Show BROWNS CASE preliminary hearing in san francisco police court ban francisco dec 30 the case of mary A davidson charged with extortion by rev U 0 bron whom ahe ai eudea of intimacy with hiss martha overman and aiom whom the obtained us hush jeoney was called in the police court today dr brown claims that he paid the woman money to secure evidence upon which to n cure her conviction vic tion ane comans womans explanation is that the money was for another mrs baddin who cannot be found but who mra davidson claims rented a room to dr brown in which to meet miss overman the attorney for mra davidson applied for a change of venue on the gr und of prejudice finally ex ing that police judge campbell was unfriendly to dr brown ahn statement comini from the defense caused great surprise the court denying atie motion tor venue stating that he had no quarrel with dr brown whom be believed to be a truthful and upright gentleman the defendants fend ants oi insel recalled an occasion when from the pulpit dr brown in the course of a sermon on municipal corruption read a grand jury report scoring the police courts and judge campbell Oam in particular on eliat occasion judge camphell atio was in browns church rose in his teat and asked permission to correct brown the latter invited the judge to the when campbell explained that the report was the work of a bing grand jury absolving brown however from any imputation of mrs davidsons David sona attorney applied for a reduction fon of the pm onera bail frum to a lower sura the court reduced the bail 10 2000 with the concurrence of browna at orney who stated he would consent to a still further reduction pro tided the court was satisfied the woman would be in court when needed mrs davidean Da addressed the court her belf dramatically that no sum of money would induce hr to leave town aej that the would be on hand until this unholy thing should be ex poked in the licht of heaven the case then went over to thursday the court room was crowded with friends of both mrs davidson and dr brown although the majority appeared apo eared to sympathize with the clergyman the police believe mra davidson is the woman referred to in a boston dispatch who is said to have served two years in a house of correction for swindling a firm out of captain of detectives lees to alio lidston polica department tonight for a certified copy of mrs davidsons record in the east mr davidson corroborated several points in the boston dispatch regarding her marri ge and early life but when asked if she had served two years in replied that there was but one bharga against her at breant pre ant this evasive answer was the only reply elie would make to the question telegraphic BRIEFS bious city la the firm of peavy stephens one of the oldest and largest furniture houses in iowa has been dissolved and J M clelland appointed receiver juat before the dissolution a chattel mortgage for was given to the iowa investment and trust company what the ther liabilities are cannot yet be harned although they will be large hard times and slow collections caused the failure cincinnati A special to the commercial gazette from ottawa ohio says julin J jons an agricultural implement dealer at baw ling green on bat confessed to W S Lenhart holder of a note that it was a forgery jones alien took the train north and is supposed to leave gone to canada subsequent investigations indicate an aggregate of forgeries running through five ears affecting farmers banks and buti nesi Cali fornias rich placer fields chicago dec SO A dispatch from columbus Colum bug 0 says from reliable sources it lias been ascertained here that ex governor campbell has recently baruck it rich in california cold same years ago capt frank barrett concluded to leave ohio and seek new fields in the ir west lie a cattle ranch between san francisco and loa angeles and settled there while there he heard the legend that has been handed down from the indiana for half a century to the effect that at a point in the san joaquin river near his ranch there was a vast deposit of gold the etory was that in a great pool formed by ft natural dam in the san joaquin at the foot of the famous gold gulch from which many fortunes have been taken there were deposits of ahe gold which the depth of the pool had heretofore prevented anything like sue working lack ot nater had prevented the full working of the gulch for the deposits required placer mining and it was only when the freshets fresh ets flushed the valley that the evidences of the gold that had for years been toward the gulch were obtainable tai capt barrett determined to work pool ad he returned to ohio and organized the ohio mining company with capital and with governor campbell alien W thurman and other ohio friends aa stockholders governor campbell took one eighth of the stock barretta pun was to build another dam at the head of the pool change the course ot the stream then drain the firt dam and secure its rich deposit professional divers were first secured to prospect the pool the result bur caned the wildest hopes gold was rought up to the value of 10 a pan then the construction of the dam was begun it waa a tedious undertaking and it wa only through tho drought that progress could ba made the drainage of the bool baa just begun but it already promises to make fortunes for all the stockholders when questioned about the report governor Cana was greatly sur to know eliat had leaked out he was not inclined to tulle inucci 1 I am here 1 tie 8 atif in timi viila anil wow about uil more particularly than alnut our oil mim all iii eay as to tha alter ia alint it promises well I 1 liall no idea anny one knew anything it wu are not tf wll clock there Is none for cale whatever there may be out there is a and not a broek jobbery affair it id alio belief here that stroke of itne lias conio to the bov arnor will nub leini hia bep acain financially in a eliat will anke enma factor in national politics in 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