The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02

ldSt anu lie answer was SIX mOnJIS. just
for curiosity Sademan put the date down
last that long or not.
In answer to a question the witness
said that he looked out for the gas and
fixtures and saw that they were kept in
order. He had the jets fixed on January II
last, and since that time had never asked
Durrant to do any work on them.
belfry?
There are no wires in the belfry and never
saw Durrant there
Did any one, between January II and April
3, ask Durrant to fix the gas or electric bat
terry?
No, sir. l remember complimenting Mr..
Durrant upon the success of his experiment t.
The plumbers worked in the church for day.
but they were only putting in patent burners
and not fixing leak.
The witness next told of meeting Durrant
at the ferries on April II. He was looking
for his son, who had run away from home,
and ran up against the prisoner. The
latter said he was following up a slight
clew in the Lamont case.
David Clark of 1851 Mission street was
called, and for a time it appeared that his
testimony was practically worthless as he
seemed to know nothing about the case.
Later, however, it was developed that he
met very important witness on the corner
of Twenty-second and Mission streets
shortly after P. NJ. on the day Blanche
Lamont was murdered. ~ was at the
corner of Twenty-second and Mission
streets to meet Martin Quinlan," said the
witness. eve were going out to see my
brother-in-law at st. Luke's Hospital. [
was there about o'clock and Martin
Quinlan came about fifteen or twenty
minutes later. | know it was April on
which [ met him because / left Guerne-
vile for San Francisco on April 2. After
met my friend we had a couple of drinks,
and then we went out to the end of the
Valencia-street car line"
Officer Eugene V. Herve described the
finding of the dead girls books between
the ceiling and roof of the Emmanuel Bap
list Church. He had to go down head
foremost in order to secure the books and
Miss Lamont's hat. Sergeant Reynolds
and Detective SilYey had to pull him back
up again by the legs. In order to get on
the ceiling of the auditorium he had to pass
in through the belfry.
Martin Quinlan, attorney-at-law, the
man who met David Clark at the corner of
witness. Asked if he knew Theodore
Durrant he said he knew him by sight.
"Did you see him on April 3?' the
Coroner asked.
II did; on the south side of Bartlett,
near Twenty-second. A young lady was
with him and they were going in the
direction of Twenty-third street. 1t was
about is or A 20 o'clock in the afternoon.
The woman | did not know. She wore
large hat and dark woollen dress l think
and seemed to be Is or 10 years DID,"
ibid you notice the couple particu-
larly?"
81 did. They were coming toward me
very slowly. The road is torn up at the
crossing of Twenty second and Bartlett
and [ saw them first at that point. They
were on the same side as the Emmanuel
Baptist Church The young lady had
package in her hand. l think it was books.
Yes, | am sure it was package of books"
"Would you know the man who was
with the young woman?"
eyes, sir"
"Do you see him in this room?"
eyes, sir; he is sitting over there at the
window. l am positive that that is the
man"
AS the witness made this emphatic state
ment Durrant crouched down on his chair
and seemed to be visibly affected. In
order to fix the time he met Durrant and
the young lady, whom he took TO be Miss
Lamont, beyond the shadow of doubt,
Quinlan went over everything he did dur
ing the afternoon in question. He left the
corner of Hyde and McAllister, where he
took a drink at twenty minutes to 4
o'clock. He took the Valencia-street cars
and rode out to Twenty-second. On his
way to meet his friend he bought a cigar
and reached Twenty-second and Mission
about fifteen or twenty minutes past 4.
Clark and he had couple of drinks and
left the saloon at exactly 4:30 P. NJ.
J. J. McGreevy of 1877 Bartlett street said
he knew neither Durrant nor Blanche La
mont. He assisted in the,search of the
Emmanuel Baptist Church and found the
hat of the dead girl secreted under the
stairs and her corsets and skirt on the raj
tiers.
Louis B. Mayer, route agent of the CALL.
denied having been present at the autopsy,
and said he had never made any statement
as to Blanche Lamont's condition.
Ernest Z. Wilson, letter-carrler, who
was quoted as saying that Mayer gave him
a description of the autopsy, denied hav-
ing ever made any such statement. These
witnesses were called to ascertain whether
anybody save DR.. Barrett and his assistant
had been present at the autopsy.
DR.. ]. S. Barrett, autopsy physician to
the Morgue, was the next witness. He
gave the cause of death as strangulation,
and said the lungs and brain were con-
gested. There were the marks of seven
fngernails on the right side of her neck
and five on the left side. He said that the
stories detrimental to Miss Lamont's char
acter were totally without foundation,
after which he gave minute description
of the body.
Officer A. Anthony was called to tell
what he knew about the prisoner. 81
met Durrant on April in DR.. Vogel's
office and asked him what he knew about
Blanche Lamont and when he saw her
last. He said the last time he saw her was
on the morning of April 3, when he rode
out on the cars with her toward the
Normal School. They separated, he
going to the Cooper Medical College and
She to the school. l then continued my
search and discovered the three young
ladies who saw Durrant and Miss Lamont
together the afternoon of that day. When
1 was bringing Durrant back from Walnut
Creek reporter got on at Martinez who
tried to interview my prisoner, but he
would not talk. Finally the reporter said
the body of Blanche Lamont had been
found in the church. | glanced at Dur
rant and he turned red and said: I'D
like to have the man in my room that did
it. I'd fix him. That was the last heard
the prisoner say about the case"
Detective Edward Gibson told all about
the finding of the body of the murdered
girl The first day he was searching the
church he could not get into the belfrey
because it was locked, the knob broken off
and the key lost. Some one had been
tampering with the door. as there was evil
dence of several attemDts tO prv If omen