Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-05
tinctly, tue entries which it was at ten pted to oblIterate.

ten pted to oblIterate.
 District Attorney Barnes and Captain
 Lees hsve examined Inc roll cali p.rtic-
 nary the erasares, ana they are iaclin- , ed to think that tine mark opposite Dor
 ranL's name was originally uu "A, :" indi- eating that the accused gcs absent on that day. The argument IS nut f5rWard that If Durrant had been present at the
 lecture there would have been no mark whatever opposite hIs name. unless he
 had been examined, and in that evect &
 cross would have been there: and this mark was Tot a crUss
 Attorney DeLprey has not yet opened
 his batteries upon the Rev. J. George
 Gibson, pastor of the Emanuel Baptist , church. The attorney fo, the defense
 in bis opening statement practically as
 serted that Dr. G!bsoE ought to be the defendant at the bar in place of DurTsnt
 He has said, however, that as seen as he
 finishes with his evidence regarding the
 ch.sei found ia the pastors study and
 tie hammer and the alleged blo dy shoe
 he will proceed to sh0w that the writ ing OF the copy of the newspaper in which Blanche Lgmont's rings were wrapped bears Il strong r, ssmblaace to
 tLe pastors style of chiroxraphy. In
 order to do tbis It will be necessary to produce experts III hard writing. S. fer
 us is knowo DO experts If this character have been summoned.
 The attack on Rev. J. George Gibson
 by Attorney Deuprey ln iis opening
 statement has mace several people who testified at the preliminary examination feel anxious lest they, tco, should have
 the finger of suspicion pointed at t. em. One of these persons is Elmer Wolfe.
 who testified that be saw Durrant and
 Minnie Williams together after the Christian EnGeavor meeting ct Dr.. Vogel's home. Not that he has cay
 reason to fear inslnuations from tho de~ fense, but because he wanted to De
 ready for Durrant's lawy CTS in case tEeJ
 in any way tried to involve him III the
 murder of Blanche Lamont.
 A few days ago Wolfe received an in-
 timation that he might be drawn intc
 the case that is at present being tried in Judge Murphy's court. This vas a sur price to him. He rather expected being
 brought into the Williams case, but uD-
 til the hint was given him was unaware
 that he might figure in the Lamont case l He did not. however, stop to puzzle over the why's and wberefores, but set
 right to work to establish an aiibi. This
 wss ca fly done, but the young man was
 not satisfied. He kept on reviewing the events of the month of April until he knew just where he was and what he did on the night Minnie Williams met
 her fate in the library of Emanuel church. Then be went 10 the people he had been with on that right and secured them as ssitnesses in case au attempt ! should be made to prove his alioi false. l Fortified with a record of hls actions on the Sd and on the 12th of A prli | Wolfe s prepared to off set any attack or iusinuation the defense may spring. The police have solved the mystery oi | the supposed bomb thrown shortly be | fore noon on Saturday into one of ths hall-w8ys of the building occupied by Roy. J. George Gibson. They have found that it was not dynamite Ut all
 and that the person who threw iJ lrob- ably did 80 merely 10 perpetrate what he thought to be a joke. The'bomb was only dangerous as counterfeit.
 The matter WAS DO joke however, to Mrs. Moore, Mrs Black and the other ladies residing ID the flats ot the build ing, and it was far from being consider ed from humorous point of view by Mir. Armbruster, who found it. The very fact that he hurried with his fioO to the Seventeenth street station in hot haste went to show that he was i0 state of mind very different from thu. of a person enjoying n feast of wit. The fact of the matter was that he believed at first, as did the ladies of the house, that instead of the round, hard roll of compressed paper winch he had found, there was some deadly fuimiuate, one rude shock to which, such as fOotfall might produce, would have blown them all tss Kingdom come.
 THe moment Mir ArmOruster tCOk tf Nticle into his hand the thought Eashed through his mind that # was 8 H%Shb, and that it had been thrown into .h. hallway of his residence in mistake foi Shat of the pastor of Emanuel church. The manner ln which the per scn who threw the article acted strength aned this belief in the mird Of MT. hrmbruster He remem bered instantly how he had seen suspicious looking character prowling on the back porch of the flat of Mrs. Moore, and how, on Fri day night lest when he followed the stranger for some distance. he snw him dogging the footsteps of pastor Gibson and Secretary Lynch for several blocks on Valencia street
 Today when tke police vestiGated ths supp; sed bomb it was fourd 10 be composed q of an exploded roman candle 1 with piece of arc light carbon Bttsch ed.
 ST. LOUIS, Oat. IA special to tke Post Dispatch frsm Austin, Tex, says: The Texas legis ature met at noon to day with quorum present. The gov ernor in message reviews the laws l against prize fighting in Texas, calling | attention to errors therein, and closed | by saying: "All persons have been given | notice that the Cor bett- F.tzsimmons ex hibition would not be permitted"
 There is a strong lobby here from Dallas, and the leaders Of 1t claim to 1 have votes enough in tie house 10 de | feat an emergency clause. Only three senators opposed an emergency clause l
 SAN FRANCISCO, oct. 1-An unexpect- ed sensation developed in the trial of | Durrant this morning. Judge Murphy | 5aid he had been informed that juror had been approached on the subject of the trial After commenting on the | gravity of the offence, which he said bordered on serious crime, the court | asked juror Truman to take the stand.
 MT. Truman said while ridiUg in a street car last Thursday he WAS ap preached by H. J. Mccoy, general sec. retary of the Young Mems Christian Union. Mccoy said to the juror "If you don't hang Durrant We will hang you" The statement of the juror created