Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-24
EMANUEL CHURCH HORROR.
Additional Iight ou the Murder Of
Mis wiiiiams Hnbbir OF
Trance Medium.

ANNhff 'AfNANAs
sAS FRANCISCO, April gi.-lt may |
Boo that the Emanuel Baptist church |
murdcu-the killing Of Mics Blanche
Lamont on April g aud OF Miss Marian
Williams on Ann l3-msy go down
ne uusOlyui mysteries iu tho criminal !
annals of sau Fnnciso9. The police,
10 is true, have gathered much owl
Uoucr, al u.rrumslbutial, but the wiJ-
noFsts Tor tho state, under She ire uI
REORGANIZATION, hayo not hold fn
utmly 10 tuoir Flntrmunl5-'hUy wa'
vCrel 10 tue uallJr of Identification
when piuueu down. The result uf the
second DAYS preliminary examination
led Chiui VI policc Crlwlsy 90 remark
tuat 10 was Tatgur disappointing, ana
not Whist he ua1 Tca40n 10 anticipate.
Certain u IH that Dufunt, the mUIi.
cal student, accused OF the murder %
Marian Williams, has NOT yet lost hl
assurance or nerve, His lgmeuuUt BE-
HU peculiar, DO ruiRmAticnl, thnt tue
conclusions forces itsUli upon the
observer that ho la either a moot
COusummato monster Ur u most
cruelty wrUngod man. IL IL said lac be-
anxious 10 make his defense In the
police court, relying upon the weakness
OF the case against him 20 far and his
alleged ability ~ prove hu glibi, uut bis
lawyers arc Zoo cautious 10 permit him
10 have his way.
Tao pIhcr lave abandoned lhulF
suargh Tor additional evidence, anu rny
lhCy have lru net woven good uug
strong about DurJAut. OF course The
public, or ut lOau,s large pur,ilu Of DO,
n ukuI teal, but ~ tAO pllicu Htill have
some twenty-five witnesses aui urI-
haps m.ty, eyiJuuOu OF which the pee
Pic have not boon appflsuI,lt + pgStiUlr
tunt the I1liuu may be- right anu viii
succeed IN presenting case strong
enough 10 warrant holding the accused
for trial,
Tue first witness this morning Will
be the Rev. j. George Gibbs o., uast0f U
the Emanuel Baptist church, ut whom
the hugtT Of suspicion has been point
rI as tho mHu who, p0.ElbIk, com.
mlt.Uu the crime, uut who cannot
possibly have been concerned In 10, ,Uf
during the time cue murder was com,
mitted he WAS az gathering ut cuuJch
members, Ne 90 the nature uf hla yvl,
acuCu there can be- NO surmisc, 40 bee
has been almost silent ON matter,
touching tue case.
Additional light has been thrown
/ on the murder OF Marian WiIlamg.
| StATChtfs have found DlUulrtaius In
/ tho Church, showing that the mut-
| duIuf hal made his way lu the dark
/ rom tie library ClusHt, whore lay the
| mulllatvd body, 10 tho wgshT9Om back
NJ the pulpit In tho rear end Of the
| CuutUn. lhu prints VI bloody fugugs
| were seen ~ interval. The extent Of
| the bl o lFtHinB In tho wAshtoym goes
to prove that the murderer hal no
Ugh. while no was washing his hands,
| iur a JudiciOus leuOn, as his actions
| Prove him 10 b., would not have splt.
| tered s0 much blood around II be could
/ have seen what hr was uuiug. Aud
II IN evident thut n he had light ne
would not have lott the blood taius ON
the basin. This tends 20 prove thattho
murderer WAS fam liar with every port
| Oi the church building.
| Dufrint 10 making strenuous efforts
TO prove an nlibl M the Lamont ussr,
10y attempting 90 prove that Uu the day
| Mits LamUD disappeared no was mot
her escort from school al $3.50 o'clock In
the afternoon. Three young Iudirs
have identified him ~ tho young man
they saw with Miss Lamont al that
hour. DurTant will call ON his college
classmates 10 prove that he was az
lecture Rt that hour. 10 Il said that
| uuTranpb notebook contained no notes
| VI the lecture and that hb ult4U"I
! information ~ ~ the subject matter Of
ihe lecture from another student. rus
matter In point " Importance h
| Durrant ana he bases his hopes on tho
! uJ m1tius VI his fellow students, Dur.
rant was marked present AZ this lecture,
but as n has been habit OF student
90 anBWer Tor each other, the roll b1oE
does not count. A sensational stale
mcnt IN that OF MIs. H.. Young, a
trance medium who says that feyeral
days Aru che went into trance. aud
according 10 hur story llaiuly saw
DutIaut In the cot OF killing bio help.
less yiciims. He WIS uuur,ssel at tho
time, sine suys, ana after rtT.ugliug
Mise Lamont carried her b d. 10 The
bcl,ry. NtE Young says she believes
that II the police WIN search ihe pnt-
uti0n on the west side OF the church
they viii tuu the shoes worn by
Dnurlnt ON me night that he rs sup.
yue0d 10 have murdered Minnie viii.
iams She claims that after dressing
himself Durrunt dropped one n nlE
-hoys iu pool u hiOGd, sud that 20
avoid detection UB hid both N them IN
Tho PARTITION. II " not probable that
the police VIII pay any attention TO
the moiium'a ureamg.
EN'COugr'ssmnu Cooper ON Coinage.
CULuMBus, Ohio, April "a EE.
CougretsmNn George w. Cooper WIN
Al ono time favored lreO coinage ui
silver, wah Reked for statement, over
his signature, on the financial tiluE,