The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27

"Well, I'll tell you. l was up to the
Catholic church, and had to run to get
back on my beat when 1 heard the train
coming"
"What officers came in the police station
at the time Durrant asked to stay all
night2"
'Officers Chano and Delaney"
CHOW do you know that was on the 25th
of Februaryp
Because an engine on the narrow-gauge
broke down on that night"
Did Officers Chano and Delaney speak
with Durrant at that time?"
"Oh, [ suppose so. l think it natural
they should"
"You haven't thought about what you
were going to testify to or refreshed your
memory by consulting the records in the
police station since this hearing was set?'
'No, sir"
| After some further questioning witness
was dismissed and DR.. j. S. Barrett was
called.
Prosecuting Attorney Wakeman sug-
| gested that as the testimony of the next
witness would be of delicate nature it
would be we'll for the ladies to leave the
courtroom.
Judge Conlan took the same view of the
matter, and a general hegira of the femi-
nine portion of the spectators followed.
DR.. Barrett took the stand and sat ner-
|
| cent upper lip, evidently nursing vain
regret that the gaudily attired female con-
| tingent had seen fit to leave the courtroom
while waiting for the lawyers to have their
traditional fling at the Esculapian dis
ciple.
But the lawyers only consulted AS the
medical witness sat nervously and eX-
| pectantly in his seat he might have been
| mistaken for a young dry goods clerk or a
member of the Burlingame Country Club
waiting for lesson in drag-driving from
| Captain wainwright, or leader of the
| Cotillon Club resting after the social
triumph of an evening of unusual eclat-
anything, in fact, but a regularly gradu-
ated physician about to give evidence of a
| grave and important character at trial
when life and death were the stake.
He was dressed with the exquisite grace
and neatness of a dancing master and his
hair, if laid under surgeons silk plaster,
could not be smoother or more glossy. His
eye and lips smiled sweetlv on counsel and
court, and it was a bitter disappointment
to him when the smooth voice of Deuprey
was raised in preferring a request to the
court that an adjournment be taken until
Tuesday morning of next week. Mr.. Deu-
prey thought it would be impossible to
| finish with the young medico before adj
| iournment or midnight, and the court
| glancing at the witnesses stand, thought so,
too, and an adjournment was ordered.
The police have not relaxed their yigi-
! lance and wariness as to female visitors to
! the City Prison, who desire to see Durrant
and afterward testify in his behalf.
| Though Mrs. Williamson was the ONLY one
who gained access to the courtroom, there
| have been several others who desired to
| inform the court that the accused was the
wrong man. Four of them were at the
prison yesterday and day before, two of
them claiming to be the vicegerents of
| Jesus Christ wanted to bear witness to the
prisoners innocence. One of them said
| she knew by the glance of his mild eye
that he was as guiltless as the bah un-
! born, and still another thought the size
and shape of his neck precu led all posi-
bility of his being capable of even enter
tanning such indescriba5le and incompre-
hensible motives toward any human being,
man or woman.
| The arrest of Durrant seems to have
| brought TO the surface all the spiritualstic
cranks in the community, and some new
advocate OF his innocence appears on the
scene daily. Most of them never had an
acquaintance with the prisoner and merely
| Judge him by means of some esoteric or
| hypno-pSychlC system of their own.
| 1t is expected all the testimony for the
prosecution will be in Tuesday, and from
what the defense has allowed to be inferred,
but little time will be consumed by that
side before the case is submitted to the
court.
Accordingly decision may be expected
from the court next Wednesday.