St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-15
tower room nude and on the floor.

nature tnat retained It's original
shape, for the cheeks were bloated.
The girls hair was matted with dirt
and hung loosely about her shoulders. |
The body was badly decomposed, the |
odor emanat ting from the remains |
having reached the nostrile of the |
detectives before they opened the |
door. When the officers reached the |
top of the stairs they found the door |
leading to the tower room locked |
They broke in the door. It was so
dark they could not see, and one of
the officers struck a match, and when
Inc light famed up they saw before
them the dead body of the girl for
whom the had been searching. The
body was taken to the morgue where
At was placed on slab by the side of
that of Miss Williams
AS soon as the news became known
immense crowds surrounded the
church, and had to be kept back by
the police. The chief of police sent
Tor Rev. DR.. Gibson, pastor of the
church, and the report became current
mat he had been accused of the crime
and had been arrested. The crowds
surged to Gibson's house. and the ex-
cltement grew more intense 1t soon
had spread all over the city. Extra
papers were gotten out, and thousands
Oh people Hooked to the scene from all
over the city. The rumors of the ar
rest were later denied, and it became
known that Gibson and the sexton of
the church had been merely called to
tell what they knew.
DURANT ARRESTED.
+, AT O'Clock came the news that Du-
rant had been arrested at Walnut
creek, on the road to Mount Diablo.
He was caught by Detective Anthony.
who left in pursuit of him early this
morning. The detective and his pris-
oner left on the next train for San
FRANCISCO, where they arrived this
evening. An immense crowd had gath
cred at the ferries to see the suspected
murderer come in on the boat. and q
detachment of police was in waiting,
and they kept the crowd back Durant
was hustled into a patrol wagon and
Whfrled away to the city prison, where
he was locked up. The police are GER
tain they have the right man. They
claim to have two witnesses who saw
Durant and Miss Williams in com
Pany last Friday night, and also state
that, when search was made of DID,
rants house today, in the pocket Of
his coat was found a purse which Miss
| Williams is known to have had last
Friday night. Durant is about twe:l-
i fy-three years of age, and was. born
and reared, in the neighborhood in
which the murders occurred. He is a
I graduate, of the CoggsweH high school
and has been studying medicine for a
year, He is a member of the Second
h1.irr do cipr,,
ant superintendent of Emanuel Sunday
| school. He was always of a quiet dis
position, and his friends
80. REFUSE TO BELIEVE
that he committed the crime attributed
TO him. The police, however, think
| Durant is a Jack the Ripper with
a mania for murder. They state that
| 1t is highly probable that Durant is
| responsible for the murder of Eugene
! Ware, a young drug clerk, who was
| found stabbed to death several months
| ago in the store where he worked. No
] trace of the assassin was found, and
! the theory is that Durapt killed him.
| No motive for this murder was dis
| covered and the fiendish cruelty of it
| (Ware was stabbed in eighteen places
| led to the belief that it was the
| work of an insane person. Durants
parents are highly esteemed people Of
the district in which they live His
! father is chief engineer in Bucking-
| ham, and he owns large shoe factory,
| and while not rich, has been able to
| give his children a good education and
| start them in life.
DURANT WAS RETURNING.
Detective Anthony met Durant and
his companions coming back from
Mount Diablo. They were in uniform
and had been on a signaling expedi-
ton. When Durant was placed under
arrest his comrades at first wanted to
resist the officer, but finally suffered
him to be taken to San Francisco.
| When they arrived at the prison Du-
rant, in his regimentals, was taken to
| the chiefs office and subjected to a
| searching examination. He was very
cool even when arrested, and when told
that Miss Lamont's body had been
found he did not lose his nerve, al
though he appeared greatly shocked.
After the examination by the chief
purant was taken to cell, where he
was Joined by his parents and a law
YER He made the following statement:
| The last time l met Miss Lamont
was on the morning of the day she dis
appeared. We talked about books and
L promised to bring a book for her to
| prayer meeting that night Miss La
mont did not come to the meeting. and
the following day, Friday, L took the
book to her house and gave it to her
sister. The latter told me Blanche had
gone to the school, evidently to keer
the fact of her disappearance secret
Plat is all L know of the Lamont case
The last time 1 saw Minnie Williams
was three weeks ago."
4 When confronted by the evidence
1 that Miss Williams purse had beer
e found in his pocket, Durant gave the
4 following explanations:
DURANT EXPLAINS,
II was going from the meeting al
| Yoegeps Friday night when my foot
struck a small object. 1 picked it III
and found it was a small mirror. Near
by was purse. 1 took both home. in
tending to tell my folks of my find
1t was late, however, and 1 went tc
bed. In the morning I was in hurry
to get away with the signal corps
and forgot all about it,
The police take exceptions to Du.
rants statement that he had not seer
Miss Williams for three weeks. They
say they can prove they saw him will
her on Monday or Tuesday and pos
sibly later. From all appearance:
Miss Lamont was not murdered in tn,
room where her body was found.
had been dragged to the belfry stair!
and into the lower room. Her clothins
was found stuffed into various corner.
of the room. About the time thi!
morning that Miss Lamont's body wa
found, the congregation of Emanue
I Church was on it's way to attenC
Easter. service. When they learned O
the frightful crime, the fed horror
! stricken. In his statement at polio
headquarters, Rev. DR.. Gibson as
serts his belief in Durant's innocence
, but is unable to offer any theory a
! to the guilty party. This much can b