The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

Lamont; she saw Miss Minnie Belle Edwards
get inside the car and Blanche Lamont and
theodore Durrant get on the dummy outside.
Then the Powel-street car left the sight OF Mrs.
Vogel. Gentlemen, this evidence is above the
value OF clrcumstantial evidence.
What interest could Miss Ed
yards haze to SUGAR JGlsetyf
The District Attorney cited as showing
the value of circum stantial evidence the
opinion of Justice Shaw in the Webster
Parkman murder, where the verdict of
guilty was brought about by the finding of
a false palate.
Mrs. Vogel saw him on the car. Did anybody
else? Yes. Mrs. Vogel herself might have
been mistaken. Was anybody with Blanche
Lamont at the corner of Powell and Clay
streets Her companions speak, and one of
them comes here and tells you all about it.
Minnie Belle Edwards, her friend and her as
sociate, came out OF the Normal School with
her, walked down to the corner of Clay and
Powell streets, and there, Miss Edwards says,
a young man came up and addressed Blanche.
Don't you think the girl would recognize
young man who comes up and speaks to her
friend Gentlemen, what motive has Minnie
Belle Edwards in seeking to swear away the
lie of this man-this defendant? What con-
spiracy could be entered into by this girl and
Mrs. Vogel neither OF whom had seen the other
before Gentlemen, it is impossible that any
such conspiracy could have been entered into.
The positive testimony of
Mrs. DUgGn and Miss Lanigan.
Now, while you might possibly believe that
Mrs Vogel might be mistaken, or that Minnie
Belle Edwards might be mistaken when you
put them both together, each one with good
and distinct motives for watching him, there
could be no mistake. They saw him at the
same time and place, doing the same thing,
and each for separate reason and good
reason watched him. The Powell-street car
| moved on, bearing Blanche Lamont and Dur
rant on the dummy and Minnie Belle Edwards
on the inside. When the car got up to Califor-
MIA and Powell streets there were two other
young ladies whose names have been associated
with the interests of justice.
Miss Alice Pleasant and Miss May Lanigan
| arrived at California and Powell streets on the
| way to Post street, and when they got TO place
between the California-street car track and the
curbstone they were overtaken by the Powell
street car
They sdl0 the neuU girl
| and her beau on the car.
There these young ladies saw Blanche La
mont and this defendant in the same positions
IN which they were seen by Mrs. Vogel and
| Miss Edwards. "There is the new girl" said
Miss Lanigan. "Yes,'' said Miss Pleasant
What motive could Miss Lanigan or Miss Pleas
| ant have for saying that this defendant was
| on the car if he were not2 What deep, black
| and damning motive could induce two inno-
cent girls to swear away the life OF this de-
PENDANT II he were not the man who was sit
| ting on the dummy of that car? You might
| say that these people were mistaken individ-
ually; but how about when all four witnesses
| were present? Justice relies upon these facts
| The State relies upon chem and this jury must
rely upon them. If this defendant was at the
corner of Clay and Powell streets and was
| seen by Mrs. Vogel and Miss Lanigan and Miss
| Pleasant, he was not at the college supporting
himself with that rotten rollcan there, which,
| through, when we come to 1t, as we would q
| sieve.
| They mag not haze gone at
| once to the church.
| Along this car comes and gets down to Mar
| ket and Eddy, where the turntable is. When
| Miss Edwards got out to go down Market street,
| she saw these people again on the dummy.
| n
Is Miss Edwards going to be twice mistaken?
| Now about the time required to get from Clay
| and Powell streets to the Emmanuel Baptist
| Church. Counsel says that about 80 minutes
was ample time. Granted. The State does
not say that these two got out OF the Powell
| street car, took the first and went imme-
| diately 10 the church, but we show you to a
| mathematical certainty, beyond all reasonable
doubt, that about O'Clock in the afternoon
| this defendant boarded the Powell-street car
| at Clay and Powell streets and was seen there
by Mrs. Vogel and Miss Edwards.
Durrant and Blanche Lamont
at Market and Po,ceU streets.
They rode thus with Blanche Lamont to the
| terminus at the Baldwin Hotel, where he was
! again seen by Miss Edwards and there we do
not know where they went what they did
| until Mrs. Crosett saw them on the Valencia
| Baldwin cast an eye on it. First there is joys
drugstore, then Schreiber's candy-store. Who
| is TO say that these young people, the superin-
| tendent OF the Sunday-school ana Blanche La
mont, did not stop at one of these places for an
icecream soda or a bag of chocolatese But
this is one of the inferences that you must
make. We know where they were at certain
| time and at subsequent time, but between
| these times we do not endeaVor to trace them.
! We lose this couple at the Baldwin Hotel and
! find them about 3 80 o'clock on the Valencia
street car. II they had done as we have said,
| they would have arrived at the intersection of
Haight and Market streets at about the time
| that Mrs. Crosett saw them.
At this point court adjourned until this
| morning.