Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-10-31


search among the houses of iIl-repute,
reluctant conclusion that this little
one, like others of Ewes daughters.
had gone to her moral destruction: a
picture turned to the wall, a name
never spoken, and oblivion, personal
and social, for poor, lost Blanche La
mont. And he was right for the mo-
ment. The wrath of the God, whose
law he had violated and whose tenn.
pie he had defiled, seemed to slum
Der. The murderer went his guilty
way with ms undivulged crime uu-
scathed and unwhipped of justice,
while his victim lay in the spire that
pointed its slender finger to the sky as
II reproaching its Ruler for His un-
moving indignation"
MIR. Barnes then related the circum
stances III connection with the discov-
cry OF Miss Lamont's body, and from
the facts drew the conclusion that she
was murdered by some member of the
church who had keys to the building
and In whom she had confidence. The
murderer must also have been a man
whose cunning was sufficient to en-
able him to, stifle the natural feeling
of timidity which always accompa-
MES innocence, and induce her to go
alone with him to the darkened
church in which they both Worship
ped ON Sunday. Such man, he said.
Is Theodore Durrant. Only a mon
ster capable of taking the life of an
innocent girl, he said, could remain
cool, impressive, and almost defiant,
when accused of such crime.
Gentlemen" continued Mr.. Barnes.
such d man is of such rare quality
that if confronted at last with the
proofs of his crime, whose recital has
shocked all of civil zation, he could
and he would, as he has done, sheer
ingly smile in the awful presence of
the relics of his victim, torn by his
hands from her stiffening body, and
exhibit neither passion nor emotion,
neither sympathy nor regret for the
unfortunate child he had brought to
a premature grave. Such Il man
could we'll lilo in Jail awaiting his
trial for murder, and clothe his vii
lainy with the mask of a pretended
trust in the Jehovah whom he has
detied, and play the saint with verses
and pharses stolen from holy writ.
He could listen with grim complacen-
cy while his counsel struggled to
weave a web Of suspicion and accusa-
ton around one whom he knew to be
innocent, and from the beginning to
the end of his trial for the highest
crime known to the law, remain the
same nerveless, impossible, smiling
villain.
IL am aware, gentlemen, that in a
case Of this character; equally with
that where crimes less atrocou5 are
laid to the charge of any creature, the
case OF the peOp.o must rest npon it's
strength and not upon the weakness
or the failure of counsel to prove that
which he most confidently promised
to establish. | have not the time. nor
should you possess the patience to
wait on me while l compare the bold
and confident utterances of alleged
facts exculpatory of his client, into
which zeal has betrayed the advocates
for the defendant, with the wretched
and total failure Of proof. If such
comparison is obvious, you can make
it for yourselves. l must observe,
however, that listened to the opening
statement for the defense with an alb
sorblng interest. l was disappointed
in little. What I heard / expected to
hear, save one thought which filled
me with amazement and pain. The
learned counsel who opened the case
of the defendant invoked the spirit Of
Blanche Lamont and voiced her
thought by saying, Let him go free,
he harmed me not