St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-23
DURANT IN COURT.
Preliminary Hearing Of the
San Francisco Suspect
Begun.
CHASTITY AND REVOLVING
We're the Mute Evidences of
the Horrible Murder Pre-
Sented.
CHASTITY AND REVOLVING
DURANT HAS A DEFENDER.
Young Woman Makes a Sem
sational Scene During
the Trial.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 22.-
For hours before the preliminary eX-
animation of Theodore Durant COM
menced today a crowd commenced
to gather, and policemen were
stationed in different parts of the
room on the lookout for cranks, who
have written threatening letters to
Judge Gonlon. Before the court
opened at IL o'clock 5000 people sur
proacheS. When the defendant ar
rived in court all eyes were turned
upon him, and he was sketched
from all points of view by the news
paper artists present. The prisoner
looked pale and concerned, but
showed no emotion. A photog-
rapher exhibited several photo
graphs of the scene in the church
and two enlarged pictures of Marian
Williams, showing the wounds and
the work of the physicians, were ex-
hlbited, and attracted much atten-
ton. They exhibited a revolving
sight.
Mrs. Morgan, with whom Miss
Williams lived in Alameda, last saw
Miss Williams on the morning of
the 18th inst, and that deceased had
told her she was going to Mrs.
Voy's house.
SHE DEFENDED DURANT. @
Here the name of A E. Williams
the father of the dead girl. was
called, but in his place a young
woman rushed to the stand and said
that no one should testify before
her. She gave the name of William
son, and said that she would be the
one to judge Durant, and ordered
him released. The police tried to re-
move her, but she would not let them
touch her, but left the stand volun-
tarIly after some words. She handed
an incoherent letter to the clerk. She
said she was sent by God to judge
.Durant. The woman was subse
quently identified as Laura Lucy
Gould Williamson, of No. 110 Lea
venworth street She declares her
self to be an "emissary of God"
She disappeared after being removed
from the court room.
A. E. Williams then took the stand
= and identified the pocketbook found
in Durant's overcoat as one he had
given his daughter.
Sergeant Burke testified as to the:
finding of the pocketbook. He said
there was bunch of twelve keys in
the same pocket, and a single key of
the Yale pattern. The officer stated
that one key that was in the bunch,
when he found the ring in the over
coat pocket was missing. The case
goes on tomorrow.
Sergeant Burke gave bit of sensa-
tional evidence which has not come
out before today. He said that when
he, in company with other officers,
examined the lavatory of the wash
room in the back of the church, Just
to the rear of the pulpit, he saw
blood stains on the wash-baSin and
wall just above it. Sergeant Reynolds,
In charge OF the searching squad, had
called his attention to the stains.
p Maggie Fitzpatrick identified Durant
as the young man who had called on
her and two friends on Mission street
near Twenty-Second April II, on the
night Miss Williams was murdered.
She said he was agitated. Another
girl, who was with her, corroborated
her evidence, but could not identify
Durant, though she identified the coat
and hat he wore.
Mrs. Mary Mccoy, a laundress, testi-
fed she saw a man and young woman
near Emanuel church between Z and
o'clock on the 18th. They appeared
to be lovers. The man was urging the
girl to accede to some proposition and
the girl seemed to be coaxing him not
to insist. Just as she passed them,
Mrs. Mccoy heard the man say:
You are coward"