The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-14

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 13-Now
that Durrant has told his story on the
witness stand, and has made answers
to all the accusations implied BY the
cross questions of the prosecution an
impression exists among those who
have watched the trial closely that
there is something to come which will,
perhaps. have more effect on the minds
OF the jurymen as regards the guilt or
innocence of the defendant than any
thing that has gone before.
This feeling is due to the confidence
with which District Attorney Barnes
put a series of startling questions re-
latlng to conversation held by Dur.
rant with a newspaper reporter, Miss
carrie Cunningham, at the county
Jail within the past week and also
touching on the address and endorse
ment of a certain envelope which may
or may not have contained a confession.
The questions implied full knowledge on
the part of Barnes and it was evident
That when the proper time came testi-
mony would be produced to contradict
the denials Of the prisoner.
Borders on Confession.
When the prosecutions witnesses
are put on the stand they will relate
the particular Won lf a conversation
that bordered on onfessfon. They
will seek to prove tMt this man who
has been almost as silent as dead
man for six months opened his mouth
and talked of matters touching his
very existence and at the very day and
hour when it was most important for
him to maintain silence. These wit
nesses will seek to show by their testi-
mony that Durrant made admissions
which destroy the whole fabric of the
defense.
These alleged admissions are taken
by the prosecution as coming from the
one person on earth who knows all
that occurred beneath the belfry Of
the Emanuel Baptist church on that
afternoon Of April 3.
The record of what passed at the
county jail between Miss Cunningham
and Durrant is thus told by the prose
cution, which is in possession of the
full facts:
ION the evening of September %.
Miss Cunningham visited Durrant at
the county jail and during the course
Of their conversation Durrant showed
her small envelope which bore the
following address and endorsement:
Messrs. Dickinson and Deuprey. To
be opened in case I am convicted. To
be returned ito me In case L am
acquitted"
"Durrant told the young lady that
the envelope contained a complete
statement of all that occurred at the
Emanuel Baptist church on the after
noon of April 8. He said it had been
written in order that his attorneys
might know the facts in the event Of
his being convicted of the murder OF
Blanche Lamont"
Con the following evening, September
%. Miss Cunningham again visited
Durrant at the county Jail and was
there shown large envelOp addressed
like the other and smaller one. Dur
rant told her that the contents Of the
other envelope had become damned up
and that he had transferred the written
statement to the larger envelope.
Was in the Church.
ION the morning Of October 5 Miss
Cunningham held a conversation with
Durrant in the county iail. and during
the course of that conversation and in
answer TO questions asked him by the
young lady, he said that about o'clock
on the afternoon Of April 3 he assembled
to the space between the ceiling and
the roof of the Emanuel Baptist church
for the purpose Of fixing one Of the sun
burners. While at work he heard al
noise which at once attracted his atteT-
ton. 1t seemed to come from that part
Of the building where the belfry is sit
uated. He walked along in the direc-
ton from whence the sound came and
peered through the opening that con-
meets the space above the ceiling with
in this position he saw the body Of
the interior of the belfry tower While
in this posotion ne saw the body OF
Blanche Lamont lying on the second
landing of the beIfry stairs. He re-
peated the details Of the circumstance
and added that Blanche Lamont was
murdered on the second landing of the
belfry stairs. Miss Cunningham then
said: oh. yes; 1t was from the second
landing of the stairs that the blood
dripped down and stained the cloth
covered picture frame on the floor be-
low Durrant replied that there was
no blood on the cover Of the picture
/ frame as we have had the stains anal
I yzed and find that they were made
with water and not blood
Once More.
An official inspection was made Of the
cloth covered picture frame referred to
as being stained with blood. His in
spection revealed the fact that piece
of the cloth covering one inch by two
inches in size, had been cut from the
frame in the center of one of the
largest blotches or stains. AS this was
not done by anyone connected with the
prosecution the inference is drawn that
it was done by some one interested in
the defense, and that it was for the
purpose indicated by Durrant'S alleged
statement regarding the analysis.
/ BLEW GREAT GUNS.
PORTLAND. Me, Oct. ia severe
| storm has ragged here all day. At times
| the wind blew twenty-five miles an
| hour and the rain fell in torrents The
| harbor is filled with coasting vessels
and a very heavy sea is running out
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