| Show I 4 Mrs Botkins Bot kins Aged A Parents Have li j leVer I Learned L arned of Her lIer Herr j r Conviction forming a beautiful screen before the window but they cling for a support to Iron bars From the little garden which she was permitted to make and cultivate are drawn the t tl lettuce 1 radishes and other vegetables of at easy culture that appear on her table Relatives in northern Cal lf send her at t stated Intervals Int butter and al fruit These supplies with yi h the th addition of whole wheat bread breand and a meat only as her appetite demands dem it form her l i pl menu Interest In her ease ase has never sue sus su tamed a decline in the curiosity of the he San Francisco public Even now on i I visitors day rangers take up j i a position outside o of her windows Vs endeavoring to peer In iii InA inOA OA 44 A gentleman g who has been closely I connected onri with the case from the be beginning J ginning remarked to the writer All the who have come in contact with Mrs Botkin since her in incarceration have had something good to say ay y of her As yet I have never heard one lie criticise her in any way The prisoner has every moment 1 planned to keep brain or hand busy In addition to accomplishing a certain amount of sewing for tor herself and her mother Mrs Botkin has since in Jail pieced a number of at silk quilts She has also learned to weave baskets A certain portion Of t the day is allotted to her tier diary which now fills some dozen large ledgers Another portion Is de devoted 5 I voted to the study of Spanish and French and another to exercise for re reduction reduction reduction I of flesh which w under the Jail regime is increasing Before this accusation had been cast up upon n Mrs rS Botkin BoUd her ber husband Wil William I Sam liam n m C e Botkin formerly well known In Kansas Kanas MIty and Joplin where h had mining interests ww had sued for tor a divorce She had contested her suit s rt successfully s in more than one court the t charges not bring being sustained Last h he again brought suit against her and won Mrs Botkin Bolkin In view of at ather her closely Impending trial for life Ure not appearing in the lesser suit Wb n Mrs Botkin was first arrested for this crime her husband though he had been seeking a divorce from her hurried to her aid offering his moral and finan financial financial cial cIa support on one condition No woman in Mrs Botkins trouble pen penniless penniless and seemingly friendless was In Ina ina ina a position to refuse aid even ev n with a dozen provisos attached The offer after was accordingly accepted the condition re regarded regarded regarded the battle fought and Mrs Botkin lost Three days after she received her I sentence nt nce ne life imprisonment notice of jf suit for divorce d vorce was again agahi served on her herr this time on the grounds of ot her hei sentence Her Hel lawyer law er a practitioner ner not of the firm of Knight Heggerty however announced his determination ta to contest the suit again and anI told Mr 1011 Botkin that he would have to wait I until the final courts ordered his wife I to San Quentin to make his grounds I valid f I It Is said fai that Mr Botkin thereat Immediately proclaimed Ms his Intention I 1 of or going up to Ferndale the residence of Mrs Botkins parents and Inform Informing ing lug them that t their daughter whom j t they supposed s tho to tl I b e in Europe on onI I pleasure was In reality under c tion ion for the th greatest of crimes The 1 I lawyer Is credited with rising EisIng to e oc occasion occasIon casion caslon by saying Really Go Jo o ahead but first make sure you J u are not having your trouble for your paLes However brave a front was displayed i Botkin that gentleman gentl was scarcely down dow to t the street before a message ot of warning was pa on the wires to Ferndale The citizens of the I town seemed to constitute themselves Into a vigilance committee with a sin single single I gle object in view to keep a crushing g gand sorrow and bitter humiliation from two tivo pf their old friends For several I weeks alt all strangers were subjected to toa toI toa I a strict surveillance Did one step stepi i from a train a s sWift it messenger m ap appeared appeared i at the residence of ot Mr and ad Mrs Mr tell the younger mem mern members members bers of the family that a strange man just got off at the station No avenue was left unguarded through which by any carelessness or malice a hint could creep through The Theold Theold Theold old couple were never left alone on the veranda or in the yard for a moment moni nt kind neighbors alternating with the family in maintaining a vigilant watch over all who came near the house The Ferndale paper a weekly had hadr regularly r given ghen news n of the case cas t the tUne tithe of Its trial T However Kow ver so 50 far tar as this paper was concerned l there was Vas no Botkin trial it was the Dunning DunninK case and antl the prisoner WaS Dever re referred erred to as Mrs Botkin but simply as the accused The editor trusted to Mr Brownes extreme age though he still continued to be devoted to the papers 16 tb t overlook any ny Inaccuracies In his newspaper reports TK Tile San Ban Fran Francisco Francisdo cisco paper due dally daily at Mr Brownes residence generally lost a page at the thed dealers d lers before being delivered On more than one occasion the train failed to bring them This was when they could not be mutilated Perhaps there is no other instance re recorded recorded recorded corded In which an entire community so unanimously and so zealous zeal con conspired conspired conspired to do a disinterested kl ss Mr Browne lived for three years after his daughters conviction then died in absolute Ignorance of ot her trou trouble trOuble ble The mother now 83 years old lives on with no other othe thought than that her daughter Is merely prolong ing bug her European trip |
