The letter was signed by President David Starr Jordan and practically all the members of the faculty.
Similar testimony was given at Murphy’s trial.
It developed later that the Blakes had been living together under a contract marriage. Later they went through the marriage ceremony. This phase of the case was made much of by the defense. Mrs. Blake, however, stood devotedly by her husband through all the trying events that followed his arrest and imprisonment.
Of these promissory notes Blake, in his statement to the court as published at the time, testified as follows:
“Q. How much money were you to get? A. I was to get $10,000.
“Q. For what? What were you to get that $10,000 for? A. Well, I was to say nothing about this matter, and that my wife would—
“Q. In other words—. A. She was to be provided for. She was to get $100 a month. The Court. How? A. To be taken care of when I was convicted, you know.