The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-29
SAYS SHE WILL NOT TESTIFY
Accused Told Student Dukes About
Fixing the Wires - Outcrop-
pings of the Case.

defense WOulQ prove DurTduG enteTeu
Emmanuel Church alone at minutes
past 5 O'Clock the afternoon of April 8. 1t
is she whose story of meeting Durrant at
the entrance to Emmanuel Church that
afternoon has already been published in
THE CALL.
Yesterday two other publications con-
tanned accounts of Mrs Monnier's connec-
ton with the case, in which the lady was
misrepresented.
1t was stated that she had been con-
slant attendant at the trial, and that she
had taken such an unusual interest In
the young defendant that she was prompted
to undertake the manufacture of evidence
in support of his abb by going to Nine.
Deckand, her dressmaker, at 229 Bartlett
street, and endeavoring to induce the lady
TO make an entry in her visitors book to
show that Mrs. Monnier had called April
8. 1t was by this, it was stated, that she
hoped to fix the date on which she saw the
defendant.
Mrs. Monnier was seen yesterday at her
home, 1853 Howard street. She denied
emphatlcally the statements that have
been made and says she will not be a wit
ness in the case. In stating her version of
the affair she said.
The statements that have interested myself
in Durrant are entirely unwarranted. have
not been a constant visitor at the trial. went
once while the prosecution was presenting its
case and when saw the prisoner was struck
with the resemblance he bore to a young man
had once seen near the Emmanuel Church.
l am accustomed to taking long walks for eXeT-
else and frequently go as lar as the residence of
my niece on Twenty-fourth street. l also fire.
quently stop at mvdTessmaker's Madame De-
chaud, on Bartlett street. knew had been
to the dressmaker's on one of my walks early in
April, at which time | met young man near
the church whom thought recognized as a
former employe OF my husbands, and was
and passed on. / turned to look back, and as
he was out of sight I concluded he had gone
into the church.
When | saw Durrant I thought he was
the same person, and thought perhaps it
might have been on April 1 had met him. l
therefore visited Mime. Dechaud, and asked her
whether had called that afternoon. She con-
WINGED me had not, and l concluded it must
have been while 1 was out for walk that
had seen him, for was still confident that he
was the same person, but l may be entirely
mistaken as to the day. l can only remem-
Der that 1t was between the LIST and 18th OF
April That is the whole substance OF what
know concerning the Durrant case, and all
statements else in the Examiner and Chronicle
are utter fahricetions.
Nine. Dechaud, when seen, confirmed
Mrs. Monnier's statement in all its details
and denied that she had been asked to
make the entry on her books referred to.
Mrs. Monnier has a receipt for money
paid to St. Marcus Krankenverein Society
dated April 3, and as she has stated her
belief that she paid her dues to the society
the same day she met the young man in
front OF Emmanuel Church, she will doubt
less be called by the defense, although she
states she will not swear positively that
the date of the meeting and that on which
she made the payment are the same.
The MonnierS have lived in the City
irhl "a
spected. They are very indignant at the
treatment they received from the other
morning papers.
1t was reported yesterday that the de-
fendant had at last secured a witness in
the person of Miss Clara Nay Holmes one
of Durrant's classmates, who would testify
that he was present at DR.. Cheney's lee
ture. As soon as Mr.. Deuprey heard it he
departed in post haste for East Oakland,
where Miss Holmes resides to interview
her. The rumor was in effect that
during a quiz she had become somewhat
hustered and Durrant had turned in his
seat and given her sympathlzing glance,
an incident she was said to remember very
wildly. When seen last evening at her
home, 1149 Brush street, at Oakland, Miss
Holmes said:
showed Mr.. Deuprey my notebook, and told
him I did not recall anything about Wednes-
day, April 8.
Inc ruIlOr OF remembering bnat Durrd0t
was in the lecture-room gained currency
queerly. You know, we all get rather
nervous when We are ''quizzed." Well,
/ had been "quizzed' one day during the
week previous. got little mixed, and Mr..
Durrant. who happened to be sitting just in
front of me, turned around and grinned in
half-sympathetic, half-amused way. Now,
know the date OF that Lecture, because it's in
my notebook. But don't know whether Mr..
Durrant was present on the momentous
Wednesday afternoon or not.
Durrant looks to Charles A. Dukes,
fellow medical student living in Oakland,
to assist him in proving that he was fixing
electric wires at the Emmanuel Baptist
Church about the time of the murder of
Blanche Lamont. The value of Mr.. Dukes
testimony will be problematical however,
as he can tell only what Durrant told him
shortly after Miss Lamont's disappear
ance.
81 have not been subpenaed as witness
yet, said Mr.. Dukes last night. Il under
stand that subpoena has been issued
though. will testify that a few days after
Wednesday, April 3, Durrant told me that
he had been fixing some electric wires con-
nected with the lighting OF the church. 1t
happened one evening as we were return
ing from a lecture.
I'VE were both interested in similar
work. You see he was president of the
Christian Endeavor in San Francisco and
was president of the society in Oakland.
We were talking about the duties of oar
positions, and l remember he said some
thing about having fixed some electric
wires to regulate the lighting of the
church. l don't remember just what he
said he had DONE"
ibid he speak of having been overcome
by the gas?" was asked.
"No," responded Mr.. Dukes. "He only
spoke of having fixed the wires"
when was this?"
Il don't know exactly. Let's see-now
the Sd was on Wednesday. Well, it might
have been Friday or Saturday, or it might
have been the first of the next week. It
was before the murder Of Miss Williams at
any rate"
The defense expects to score a strong
point on the bookstrap bearing Blanche
Lamont's name, which was sent to General
Dickinson in July, and which has been in
troduced in evidence. 1t will be held that
the strap found in the church was either
not one of the girls belongings or that she
had two, and that the one with her name
on, not having been found in the church,
shows that some one other than the
accused must have been connected with
her whereabouts the day she was killed.
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