The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Durrant Facing the Black-Draped
Form Were His Symptoms
Those of fAsphyxtatIon?

Those of fAsphyxiatIon2
Every person who entered the court
room after half-past o'clock had TO fight
his way through. All the aisles were
thronged. Nearly every chair contained
two persons, and many sat on the laps of
others. All along the walls there were
crowds of standing spectators. Inside the
railing, by the bench, the crowd was as
dense as elsewhere.
a large proportion of the crowd was of
the gentler sex, and while among them
were any number of respectable ladies,
there were also many of the denizens of
the tenderloin present, elbowing the wives
and mothers and daughters.
The atmosphere was dense. It wilted
Mr.. Barnes collar in the first quarter of
an hour, and was most trying to those
OF the strongest lungs. At the con-
clusion Of the session Juror Smythe very
properly gave notice OF his refusal to sit IN
the case any more unless he could come
and 90 unmolested and no more persons
could be comfortably seated.
Judge Murphy gave instructions to that
effect.
Judge Hawkins of the Supreme bench of
Arizona and Superior Judge Hebbard sat
beside Judge Murphy during the first half
OF the afternoon.
Juror Smythe increased the density of
the atmosphere not little by bathing his
broad dome of thought with the contents
OF bottle that emitted very strong per-
fume OF ammonia.
Finally Mr.. Barnes continued his cross
examination.
''On the morning of April 3, when you met
and Mission streets, on what corner did you
II was not directly on the corner"
''Where was it?"
"Abou. thirty feet east of the corner on the
north side OF Twenty-first street"
(Which side of Mission?"
1.-THE east side"
"where were you when you first caught sight
OF her?''
II was going down on the south side of the
street almost opposite"
Which way was she going?"
Toward the west"
'Did you cross over and speak to her7'
'iI did"
What was the conversational"
Il said, Good morning. She returned the
salutation. She asked, What are you doing
down this way? l explained that 1 was on
my way to George Kings house. I asked her
If that was her usual route. She said 1t was /
asked her 10 accompany me 10 George Kings
house, and said that would then accompany
her on the cars, as we both went in the same
direction She replied that she could not 20
with me, because she was already late. she
asked me 70 postpone my visit to King till
car"
'sWhat did you do?'
az acceded TO the request
"You both got on the carr"
"Yes, sir"
s'Inside or outside did you sit7"
3Inside-"
s'How was she dressed that morningf''
''She wore black dress and a large hat.
The hat was lighter than the dress"
Mr.. Barnes walked TO the clerks desk and
took up the hat found among the rafters in
the belfry. Handing it to the witness he
asked:
els that the hat she wore7'
Durrant took it in his hand with the
same manner and the same expression on
his face as he might have taken up die
tionary or some other object foreign en-
tirely TO the case. He looked at il criti-
cally q moment and then said quite
coolly:
Gas near as can recollect that Is the hat; It
looks very much like it,
"Are those the same feathers?"