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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-14
The Tail Tries to wae the Dog.

Albany, N. Y. February lS.-At hearing
this afternoon before Attorney General
Hancock on the petition of Daniel Carlin.
formerly a conductor on the Brooklyn
Heights railroad. that attorney general be-
gan action to oust President Daniel X.
LIE wis of the Brooklyn Heights company
from his position on the ground that he
violated the ten hour law; and also on
petition of Patrick J. Kennedy, formerly a
conductor on the Atlantic Avenue line. a
similar action will be begun against Presi-
dent Norton on the same grounds.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee on Judiciary will give
puhlic hearings at their com IN the state
House as follows: TuesdaJ. February 26.
1895, al 2 o'clock, p. ~, on an act regard
ing-or 10 exIend the jurisdiction of the
Mnnfclpal court of Deerine;
Iuercst. FEBRUARY 26. 1885. at 2 o'clock D.
~, on al act in relation TO the jurisdiction
of the Municipal court of the City Of Port
lhnd.
on an act 20 amend section "a of chapter
S0l Puhlic Laws of 1888. relating to Boards
of Registration.
BY order of Committee.
febi1 W. j. HNOWLTON, Secretary
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RULE OF THE ROAD AT SEA.
Probably the Old Signals Will Be Re
tanned for Some Time.

SO~~~0 @---~~'
Washington, Fbruary 13.-Secretary
Gresham had conference with the
mem bers of the Senate foreign relations
committee yesterday to discuss the poll
cy of congressional action which the ad-
minlstration is prepared to urge, sus-
pending the operation of the new rules
of the road at sea, which otherwise must
go into effect, as far as United States
vessels are concerned, on March 1st.
These rules have been published broad
cast by the Navy Department. the past
three months, and until recently there
nails they provided would become the
universe! language for the prevention of
collisions on the high seas, almost all
maritime nations having adopted them.
The code, as in the case OF it's predeces-
sors, was largely dictated by Great Brit
ain, the customary Difference being paid
her suggestions as the.greatest maritime
nation, by all other participants in the
negotiations for the improvement of the
old rules. Recently the British govern
ment has been assailed with petitions
from her seafaring men, who succeeded
in pointing out complications and require
ments in the new code which might be
confusingsto mariners. Especially have
the revised and extended fog signals
been criticised. These occupied much of
the time of the conference, the early fog
signals, 1t is claimed, being notoriously
inadequate, as shown by the frequent
disasters due to collisions in foggy wealth
er. Great Britain, for the past few weeks
has been making efforts to have the oper-
ations of the latest rules opposed, that
the seamen might have opportunities to
become familiar with them. tits under
stood that Sir Julian Pauncefote was
informed by his government that all
the European nations had practically
agreed to suspend the rules as sugge ST.
ed, and under the circumstances there is
little else for the United States to do,
other than to follow England's hint and
to drop into line. Otherwise the vessels
of this country on the ocean would be
unable to communicate with the great
numb ber of ships they meet. and a seri-
GUS state of affairs would result.
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Used Her Cargo for Fuel.

London, February ls.-The steamer
British Prince from Norfolk, spoken Febru-
nrv s, in latitude IS north, longitude 10
est. arrived AT Seattery. ireland. today.
ud reports that she experienced terrific
weather during the ten days of the passage
and ran short of coal. and was obliged to
use spare spars and much of her dunnage
for fuel. She alss burned thirty tons OF her
cargo of wheat.
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Local Weather Report.

Portland, Me-, Feb. 13-The local Weather
Bureau office records to the weather the
following:
sa.m.-Barometer 1886: thermometer,
1s0: dew point, IA; humidity, 81; wind, NV;
velocity, 8; cloudy.
s u. m.-Barometer. 29.36l; thermometer.
20 n. dew point 20; humidity. 80; wind. SW;
velocity 4; weather. cloudy.
Mean daily thermometer. "a: maximum
thermometer. 1873; minimum Thermometer.
1873: maximum velocity of wind, IL; N;
total precipitation. 2.
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Health Shattered by shipwreok.

