The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Testimony of Allen Church and
Policeman Green Concluded
the States Case

Janitor Sademan's predecessor, Allen
Church, was the first witness in the after
noon. He resides at Napa City at present.
When he gave up his place at Emmanuel
Church he turned over his keys to Janitor
Sademan. He had known Durrant for
seven years, he said. He knew that Dur
rant had key to the south side entrance
of the church. The same key opened the
janitor's room. He had seen Durrant open
the ianitor's room.
On cross-examination witness said that
Durrant usually had charge of the electric
lights, and that in order to get to them it
was necessary to pass through the janitor's
room.
On redirect examination Mr.. Church said
that the north side entrance was kept
nailed up. About year before he left he
had nailed up the entrance very securely,
and up to the time he went away the door
remained in that condition.
Mr.. Dickinson then asked witness
| whether there was a saloon in the house at
| the north of the church. Witness replied
| there was not a saloon in the block, and
| never had been.
He was asked who lived in the house to
the north. A man named Pollard, who
moved away and was succeeded by ten
| ant named Sprague, was the answer. Mr..
! Dickinson asked number of questions
concerning the position of the sun burners
and the automatic batteries. Witness said
| that on one occasion he placed a news
| paper over the plates behind the refectors.
| This was done in cold weather to keep the
heat from escaping.
At the conclusion of the cross-examina-
| ton of Mr.. Church District Attorney
| Barnes arose and said:
THAT is the peoples case, your Honor"
~ believe there is one of the peoples
witnesses that the defense still de sires to
cross-examine," said Judge Murphy.
That was Mrs. Dorgan." said Attorney
| Dickinson. eve only desired to ask her
about .he diagram and as we have COW
cred that point by other witnesses we do
not wish to recall her now"
However, we do desire to further cross
| examine some of the peoples witnesses"
continued Mr.. Dickinson, "before we begin
our case. We want to ask few more
questions of officer Gibson, Deputy Cor
oner Hallett and Mrs. Leak"
'Are any of those witnesses PRESENT."
asked the court.
During the recess we were unable to
reach Officer Gibson" said the District
Attorney, land we had no notification
about the other witnesses. None of them
are here. There is one point that wish
TO make, yet. had forgotten it,"
| ODuCCT JONI OTecu GucIl LOOk tuc
| stand and identified the name George R..
| King" written on the margin of the news
| paper in which Blanche Lamont's rings
| were inclosed.
| "Do you see Kings name written there
| twice?'' asked Mr. Barnes.
| eyes, sir"
"Who wrote the second manner"
| al wrote it,"
"Why did you write it?"
81 saw that the first writing was very lndis-
| tinct, so / wrote the name again in order to
| preserve it,"
Witness was told to place circle about
| the name he had written and put his
| initials in it, so that the jury would be able
| to distinguish the two. There was no
| cross-examination.
| Mr.. Dickinson arose and asked for con-
| tinuance until this morning, whereupon
the defense would certainly be prepared to
go ahead with its case. He called attention
| to the fact that this was the first time the
| defense had asked for a continuance; it
| being necessary to do so at this time be-
cause the witnesses for cross-examination
were not present.
Mr.. Barnes said he had no objection to
! the continuance asked for, but that he
| desired it understood that if anything oc-
| CURED in the future which should make
| such course desirable he would be at
! liberty to introduce new witnesses.
| Judge Murphy said that this would be a
| matter of course, and after a parting in
| junction for Mr. Barnes to be sure to have
! the witnesses on hand in the morning for
cross-examination, the court adjourned for