The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-08
SOME REALISTIC EVIDENCE,
Blanche Lmont's Clothing on q Dummy
In COun in the Durfant Trial.
The CASE ONE PROLIFIC IN HORROR
The Accused Medical student the Only
Unaffected Spectator In the Court
Room "A New Witness Has Been
Found by the Prosecution.

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Sept. T.
Though yesterday was the fourth day
OF w. II. T. Durrant's trial. the prose-
cusion is still . good distance from Its
testimony. II it has any which win prove
beyond doubt that the mild hammered.
well-bred little man is the one that COM
mitted the fendish double tragedy az
Emanuel Baptist church.
fresh stage In the Durrant murder
case was reached yesterday--a stage
which was thrilling In It's horror. and
kept the crowded courtroom almost
gasping with interest. The story OF the
finding of Blanche Lamont's clothes. that
were hidden away among the rafters OF
Emanuel church belfry. was told on the
wtness-stand by the man who found
them, and as each torn, ragged Bit OF
clothing was shown. the crowd swayed
with excitement. There was just one
man in all that crowd who seemed TO
feel no interest in the garments. This
was the man who. OF all others. might
have been expected 10 shudder and
cover his eyes when the clothes were
exposed-thc man accused OF the murder
Of the girl who wore these clothes when
she was last seen alive. The introduce
tion OF the girls clothes was rather
startling-almo theatrical. IL happen
ed soon after the noon recess.
II
through the crowd and into the court
room. No one could see exactly what
he held in his arms. but 1t appeared
to be a woman's form.
BLANCHE LAr, Sr's CLOTHING.
What the plaintiff brought into court
was really harmless enough--simply .
drcssmakers dummy. over which had
been draped Blanche Lamont's basque
and skirt. In order 10 make IL realistic.
however the dummy was as near as
could be made the girls height and
figure; a tall slight. girlish figure, un-
developed. but still not lacking In grace.
The basque and skirt were torn and
wrDkled, but the rents were pinned up
in part. and the gown draped 20 as
TO show much as II must have been
when its wearer was alive.
They stood the dressmakers dummy
beside the witness stand. and there II
remained all the afternoon. and. 20 the
excited Imagination of the attendants on
the Durrant trial-and IL Is n trial that
sets the dullest nerve on edge--the Door
figure seemed like an accusing pres
ence.
Men and women shuddered as they
looked at H. IL made Blanche Lamont.
who under the fuss and technicalities or
the trial has seemed more like an ab-
straction one of the conditions In
game the stakes Of which are Theodore
Durrant's life. appears as the young girl
really lived and whose lie had been cut
short by a fend.
Probably nothing In the trial has done
so much TO raise the thrill of horror.
that swept over the court, when II was
known that two young girls had been
assaulted and murdered.
new witness has been discovered by
the prosecution, In the person OF III. J.
Shalmount, a street car conductor. whose
car reached Mission street day after day.
in time to receive Blanche Lamont as
passenger
AN IMPORTANT wrrNvs
Having TO be at the school house at
a certain hour. the pretty school girl had
made II a habit to take the same car
every morning From the Mission street
line. she transferred at Ninth street 10
the Larl<in street branch OF the Sutton
street road.
Shalmount came to krcw her face. lie
noticed that she was a very pretty school
girl and always seemed to be unaccom-
panied
on the morning OF April 81. this ruIe
was broken. Shaimount observed that
Blanche was accompanied by ayoung man
whom he did not know The conductor
was particularly attracted 10 IN" cohlio
by their laughter and conversation. They
seemed busted In some interesting dis
oussion in their books TO which now and
then they would refer.
Shalmount took good look AZ Blanche
Lamont's companion and when the pic
lures OF Theodore Durrant were subse-
quently published the conductor knew
that the girls escort on the morning
of April 81. was the young man who
stood accused Of double murder
As the prosecution will endeayor TO
trace In accurate and logical detail the
movements OF Theodore Durrant ana
Blanche Lamont uron the fatal day. THIS
new witness is looked upon as one OF
great Importance. tie wiil draw the con-
nection between the two ss he saw them
upon his car and bcziI the recital OF q
terrible story, which the prosecution con-
hdcntly expects 10 see end IN tho
OF death.