Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-17
MORE DAMAGING
Becomes the Testimony Against Durant-An
 Old Lady on the Stand.

Becomes the Testimony Against Durant-An
 Old Lady on the Stand.
 San Francisco, Sept. 16.-The evidence against Durant today was the most dam aging yet introduced. There were three witnesses on the stand, but they identi- fled him as the man who took the girl from the Powell Street Normal school and saw him alight from a car with her near the church. Cross-examinaton did not shake them. The first of the wit nesses was Miss May Lanigan. one of the three girls who left the school with Miss Lamont, and who few minutes later saw her on a car going in the direction of the church. The witness positively iden- tified the man who was with Miss La mont as Durant.
 Mrs. Mary Vogel who lives opposite the school house, identified Durant as a man she had seen waiting outside before the class to which Miss Lamont belonge was dismissed that afternoon. His sus- picious movements led her to believe that t he was a burglar. She saw him meet the young lady and watched them get. on the car together. Mrs. Vogers testimony cOrroborated that of Miss Edwards, an- other of the school girl witnesses, in ev- cry particular. She identified Durant first by newspaper portrait and after wards when asked to point him out she walked to within a few feet of Durant and said impressively, That is the man." Durant was unmoved during the scene, but the weight of the testimony intro duced today told as whole on his splen- did nerve.
 The last witness of the day was Mrs. Elizabeth CroZett. She was 71 years old but apparently of unimpaired facul- ties. Her statement on the stand was that she left her home in the northern part of the city to dine with her grand daughter In the mission, where the Emanuel church is located. It was 320 when she left home, and some twenty minutes later she boarded car by trans fer on which. she says, Durant was rid ing with a young lady whom she did not know. Durant was outside on the dunn my and Mrs. Crozett was on a seat op- posite on the inside. It was seven blocks from the place where she got on to where Durant got on, and the lady alighted, and en route Mrs. Crozett had ample opportunity to take notice of Durant. Thus. she says, she did beyond any pos siblity of mistake. She observed them when they alighted and thought the girls hat was somewhat lighter than that shown in court. Her description of the girl was meagre. So far as it went it tallied we'll with that of Miss Lamont.
 On cross-examinatiOn Durant's attor- ney attacked the old lady on her men tality and subjected her to a cross-ex- animation Wnlcn was SD "lSorous tndt the court nterposed to protect the wit ness Her memory was tested and it was found to be so good that she could readily give a list of homeopathic rem edies which she from time to time had taken. She had known Durant about four years, and seen him as much as five times a month at the home of her son. Durant was very intimate with her gra ndson The defense claims that Mrs. Crozett saw Durant infrequently and that she did not know him well enough to speak to him when she met him. Mrs Crozett is sure of her dates, as on the day she met Durant she had an appoint ment which fixed it on her mind, and the day following she left the city on six days visit.
 The prosecution expects to finish it's direct case this week.