Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-11-08

the cool western wind that swept
through the lofty spire. He hid the
remains where he believed they would
remain undiscovered and receive no
promise of Christian burial There he
left her. She was dead, but he fancied
himself safe from detection and expos
ure. The heaven-pointing spire of the
Redeemer's church was his only conf
dant and accomplice. No human eye
had witnessed his assault upon Blanche
Lamont. No ear had heard her first
shrek Of terror and amazement as this
monster fell upon her, or the last
stified moan Of dying agony that pre-
ceded the awful silence of her final
rest. None, save the God whom he
feared not, had seen him as he extend
ed the naked and slender form on the
belfry floor, laid the thin arms across
the undeveloped bosom, propped the
head and Strengthened the meager body
in the dust. Not human body had
beheld his retreat from the awful pres
ence of the death which was his work,
and the secret was safely locked in
his own breast. There lay the speech.
less and untestifying corpse, and what
is now to give him fea-? 1t had been
nothing but girl after all, and con-
cerning her there would be the same
old story to which he could help give
currency-the same old story of van
ished girl, distracted family, an in.
effective and perfunctory search among
the houses of ill-repute, a reluctant
conclusion that this little one, like
others of Ewes daughters, had gone to
her moral destruction; picture turned
to the wall, name never spoken and
oblivion, personal and social, for poor
Blanche Lamont And he was right
for the moment. The wrath of God,
whose law he had violated, and whose
temple he had desecrated, seemed to
slumber. The murderer went his
guilty way with his undivulged crime,
unscathed and unwhipped of justice,
while his victim lay in the spire that
points its slender finger to the sky as
if reproaching its ruler for his unmov-
ing Indignation.
Mr.. Barnes related the circumstances
in connection with the discovery of
Miss Lamont's body, and from the
facts drew the conclusion that she was
murdered by some member of the
church who had keys to the building,
and in whom she had confidence. The
murderer must also have been a man
whose cunning was sufficient to enable
timidity which always accompanies in
nocence and induce her to go alone
with him to the darkened church in
which they worshiped ON Sunday.
Such man, he said, is Theodore Dur
rant. Only monster capable of tax
ing the life of an innocent girl, he
said, could remain cool, impassive and
almost defiant when accused of such a
crime.
Gentlemen" continued Mr.. Barnes,
''such a man is of such rare quality
that if confronted at last with the
proofs of his crime, whose recital has
shocked all civilization, he could and
he would, as he has done. sneeringly
smile in the awful presence of the
relics of his victim, torn by his hands
from her stiffening body, and exhibit
neither passion nor emotion, neither
sympathy nor regret for the unfortu'
late child he had brought to prema.
| ture grave. Such man could well lie
in Jail awaiting his trial for murder
and clothe his villainy with mask o.
a pretended trust in the Jehovah whom
he had defied, and play the saint with
verses and phrases stolen from holy
writ. He could listen with grim com
placency while his counsel struggled tC
weave a web of suspicion and accuse
rtion around one whom he knew to bt
innocent, and from the beginning t.
the end of his trial for the highes
crime known to law, remain the sam'
nerveless, impassive, smiling villain
81 listened to the opening statemen
of the defense with an absorbing in
terest. was disappointed in but lit
tie. The learned counsel who opened
the case for the defendant invoked tn
spirit of Blanche Lamont and voicet
her thought by saying: Let him g
free: he harmed me not. Gentlemen
like the counsel, have felt her pres
ence during the long and tedious day
of this trial. have seen her as sh
was on the 3rd day of April last, a
she left her school and her classes
with her little burden of books an
paper. fill again that slender rob
before me with her girlish form
Above it see her sweet face, haloe
by its wealth of hair, her gentle eyes
her smiling mouth dropping kindl
words, bubbling up from the unpollut
ed depths of pure heart. have see
her as she was when the defendant &C
dressed her at the door of the normf
school. have so seen her every day
| see her now There she stands b'
J hind him at this hour, not praying fC
{ vengeance for her deep and remedies
, wrong; not for the laws retributio
) upon her murderer; but with uplifte
. hands and streaming eyes, prayin
. that God will not put into your heart
by the mockery of verdict Of NJ