The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-06
IT'S ALL WRANGLE
DURRANT TRIAL Is TAKEN UP
WITH SIDE ISSUES.

| Each Side Produces in Court Diagrams of
| Emanuel Church and Each Insists on its
Diagram Being Taken as the Original
| and Only-Draushtsmen the Only Wit.
nesses-Intense Public Interest in the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Salary and the
Southern Pacific Political Comp
| troller Lansing Despises the Newspapers.
| San Francisco, Sep. 5.-The trial of
Theodore Durrant was dry and unin-
| teresting. All Of the morning and most
| Of the afternoon sessions were devoted
| to a description of the diagrams Of
Emanuel church, introduced as exhib-
| its of both sides. Both prosecution
| and defense had had drawings of the
interior Of the church made to show
the exact spot where Blanche Lamont
was murdered. Each attorney wished
his drawing only 10 be introduced and
the greater part of the day was spent
in wrangiing over their respective mer-
its. The only witnesses examined were
| the draughtsmen who prepared the di-
agrams.
Detective Gibson had been told by the
ed at the commencement of the after
noon session, but when that time arriv-
ed the draughtman for the defense was
recalled and minutely examined as to
the diagram
AS the taking Of testimony proceeds
interest in the trial increases People
seem hungry for details and even ur.m-
portart statements by witnesses are
eagerly listened to by those fortunate
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room
To prevent repetition Of the Strug-
Cling of yesterdays crowd around the
entrance of the court room, the chief
OF police arranged today to have a
double line of policemen extending
down the length of the corridors, who
permitted only those to pass who had
business at the trial.
HUNTINGTON'S SALARY.
AT the meeting of the California
railroad commissioners today Chair
man La Rue insisted that G.. L. Lansing
comptroller of the Southern Pacific
company, who was on the witness stand
should answer the question propounded
to him yesterday regarding the salary
paid to c.: p. Huntington. Lansing
stated that Huntington receives s10,-
900 annually from all of the roads COM
bined in the Southern Pacific system
of which he is president. The witness
was asked If in a statement of the dis
burSements Of the company he had in
cluded the amounts expended for po-
litical purposes. The attorney of the
company objected vigorously to the
question burt the commissioner insisted
that it should be answered. The wit
ness then replied that he did not know.
Under a severe cross eXamina ton. how
ever, Lansing admitted that the late
w. w. Stow, who was termed the rail-
roads political manager, had been in
its employ as an attorney. Lansing
said that when Stow made drafts upon
the company for large sums,he did not
know how the money was expended.
He said that so far as he knew the
railroad maintained no legislative or
parliamentary fund, but that large
sums such as those expended by Stow
might be drawn for incidental expenses
In referring to journalistic comments
Lansing said that he despised newspa-
pers and had the most profound con-
tempt for the opinions of the press. He
said that he knew nothing about the
maintenance of the alleged railroad
fund.