She was convicted of murder in December 1898 , appealed , and was convicted again at a retrial in 1904 . She was sentenced to life imprisonment . She was initially imprisoned in San Francisco , but after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , was transferred to San Quentin State Prison , where she died in 1910 ; John Dunning , his career destroyed by the revelations during the trial , had died two years earlier in Philadelphia
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Cordelia Botkin