The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-01
A Day Of Denunciation by the
District Attorney.
he WILL BE THROUGH TO-DAY.
Then the Judge Will Make a Long
Charge to the Jury.
Mrs. Durrant Bursts into Tears While
Her Son Is Being ASsailed-Merci-
less Analysis of the Improbable
stories Told by the Defense.

San francisco. Oct sI-Distriet Attorney
Barnes did not finish his argument IN the
trial OF Theodore Durrant today, as ne an
n3dneed last night that ne would do. The
Jurors asked the court not 20 send them
out tonight. as they would prefer 90 be
charged tomorrow morning and have all
day 10 consider the case The reques; was
granted, and as The district attorney de-
sired ID have his words still ringing in the
ears Of the jurors when they should re-
tire 10 agree upon a verdict. ne spoke IN
III time for court 10 adjourn and then an
nounced tfat ne would not finish until
tomorrow morning. AS Judge Murphy's
charge is understood TO be very long. IL
Is believed that abe jury will not retire
before tomorrow afternoon.
That Durrant is not only monster. but
a criminal whose actions both before and
since April 3 have been in keeping with
ra@ actions Of other great criminals was
ehe statemen. the district attorney en-
deavored TO keep before the jury today.
rne impulse that prompted the prisoner to
steal Blanche Lamont's rings from her
body, he said was rhe same impulse that
mad caused other criminals to steal that
Tor Which they had no use after commit
ting similar crime. If il were not for the
fact that criminals always DO things that
should be left undone and fail 20 perform
important acts, he said, lawbreakers
would never be detected As the district
aEf-rney dwelt upon Nhe ghoulish nature
or a man who could steal the rings from
the body of an innocent girl whom ne had
murdered. his denunciation of hhe defend
ant became so bitter that Mrs Durrant
was unable 10 retain her compp~ure. She
burst into tears and flung her arms around
the neck of her son as If TO shieid him
from the torrent of invectiVes OF which he
was being made the object Durrant re-
malned measurably calm. but his mother.
although she made several efforts. could
not control her emotion. In the meantime
the district attorney, VINO did not notice
her state. his face being turned away. con-
tuued his scathiDg argument, until Juror
Smyshe finally brought the incident to
an end by asking for FIVE minute recess.
The request was granted. and when pro-
ceedings were resumed Mrs Durrsnt had
recovered herself.
Barnes referred feeIingly TO the incident
OF Mrs. Durrant's collapse as a very ma
fural and proper one. IL was one of the
saddess phases OF crime that with the gull
~ suffer the innocent. He sympathlzed
from the bottom Of his heart with rhose
who are connected with those charged
with crime. But the jury and he had a
duty to perform, with which sentiment
had nothing to do He symparhized with
this unhappy mother, but he called atten-
ton 10 the oafer mother. 70 whom the
mangled remains Of the victim had been
sent He pictured her waiting for the lit
tie footsteps that would never be heard
again, and for the sight OF form she
was never to see in life. He then resumed
his argument
Theodore Durrant." said Mr.. Barnes,
stands forth in American Jurisprudence
today as the most brutal criminal OF the
age. He is a creature beside whom
Holmes. the multi-murderer. who is now
on trial in Philadelphia is perfect gentle
man and a scholar: beside whom Prof
Webster. the Harva rd instructor, who
killed DR. Parkman many years ago. was
"a kind and genial citizen and as COM
pared with whom Cain was a George
Washington. He took this child into the
church alone. There she was with him
alone in that great building. this weak and
sickly child. unable physically to cope
with this monster. ana, as the Russian
proverb says: Heaven was high, and the
car afar on No one was there 70
come 70 her aid: no one could hear her
call for mercy as Il fell upon his callous
ear. She stood alone in tbe library the
prospective victim Of lustful murder
q murder that shall be SPOKEN of by our
children. your children and your children's
children until the end Of the history OF
Jurisprudence. Bun the library did not
suit the murderer's purposes Why? Be
cause the library had u window opening
out on Bartlett street The girls shr1eks
mignt be heard. and ne was liable yes
be was almost certain 70 be discovered
No; on second thoughts the befry
Gentlemen. can't you imagine this
cFeature-I cant csrl him man. ] have
struggled 20 overcome the feeling of ab-
horrenee against uhis person and TO he
absolutely fair 80 the prisoner but to any
man when such conclusive proof Of crime
IS presented must come some such feel
ing--can't YOU imagine, can't you see as
/ can. Perhaps | have thought over this
a.. a.
| can see the two together I can hear
him telling her OF the view from the bel
fry. l can see them walk out of the IL
hrary and climb the stairs leading to ,sle
helfry door. But after The 81 Of April Il
WAS locked Who had keys 20 the church?
George King, the pastor. Janitor Sademan
and Theodore Durnant Who was the me
Durrant. Who was IL who changed
the lock on the library door,
Theodore Durrant lie had In his pos
session assert from the facts and
differences IN this case, he had the KEY or
keys rhat would sock or unlock that bel
fry door. He had a common key that
would unlock the south door Of the church
and the sanftors door. Ne had a KEY 70
the library door. ant ne hai a kew that
would unlock thst belfry door through
N4ltch this defendant and that girl now
dead. nassed in tfe. Ana I assert that
in their courses. that on the 81 of April
behind that door somewhere IN that bel
fry. VAS that murder committed That
shis girl was drugged outside. that sfaa
va murdered in zcrnehody's hack ward
and carried up there as Mr. peunrev ar
Eued - YOU the other dav. seems 20 me tGe
sheereet nonseuSe. There. inside that bel
FRY door. on the Platform. was ta7at horrl-
bic murder probably committed The
crime. the son. the gr1an fAst would
7asHh been heard from the library room
would have melted fnt7 tain air sa the
heifrv The shrek. the widest cry ina
ever echoed from a human rhroai would
have been stine3 IN tAe sousher gloom ~
f1ase dusty rsfteFs.
Alas. for this young girl. for whom
outrage and bloody murder were % take
the place of love, Alas. for her whose
life was 20 be ch0ked out az its portals
within the Elesm Of the altar where she
had daily rrave6' There she Law and
there hs stood. what could he da2 What
should De do9 Seif-preservatton iz the
strongest impulse II s huUa. being He
rausE save himself lt was late tn the
afternoon. Tue belf~v came % hss mind
- he Ear the hatchet The defendant
knew of thar hatchet. lt was kept in the
seXton's room. and he bad key 20 IL. he
got IL ana knocked cG The knobs. New.
gentlemen. We know that considerable
fierce vpas used 10 break oT the knobs. as
The plate was bent Remember. the terri