Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-04-27
DURANT ON TRIAL
San Francisco Court Crowded to
Suffocation.
A FEW WITNESSES EXAMINED
Woman Dec'aring Herself AN .Em,ssasy
OF God" in~isted on Giving
Testimony

San Francisco. April 22-For hours
before the preliminary examination of
Theodore Durrant commenced in Judge
conlons court this morning, crowd
commenced to gather and squad OF
police We're stationed at the entrance
OF the hall to preserve order.
Judge Conlon courtroom was crowd
ed TO sulfocation and not a few police
men were stationed in different parts
of the room a the lookout for cranks,
who have written threatening letters to
the judge. Before the court opened,
5000 people surrounded the hall and
filled the approaches. When the defend
ant arrived all eyes were turned upon
him and he WAS sketched from all points
of view by the newspaper artists. The
prisoner looked pale and concerned. but
showed no emotion. A photographer
exhibited several photographs of scenes
in the church and two large pictures
of Marian Williams, showing the
wounds. and the work of physicians
We're exhibited and attracted much at
tention. They presented a revolving
sight
Mrs. Morgan, with whom Miss Will
Jams lived In Alameda, was called to the
stand. She said that she last saw Mar
and that the deceased had told her
sne was going to Mrs. Voy's house.
She knew Durrant. He had called at
her house last summer and stayed half
an hour. She had not seen him this
month.
Charles II. Morgan, husband of the
preceding witness. said that the girl
was counted as one OF the family He
could not identify the face shown In
the photographs. He also failed TO
identify the purse found In DurrRnt's
evercoat pocket.
THE CRANK APPEARS
Here the name of A. E. Williams. the
father of the dead girl. was called. but
In his place. a young woman rushed to
the stand and said that no one should
testify before her. She gave the name
OF Williamson and said that she would
be the one to judge Durrant and or
dered him released. The police tried TO
remove her. but she would not let them
touch her but left the stand voluntarily
after some words. She handed an in
coherent letter to the clerk. She said
she was sent by God to judge Durrant
The woman was subsequently identified
az Laura Lucy Williamson of LILO
Leavenworth street. She declared her
disappeared after being removed from
the courtroom.
A. f. williams then took the stand
and identified the purse found in Dur
rants overcoat. as the one he had given
his daughter.
Sergeant Burke identified bunch of
keys as those found In the pocket Of
Durrant's overcoat, with the exception
OF 13th key, which he said had been
given him by George King on April L.
Burke then told OF the finding of the
body of Marian Williams In the book
closet of the library. identified the pieces
of the young woman's underclothing
which had been taken from out of her
throat. where they Ind been thrust. the
broken pieces of table knife found on
her body and the stick which had been
used by the murderer in forcing the
strips OF clothing down the girls throat
He also testified TO the condition OF the
library door. the lock OF which had
been broken. Sergeant Burke then gave
a bit of sensational evidence. which
has not come out before today. He
said that when he. In company With
.otsser officers, examined the iayatory or
was1toom In the back part of the
.chure8s. just 10 the rear of the pulpit
he saw blood stains on the wash basin
and the wall just above IL. Sergeant
Reynolds had called his attention to
these stains.
OTHER TESTIMONY.
Maggie Fitzpatrick Identified Durrant
AZ the young man who has called on
her and two friends on Mission street
April II. on the night Miss Williams
was murdered. She said he was agi-
tated. He had mistaken her for some
one elae. Another girl. who was with
her. corrohorafsd her evidence. but
could not Identify Durrant. though she
identified the coat and hat he wore.
The place where these girls say they
saw Durrant Is about two blocks from
the church. They say they saw him
about p. m.
The last witness for the day was Mrs.
Mary NJ. Mccoy. iaundress. who tes-
tined that she saw man and young
woman near Emanuel church. between
: and 5 o'clock on April IL. They APP
reared to her 10 be lovers. The man
was urging the girl to accede to some
proposition and the girl seemed TO be
ssoaxing him not 20 insist. just as she
passed them. she heard the man say:
You are a coward" The man WINS
dressed in a long osereoat and dark
soft hat.