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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-21

Mater DOiOrOsas
(Altruist Interchange)
Because of one small low-laid head all
crowned
With golden hair,
Forevermore all fair young brows 10 INC
A halo wear;
I kiss them reverently Alas! 1 know
The pain bear.
Because of dear but c!ose-shut holy eyes
or Heavens own blue,
All little eyes do fill my own with tears
Whate'er their hue:
And motherly I gaze their innocent
y Clear depths into.
Because of little pallid lips. which once
Ny name did call.
No childish voice In vain appeal upon
My ears doth fall;
1 count It all my Joy their joys to snare,
And sorrows small.
Because of little death-cold feet for
earth's
Rough roads unmeet.
I'd journey leagues TO save from sin or
Such little feet,
And count the lowliest service done for
So sacrcd-sweet!
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The Dispatch. copying from other pa
pers has noW and then contained
paragraph stating that Judge Robert w.
Hughes would attend political meetings.
II has been stated that he would attend
the meeting Of bimstaIlists that Is to
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rSIcs CoLLEcroR crrY TAxEs. /
Roox z, FIRST FLOOR. CITY HALL

NOVICE TO TAN-PA1E RS.
The residue of city taxes for 1895 are
now due and payable at this office during
this month. Every male q years OF age.
every person keeping house, and all
narties doing business or having personal
ppronerty in this city are assessed for per-
ssonaI taxes and are requested to call and
settle. and thus avoid being reported de-
iinquent and so posted.
Paving. pipe an %hs ne weo thst ron
ordinance imposes win be added to all
hills remaining unpaid In this office
after December sistf Once hours. A. II.
10 = FRANK W. CUNNINGHAM.
de lin Collector Of City Taxe2
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REMOVALS.

RICHMOND. va. December ls. 1886.
/ have removed my laboratory from
Raleigh. N. c.. 10 l104 east Cary street.
Richmond, Va. Or. OTTO MEYER,
Analytical and Consulting Chemist ana
Assayer. de u-ets
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 81. 1896.

