Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-31

\ -le Court Room Crowded to It's
Utmost Capacity-The Murderer
Scored Mercilessly by the PeO-
PIES Lawyer.
San Francisco. October 99.-District
Attorney Barnes to-day appeared as the
high central figure in the last scene OF
the trial Of Theodore Durant. While
-he spectators in the crowded cour,
room craned their uecks 10 caJch every
word Of The speaker, ne delivered what
is considered in many respects, enc OF
the strongest arguments ever made to
q California jury aside from being
logical and convincing in his discussion
OF the testimony, he made two or Ulree
dramatic 5y-plays that put q severe test
TO the irca nerves Of the prisoner. OF
these scenes, the mos, impressive JoOk
place In the early part OF his argument,
when he spoke OF now counsel for the
defense had invoked tle spiri, OF
Blanche Lamont, and voiced her
thought by saying. Let him 20 free;
he harmed me not While looking IN
tsutly a., the frame bearing Hiss La
mouts dress, which stood near the jury
box, and telling how through the long
days of the trial he had seen he young
school girl clothed in all her innocence
and purity. AIr. Barnes reached the eli
max of the scene.
TURNING UPON DURANT,
who was seated only three feet away,
The district Attorney, with cienched fists,
and in tne voice OF jlunder exclaimed;
II see her now. There she stands be-
hind him at this very moment, no. pray
ing FOR vengeance fer her deep and
remedyless wrongs; but no. for -he laws
retribuG0D upon her murderer; but,
with uplt.ed hands and streaming eyes,
praying that God Will not pUc u into
your hearts, by the m0ckery OF q YER
diet cf 70. guilty. to set free this mon
s,er 10 prey upon Otler souls pOliuJe
Vi1l vile hands the uusulaad snow oi
other children and DEFY anew chat God
of justice whose minister's you are.
Duraut was the least affected person
fin the court room. while Mrs. Noble,
Ire dead girls aunt, Wept and every
body else was thrilled with ,ho impress
sivepess of the scene, Durant sitting
s-olid and Indifferent AS ,he district
attorneys last words were uttered, the
prisoner whispered something in the
ear of his mother, who sa- near him,
and smiled rs If ple~sed no Jhe wiz OF lls
own remark
MR.. BARNES'S ADDRESS,
was. in pa,. as follows:
The individual who perpetrated the
hideous murder, with which the de-
fandant stands charged. and which has
narrowed the soul and frozen the blood
az this community, is no ordinary Grim
inal. and mis- crime I'm every aspect in
which it may be considered, is without
parallel. III was not committed under
d blind and furious impulse to revenge
some real or fancied wrong 10 his per
son, mis- property or his character, nor
from motives OF gain, nor in the COM
mission OF robbery, nor yet under the
hot spur of jealousy. 70 was IN every
sense q cold-bl0oded. vicious murder.
It was without the siightea, prOyOc2Ion
or apparent excuse or paliacioh. The
assassin chose for his victim an inno-
cent and helpless maiden. She was un-
developed I'm mind. pure in life and
thought. of simple and unsuspecung "a
ture. and presenting in body none CT
the qualities which are supposed 20 in
cite the eyi. passion OF seduoer and llb-
ertine Fer The scene of his deadtul as
sault. the murder selected an evangeh-
cal church. dedicated 10 the worship of
cod. lie took the life OF his victim,
nC- with the savage mercy of the quick
pistol or The silent knife, but he tor
tured her with the lingering process OF
s-r7ngulation. driving his cruel fingers
deep into the tender flesh Of her slender
throat: and so ferCely did he do hls
devils work that the stigma OF his
crime remained until the discovery OF
her corpse. clearly discernable as the
cause OF death. not only 10y the surgical
examiner. but by the most uuiearned
observer. What, il any, wrong was
done her
BEFORE HER SOUL ENHALED
and went TO heaven we do not know.
The advancement of natural decompos-
ition bamed inyes,i ,igaion and made
knowledge impossible but we do not
know that either living or dying. or
dead. she was taken by him up the
s.eep stairs Of the steaple of the beitry
cf The church. where supported t1e
body VITA blocks Of wood. and left IL
There 10 rot fn rakedness and wither in
tba cool western wind that swept
.rr0uaat the lofty spire. He hid The
reroofns where he believed they would
remain undiscovered. and have no
Dron.fse of christian burial None saw
-ha crime save lue God whom me feared
ne+ is be extended the naked and
slender form on the beifry floor, lal1
-ra +nfn arms across the uudeyeloped
bosom. prcpped the head and straight
e-e5 tho mpQgre body I'm the dust. NOT
human being had beheld ms retreat
from the awful presence ot 'ne oea'I
which was bis work and the secret "d9
safely locked i'm his own breast. lheie
law the speechless and UnteSdfying
co,.nse and what was il now TO give
him fear? Il had been nothing buJ
e-irl after all. and concerning her there
7-o,,ld be the same cd story to when
no could help 10 give currency -lle
same Old story Of a vanished girl a cis-
fror+e7 family, an Ineffective and per
s,,nc-,rv search among the houses OF
ir reru-e. reluctant conciuslon l.l
-bie iiu1e one. like others OF Ewes
daughter he'd gone to
HER MORAL DESTRUCTION;
q rfcture turned to the wall. name
never spol1en. and oblivion. personal
and social. for poor lost Blanche La
mont And he was right for the mo-
meDt The murderer went his guilty
mont ' ,f-r1 ~-f,vo IN