The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
Thew Will Face Each Other in
Department 8 This
Morning.
JUDGE MURPHY Is BETTER
The District Attorney and Captain
Lees Make a Significant
Little Trip.
THE DURRANT CASE IN MINUTE - RE-
SHINING THE SEARCH For JURORS.

bench IN Department D Oh the SupSIloI NOuI I
this morning and the search for jurors in the
Durrant case will be continued.
1t is expected that the four jurors necessary
to fill the box will not be secured until the end
of next week.
During the recess of the court, as the public
has been informed, new witnesses have been
discovered, new theories advanced and new
rumors started on their rounds. Yesterday
was as prolific of these latter as any other day,
and some OF the grounds upon which theories
have been formed have been thoroughly ex-
plotted among other things it was learned
that District-Attorney Barnes, Captain Lees
and Detective Seymour had made trip on the
Powell and Valencia street cars from Clay and
Powell streets to Emmanuel Baptist Church,
over the route supposed TO have been taken by
Durrant and Blanche Lamont on the afternoon
of April 8. They made the trip in exactly
thirty-eight minutes.
Judge Murphy has sufficiently recovered
from his recent severe illness to resume his
seat on the bench and, as a result, the
Durrant case will be taken up this morn
ing at the point where it was left off last
Thursday. Four more jurors are peces-
sary to fill the box, and from all indica-
tons it would seem as if it would be
harder and more tedious work to secure
them than it was to get the first eight.
At any rate the hope is not entertained
for moment that the four good men and
true will be landed in the jury-box this
present week, as it is hardly likely that
more than to-day will be devoted to the
Durrant case. There are but few derelict
citizens left over from last venire and only
what the Sheriff has been able to reach out
of I25 on the present one. Taking this
number and the endless array of excuses
that will certainly be advanced by most
of those summoned and it is pretty safe to
say that not more than forty names will
be placed in the little tin box when his
Honor gets through listening to the end
less tales of woe. The owners of these
forty names can readily be examined dur
ing the day and disposed of in some man.
ner, exhausting the venire. Should the
four jurors not be secured from the ranks
of the forty veniremen his Honor will
Immediately order another venire, and to
allow the Sheriff sufficient time to serve
those drawn will recess until Monday.
There is a hope, however, that with
steady work during the next week the
task of securing the full jury will have
been completed and the decks will be
cleared for the beginning of the trial on
the following Monday morning.
is that whenever the jury is secured, be it
to-day or week hence, both sides are pre-
pared to meet the issues at the earliest
possible moment. ALI witnesses have been
summoned to appear in court on dates not
later than next Monday, the subpenas
running, of course, from day to day there
after until their presence is desired on the
witness-stand. The last summons was
served yesterday morning by Detective
John Seymour on Mrs. Mary Vogel of 919
Powell street. whose story was printed in
Yesterdays CALL. Mr.. Seymour called
upon the new witness about 10 O'Clock in
the morning and had long talk with her
concerning her testimony in THE CALL, she
repeating substantially the printed story of
her observations of Durrant on the after
noon of April 8. Mrs. Vogel produced for
his inspection the postal-card by which
she had so exactly fixed the date upon
which she claims she saw Durrant wait
for and meet Blanche Lamont.
The postal was from Miss X. Plunkett's
EMPLOYMENT Bureau, 424 Suffer street,
and bore date of March %, 1895. 1t was
addressed to Advertiser, No. 732 Natoma
street." and had reference to the furnish
ing of help required in an advertisement
inserted in THE CALL by Mr.. Vogei. 1t
bore the postoffice reception mark of
''April 2, 1885, $50 P. NJ" and the delivery
mark, april 3, 1895, 7 A. NJ"
This postal-card was found by Mr.. Vogel
on the morning of April 8, the morning
upon which the postman must have deliv-
cred it, under the door of one of his houses
at 1872 Natoma street. He did not return
home till evening and then delivered the
card to his wife. The latter Immediately
called his attention to the date on the DOS
tai, March %, and ventured the remark
that it was very strange that it had not
been mailed until April 2, to be delivered
on April 3.
81 did not tell my husband that night
about seeing the young man had watched
walking in front of the school during the
afternoon, said Mrs. Vogel to a reporter
for THE CALL yesterday, because he was
tired, but did speak of it the next day to
Mrs. Nutting, one of my neighbors. The
day before had seen the young man Mrs.
NutIing called upon me and asked me if
/ had heard about the robberies in the
neighborhood. | told her l had not, and
she then told me of several of which she
had heard, and / said to her that would
keep a lookout for suspicious characters.
The next day l saw this young man walk
ing in front of the school, and on the next
afternoon Mrs. Nutting called on me again
She had evidently forgotten that she had
told me about the robberies, for she asked
me if l had heard of them. / SAID, why,
you told me of them yourself and she
said. why, so / did,
"Then l told Mrs. Nutting how had no.
ticed a young man acting strangely in
front of the school the day before and how
closely had watched him in the belief
that he was a thief; and then l told her
how glad | was when I saw him meet the
young lady and escort her to car.
GAS l said before l never paid any more
attention to the matter until the story of
the murder came out in the papers, and
one day when Mrs. NuttiDg was in my
house one of the papers had picture of
Durrant. "That's the man / saw in front
of the school that day. I said, but l am
not exactly certain of the day I saw him.
Then l recalled the postal card, and while
Mrs Nutting was with me | hunted up
the postal and found that had received it
on the evening of April 3.
The Mrs. Nutting referred to by Mrs.
Vogel lives with her family at 923 Powell
street and is a very intelligent-looking old
lady. She was also seen yesterday by re-
porter for THE CALL, and bore out the
statements of Mrs. Vogel concerning the
story of the latter's observations of the
young man supposed to be Durrant.
''Some time after the murders were dis
covered" said Mrs. Nutting, ~ was in
Mrs. VogePs house and we were talking
on various matters, when she picked up a
paper in which there was a portrait of
Durrant. My God, that's the man / saw p
she exclaimed. Then she told me she was
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