Show CHURCH SENSATION TRIAL OF MRS DAVIDSON IX SAX FRANCISCO Police Court Crowded With Spectators Specta-tors Many of Tliem Women and Members of the First Congregational Congrega-tional Church Gave Up a Secret SAN FRANCISCO Jan 7When the preliminary examination of Mrs Mary A Davidson charged with extorting ex-torting 500 from Rev Dr C O Brown was resumed in the police court this afternoon the court room was crowded crowd-ed with women many of them members mem-bers of the First Congregational church Mrs Davidson was first placed on the stand in her own defense de-fense She testified that she was born in Bangor Me When she was S years old she moved to Buckport Me She was married there to Franklin Pierce who was during the civil war a major ma-jor When he went to the front she too went and volunteered her services I working on the field and in the hos tals After the war was over she returned with her husband to Buck port Me but not immediately He had resigned from the army just prior to the close of the war He died in 1SG9 She subsequently married Thomas Y Davidson She came to California on January 9 two years ago to show corsets at the Midwinter fair and had lived here ever since She became acquainted with Matte Overman at Rev 11 Allens mission About two months afterward she meter met-er at Dr Browns She never was G member of Dr Browns church but at the solicitation of Dr Brown and the superintendent of the Sunday school she Look a Bible class and he had praised her work in that capacity capa-city both before and after the date on which he paid her the 500 He had also eulogized her to other members of the Sunday school and of the church in her presence She narrated her intimacy with Mattie Overman whom she accuses jointly with Dr Brown and told how she had secured the girls confidence Gave U Kis Secret < LOS ANGELES Cal Jan 7At a prayer meeting tonight at South Pas dena Charles Crawford arose undar deep excitement and stated that he could not hold his secret any longer He then announced he was Albert Def fenderfer son of a wealthy merchant of Huntington Pa and a fugitive from justice under sentence for burglary and larceny in Pennsylvania He came to this city today and gave iimself 11 to the sheriff |