The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-04
THE DURRANT MURDER TRIAL.
al the Developments Yesterday Were
RepIete With Sensations.

RepIete with Sensations.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Oct. 3-The
trial of Theodore Durrant was replete
with sensations to day Henry J Mccoy,
general secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association, who was cited for
contempt last Monday for telling juror
Truman that if he did not hang Durrant
the people would hang him. was fined
$3.50, with the alternative Of five days ID
the county Jail.
During the cr0ss-eXamination OF a
witness summoned by the defense, the
prosecution developed the fact that a
student at Cooper Medical College who
did not attend the lecture delivered by
DR. Cheney on the afternoon Of April 3,
vas recorded present in the roll call
book. This testimony Is Of the greatest
Importance to the prosecution from the
facJ that il shows the unreliability of the
roll call cook in which Durrant was re-
corded present on the afternoon that
BlauCbe Lamont was murdered.
The last sensation Of the day WIS an
order by the cou,t committing Miss Car
re Cunningham, a newspaper reporter,
10 tte county jail for refusing TO answer
question. The defense desired to i'm
peach the testimony Of Mrs Leake, who
said she did not tell Miss Cunningham
tbat she saw Durrant and Miss
L7mont enter ENAMEL Baptist Church
on the afternoon Of April 3.
Mis- Cunningham testified that Mrs.
Leake did not tell her what she had seen,
bat when asked to reveal the source of
her information, the witness declined to
answer An order was made committing
tne witness to the county Jail for con
tempt, but on motion of the defense it
was made to 81 into effect tomorrow
morning, when Miss Cunningham would
be given another chance to answer the
question.
The defense placed on the stand TO-
day eig1t more students, who attended
the lecture delivered by Or. Cheney on
April 3, to testify as to whether they
had answer 10 Durrant's name at roll
call Each wtpess gave negative an
swer. With the exception Of six, al Of
the members OF the class have DOW
been asked this question. One of the
students has died since April 3, and the
prosecution has been unable to obtain
the attendance of the other five in court.
The prosecution limited the cross-ex-
animation in each case to asking if the
witness saw Durrant at the lecture. Not
a student was found who remembered
having seen the defendant.
The notes OF each witness were placed
in evidence by the prosecution. The
notes promise to play an Importan
part in the future proceedings, as the
prosecution intends to compare them
with the notes sid to have been taken
by Durrant at the time
Attorney Duprey called the attention
Of the court to the fact that Robert n.
Lynch, private Secretary to Rev. J..
George Gibson, was in the court room
and asked to have him removed The
court said Lynch could not be removed
uni IS he were subpRnead as witness
when he would be excluded like all
other witnesses. A subpoena was at
once made out for Lynch and he was
ordered to leave the room. Lynch pro-
tested that he knew nothing about the
case, but the court insisted upon the
order.
f. s. Field, member of local whole
sale jawelry firm, was called to testify
with gard to the grade and quality OF
the ring worn by Blanche Lamont, which
is said to have been presented at Pawn
broker Oppenheim's shop He said the
ring was of common kind, but when
asked by the prosecution to compare it
with similar ring introduced by the
defense, an objection was sustained
The defense endeayored to show by f
A. Ross, a student at Cooper Medical
College, that on the afternoon that
Blanche Lamont was murdered, he and
Durrant took walk from the college to
the vicinity Of the Golden Gate. Ross
remembered that he and Durrant had
taken such walk, hut said he could not
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