The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

boarded the dummy on the side nearest the
butcher-shop.
''My heart was so light when the young
man got on the car with the young girl.
Then knew he was not a suspicious char
acter.
''How do fix the date?" she exclaimed
in reply to question. "Why. by several
things. First of all, on the same evening
my husband brought home a postal card
addressed to me, upon which was stamped
April 2. | called his attention to this and
asked him why it had taken till the next
day to get it home. l was blaming him for
its delay and got somewhat angry, SO /
didn't say any more to him about it.
1.-THE next day one of my friends called
on me and l told her of my suspicious
about the young man I had seen waiting
for the girls at the Normal School and I
also told her about my husband having
brought the delayed postal-card in the
night before"
"How did you come to KIN ow, Mrs. Vogel,
that the young man was Dnrrant," she
was asked.
by the pictures in the papers," she re-
piled. "The minute I heard about the
murders and saw his pictures it all flashed
over me and | said, That's the young man
| saw waiting for those girls on that day.
Then | hunted up that postal-card and
saw that the date on it was as | had stated,
April 2, and knew had received it on the
evening of April 3.
This knowledge, Mrs. Vogel stated, she
had not divulged to the authorities for the
reason that she was afraid of the notoriety
she would achieye and of the fearful ques-
tioning she was Certain would follow at the
hands of the attorneys. She might never
have made it known had it not been for her
hrfrA Il -
who convinced her that it was her duty to
make it known and to testify if need be-
Mrs. Vogel, therefore, will take her stand
in the long list of witnesses for the prose-
cution, despite whose formidable front the
defense still expresses its ability to prove
an alibi. Her testimony will corroborate
that of the Normal School girls as stated
before, and will cut big figure in the cal
culation of Durrant's story at the college
on that afternoon.
For the first time this morning the de-
PENDANT and his counsel will learn of this
new witness against them, but it is safe to
say that even with this their confidence in
their ability to prove an alibi will remain
mistaken. They were of that opinion yes
terday, and despite rumors of mysterious
women and equally mysterious men. pro-
air, awaiting the day of the trial, when
they say all they ask is a fair jury and
themselves, and their evidence will do the
rest.
incidentally yesterday the murder of
Minnie Williams, which has been kept out
of sight in the face of the present trial,
took on little interest from the fact that
it had been stated around police head
quarters that new witness had been dis
covered against Durrant in a man
who positively identified Durrant and Min
ME Williams as having been together on
the evening of April II in front of the
church. This, of course, in the face of
Durrants statement that he had not seen
the murdered girl on that evening would
be important Still, with all this, Detec-
tive Morse makes the clear statement that
he has the clearest kind of defense for
his client in that case.
And SO it goes. Detectives, attorneys,
court clerks and reporters are all busy,
while the defendant and the yenlremen
wait for Thursday morning and the reap
pearance of Judge Murphy on the bench
The defendant had rather quiet time of
it yesterday, his visitors being few and far
between. the most welcome ones being his
father and mother, who called to see him
at l o'clock and remained about half an
hour.