The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-05

complete. The entrance lobby, the library
and closet and the stairs leading above
composed the ground floor. The audlto-
rum lobby was next above and then came
the gallery with its three steps and the
door into the tower. The rough tower
stairway, an intermediate landing which
| the stairway did not touch and the belfry
| floor on which Blanche Lannon'S body was
found were carefully reproduced. Along
side were the rafters of the church roof,
! below them the rafters of the original
plastered ceiling, and still lower the rafters
| of the wooden ceiling, showing by their
relative position how easily man could
make his way directly from the tower into
the space between the ceilings, where Dur
rant said he had been fixing the gas. An
opening was shown in the gable between
the two ceilings and a ladder leading
thereto from the gallery floor indicated
the usual means of access to that portion
of the edifice. Downstairs in the library
and in the book-closet tiny tables, boxes,
campstools and bookcases showed the FUR
niture of that part of the church.
Taken as whole the model affords an
accurate idea of the general plan and ar
rangement of the edifice and was evidently
the result of weeks of careful, patient,
skillful and conscientious work. 1t was
constructed by Police Officer George w.
Russell from his own measurements, and
he was called to explain it.
With a stick Mr.. Russell pointed out
various portions of his model and told
what each represented. His testimony
was full of information, but little wearl-
some to men who had the full use of their
ewes, and the monotonous repetition of
This is the library" This is stairway
"This is a tower, - and This is q -"
something else, did not appear to greatly
interest the jurymen who the day before
had viewed the original building.
Have you designated in the model the
place where one can pass from the belfry
into the false ceiling or roof of the audi
torium?" questioned the District Attorney
as Russell finished.
Eyes" was the reply; zone can step off
this intermediate floor of the tower onto
the rafters of the original plastered ceiling
and down through them onto the false
ceiling, or one can go along above the
plastered ceiling to the rear of the
church"
The witness then gave figures and
measurements. The auditorium floor was
II feet above the basement, the gallery II
feet 2 inches above the auditorium, the
intermediate belfry floor Is feet and a
fraction above the gallery, and the upper
belfry floor Is feet inches above the in
ter mediate.
The District Attorney, eliciting a state
ment that the model was in every par
ticular made to scale, offered the struc-
ture in evidence. There was no objection
from the defense, but Judge Murphy was
careful that no irregularities should creep
into the proceedings.
"This is not evidence" he began,
"though it might be referred to to ex-
plain"
Deuprey interrupted to favor the ad-
mission of the exhibit and Barnes
remarked that it was not supposed to prove
ANYTHING. His Honor secured formal
agreement from the attorneys that either
side might use or refer to the model at
any time and decided that it was admis-
sible. 1t was marked peoples Exhibit
A."
Dickinson started to cross-examine
Russell, but after eliciting the fact that the
church building occupies 55 feet of an 80
| foot lot suggested that map which the
prosecution desired to offer as an exhibit
by the same witness be put in before he
continued the cross-eXamlnatlOn.
The diagram or map represented block
No. 1885, bounded by Mission, Valencia,
Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets,
and showing Bartlett street running
through the middle of the block parallel to
Mission street. The curbing was indicated
by red lines and the building lines by
black Red dots indicated the lampposts,
blue diagram Mrs. Leaks residence
opposite the church and black plan the
church itself. The scale was 1882 of an
inch to the foot.
Under question by the District Attorney,