Arizona republican., 1895-10-30
DURRANI'S s hIFEAT STAKE His Attorneys Conclude
 Arguments.
Deuprey's Speech Does Little
 for His Client.
District Attorney Barnes Will Now Sum Up the Case Of
 the People.

close of the argments for the defense in the trial of Theodore Durrant today was marked by the greatest crowd that ever struggled for admission to mur- der trial in this city. Ropes were stretched across the corridors and an effort was made to keep the people back, but the ropes were brushed aside as easily as pieces of twine might have been. The crowd was finally dispersed without the necessity of making arrests.
 Gen. Dickinson resumed his argu- ment for the defense this morning and concluded his address at noon. The only significant feature of his remarks was the suggestion that Miss Lamont was probably murdered by two men in- stead of one.
 He blamed the police for not mak- | ing closer examination of the belfry. The examination, he said, might have on the afternoon Blanche Lamont was murdered. The whole case centered around the roll call, which he believed had been amply corroborated.
 Attorney Deuprey appeared at the afternoon session to make the con- cluding argument for the defense. l. i is generally considered that the case would have been just as strong if he had submitted it at the close of Gen. Dickinson's address without further i argument.
 shown some clue that would have put the police on the track of the real mur- derer instead of compelling them to accuse an innocent man.
 He said he believed the fact had been established that Quinlan's testimony was not worthy of belief. Oppen- heim's testimony was picked to pieces and the conclusion drawn that Oppen- helm was not telling the truth. Phil lips, who corroborated Oppenheim' s testimony, had SD -ad a reputation at Victoria, B. C., that little credence should be given to what he said l Dickinson said he had but little to say about the testimony of Miss Gun ningham. He said he preferred that she should be convicted by treachery and deceit by words that came from her own mouth. He said her story was unnatural, improbable, disconnected and absolutely untrue.
 Dickinson appealed to the jury to bear in mind that the strength of a chain of circmstantial evidence is only equal to it's weakest link. The pivotal point in the whole case was Dr. Che ney's roll call, which shows that Dur rant was at the Cooper medical college
 Attorney Deuprey said Durrant was an innocent victim of circumstances and begged the jury to right the great wrong that had already been done the prisoner, by acquitting him as speedily as possible. He said all of the wit nesses who swore they saw Durrant and Miss Lamont going toward Eman- uel church on the afternoon of April were mistaken. No evidence had been introduced which he believed estab- } lished the fact that Durrant strangled Miss Lamont The same amount of energy directed toward casting sus- picion upon Rev John George Gibson, he believed, would have developed as strong a case against the clergyman. At the same time MT. Deuprey ex- pressed the belief that Rev. Gibson had no connection with the crime
 While the prosecution had proved nothing, Mr. Deuprey said the defense had proved more than he promised in his opening statement. He could not see how any juror could doubt for a moment that Durrant attended Dr. Dr. Cheney's lecture on the afternoon of April 8.
 District Attorney Barnes will begin the closing argument for the prosecu- tiOn tomorrow morning.