Bridgeport. Conn, February 13.-Mate
Thomas Wood of the schooner Mannering
recently wreck ed near Jones inlet reached
this city today from New York hospital.
His feet and hands were badly frozen. He
reshpped for Savannah, His health is per-
manently impaired by the terrible expert
ence. All the crew Of the vessel were saved.
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The Bowdoin Conference.

Augusta, February 13.-The Bowdoin con-
ference of Free Baptist churches convened
at the Free Baptist church in this city
Wednesday morning at $40 for two days
session. The conference sermon this after
noon was by Rev. F. D. George. Gardiner.
and the annual sermon In tho evening py
Rev. DR.. Summerbel of Lewist on.
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Trial of Captain Mitchell.

Bangor. Maine, February 18.-The court
martial of Captain James f. Mitchell of the
Hamlin Rifles. Co. G. Second Regiment, N.
G. s. NJ, occurred here today. the charges
being conduct prejudicial to discipline and
misrepresentation OF funds. Testimony was
introduced. The court repotts TO the gov
arnQP
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
BANKS AND BANKING.

1ha eommittee on Banks and Banking
will eiye public hearing in the Bank Ex-
aminers' Room. at the state House, on
Wednesday. February 20, at O'Clock. p: M u:
the PubItc Laws of '93, for determining the
value of the several franchises on Savings
Banks. On an Act entitled an Act to amend
chapter II, section 80, of R. s., relating to
DEPOSITS in Savings Banks.
f. H. PARKHURST.
feb6dtd Secretary of Committee.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

fEiHE Committee On Judiciary will give pub
L lie hearing at their room in the state
House, THURSDAY. Feb. %, 1895, at
O'Clock D. n. on the petition of 81 physicians
and 256 others of Portland, for an Act to es-
tablish Commission of Streets and Sewers in
the City of Portland" /"
On an Act to establish Commission of Pub
lie Works in the City of Portland.
By order oil Committe,
W l. KNOWLTON. Secretary.
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BeazIey Embezzled.

Bangor. February 13.-Thomas Beazlay
was arrested here today for the embezzle-
ment of S45 from George Weymouth or
Burnham. Beazley was intoxicated and
annot account for it. He was taken to
Belfast tonight.
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For
The Heart!

No elderly person should ever
run or exercise with unusual
violence. Whoever does, takes
their life in their hands since
no one can tell the exact condi-
ton of the heart. When past 90
years of age the cardiac struct-
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hour by unusual exertion. The
trouble is, the walls of the heart
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Vi-tal=ized Nerve and
Blood Tonic
retards this decay of the tissues
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An impoverished condition of
the blood is cured and Dropsy
as we'll as Brights Disease of
the Kidneys is alleviated by
this wonderful remedy. From
the day it was first prescribed
by that most eminent physician,
DR.. John Swan, it has been
recommended, prescribed and
its merits extolled by the ablest
of physicians.
DR.. Swan may be consulted
in person or by letter. With
every bottle is a bank check,
our guarantee that this remedy
will do all we claim for it. Full
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TIE WEATHER.
Fair and Colder.

