| Show DEFENDANT ON THE STAND mrs lire Davidson Testifies tn in the prosecution for blackmail san ban francisco jan 7 when the examination of mrs alto mary A davidson Dav ldson charged chucked with walli extorting taw NO from rev C 0 brown blown was resumed 3 me d in the pollee police court this 5 af afternoon or tho the courtroom was crowded with women many tit of them members of the first firm congregational church sirs mrs davidson was mas first placed on the stand in her own defense sho she testified that she was born in bangor me ile when she we was 8 years old she mated to buck port me she was married man led there to franklin pierce who was during the cl ch 11 v war or a a major when lie went to the front sho she too went and volunteered her services sen ices working on the held ot of battle and in tile the hospitals after the war was over she returned with nith her husband to Buck port me but no not tim immediately lie he had re resigned 1 I gried from the army just prior to the cl close ose ot of the war nar site she subsequently nun led d thomas Y davedson Dav ldson she came to on january kit two years ngo ago to show corsets at the midwinter and had lived here ever since she became acquainted n with ith mattle overman ut at rev kev mr allens aliens mission about two months month afterward she met her at dr browns she khe never was mas a member ot of dr browns church but at the solicitude of dr brown and the superintendent perin of 0 tile the sunday school she took a bible class and he had praised her work in that capacity both before and after the date on which he paid her the 1510 1500 lie he had also eulogized her to other members of the sunday school and ot of the church in her presence she narrated her intimacy with malele overman whom she accuses jointly with dr brown and told liow how she sha hr bed d secured the girls confidence |
