Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — MRS. BOTKIN UNDER ARREST. [ARTICLE]

MRS. BOTKIN UNDER ARREST.

Woman Accused of Poisoning Mrs. Dunning with Candy. Mrs. D. A. Botkin, who is accused of sending the poisoned candy which caused the death of Mrs. J. I’. Dunning and Mrs. J. D. Deane of Dover, De!., is in the city prison at San Francisco. She remains self-possessed, and protests her innocencein the face of damaging evidence against her. Frank Gatrell. salesman in a Stockton candy store, says that a woman answering Mrs. Botkin's description bought a box of candy of him and had him put in it some chocolates which she furnished.. Postoffice inspectors are tracing the box through the mails. They learn that a woman mailed it at station B, San Francisco, and have traced it from there toOmaha and thence to Denver.