THIS PAPER RECEIVES THE COM
p,NEp Observation-Disclosures Ser
VICE OF THE SOUTHERN AssociA-
TED PRESS AND THE UNifAD
ppESS
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The country IS pretty thoroughly
aroused-by lingo.
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$1,000 70 THE DISPATCH CoMpAya'
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UPTOWN OFFICE. 4ss EAST DNoAD
STREET. pApK-PI,ACE
putrWACY. Belvidere and Main strer's'
MANCHESTER OFFICE. Ivy f 'D'N ;.
STREET. ----
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at the ferry and what Durrant had said
about Blanche Lamont he did not know
which way to look to escape the eyes of
those watching him.
After the inquest was adjourned he was
taken in charge by the police. He did not
like to leave the building, being evidently
afraid that crowd was awaiting him. he
had no cause for fear, however, as over
fifty police were stationed on Dunbar alley
and Merchant street and no one was
allowed nearer the jail than Kearny,
Washington and Montgomery streets.
Once in the Jail Captain Douglass had re-
course to ruse that was successful in dis
persing the crowd. He dressed a man i'll
Durrant's overcoat and hat and hustled
him into waiting hack. The horses were
turned around to face Montgomery street
and when all was ready dash was made
for that thoroughfare. The crowd was
and when the people saw the hack dash
ing away in the other direction they made
q rush down Clay street in vain attempt
to intercept it. Half an hour later there
were not a dozen people around the Jail
and then Durrant was quietly put in an
other hack and driven to the new City
Hail.
The Coroner's inquest was set for 10 A. NJ.
yesterday, but it was not until half an hour
later that the first witness was called.
Eugene Deuprey and A. w. Thompson, at
torneys for the accused, were prompt, but
District Attorney Barnes was dilatory. A
few minutes after the latter's arrival Dur
rant was brought in and then Officer A. B..
Riehl was called to the stand. In answer
to questions put by Coroner Hawkins he
testified practically as follows:
On Saturday, the 18th inst, about P. NJ,
l was going up Mission street in company
with OtfiCnr VonpS Enanou NJ TwnnfU-
first street party came along and said,
There's dead body over in Emmanuel
Baptist Church. We went over there and
found number of people in the library.
The Coroner or the Coroner's deputy was
there and saw the dead body of woman
also. 1t was the remains of Minnie Will
lams. She was lying in the library,
was open and there was blood all
around. She had all her clothing on, ex-
cept her cape. 1t was on the table, but had
been on the floor. One of the women men,
bers of the church picked it up and after
examining it laid it on the table. Her
clothing was open at the breast and | saw
the knife wounds. There was a cash on
her forehead and her right wrist was cut
around"
Coroner Hawkins-Did you meet any
one else yon knew in the church outside of
the Coroners deputies2
Riehl-There were several people there
when l came in, but did not know any OF
them.
"Do you know anything else?"
Nothing, except that | saw them re-
moving the gag from her mouth. One of
the deputies or reporter took it out
A juror--Did you know Minnie Williams
personally?
Riehl-1 did not, but parties who came
identified her.
Riehl was then excused and G. H. Nor
gan, president of the California Casket
Company, was called. His testimony was
the most important given during the hear
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dark lanterns, which were turned like
searchlights into every little corner and
Granny, down dark spaces between stud
dings, under the caves and up among the
rafters and along beams and braces.
The belfry rises at the northeast corner
of the building. By the middle OF the
afternoon several men were crawling about
the northwest corner, Just under the roof
and next to the caves. Officer Herve was
prodding about with a stick and a dark
lantern, and soon he reached down be-
tween two studdings and hauled out Miss
Lamont's bundle of books, still strapped
together, as she had carried them. That
gave more elation and encouragement.
In recess among the dark rafters young
McGreevy next found the missing glove.
This corner of the loft proved to be mine.
Right in the dark corner, and peculiarly
placed among the beams and rafters, the
two shoes were found, one just little
above the other.
That was the extent of what the after
noon brought to light. Every hours work
helped to wreck the building, in every cor
ner of which a curse seemed to have rested.
Upstairs murderers jimmy had wrecked
the belfry door and policemen's axes had
wrecked floor. In climbing about the
loft legs constantly went down through
the plastered ceiling for in the dark and
From the stairway below big holes could
be seen in the ceilings above.
An illustration of the possibilities of
hiding things is the well, two feet square
and forty feet deep, left somehow in the
structure. Officer Herve determined to in
vestigate it, and while going carefully
down he slipped and went to the bottom
unhurt. All he found was an old pair of
workmens shoes.
The discoveries OF the afternoon showed
that the murderer had used a strange care
in hiding the clothing of his victim. He
had distributed it about in a queer way
and with much trouble most of the cloth
ing was found on the beams, above the
body when it was first discovered. The
hat had been tucked far under belfry
floor, and to dispose OF the books, shoes
and one glove the murderer had with
much pains climbed and crawled hard
way clear across the front of the church,
under the roof, to find still darker hiding
places.
One wonders what could have been his
motive in hiding all the victims clothing
so carefully when the naked remains were
left to the certain view of anybody who
climbed the belfry stairs as somebody
would soon be apt to do, especially when
the broken door would start early investi-
CATION. Did the fiend mean to dispose of
the body elsewhere with means of identifi-
cation absent?
In the evening a still more vigorous and
ruthless campaign was begun by the police
Ten patrolmen under Sergeant Reynolds
went to work with axes in the rear of the
church. The pulpit itself could not hide
anything that should be known. The
pastor study was first investigated, and
it appeared to yield something OF great i'm
portance.
In one corner amid a little rubbish, as
though carelessly thrown there, was a car
penter's chiBel and it fitted one OF the
jimmy marks on the broken belfry door.
Two instruments of that kind had been
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HAD A WEAKNESS FOR WOMEN.
DURRANT'S WRITING.
Like That Which Was on the
Paper That Wrapped
the Rings.

