Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-12

San Francisco, October 11.-After
three days ordeal Theodore Durant to-
day left the witness stand.
District Attorney Barnes tried this
morning to draw from the defendant
admissions that he was well acquaint-
ed with the use OF bromo-seltzer, as
used in medicine. Durant's replies In
dicated that he had devoted the night
to study of the compound as he re-
piled that he had conversed with DR..
West about it in the Jail last evening.
He was able TO give its analysis and de-
tailed its pathological effect.
For the first time during the trial
Durant to-day pleaded ignorance. In
reply to a question by Mr.. Barnes he
said he did not know what an aliDl wal
until after his trial began.
While testifying to-day, the prisoner
became badly confused at times and
when questions regarding his exper-
ience in Cooper Medical College, became
so mixed in his dates that he had TO
refer TO card that he carried IN his
pocket to set himself right. He be-
came noticeably confused and rather
testy in his replies when examined in
regard to the interview that he had
with Gilbert f. Graham, fellow stu
dent, at the city prison, when the pros
ecution claims Durant asked Graham
to furnish him with
A COPY OF THE NOTES
of DR.. Cheney's lecture, remarKing:
"If had those notes l would be able
to prove an alibi."
Durant, in his logged way, denied
absolutely that he had made such a
declaration, and tried to explain by tes-
tifying that Graham came TO him with
proffers of assistance, going so far as
to inquire anxiously if Durant had the
notes of Dr. Cheney's lecture.
Durant finally admitted that he ask
ed him to furnish the notes, but he tes-
tilted 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 again forced
Durant to admit that he had written
statement of his case and enclosed 1t
in an envelope to his attorneys with
the instructions to "open it If he was
convicted and to return it if he was not
convicted"
Durant was asked if he did not re-
Gently show an envelope bearing such
an inscription to Miss Carrie Cunning
ham. a local newspaper reporter. Du-
rant replied emphatically that he did
not.
He also denied that he had told Miss
Cunningham he had heard suspicious
noises in the belfry of Emanuel Church
on the afternoon that Blanche Lamont
was murdered.
SEVERAL SPECIMENS
of Durants handwriting were intro
duced in evidence for the purpose OF
comparing them with the writing on
the wrapper in which the rings cf
Blanche Lamont were mailed TO her
aunt. Mrs. Noble.
The District Attorney closed his
cross-examination of the witness by
trying to show that when he was at the
ferries. ostensibly to search for Blanche
Lamont. that he was in reality looking
for Minnie Williams, who came over
from Oakland that Afternoon, and was
found murdered in the church the next
day. The defense fought vigorously
against the admission Of anything
bearing on the case of Minnie Williams,
and after long argument Judge Muir
phy sustained the objections.
After Durant was excused, Charles 7.
Lenahan, who was said to have been
mistaken for Durant by Pawnbroker
Oppenheim, was recalled to the stand
for further examination. Little pro-
gress had been made, however, when
court adjourned until Tuesday morn
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