. Boston, February 5.-aocal forecast for
New England for Thursday: Fair: slightly
colder: west winds. q.
Washington. February 13.-Forecast for
Thursday for Maine: Light snow in early
morning followed by fair Thursday; north
west to west winds.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The Committee on Ways and Bridges will
give a public hearing at their rooms in the
State House. February 26, 1895, at $50 o'clock
b. NJ. on petition of citiZelts of Maine requiring
counties to support large bridges within their
limits. BY order of committee.
ALBERT A. COLE, Sec'y.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The Committee on Shore Fisheries will give a
public hearing at their room in the State House
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20, 1895. at ESQ O'Clock
P, M. on petition of Orrin McFadden ct ais to
repeal Chap 249. laws of 1893, relating to
deep seining in the bays and harbors.
By order of Committee.
H. T. CROCKETT, Secretary.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The Committee on Judiciary will give public
hearing at their rooms in the State House,
WEDNESDAY, February go, 1895. at 2 O'Clock
D. m on an act to extend the charter OF the
Portland & Yarmouth Electric Railway Co.
By order OF Committee.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee on Le- al Affairs will give
public hearing at their room in the State
House. February 20. 1895, at o'clock p. M,
on the petition asking that law be enacted
so that persons sending newspapers. maga-
zines or periodicals after the paid up, sub,
scription therefor shall have expired shall
do so al their own risk.
By order of Commit tee.
JOHN HOWARD HILL, Secretary.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee ON Towns will give a pub
lilo hearin. at theiI room in the State
House. February "A, 1925, at 2 o'clock p. NJ,
gethey with six other petitions for the
division of the town of Cape Elizabeth.
, By order of COMMITTEES.
r. A. RYERSON, Secretary
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cloudy; st. Paul. 20 degrees, ". clear: ST.
Vincent. 8 degrees. W. clear: Huron, OAK.
IS degrees. N. cloudy; Bismarck. IL degrees.
n, cloudy; Jacksonville. 36 degrees. NV.
clear.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The Committee on State Lands and State
Roads will give public hearing at the Land
Office on WEDNESDAY, Feb. Goth, at 2
o'clock P. NJ, on resolve authorizing the Land
Agent to sell part of Williams Island In Free
port.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee on Manufactures will give a
public hearing at the State House, in the Id
surance commissioners Office on aibill entitled
an act to prevent the adulteration OF candy.
February 20, 1895, at 2 pm.
Per order.
FREDERICK u WINSI0W SecratarY.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee OH Shore Fisheries, will give
Q public hearing at their room in the State
House, Tuesday February 10, 1895, at 2.3C
o'clock p. M. on BILL an action to protect the
clans in tha Towns of North Yarmouth Var
mouth and Cumberland
By order of Committee.
H. 7. CROCKETT. Secretary;
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rF.EsrT1F

Extracted without pain by a harmless, local anes-
thetic 25c each. Gas or ether also administered.
S. s. Whites best Teeth 800 per set. All work
warrant ed Filling at moderate prices. DIR. F. NJ.
CHAPMAN, 439 Congress ST., opp. U. S: otel, Port
land, Me. feb9eodtfsn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

