New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-12
DURRANT HARD PRESSED.
RIFT THE ALLEGED MURDERER RETAINS
HIS SELF-POSSESSION.
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAILS TO MAKE HIM
AGAINST THE PRISONER AND SENSATIONS

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAILS TO MAKE HIM
coxrRAprcr rIMsELF-TELr1No POINTS MADE
AGAINST THE PRISONER AND SENSATIONS
PROMISED FOR NEXT WEEK.
San Francisco. Oct I.-Theodore Durrant. while
losing some of his GOODNESS and possession. and
without being made to contradict himself In any
wav did not fare as well IN his struggle with DIS
trct-Atto Barnes to-day as he did yesterday
Mr.. Barnes had reserved his most telling points Tor
the close and he brought them out with good erect
There were In his nterrogations to-day broad IN
timations OF rebuttal testimony OF an important
and in one case sensational nature. and he expects
next week TO complete the net which In his direct
examination he partly wove around the accused
man. Just how far he will be able TO do this re-
mains TO be seen. Among his most important wit
nesses for next week will be several TO whom 1t Is
alleged Durrant made damaging admissions or
statements at variance with his testimony given on
the stand.
When the proceedings opened this morning Dur
confronted with statements alleged to
have been made TO two reporters. In which he SAID
that the afternoon OF the murder ne had arrived
at the church between and 4:3o o'clock. He adj
mtted that he had made statements to the re-
porers but said that he had been misunderstood
The time referred TO his trip from the college 10
the church. and not his arrival there. He said ne
had stated the time he lief. the college 10 be be-
tween 4 and 400 When he came down from the
space ABOVE the CeHNB 10 lne iN''"'
where George X. King, the organist. was playing
Durrant said he looked through the glass In the
door and King before stepping through the
doorway. When Il was called TO his attention that
the glass was stained. he insisted that he could see
the outline Of Kings form through the clear spaces
I'm IT, lie d.d place his to the clear spaces.
but stood about fifteen feet distant from them.
King had testified that he was the first 10 speak at
that meeting and that Durrant walked TO the mid
die OF the room before replying. This Durrant de-
MED. He said II Kirg spoke first he did not hear
him, but he himself openeI the conversation by say
ing, Hello. George
WHAT HE KNEW OF BROMO-SELTZER.
Mr. Barnes then questioned him as to his knowl
edge Of bromo settler and he said he had never
studied up on IL and had not ever. read advertise
ments about Il. lie did not, as Mr.. Barnes sug-
gested. know that its active principle was bromide
OF potash What little he knew OF II was impaired
TO him by Or. West prisoner In the county jail
charged with murder. lie learned from West that
It was composed o. acatanod. caffeine, bromide
OF soda soda and tar,aric ac.d. He was asked why.
II he knew nothing about It. ne had sent King for
IT, and replied that he thought II would stay his
stomach.
Durrant's college notebook has an adjustable
cover and he WAS asked II he had not made 1t
that way to enable him insert lectures. He sad
he had not and added tina, he had used the cover
over a year He made the rather remarkable
statement that ne had the day or his arrest for
gotten that he had notes OF DR. Cheneys lecture
on the afternoon of April B. though he remembered
It up time OF his arres. and II again occurred
TO him three days later. This was to account for
his having told two witnesses in the interval that
he did not remember whether or not he had the
notes He accounted for this torgetfuness by the
effect the excitement incidental TO his arrest had
on him.
Durrant admitted that he was Absent from the
morninS lecture At the county hospital on April g.
made an appointment with Minnie Williams. and
that he got mother student 10 answvr lor nun Ga
Ire bay. He said he had ordered il sack of coal
and sali he had gone to see the coal dealer on
business but did not order me Goad hn mr.
a bank that day until 1t was called 70 his attention
A DRAMATIC EPISODE.
The sensation Of the day produced when Dur
rant was asked if he had not september %
shown to Miss Carrie Cunningham, a reporter. an
envelope containing a siatemen. not to be opened
except in the event OF his conviction He denied
Mr barnes then asked him: Did you on the 9th
conversation with Miss Cunningham. say that when
you were work fixing the sun-burners you heard
sa the dead BODY OF Blanche Lamont on the second
On aif ihe see e@ q landing Of the befy
Thsre was Tory brought to me by MISS Snn
Pea CIR. story. purported to be rImor which she
had heard about town, to the effect that had heard
lowed the noise to the landing above to sec what
II was and discovered what you make reference D.
neither affirmed nor dsaied 1t. as have done with
every reporter who mas brought story TO me.
asked her II she intended TO publish this and tod
her that she would put me TO great annoyance.
She said she WCuld say nothing about II whatever.
and shc stood a box and said she would so.emnly
promise me she wou.d say nothing about II until IT
could be proven Now" added Durrant drama.i-
CIV i ask for the proof to come forward"
"Dd she not ask you, persisted Mr. Barnes, ~
you sure II was the second landing. and did
YOU not say that landing not In sight from
where You were. and then dd she not say that ii
was the second landing. as that was where the
y I'D fa1n . tH-rO . red
You not say there blood at ALL that what
Seemed TO be blood had been analysed and found 10
BE- waier?'
she framed her story in something OF that way
replied purrant. Il argued the point with her
hat person could not see any enc III the be'frr
from the new ceiling. ! told her she should not
come to and try 10 put such stories in my
mouth. az she did when she wrote about the Sweet
Pea Girl told her she had that young lady re-
lated TO me and furnishing funds for my defence
and asked her where she landed with H. told her
that story was mythical and nothing more. and
told her bring such stories
mors. | would not either affirm or deny them.
and that the end Of 1T
This ended Durrants cross-eNan min ton. and the
case went over until Tuesday