Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
THE FRISCO HORROR.
Fixing the Church Murders on
 Young Durant.
OReANIsT SAW A OLoT or BLOOD

He Met the Young Man Coming From the Church Tower on the Day That AIiss La mont DIsappeared-Durant Led a JelSyll and Hyde Existence. It Is Said
 SAN FRANCIsCO. April 16.-There Is TO abatement of popular interest in the dreadful crimes that have desecrated Emanuel Baptist church. It was sup posed that the arrest of Theodore Durant would put an ond to tho mystery sur rounding the dOaths of the two young girls who were lurod to their fate but the prisoner ooolly denies any knowledge of the crimes and declares f1atly that he can bring proof to show that it would have been physically impossible for him to have been in the church when tho crimes wore committed. Ho has following in the church that remains loyal to him, but the majority believe with the police that the evidence against him is conclusive.
 The chief mystery now is whether he had accompliceS. Those who have made a study of the scene of the murder of Blanch Lamont declare that no ono of the strength of Durant, who is only feet 2 inches and of slight build, could have car ried, unaided. the body of the woman up tho narrow winding stairway to the church bolfry.
 On this point they base their belief that he had at least one accomplice in the church. and the man suspected is 0 chum of Durant who has shown great sympa- thy for Durant. He was in the church on tho morning that Blanch Lamont was killed Durant declared that the man was playing the organ while he was fix ing the electric wires near the belfry, where the girls body was found.
 Tho fact that Mrs. Forsythe, n married woman Xybn was n YnpYn bar of tha Ennan- uel church. has been missing fer Q week has caused the suspicion that a conspiracy existed among two or moro members of the cS1rCh for running womon, and that their work became so bold that murder was inevitable to prevent discovery. Another Woman Missing. Tho facts as gathered by the police show | that Durant tried to seduce Blanch La mont and then killed her. and the murder | of tho second girl was to prevent her from | revealing his attempts to ruin Miss La mont.
 Theodore Durant has boon formally charged with the murder ef Minnie Will | Hams. The coronor's inquest upon Miss Williams will be held today. It will be a dual investigation. The policc will pro duce their evidopcs regarding the murder of both girls, They say they have more than enough testimony to convict DurNnt | of murder
 Tho city is alive with sensational ru- mors regarding the horrible tragedy. Tho street in front of the Emanuel Baptist church was blocked all day with curious | and excited crowds. Police and detectives l spent tho day in searching all hooks and l corners of tho city for furthor evidence which may throw light upon the crime Tho police believe it impossible for the l oF | plishod his brutal murder without having | smCared with blood some article of cloth | ing.
 To find some trace of the assassin s | presence was tho object of their unsuccoss- | full search.
 George king. Organist of the church where the horrible crimes woro commit ted. made Q statement to Chief of Police Crowley which tOnds tO fix one orime at least the murder of Miss LaInsat upon Durant King says shat 0n April 2, the day Miss Lamont was missed. he went in to the church about 5 p. ln. to practice on the organ II saw DHrant thsrS. much to my surprise. He oaRO down te tho or. gan loft in highly excited and svorhOat Sd condition. I asked him what was the matter, and he replied that lao had beon overcome hy gas up in the loft, He was very weak and pale and asked me to give him glass of promo scltzcr. knew he WnS hitting up an electrical CuntriVanCt about the church and thought nothing strange about his going mp in the loft. v
 The Organist's story. | This is direct evidence of most star tIing n Iture Miss Lamont. 1t will be re mcmbcred, loft tho high school about 3 D m. on the day she was last seen-Apri S. She was seen with DuraAt. The the ory now is that Durant had just anishet his fsndish work when seen by the srEAA ist. Judge Thompson, Durant's Atter ney, has received permission freR tht coroner to be present at the inquest with a StSnoSrsRher that bs may fSllsw the tes timony in behalf sf his client. King say . that he went tS ths drug stsrS as She cor ner of Sixty first and Howard streets aRG purchased bSttie sf br0Ms s0ltzer, aAG continusd:
 When rstunusd, pHrAnt tSsk Q dsse and it seemed ts HausOats him. He aSkSt me how be locked. I told hiB he wa pale, and bis eyes wore 1iStis essSGSted What he did during the time was ReRo don't knew. Afterwsra hS went into th ladies parler ts leok inte a Mirrsr, aRc I afterward found sR the little shelf uR derneath little slst sf blOed, as theugl he had wiped his hands thSrs.'
 Young Durant appears to have led Jekyll- Hyde oxisteneo At the churcl and at home he was a model boy and yer, attentive in all religious ebservanoes. H always said that he neither drank no smoked. Ho had no small vices Among his medical school classmates however he showed an entirely different character He was blasphemous and flippant in hi talk about women. He was coarse in hi remarks on the disappearance of Blancl Lamont
 The students say he was hypooritica and deceitful. posing before his fellows a a gallant and before his church friends a a saint
 The NIinchon Case On.
 UTICA, N. Y. April 16-W. k Mir chon, indicted for felony in aiding the eG . rape of Tom O'Brien, tho bunko king from Keeper Buck of Dannemora priso . In this city tive years age, was placed 0
 trial in the sessions court at Rome
 Auditor Mccain Resigns.
 WASHINGTON, April 16.-Mr 0. c. MC
 Cain, auditor of the interstate e0namerC
 commission. has resigned to accept tn
 position of commissioner of the Assooif
 tion of Lake Lines Mir. MoCain's offiC
 will be in Buffalo