The record-union., 1895-04-19
Special to the REooaD-UNroN.

church has been completed anu no
further evidence has been brought to
light. He slept we'll last night and ate
hearty breakfast this morning.
Police Surgeon Summers visited him
this morning TO study his actions. in an
ticipation of plea of insanity when the
case is brought to trial. DR.. Summers
says that Durrant shows no signs of in
sanity; in fact, he spoke with intelligence
on every subject that was brought up.
Durrant seemed very much pleased that
he did not have to make q trip to the
Morgue to-day. The inquest will be con-
tiuued tomorrow morning.
Another witness has come forward who
thinks he saw Durrant and Miss Will
Jams, or a couple resembling them very
much, at about ll:I5 O'Clock on Friday
night, on Bartlett street. AS he passed
them be heard the young lady laugh, and
the young man was smiling. lie did not
observe their actions after he had passed
them, but he says that they were walking
toward the church.
The description tallies exactly with the
dead girl and Durrant, and If they were
the persons his testimony Will go 10 prove
that the girl was not murdered early in
the evening, as has been supposed.
Chief Crowley Is still hard at work
trying to strengthen the evidence against
Durrant. He says that his men have so
tar obtained no clews which would lead
one TO believe that the murderer had an
acComplIce. The Chief held conference
with the detectives in the case. and not
one OF them have found anything to prove
that Durrant is not the guilty man.
General Dickinson, Durranrs attor-
ney, called on the prisoner to-day, and
the two held an animated conversation,
which lasted for some time. st the con-
clusiUn of the conference General Dick
insou informed several persons that his
client was about to make statement,
which was not TO be made public at pres
ent, and requested the police 10 see that
Durrant was not disturbed. Durrant
spent the whole afternoon working on
the do~Ement. and denied himself 10 all
news xIer men and his friends.
Lite hope is expressed that any
bloody clothing belonging to the MUIR
derer will be discovered. This, so the
police say, IS the only weak point against
the prisoner.
A slight reaction in public opinion has
set in III favor of the prisoner, brought
about, no doubt, by the testimony OF
those who witnessed his cool actions after
the discovery OF the body. His actions
at the Christian Endeavor meeting on
the night of the murder cf Miss Will
Jams were 50 gay, and he seemed so self
possessed, that there are many who think
that the police have run down the wrong
man. On the other hand, the circum-
stantial testimony against Durrant is so
strong that something else Will have 10
be done TO remove from the minds of
many people the impression that he is
the guilty man.
There is considerable speculation as to
how Durrant, il he murdered Minnie
Williams, could have covered up the
traces OF the crime that not even speck
of blood has been found upon his cloth
ing by the detectives. 1t would have
been matter of impossibility for him TO
hlveinfiicted the Ounds upon the young
woman's BODY without bedaubng him
self with blood. The police have searched
his clothing, carefully examined his
linen, and yet have been unable to find a
single garment that would indicate that
Durrant had been the assassin.
Durrants father and mother say that
the police have seen all the clothing their
son possessed, but the detectives think
that tue garments he wore the night the
girl was murdered are not the ones he
claims he had on that night I'VE are
still looking for Durraut's clothing' -
said ChleI CroW!ey. we peIleve that
there are garments somewhere that Will
corrobOrste the belief that he committed
the crime he is charged with"
IL am not prosecutor nor perse-
cutor," said Chief Crowley to-day, in re-
ferrinG to the Durrant case My duty
GDUS Wn0n al Llt 6NlueuC6 mas DeGD Sc
cured, and the man or men apparently
guilty have been arrested. Other public
officers have the duty Of trying cases. and
l have only to arrange the evidence and
render such assistance as l am asked for.
l do not say that Durrant Is guilty, but
only that the facts within my knowledge
peint so strongly to him that my duty
compels me to delay him and ask the
courts TO settle the question of his guilt.
No ingenuity that l am capable OF has
been sufficient to construct q theory OF
the case that avoids Durrant and / am
unable to reconcile his statements made
at different times about the same things.
1t is possible, OF course, that an explana-
tion may be offered that will satisfy rea-
sonable men, but Durrant offers none,
and the case looks very complete against
him. / shall not stop the search, how
ever, until all ascertaiuable iscts have
been collected without reference TO the
person to whom they may endanger.
cannot overlook the reports of my Off
GERS. They are made without prejudice
and represent the facts as nearly a.
trained men can ascertain them"
Owing TO the many threats made by
citizens of the Mission that they would
destroy Emmanuel Church. the insur-
snce companies have become alarmed
and have Cancelled all their policies OIL
the building.
The discrepancies between the testi-
AAiShJ ~ A~A'i-6l u. w one, d SLGISOn o
eG-Supervisor Taber, have caused con.
siderable discussion, and some sus-
plcIon has been cast on the young man
w olfe IS a member of the church, and la.
been leading spirit in Ls social features
and attended the social OF the Young peo.
pie at Dr.. Vogeps on the night o.
the killing OF Miss Williams
His sreplather is leading mem.
Der of the church, and has taken :
deep interest IN its affairs. it was at his
house that Parson Gibson found rafi1ge
on the night OF Saturday.
Young Wolfe is employed on Taber,s
Guadalupe milk ranch, in San Maze
County. On the night of the party he
went to the residence of his stepfather
$50 Twenty-third street, and changed his
clothing. lie lives only half a block
from Emmanuel Church. Alter leavinc
the relation of his movements is sadlS
confused. He went TO tho stable wher,
his brother Clarence keeps his team
Orange alley and Twenty-fourth street. ;
block away, and then remembered tha
he didn't drive in. 1t is then ne made
break for the cars. At Twenty-fourtI
and Bartlett streets he said he saw mar
whom he took to be Durrant. lie dix
not stop to say anything to him, bu
ran down Bartlett TO Twenty-thirt