Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-31

K. Il secutors of Theodore Durrant are at present engaged ID developing fruit ful line of testimony Ubich premises tC throw powerful sIde-lIght on he con duct ot the young man toward women
 While Durrant IS pictured by hle friends as a meek, modest youth, who so far from being able to murder two schoolgirls, found his only true enjoy meDt ln the Sunday-school, of which he was assistant uperintendent, It IS pro- posed to prove that his baseness was bouDdless when associatlDg with women, Ia support of thls assertion young wo- men who are said to have been lnsulted by Ddrrant will be placed Cn the stand and l-tters written by the prisoner tc his female acquaintances will be intro duced as evidence.
 The audacity of the prisoner Is shown by letter, now in the hands of the police, which he wrote to Helen Henry local actress, few weeks before the Emanuel Church murder. Although he had known the young lady but few days, he wrote her letter so suggestive that she declined to answer It, and Tn g few days followed 1t up with another just as off nsive So tod d q Du-rant becoms that long before his arrest it .is sad that a umber of young women de olined to attend parties to which he was invitfd or associate with him in any way. Some of the women who have baen insulted by Durraut will be placed on the witness stand, and their tes'i mony will be Of impOrtan Tn refuting the contention oi the defeose thIt SC moral and conscientious young man could not commit two such etrUcioue murders.
 From a reliable source it is learned Shat 70 matter what IS Gccom Plshed by the present trial, it is intended to bring Durrant before jury on the charge oi killing Minnie Williams. This couree will be pursued even if Durrant should by found guilty of the murder of Blanche Lamont. The idea of the prosecution in doing that would be to provide against the possibility of the Supreme Court granting new trial in the Lamont case. ls is even probable that the District A t. torney would consent to a change oi venue for the Williams triel.
 Much speculation has been induiRed in as to the nature of the alibi Durrant's counsal expect to present to the jury to com bat the evidence now in the hands of the prosecution. From hints that have been dropped it appers that the re- cords of the Cooper Medical College will form the basis of the attack on the testimony of Martin Quinlap, Mrs. Leak and others.
 The records are the rclls of Dr. Will liam r. Cheneys class at the college. Durrant was one of the " students who attended Dr. Cheney's lectures. The roll shows that he was present at the lecture delivered at the college on the afternoon of April at the precise hour that the persecution claims be entered Emanuel Church with Blanche Lamont
 Dr. Cheney's lecture hour is from 3:3C to 4:30 o'clock and the roll of students is not called until the close of the lec- ture. On this occasion, the doctor says, his lecture was a little shorter than usual and that he may have ordered the roll call ss early as 40 o'clock. If Durrant were present and answered to his name then he could not have been at the church with Blanche Lamont.
 Dr. Cheney considered the point so important that he spent two days in trying to determine the truth or falsity of facts as shown by the roll. The 76 members ot the class were taken into his private office one by one and interro- gated as to whether they had remarked Ourrant's presence St the lecture, wheth- or they had heard him answer when his name was called and whether they had answered for him. To the last two interroge tories they all answered in the negative. Some were under the impress sion that Durrant had attended the lecture, but none were sure.
 Dr. Cheney's investigation brought out one important fact. It was that on April 10 Durrant went to fellow stud ent, Edward F. Glasser, ard asked for the notes on pr. Cheney's lecture. delivered on the afternoon of the 3d. The prose- cution looks upon this as proof that Durrant did not attend the lecture for had he done so he would have made his own notes.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Thirteen hun dred cioakmskers have struck, which makes the total 5000 workers on strike belonging to the several branches of the garment trade in the Hebrew section of the city. They demand aa increase of wages.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Co. ouer Fitz- patrick has ordered the arrest of Thomas Murray, foreman, Charles Bshrens, architect, Edward J. Yundale, assistant architect, and Thomas w. Walker, con- tractor, Parker's assistant, for their con- nect:on with the Ireland building.
 Her SPRING Ark, Aug. 22.-Another victim of the Shrally bank vendetta was found last night in the body of D.. Brooks prominent physician who hss been missing for week. It was found riddled with buck shot and partly eaten by hogs. He had been trying to run down the vendetta on account of pre- vous murder and thus incurred it's wrath.
 DENVER, Aug. e2.-The McPhee & blaming mill was burned this morning. Loss S65,G00.
 WAsHINGToN, Aug. 22.-The Acting of the Interior has decided that there are not means whereby the work of the U. s. mineral commissioners D Montana and Idaho can be continued after September 18th. when the appro~ oriations wilt be exhausted.
 TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 22-Frark 4. MBgoun, until recently rated a million lire, and who was mention ,d in connection with the rep lblicsn gubernstorial nomination his year, was arrested today, charged with the seduction of Helen Edith Barnes and the alienation of her affec- ions from her husband, John Albert Barnes. Barnes is superintendent of he Eastern Rubber Company.
 SAN FRANCIsOo, Aug. 22.-The trial of