to
share his fortune, On the day of the
donation party she and her husband
met the old man at California and
Drumm streets and carried the money
to three banks, putting $4,000 in the
German Savings and Loan Society
$4,000 in the Humboldt Bank and $4,000
in the Hibernia Bank After the money
was put in the banks Mrs. Davis
treated her benefactor and her hus-
band to Taylor-street French dinner
About New Years time the fateful
trip to Upper Lake was made, the trip
during which Robson. Mrs. Davis sole
companion, grew hostile and wanted
his money back The pair were stay
ing at Henderson's hotel, Robson's
room being on the second floor and
Mrs. Davis on the first 1t was damp
on the lower story, and. an ailment
settling in the wonan's throat, she
asked that she might change rooms
with Robson. The change was made
The next day the old man charged
the young woman with flirting with
DR.. York, who was staying at the
same hotel.
He called me everything that an
impolite man could call woman" de-
clared the witness, land he went into
my room and broke a purple hat he
had bought for me for 81 or S."
1t was after this incident that Rob-
son is said to have added to the azure
of Upper Lake by mere force of oratory
He swore loudly, Mrs. Davis testified
DID NOT "PULL LEG,
On cross-examinatio Mrs Davis de-
clared blandly that she did not go to
Lake County to put Robson out of the
way, or to kill him, and she denied
having said to DR.. A. G. Frank. an
interne at the German Hospital, that
she had already fixed" Robson
putting her finger to her eye. at the
anything there" She denied that she
had pulled Robson's leg"
On the present location of the money.
Mrs. Davis was uncertain. It was not
being spent, she said. She said that
although her husband was not work
ing, his mother contributed to their
support, and they had profited rather
well in the matter of relief rations
In answer to question by Frank
MCGOWAN. her attorney. she expressed
Willingness to give the money back
to Robson If civil action should re-
suit in verdict adverse to hef-and
the money could be found. She wasn't
sure 1t could be. -
The husband made a glib witness for
the defense, but was painfully Ill at
ease and tiniid in answering the ques-
tions of the prosecution. He declared
that he was. not surprised when his
bride of few weeks was given the
money by her old friend from Humboldt
County.
Hugh Robson was called to the
stand to innnearh the character NJ .tbe
HUMBOLDT men. who had testified
against his good repute. and he denied
having used profanity For the edif-
cation of Attorney MCGOWAN he said
that Mrs, Davis had worn black
sateen waist on the day he had given
her the. money. but witness blushingly
acknowledged his inability to. tell
whether 1t was a peek-a-boo garment.
He was not questioned on the Peter
Pan variety
MRS. EDDy'S SUIT AGAINST