Clouds are gathering black and fast
around Theodore Durrant. When he was
arrested he was suspected of the crime,
now there are few who do not believe him
guilty of numbering the two pure and
blameless maidens in the church that will
never be sacred again.
The evidence against him that was
brought to light yesterday is considered
conclusive by the police. Three girls had
testified that on the day Blanche Lamont
had disappeared they saw Durrant with
her late in the afternoon, and they
further testified that she was carrying her
schoolbooks at the time.
The books were found in the loft of the
church yesterday, and the dead girls
shoes, hat and gloves were also found
there, proving that she did not go home,
but went to the church after the girls saw
her with the young man who they say was
Durrant.
1t Will be remembered that on that after =
noon young King saw Durrant coming
from the loft of the church with dust on
his trousers. The student was agitated
and called for sedative. He said that he
had been in the loft repairing a gas or
eleCIIIC uAIuIe. Inc JahItoT VI Cne cuuTCu
yesterday said that nothing was wrong
with the light or fixtures.
Blanche Lamont's garments were exam
ined yesterday by an expert who found on
the waist short hair that is like Durrant's
hair. Several witnesses have contradicted
Durrant's statement about his movements
at the time of and subsequent to the MUIR
der.
Early this morning, as on yesterday
morning, his repose was broken by a
hideous dream, and his cries of fear and
horror aroused the slumbering prisoners
and brought the iailers to his cell. His
mother has appealed to the public to sus-
pend judgment until something stronger
than circumstantial evidence has been pro-
duced against her son,
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top, and above it spreads at sharper angle
the roof of the church After the building
was completed, the shaking of the struc-
ture kept sending down the ceiling plaster,
and then several feet below it was built
another ceiling that was boarded Thus,
along the center line of the church, above
is first the present board ceiling, which
can be safely walked upon, then the
original ceiling ten feet above, through
which one may easily put his foot by step
ping off the rafters, and above this several
feet is the roof
1t was between this original ceiling and
the roof that the rest of the explorations of
the afternoon were made. The bright sun
light outside came family through little
cracks here and there, and just enabled
one to see where to step and crawl safely
along the timbers and among the rough
and dusty braces. The searchers had two
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used to pry open that upper door through
which Blanche Lamont's body had been
carried One was half-inch and the other
seven-eighths of an inch wide. The dis
covery of the chisel in the pastor study is
interesting, but it's full significance cannot
yet be explained.
One thing that started, or at least stimu-
lated the thorough search of the rear of
the church was the discovery there during
the afternoon of some marks that the
police and others thought were blood
stains. Across part of the rear OF the
church, opening from behind the choir
platform, runs narrow hallway.
Along it are three little rooms, one of
which is Mushroom, and it ends at one OF
the doors to the pastors study. About the
marble washstand, on the door post at the
entrance to the pastors study and on the
wainscoating were reddish drops and
daubs much resem bling blood. Had they
proved to be such it would have been an
extremely important circumstance, as all
the evidences of both crimes are confined
to the front end of the building.
Four samples of these stains were last
night submitted by the CALL to DIR. AKRON
Newman, an expert microscopic and as
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the murderers could not have helped step
ping in it, but there is nowhere outside the
library on carpet or wall sign of blood.
This points to the fact that the murderer
must have shrewdly taken off his shoes
when he left the library.
On the inside of the cover of the book,
"Chute's Physic,n was written in lettering
the following:
Learn what the book tells you. Do not
expect anyone to explain any thing to you.
No one will use common sense. If you
have none take the consequences. Do not
ask any questions. You may be taken for
an idiot. You may be one. If you cannot
make an experiment keep still about it,
No one will know the difference.
The police believe that the lettering was
done by Durrant, as 1t bears strong re-
semblance to his style of handwriting.
Emmanuel Church seemed yesterday
forsaken by every holy suggestion. The
pulpit was yet decorated for the Easter
festivities that were abandoned, but the
lilies that described a great white cross
dropped and were withered and nodded.
Jars of roses about the altar looked as
desolate, and the petals had fallen in heaps
to the floor, leaving scraggy stems above.
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quivering lips and bianched cheeks and
caused his eyes to wear haunted look
came from the dread of personal violence
at the hands of mob whose intensity OF
feeling he got an inkling of when he landed
at the ferry on Sunday night, or whether
the outward consciousness of guilt becom-
ing irrepressible were responsible for the
physical tokens of terror, can only as yet
be guessed at.
When ushered into the room where the
inquest was being held he glanced furtively
around and his look showed that he ex-
pected to be confronted with the remains
of the dead woman. He paused for an
instant, but the officers hustled him I'M
tremendously along and he was soon in a
seat where he was partly hidden from view.
When the taking of testimony was fin
ished for the day Durrant was almost pros
trated Although only four witnesses had
been examined their testimony was very
damaging to the accused. AS Witness
Morgan told in detail of his attempt ON
the honor of Miss Williams several weeks
prior to the tragedy the prisoner sank
deeper and deeper into his chair. and when
Frank A. Sademan told of their meeting
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sistant to DR.. Albert Abrams, professor of
pathology in Cooper Medical College.
DIR. Newman was not afforded time to
use the spctroscope, but his microscopical
examinations and the scientific tests that
he used showed him that the stains were
not made by blood.
In the little library room under a stair
way, where Minnie Williams was MUIR
dered, the blood remains undisturbed. On
the floor are two great pools, SO deep that
they have not dried. On the wall on one
side of the room the red stains show that
arterial blood had spurted far from a
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wound, spraying the wall and in
places striking it in quantities. A
similar spraying on the opposite
wall indicates struggle, during which
the bleeding victim moved across the little
room. There is little blood on the inside
of the door and the door was unquestion-
ably closed when the killing was done.
There was then the library door, the read
ing room and the front wall of the church,
in which is a window, between the trag-
edy and the sidewalk not thirty feet away.
There was SO much blood on the floor that
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strongly depicted upon human counte-
nance than they were outlined upon the
face of w. II. Theodore Durrant when he
was taken before the Coroner's jury yes
terday to hear the testimony that was to
connect him with the murder of Minnie
Williams, the girl who was so foully MUIR
dered in the Emmanuel Baptist Church
last Friday night.
Whether the thrills of fear which coursed
through him and set their seal upon his
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TIGHTER GROWS THE CHAIN AROUND DURRANT