dark lanterns, which were turned like
searchlights into every little corner and
Granny, down dark spaces between stud
dings, under the caves and up among the
rafters and along beams and braces.
The belfry rises at the northeast corner
of the building. By the middle OF the
afternoon several men were crawling about
the northwest corner, Just under the roof
and next to the caves. Officer Herve was
prodding about with a stick and dark
lantern, and soon he reached down be-
tween two studdings and hauled out Miss
Lamont's bundle of books, still strapped
together, as she had carried them. That
gave more elation and encouragement.
In a recess among the dark rafters young
McGreevy next found the missing glove.
This corner of the loft proved to be mine.
Right in the dark corner, and peculiarly
placed among the beams and rafters, the
two shoes were found, one just little
above the other.
That was the extent of what the after
noon brought to light. Every hours work
helped to wreck the building, in every cor
ner of which curse seemed to have rested.
Upstairs a murderer's jimmy had wrecked
the belfry door and policemen's axes had
wrecked floor. In climbing about the
loft legs constantly went down through
the plastered ceiling, for in the dark and
along the inclined beams feet would slip.
From the stairway below big holes could
be seen in the ceilings above.
An illustration of the possibilities of
hiding things is the well, two feet square
and forty feet deep, left somehow III the
structure. Officer Herve determined to in
vestigate it, and while going carefully
down he slipped and went to the bottom
unhurt. All he found was an old pair of
workmen's shoes.
The discoveries OF the afternoon showed
l. H.
in hiding the clothing of his victim. He
had distributed it about in queer way,
and with much trouble most of the cloth
ing was found on the beams, above the
body when it was first discovered. The
hat had been tucked far under belfry
floor, and to dispose of the books, shoes
and one glove the murderer had with
much pains climbed and crawled a hard
way clear across the front of the church,
under the roof, to find still darker hiding
places.
One wonders what could have been his
motive in hiding all the victims clothing
so carefully when the naked remains were
left to the certain view of anybody who
climbed the belfry stairs as somebody
would soon be apt to do, especially when
the broken door would start early investi-
cation. Did the fiend mean to dispose of
the body elsewhere with means of identifi-
cation absent?
In the evening a still more vigorous and
ruthless campaign was begun by the police.
Ten patrolmen under Sergeant Reynolds
went to work with axes in the rear of the
church. The pulpit itself could not hide
anything that should be known The
pastor study was first investigated, and
it appeared to yield something Of great i'm
portance.
In one corner amid little rubbish, as
though carelessly thrown there, was a car
penter's chisel and it fitted one of the
jimmy marks on the broken belfry door.
Two instruments of that kind had been
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at the ferry and what Durrant had said
about Blanche Lamont he did not know
which way to look to escape the eyes of
those watching him.
After the inquest was adjourned he was
taken in charge by the police. He did not
like to leave the building, being evidently
afraid that a crowd was awaiting him. He
had no cause for fear, however as over
fifty police were stationed on Dunbar alley
and Merchant street and no one was
allowed nearer the Jail than Kearny,
Washington and Montgomery streets.
Once in the Jail Captain Douglass had re-
course to ruse that was successful in dis
persing the crowd. He dressed a man i'll
Durrant's overcoat and hat and hustled
him into a waiting hack. The horses were
turned around to face Montgomery street
for that thoroughfare. The crowd was
principally congregated on Kearny street,
and when the people saw the hack dash
ing away in the other direction they made
q rush down Clay street in vain attempt
to intercept it. Half an hour later there
were not a dozen people around the Jail
and then Durrant was quietly put in an
other hack and driven to the new City
Hall.
The Coroner's inquest was set for 10 A. NJ.
yesterday, but it was not until half an hour
later that the first witness was called.
Eugene Deuprey and A. w. Thompson, at
torneys for the accused, were prompt, but
District Attorney Barnes was dilatory. A
few minutes after the latter's arrival Dur
rant was brought in and then Officer A. B.
Riehl was called to the stand. In answer
to questions put by Coroner Hawkins he
testified practically as follows:
On Saturday, the 18th inst, about P. NJ,
I was going up Mission street in company
with Officer James A. Feeney. At Twenty
first street party came along and said,
There's dead body over in Emmanuel
Baptist Church. We went over there and
found number OF people in the library.
The Coroner or the Coroner's deputy was
there and saw the dead body of woman
also. 1t was the remains of Minnie Will
lams. She was lying in the library,
that is in the closet. The door
was open and there was blood all
around. She had all her clothing on, ex-
cept her cape. 1t was on the table, but had
been on the floor. One of the women mem
bers of the church picked it up and after
examining it laid it on the table. Her
clothing was open at the breast and saw
the knife wounds. There was cash on
her forehead and her right wrist was cut
around"
Coroner Hawkins-Did you meet any
one else Won knew in the church outside OF
the Coroner's deputies2
Riehl-There were several people there
when l came in, but did not know any OF
them.
do you know anything else?"
Nothing, except that I saw them re-
moving the gag from her mouth. One OF
the deputies or a reporter took it out.
A juror-Did you know Minnie Williams
personally?
Riehl-I did not, but parties who came
identified her.
Riehl was then excused and G.. H. Nor
gan, president of the California Casket
Company, was called. His testimony was
the most important given during the hear
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quivering lips and blanched cheeks and
caused his eyes to wear haunted look
came from the dread of personal violence
at the hands of mob whose intensity OF
feeling he got an inkling of when he landed
at the ferry on Sunday night, or whether
the outward consciousness of guilt becom-
ing irrepressible were responsible for the
physical tokens of terror, can only as yet
be guessed at.
When ushered into the room where the
inquest was being held he glanced furtiyely
around and his look showed that he ex-
pected to be confronted with the remains
of the dead woman. He paused for an
instant, but the officers hustled him I'M
tremendously along and he was soon in a
seat where he was partly hidden from view
When the taking of testimony was fin
ished for the day Durrant was almost pros
trated. Although only four witnesses had
been examined their testimony was very
damaging to the accused. AS Witness
Morgan told in detail of his attempt on
the honor of Miss Williams several weeks
prior to the tragedy the prisoner sank
deeper and deeper into his chair. and when
Frank A. Sademan told of their meeting
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used to pry open that upper door through
which Blanche Lamont's body had been
carried. One was half-inch and the other
seyen-eighths of an inch wide. The dis
covery of the chisel in the pastors study IS
interesting, but its full significance cannot
yet be explained.
One thing that started, or at least stimu-
lated, the thorough search of the rear OF
the church was the discovery there during
the afternoon of some marks that the
police and others thought were blood
stains. Across part of the rear OF the
church, opening from behind the choir
platform. runs narrow hallway.
Along it are three little rooms, one OF
which is Mushroom, and it ends at one OF
the doors to the pastors study. About the
marble washstand, on the door post at the
entrance to the pastors study and on the
wainscoating were reddish drops and
daubs much resem bling blood. Had they
proved to be such it would have been an
extremely important circumstance, as all
the evidences of both crimes are confined
to the front end of the building.
Four samples of these stains were last
night submitted by the CALL to DR.. AKRON
Newman, an expert microscopic and as
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the murderers could not have helped step
ping in it, but there is nowhere outside the
library ON carpet or wall sign of blood.
This points to the fact that the murderer
must have shrewdly taken off his shoes
when he left the library.
On the inside of the cover of the book,
"Chute's Physic," was written in lettering
the following:
Learn what the book tells you. Do not
expect anyone to explain any thing to you.
No one will use common sense. If you
have none take the consequences. Do not
ask any questions. You may be taken for
an idiot. You may be one. If you cannot
make an experiment keep still about it.
No one will know the difference.
The police believe that the lettering was
done by Durrant, as 1t bears strong re-
semblance to his style of handwriting.
Emmanuel Church seemed yesterday
forsaken by every holy suggestion. The
pulpit was yet decorated for the Easter
festivities that were abandoned, but the
lilies that described a great white cross
dropped and were withered and nodded.
Jars of roses about the altar looked as
desolate, and the petals had fallen in heaps
to the floor, leaving scraggy stems above.
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HAD A WEAKNESS FOR WOMEN.
Damaging Evidence Given at the
Coroner's Inquest-His Mothers
Appeal.
DURRANT'S WRITING,
Like That Which Was on the
Paper That Wrapped
the Rings.

