The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-10-12
DURRANT IS MUDDLED.
The Accused Double Murderer Gets
Mixed in His Dates.
HIS CONTRADICTORY TESTIMONY.

Admits Having Written Letter to His
MED Under Oath, and That He Had
Asked for Graham's Notes.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12-After a three
days ordeal Theodore Durrant yesterday
left the witness stand. District Attorney
Barnes tried yesterday to draw from the
defendant admissions that he was well
acquainted with the use of bromo seltzer,
as used In medicine Durrant's replies in
dicated that he had devoted the night to
study Of the compound, as he replied that
he had conversed with DR.. West about it
in Jail last evening He was able to give
It's analysis and detailed its pathological
effect
For the first time during the trial Dur
rant yesterday pleaded ignorance. In re-
ply to question by Mr.. Barnes he said
he did not know what an alibi was until
after his trial began. While testifying the
prisoner became badly confused at times,
and when questioned regarding his ex-
perience at Cooper Medical college became
so mixed in his dates that he had to refer
to a card that he carried in his pocket to
set himself right He became noticeably
confused and rather testy in his replies
when examined in regard to the interview
that he had with Gilbert F. Graham, fell
low student, at the city prison, when the
prosecution claims Durrant asked Graham
to furnish him with a copy of the notes of
DIR. Cheney's lecture, remarking: IF L
had those notes l would be able to prove
an alibi."
Durrant, in his dogged way, denied alb
solutely that he made such declaration,
and tried to explain by testifying that
Graham came to him with proffers of as
sistance, going so far as to inquire anx-
iously if Durrant had the notes to DIR.
Cheney's lecture.
Durrant finally admitted that he asked
him to furnish the notes, but he testified
that he made the request at the advice of
his attorneys, who instructed him to get
the notes from students of his class and
compare them with his own.
| District Attorney Barnes forced Durrant
! to admit that he had written statement
| of his case and enclosed it in an envelope
to his attorneys with the instructions to
"open it if he was convicted and to return
| 1t if he was not convicted"
Durrant was asked if he did not recently
show an envelope bearing such an inscrip-
tion to Miss Carrie Cunningham, a local
newspaper reporter Durrant replied EN-
phatically that he had not He also denied
that he had told Miss Cunningham that
he heard suspicious noises in the belfry Of
Emanuel church on the afternoon that
Blanch Lamont was murdered.
Several specimens Of Durrants hand
writing were introduced in evidence fol
the purpose of comparing them with tn,
writing on the wrapper in which the ring
of Blanche Lamont were mailed to he
aunt, Mrs. Noble.
The district attorney closed his cross
examination of the witness by trying t,
show that when he was at the ferries
ostensibly to search for Blanche Lamont
he was in reality looking for Minnie Will
Jams, who came over from Oakland tina
afternoon and was found murdered in til
church the next day The defense Tough
vigorously against the admission of any
thing bearing on the case of Minnie Will
Jams, and after a long argument Judg
Murphy sustained the objections.
After Durrant was excused, Charles I
Lenahan, who was said to have been mis-
taken for Durrant by Pawnbroker Open
! helm, was recalled to the stand for furthe
examination. Little progress had beel
made, however, when court adjourne
until Tuesday next.