More Evidence Against
Him Found in the
Church.
MISS LAMONT'S BOOKS.
Hair Believed to Be His
Sticking to the Murdered
Girls Waist.
HAD A WEAKNESS FOR WOMEN.
Damaging Evidence Given at the
Coroner's Inquest-His Mothers
Appeal.
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-04-11

Women registered at Cleveland and
gave their ages without protest.
Sam Woi Tai, a Chinaman, is a candi-
date for Mayor of Lexington, Neb.
Supreme Court of Michigan has de-
cided that the Shaw antifusion act is
legal.
Meat packers of Chicago and Kansas
City are endeavoring TO kill a bill in Min
nesota.
Minnesota is considering a bill which,
if adopted, will prevent nuns teaching in
public schools.
At a meeting in New York representa-
tives of six parties gave reasons for their
political faith.
Arizona Legislature adjourned in a
fight, the general appropriation bill fail
ing of passage.
Over 100 men prominent in the reform
movement in St. Louis were appointed
judges of election.
The Humphrey racing bill. the meas.
ure supported by the gamblers, passed
| the Illinois Senate.
Friends of Senator Davis, of Mime
| sofa, are urging him as a Republican can
didate for President.
The Delaware House defeated the bill
permitting the City of Newcastle to adopt
the single tax system.
Revisors of elections in st. Louis com.
pleted their work by eliminating ll,o4e
names from the poll books.
Both Houses of the Nebraska Legis'
lature passed the bill providing that q
bounty shall be paid on sugar.
The Utah Constitutional convention
laid on the table the section referring to
the taxation of church property.
Illinois House has passed a bill calcu'
lated to abolish truck stores in connec'
ton with coal mines in the State.
Alexander Mcdowell and others ad'
dressed the banquet of the Montgomery
Republican Club at Youngstown, ONO.
The bill appropriating 100000 for the
benefit of drouth sufferers has passed
both houses of Nebraska's Legislature.
A hill was introduced in the Illinois
House taxing bachelors SO annually
the money to be used in building and sus'
tanning an old maids home.
Senator Higgins supporters in the Del
aware Legislature deserted him in the
contest for the United States Senator
shin and east their votes for Benjamin
Fields.
CIV. Mckinley says the statement
quoting him as saying that If the Republl
can party declared for free silver he
would not accept the nomination fol
Presid. ut is absurd.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-04-11
A Boys Evening Clothes.

The regulation evening suit for the
boy from twelve to fifteen is that which
in England is dedicated to the Elton boy,
writes Elisabeth Robinson ScOvil, in
an article very fully descriptive of "The
Art Of Dressing the Boy" in the Ladies'
Home Journal. The material used is
the rough-surfaced black serge in vogue
for mems evening clothes. The trOus-
ers are cut in the usual fashion, and
though they display a crease, it is not
Il pronounced one. The WaistcOat is
cut very low to display the white shirt
front. white collar and black tie. The
Elton jacket, cut off short at the waist
line. hasits collar and lapels faced with
corded silk, which, while it is dull, yet
shows the difference between it and the
cloth. The cuffs are permitted to come
slightly below the sleeves and are held
together with simple white enamel
links. the shirt buttons being of the
same material. The black tie is an inch
ana Il half wide, of black satin. and
arranged in the usual stiff bow.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-04-11

James w. Scott, who is still very much
in the field. After awhile the Swifts
changed their residence for one in Chi
cago, and George attended first the Skin
ner school and later for one year the Chi
cago University. He did not enter poll
ties till 1877, when he was elected alder
man from the Seventh Ward. Under
Mayor Roche he was made Commissioner
Of Public Works. and under President
Garfield was a special treasury agent. He
has served three or our terms in the
Council altogether. besides filling out
Mayor Harrison's %unexpired term as chief
magistrate.
The civil service act was adopted by
almost as large Il vote as placed the can
didates on the successful side, 1O4,2oo
yes, 5S,6S9 no. The returns showed that
the adoption of the law had been consist
emily fought in some of the wards where
the political gangster is supreme.
Next to the surprising victory of the Re
publicans and the adoption of the civil
service bill the most sensational feature
of the election was the contest George
A.. Trude gave his Republican opponent
for city attorney.
Town Governments Are Republican.
The Republicans captured all the town
governments. The West Town, which
has been counted solidly Democratic,
went Republican by Il good majority. The
Democrats did not give up the fight until
the returns had shown that the increase
in the Republican vote was general
throughout the city. The Peoples party
vote reached scarcely one-third Of that
polled last fall. The candidates of that
party were swallowed up in the same tidal
wave which wiped out the Democratic
nominees.
The new Chicago Council stands: Re-
publicans 80, Democrats Is. The passing
Council stood: Republicans ~, Demo-
Gratis Il.