Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-20
TESTIMONY OF TaE HAIR.
a Curious CIC.mSa1C3 10 tho
Ema1u.I Church Tragedy,
The Friends Of tho Prisoner stiii
Hopeful Of EstabitshinE uis
tnuorruce.

hDuAtuli ~ 10 tlhuN Nllhl lNt NhN lhNI OF
OF Mics Marian Williams IN Emanuel
Baptist church LUFafy on Friday
night, Aprl H., ior tue c1rouer's jury
has found that tue YOUNG woman came
90 her death at his hauIi; that b q
outraged her, checked hur 10 Heath by
inru-tIug pieces VI her uudgfskift down
her throat, yut her wrists FJ that shs
would bleed 10 death, Hud l1 complete
the murleruus work haI driven knife
TO huf heart aud Ia uusthl fury hal
sla-hod not breastF. Tho fttbUIus aud
slAshlng were done after the gIFi was
dead. There wac only "a slight llush NO.
lu seen on tue ptis1uut'a check whom
he heard tue verdict that would place
BlB life Boz IUspHtly, but hIH cold, grey
Oyc gave uu sign 90 emotion
And lightly h8 wet back o. hH
coll, lglty laughed and IuEui
with HE isilurs, aud Wt4l iJ slvrH Lass
night ns though uu hNu uD uaruF iu
the world. DIrnul boz either crime
iual 10 remarkable uCrgu nuI uIOluus.,
ur else he lsuu innocent man, bui
people wonder low tuIH young mHu
could have hontd all the gluusD.nc de-
tails OF tuV killing % tue little wumn ",
VINO wns his friend, without uvIuuiug
.ur aIiVutr-t emotion uf Interest
Duugups iliUuIH havo based thulr
belief iu bic innocence ON one point
tspuciauy no blood wss found uu
his clothing. But DO there Dol no error
Ia the puyGciau'o Judgment Aui tas
science Ia luu test b. ssII 90 .u rNHyi
then ono OF the most u IN w IYIats
that has tD for confronted tue drtH.-
tivcs is cleared W. 10 uas 90 along
been asserted thut the murderer could
NOT possibly have luil Iule1 the tv,uulu
wounds On tue hYuy VI the gifl, wuJ
was, presumably, smuggling iOr hor NE,
without getting considerable qutu-
uiy VI blood On hlr u.IlhuF.
Acung ON this theory the detectives
BEGAN % search iOl tho blJ0d.slaIUul
clothing without tuccuss,
Win tue result OF She autopsy hru
the conclusions OF tho puyslglAus tho
matter easy Ui exclamation. Win.
Durr.u's shili acquitted iu Tho .i.-
-uullug IUuM Ui tue medical college I.
would have br1u an cAsy matter Tor him
tl have Inflicted wounds uu tho limp
and lltulUSs body from which thr lIW OF
blood would have boon slow, without
sJIliug Nts clothes win ~ much us
single drop Ui me crimson hull, !
would have cen an easy talk even iIr
uu uuBAiIIDu uuuI, gud u.tIlug Fvrmt
more probable tuau that lLo uulCuuG
ue lc Dumul OF another, lct the
church without q mark about him 10
SHOW OF ui. bloody work.
Tue detectives, however, arc not
even satisfied with tui', anu last night
they were ngain ~ WORK In the church
Misunderstanding, searching from
cellar 60 betty Hud lobby 10 altar. They
think that alY1uy garments 40 tue
muf icTug may Goo found between tho
/ lathiug gul tue wgathuruUatlH VI the
| hail. VITA TX aud uhisol thvy VIII
teas up the ll0flug- aud read the
/ waiusJIliug, Another curious Clt-
rumslauco has come o. liElL On tho
bl4y ~ Niist Williams were iouuu
several horse hsirs aua some human
/ lAiIs, A Intercepted examination
wus made OF lurm anu they were
| measured, with tue following results
| Tho long, SILKY half umuuly from
| Miss Williams mead, was found 90 bu
elk twU.th ushul,hs VI M inch 90
/ thickness; the shorter hair, thought 800
/ br tha, % tue murderer measured Eve
! lW1.lhuutauIlhg " au Inch, AMI the
| horse hair, OF which there were half %
uU1au strands, was found % bee twenty
/ gue lolt-ln.usaultus oi an ineh thicG,
Some hair from the mBuu ui hUr-u
| ridden by DuIraut on his trip tu
| Mount DhbIU wis lagou Go sue cE.
| ytrt auG uuu put under iuu micro.
/ scope WAF iuuuI 90 measure exactly
'srH.mc as the hImu uslr found 0u
] Mise WiilIault's CiutulnE. Tho cnilcl'
| duuua wuu mate moro remarkable when
Dc was found that hsig from tHu msuv
! oil several horses measured either Aury
ur loss than that az llu horse DutranI
| r9JO,
Inu stable keeper who owned tAr
horse says that Dufggnt oEamiuCl
the animal IN tho stable On the afgtJ,
noon Of tho lay that Niles Williams
! wsH murdered.
rue church in which the murder
| WAS committed has lJUg been hold iu
anything but high regard by Va,
uuiguu1ls, ono u tlv iaI,er klthsr.
stanton, says that 10 wac common
ming 10 suB young men anu yOung
| women 20 luiu the UuurCh ~ the SID,
| gate az all hours %! the lAy aud IiEht
| "InUsu visits luI become su uuumyu,'
! hr salt, "lhnt no one paid any utluE
ton 10 IL any lungur IL Was daul
occurrence anu tue people had coastl
commButius on d.
"IurTo WAS Light IN tho church near
ly every night. The PASTORS Etuul
WA lighted up nearly every night. /
saw light Ia 10 uu Friday night APR
| ~, az 1850 O'Clock NJ passed iuto thD
house, paid 40 attention 10 it, 49, }
was such common thing, nud lhl
ueiguuuH hAu bug me accustomed 4
Ilt."
The chain Of CigOumstaniill ev.
deuce that hos been wciueI lluk ~
link nppears Eu strong That it seem
hardly p1islDio that 20 eau ho reu
nsunuer. Yet In optic OF THIS, TIA
prisoners mother anu his iriouus ~,
they aTU more hopslul than ovtI
puuy say NO hut produce neither proc
nor ghad0w OF proof that would con
tfoveFt tbs facts atUerlalnuJ.
Rrgndiur General Dickinson, OF tn
National 6uatu, OF wnlCh Dufrhnt /
o. mrmuur, o. ouiet council for the &c
uuRlI,
Rev. J. q. Gibson, who has bee
mruti0uel often "a connection wit
tie tragedy, still keeps hims6ll iu b,
olu5iun HuI refuses 90 see reporter. Z
prominent Baptist iu Oakland hus no
dressed "a leuvr 10 Gibson advising hin
that la view OF Chargu made IN
communication, that no 10 impliCatu
in toe mu dor u Mis- Williams, IA
bhuulI brIug u tuit tor mel UI that Tn
matter may be- brought 10 proof. Tn
pss'or has as yet made no reply 20 thil