Clouds are gathering black and fast
around Theodore Durrant. When he was
arrested he was suspected of the crime,
now there are few who do not believe him
guilty of numbering the two pure and
blameless maidens in the church that will
never be sacred again.
The evidence against him that was
brought to light yesterday is considered
conclusive by the police. Three girls had
testified that on the day Blanche Lamont
had disappeared they saw Durrant with
her late in the afternoon, and they
further testified that she was carrying her
schoolbooks at the time.
The books were found in the loft of the
church yesterday, and the dead girls
shoes, hat and gloves were also found
there, proving that she did not go home,
but went to the church after the girls saw
her with the young man who they say was
Durrant.
1t Will be remembered that on that after =
noon young King saw Durrant coming
from the loft of the church with dust on
his trousers. The student was agitated
and called for sedative. He said that he
had been in the lott repairing gas or
electric fixture. The janitor of the churc h
yesterday said that nothing was wrong
with the light or fixtures.
Blanche Lamont's garments were exam
ined yesterday by an expert who found on
the waist short hair that is like Durrant's
hair. Several witnesses have contradicted
Durrant's statement about his movements
at the time of and subsequent to the muir
der.
Early this morning, as on yesterday
morning, his repose was broken by a
hideous dream, and his cries of fear and
horror aroused the slumbering prisoners
and brought the iailers to his cell. His
mother has appealed to the public to sus-
pend judgment until something stronger
than circumstantial evidence has been pro-
duced against her son,