Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-10-02
TRY NEW TACTICS.
Lawyers for Durrant Go Into a
General impeachment.
oPpENHE1rs MEMORY ASSAULTED.

UPPENHEl&'S ME0Ukx ASSAULTEU.
Four witnesses Who Say He L. Not Reli-
able I'm entification-Attempt to Show
Where the Defendant Was Each Day for
Week Except ON That Fatal Afternoon
Not Much Progress Modelling Es.
capes Hanging.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.-Aftcr gather
ing up few ragged ends Of the testimony
left over from last week the defense in the
Dlrrant case began the building of an
alibi for the young medical student from
April up to April IL inclusive. The pur-
pose of the Glibi is to impeach the. testi-
mony of Pawnbroker Oppenheim and w.
]. Phillips, who testified that on April II
Durrant tried to pawn Blanche Lamont's
ring at Oppenhcim's store. During tho
course Of the testimony which covered
Durrant's movements on April and o
struggle was precipitated by District At
torney Barnes. who again challenged the
reliability Of roll call book Of Cooper col.
lege. The argument ended in victory
for the defense SO far as the question be.
fore the court was concerned, as Judge
Murphy sustained an objection to ques
ton propounded by himself to the witness
and cut off the discussion.
Mob Spirit, CT Course, on Hand.
The trial began with a sensation which
was quite as unexpected to the prosecu'
ton as to the defense. Juror I. J. Truman
informed the court that last Thursday
during the noon recess of the court he was
approached by H. j Mccoy, general sec
rotary of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION, who endeavored to engage him
in conversation on the subject of the trial.
"If you don't hang Durrant,'' said Nc
Coy to the juror Eve will hang you"
The court said the offense bOrdered
strongly on a crime, and cited Mccoy to
appear in court and show cause why he
should not be punished for contempt. B.
w. Maitland, the electrician who testified
last week with regard to the construction
of the sunburners in Emanuel church, was
the first witness called. The testimony
was of the same nature as that given last
week, and was intended to show the liza
bility of escape of gas under certain con-
ditiOns.
Assault on Oppenheim's Testimony.
helms testimony then began. The dc.
tense called to the stand four witnesses by
whom it was proposed to test the accuracy
of the pawnbroker's memory. Martin Cur.
tbs, William Cathvart, p. ]. Numann and
Leonard Everett, members of the Nation.
| al Guard and the signal corps to which
Durrant belonged, testified that they had
taken various articles of jewelry to Op
pcnheim's store and attempted to pawn
them. They described the manner in
which they were dressed at the time. The
description in many instances did not
correspond with the description given by
| Oppenheim when he was asked to tell how
| the men who tried to pawn the articles
We're dressed. Each of the four witnesses
| said he had subscribed money to assist il,
| the defense of Durrant.
The next step was made to lmpeach the
testimony of David Clarke, the witness
who assisted Attorney Quinlan to fix the
| date upon which he saw Durrant and
| Blanche Lamont walking toward En-
anuel church John Patton, Patrick
Mulvancy and NJ. J. Murphy said that
Clarke's reputation for truth and integ
rity was bad On cross-examination Null
vaney and Murphy said they were pre-
| JUDGED against Clarke from the fact that
they had business trouble with his father
| The district attorney asked that the testi-
mony be stricken out, but the motion was
denied by the court
| The building of Durrart's ann IN con
tradiction Of the charge made by Pawn
broker Oppenhcim was begun with the
| testimony of DIR. A. w. Haihait, a lectures
ut the Copper Medical college. Asked il
Durrant was present at the lecture givcI
| on the morning of April the doctor re
ferred to the callbook and said that thu
defendant was recorded present. On cross
examination he said that he had no per
sonal knowledge of Durrant's absence o;
presence. 1t was here that the judge hat
to rule against his own question, which
was as to whether the professor had eve
known of the practice of one student
answering for another at roll call. II,
ruled against, he said, simply TO be on the
| safe side.
With Durrants WHEREABOUTS ON TIL,
morning Of April 4 accounted for in thi
very unsatisfactory style the defense at
tempted to show where the defendant wa.
the next day. George A. Merrill, an in
structor at the Lick School of Mechanical
arts. said that Durrant called upon him q
II o'clock on the forenoon of April j
Asked if Durrant made known the objec
Of his call he replied in the affirmative, bu
he was not permitted to tell what Dur
rant said
DEsPERADO's SENTENCE COMMITTED
Mercy L. Granted o Thug on Mother
Persistent Appeal