Show NEW WITNESS IN fN INTHE THE BOTKIN CASE t Postoffice Clerk Testifies as to Poisoned Package I WRAPPER PUT IN EVIDENCE I TILTS OP OO o f eeN 1 arch The I IAd S i second Ad trial of Mrs Ira COnlee a But cha charged with the of John P Dunning at t Dover Del DeL DeLIn In 10 August AIs at 18 1 by y mans meau ol at poisoned candy was resumed in Judge Cooks Cooka department of the superior court at l U this mon morning ng At the r Quest of the defense dettme all an witnesses Were ed from the court room Jad Cook also ailS ordered from trum the room all 31 children and miners of whom a number were ere accompanied by woman JUdge Cook declared It was wa no 00 place for tor chit dren Di District y Lewis F then began addressing the jury giving gtna a resume or of the evidence that would be introduced b by the state and what thE prosecution expected to prove to Be Proved District ByIngton in his opening statement to the jw jury said that among the facts that would be proved by the prosecution were The meeting of John P DunnIng the hue hus husband band of the murdered woman and do de fondant In Golden Gate perk the In infatuation of Mrs Botkin for tor Dunning the subsequent Intimate relations be the two that began almost almo t with tile the Ant day clay of their meeting ended 0 0 er years and became etame even when Dunnings wife departed fur for the east on a visit In 1817 and Dun Meg at the defendants solicitation went Dt to 10 Rye JIve with 1111 her continuing this rel relationship until the spring of 1898 when Dunning was called east to go goto goto to Cuba Cubo as a w war correspondent that the defendant pleaded with him not notto notto to so go that tIIt Dunning told hot her he would return to his family and make amends for the past by leading a better life Death of the Victim The death of Mrs lra Dunning at Dover I Ii Del In August A st 1 ISS front from arsenical i I I poisoning through t the e malls mails the death or of Mrs Deane and the illness or of other I members who ate the cand candy that the address on the box of candy landy w wes In Inthe I l the handwriting or of Mrs Botkin that the box a handkerchief I which the prosecution would prove had ben been purchased at a 8 dry goods store I In this city about June 1 of the same year that the candy was purchaSed from Geor George e Hess HaaB I Co in San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco by a 8 person answering the do de description 0 of Mrs Mr Botkin that the do de purchased large quantities of arsenic In two different drug stores In this city and asked or of a friend or of several physicians the effect of arsenic on the human system that the candy eaten by Irs Dunning DonnIng was made ulde by George Hess Haas I Co of San Francisco that the seal of this firm posted on the box was subsequently found In Mrs Botkins room at the Victoria hotel A New law A new witness in the case case Miss Ellz Elizabeth th L Kemp who was a clerk hi the er atthe at the rat wit S e fled In hi place ot of GOoden en woo who gave his testimony n In tM the first trial Miss Kemp to taking the package addressed to Mrs Dun Dunning ning from the mall pouch and calling Postmaster Goodens attention to it itI She de described the package Its I aloes and identified the wrapper which was walt one of the in inI incourt I court ourt She proved a good witness for the prosecution and the only weakness I brought out by the right rIf o motion of George GeorgeA A attorney I for the dele was wail her adm admission that the te testimony of Postmaster Gooden In InI I the first t trial had been given to her herI herto to reed on her bel waY from the east easL I Kni Knight ht could not shake her testimony as to the Identification ot of the wrapper per around the package nor get her to ad admit mit that she wu was to be corn com compenSated for her trip west beyond her legitimate expenses and so much per 1 diem It was as this question of ho how much she was to receive per diem that I caused several tilts between the attorneys C Ji Miss Kemp declaring that she had no with the prose pro e a as to how ninth much she was 8 to re re calve Harry C nl OIl a nephew ot of Mrs Dunning testified to gettIng the pa package ka e at the posto and aM giving it to tn his hiB aunt and wu was till still so eM the th stand standI when lIen the court teok Il a recess I All Sick I Harry C a nep nephew ew of oC Mrs Dunning followed Kemp P eI H He 1 testified to taking the fatal ox box of candy from the Dover oer po and ancl I giving It to Mrs Dunning at tire the Pen Pennington home hoine where e was visiting He related ho how all who wh partook t t the e I I I I po poisoned ed chocolates became UI tn nE lie among them lIe He told of the 41 Ua of I Mrs Dunning and her hel sister stater Mrs Dean but said that the cause atMe as not t to the Y until after atter the I burial or of M Mrs Dunning and Mrs Deane He the had the candy and the wrapper I around It Miss Josephine Bt Bateman man a school schoolteacher teacher In Dover Duver who was passing the I Pennington n house hou e on the evening In Au the package was received Ived by Mrs Dunning told hO bow w the latter Jatter called her Into the house and gave her hersome hersome I some of the candy Miss Bateman took Several pieces eS of cream and andon on placing them In her mouth detected some particles of hard bard gritty sub substance substance stance which caused her to throw the tandy candy awa sway She was taken m in from foin the little that she had ad eaten subsequently and learned that tbt substance was lum lump arsenic One of the Victims Ethel J Millington the daughter ot of ota ofa a in Dov Dover who wIto was at atthe atthe the Pennington home the saint me even eyen evening Int ing also testified how abe beenie ill from eating of the cand candy receIVed by Mrs Dunning and identified Ute the wrap wrapper wrapper per that was around the b box x Miss was followed hY by Miss LeUa Lella Deane the daughter f Mrs joshua B Deane a slater sister of et tn Mrs Dun Dunning ning who also died from eating ot of the poi poisoned candy Besides testifying to the r receipt of the box ot of candy and aRd Identifying the box wrapper handkerchief and aDd te J she he told ot of her mothers rs Illness tl the 8 terrible fever with which she he seemed eem to be consumed how bow she declay that t t she was burning up and list SU sube Quent death as well as relating the illness of Mrs Dunning and her bel death on the day that of her ber mother |