The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-11-07

final rest. None, save the God whom
he feared not, had seen him as he ex
tended the naked and slender form OF
the belfry floor, laid the thin arm
across the undeveloped bosom, proppe'
the head and Strengthened the meage
body in the dust. Not human bod,
had beheld his retreat from the awfu
presence of the death which was hi
work, and the secret was safely locked
In his own breast. There lay tn,
speechless and untestifying corpse
and what is now to give him fear? L
had been nothing but girl after all
and concerning her there would be the
same old story to which he could helI
give currency-the same old story of q
vanished girl, distracted family, ar
ineffective and perfunctory search
among the houses of ill-repute, re.
luctant conclusion that this little one,
like others of Ewes daughters, had
gene to her moral destruction; picture
turned to the wall, name never
spoken and oblivion, personal and So
clal, for poor lost Blanche Lamont.
And he was right for the moment.
The wrath of God, whose law he had
violated, and whose temple he had
desecrated. seemed to slumber. The
murderer Went his guilty way with his
undivulged crime, unscathed and un-
whipped of justice. while his victim
lay in the spire that points it's slender
finger to the sky as if reproaching it's
ruler for his unmoving indignation. I"
Mr.. Barnes related the circumstances
In connection with the discovery of
Miss Lamont's body, and from the
facts drew the conclusion that she was
murdered by some member of the
church who had keys to the building,
aud in whom she had confidence. The
murderer must also have been a man
whose cunning was sufficient to enable
him to stif1e the natural feeling Of
timidity which always accompanies
innocence and induce her to 90 alone
with him to the darkened church in
which they worshiped on Sunday. Such
man, he said, is Theodore Durrant.
Only monster capable of taking the
life OF an innocent girl, he said, could
remain cool, impassive and almost de-
FAINT when accused Of such crime.
Gentlemen. continued Mr.. Barnes,
such man is of such rare quality
that if confronted at last with the
proofs of his crime, whose recital has
shocked all civilization, he could and
he would, as he has done, sneeringly
smile in the awful presence of the
relics OF his victim, torn by his hands
from her stiffening body, and exhibit
neither passion nor emotion, neither
sympathy nor regret for the unfortu-
nate child he had brought to prema
ture grave. Such man could we'll
lie in Jail awaiting his trial for MUIR
der and clothe his villainy with mask
of pretended trust in the Jehovah
whom he had defed, and play the saint
with verses and phrases stolen from
holy writ. He could listen with grim
complacency while his counsel strug-
gled to weave web of suspicion and
accusation around one whom he knew
to be innocent, and from the beginning
to the end of his trial for the highest
crime known to law, remain the same
nerveless, impassive, smiling villain.
81 listened to the opening statement
of the defense with an absorbing inter-
est. I was disappointed in but little.
The learned counsel who opened the
case for the defendant invoked the
spirit of Blanche Lamont and voiced
her thought by saying: Let him 60
free; he harmed me not. Gentlemen,
like the counsel, l have felt her pres
ence during the long and tedious days
of this trial. have seen her as she
was on the Sd day of April last, as she
left her school and her classes, with
het little burden of books and paper.
l fill again that slender robe before me
with her girlish form. Above it l see
her sweet face, haloed by its wealth of
hair, her gentle eyes, her smiling
mouth dropping kindly words, bubbling
up from the unpolluted depths of a
pure heart. / have seen her as she was
when the defendant addressed her at
the door of the normal school. l have
SO seen her every day; see her now.
There she stands behind him at this
hour, not praying for vengeance for
her deep and remediless wrong; not for
the laws retribution upon her murder
er; but with uplifted hands and
streaming eyes, praying that God will
not put into your hearts, by the mock
cry of verdict of not guilty, to set
free this monster to prey upon gentle
souls pollute with vile hands the un-
sullied snow of other children, and
defy anew that God of justice whose
ministers you are"
He closed with an appeal to the jury
to avenge the murder of Blanche La
mont, protect the women and girls of
the state by returning a verdict OF
guilty of murder in the first dergee,
with the penalty of death.
Cuban Revolutionists Exiled.
Washington, Nov. 1.-Information
reaching those in Washington identi-
fed with the Cuban movement is that
September 80, four prominent citizens
of Santiago de Cuba, who had been
identified with the Autonomists Club,
were sent without trial to the Spanish
penal colony of Ceuta, on the coast of
Morocco, Africa. An appeal was made
September 80 to Captain-General
Campos, but it was rejected by him.
General Manager Towne's Estate.
San Francisco, Nov. 1.-The value
of the estate of the late Alban n.
Towne, general manager of the South
ern Pacific, is placed by the appraisers