Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-04
PRESS PRIVILEGES
Bob Up as an Issue at the Trial
of Theo. Durrant.
FAIR REPORTER ORDERED TO JAIL

For Standing Oh the PrOrogative So Fre-
1uertIy Claimed and Refusing to Answer
Questions i'm Conrt-Y. NJ. G. A. Man
Fined $3.50 with a Jail Alternative for
Threatening Mob Law to the Jury-Evi-
dcnce Presented in the Case.
SAN FRANCIsCo, Oct. 4.-The trial of
Theodore Durrant was replete with sensa-
tions. Henry J. Mccoy, general secretary
of the Young Mems Christian association,
who was cited for contempt for telling
Juror Truman that If he did not hang
Durrant the people would hang him, was
fined $50 with the alternative of five days
in the county Jail. During the cross-ex-
. animation of IA witness summoned by the
defense the prosecution developed the fact
that student at Cooper Medical college
who did not attend the lecture delivered
by DIR. Cheney on the afternoon of April 3,
was recorded present in the roll-call book.
This testimony is Of importancct to the prose-
cution from the fact that it shows the un
reliability of the roll-call book in which
Durrant was recorded present on the aft
ernoon that Blanche Lamont was muir.
dcrcd.
jail for Feminine Reporter.
The last sensation of the day was an Or
der made by the court committing Miss
Carrie Cunningham, a newspaper report
er, to the county jail for refusing to an
Rwcr question. The defense desired to
impcach the testimony of Mrs. Leakc, who
said she did not tell Miss Cunningham
that she saw Durrant and Miss Lamont
enter Emanuel church on the afternoon of
of April 8. Miss Cunningham testified
that Mrs. Leakc did not tell her what
she had seen but when asked to reveal
the source of her information the wit
ness declined to answer An order was
made committing the witness to the coun-
ty Jail for contempt, but on motion of the
defense it was made to go into effect after
This morning, when Miss Cunningham
would be given another chance to answer
the question.
some More students Examined.
Thc defense placed on the stand eight
more students who attended the lecture
delivered by DR. Cheney on the afternoon
of April 3 to testify as to whether they had
answered to Durrant's name ut roll-call
Each witness gave negative answer.
With the exception OF six all of the MEM
bers of tho class have now been asked this
question One of the students has died
since April 3, and the prosecution has
been unable ia. obtain the attendance Of
the other five in court. The prosecution
limited the crosscXamination in each case
to asking If the witness saw Durrant ut
the lecture. Not a student was found who
remembered having seen the defendant.
Gihson's Secretary Had to Go.
The notes OF each witness We're placed
in evidence by the prosecution. Tho notes
promise to play an important part in the
future proceedings, as the prosecution in
tends to compare them with the notes
said to have been taken by Durrant at the
time. Attorney Dupccy called the atten-
tion Of The court to the fact that Robert
y. Lynch, private secretary of Rev. j.
George Gibson, was in the court room,
and asked 20 have him removed. The
court snid Lynch could not be removed
unless he was subppnaCd as IL witness,
when he would be excluded like all other
witnesses. y subpoena was mt once made
out for Lynch and lac was ordered To leave
the room. Lynch protested th.t Ec knew
nothing about the ease, but .hc court in
sisted upon the order.
Another Unsatisfactory Witness.
The defense erdcavorCd to show by +.
a. Ross, a student 1t Cooper Medical col
leyc that on the afternoon that Blanche
Lamont was murdered he and Durrant
took u walk from the college to the vicinity
of the Golden gate. Ross remembered
that he and Durrant had taken such Il
walk, but said he could not fix the Gatc.