The Anaconda standard., 1895-04-16
A DESECRATED CHURCH
The Street Blocked ali Day 10 Front
Of the Building.
SOME STRAIGHT EVIDENCE
Durant Formally Charged With the
Murder of Miss WiIliams-Where
Defendant Was on April B.
Added Mystery.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-Thcodore
Durant was to-day formally charged with
the murder of Marian Williams. The
warrant was served upon him in the city
prison, sworn TO by the officer who ar
rested him with the signal corps squad on
Mount Diablo. The coroner's inquest
upon Miss Williams will be held to-mor-
row. 1t will be dual investigation. The
police will produce their evidence regard
ing the murder of both girls. They say
they have moro than enough testimony to
| convict Durant of tho murders.
| Further mystery is added to the affairs
of Emanuel Baptist church by the report
that Mrs. Ella Forsythe, who has been
missing for week. was also member of
tho parish of tho fatal place of worship.
Her husband, who has been searching dill
| iRently for her, says she left here to 60 to
| the beach to gather shells. She has not
been seen since or heard of, and it 10 sur
missed that she may have shared the fate
| of Blanche Lamont and Marian Williams.
The city was alive to-day with scnsa-
tional rumors regarding the horrible
tragedy. The street in front of Emanuel
| Baptist church was blocked all day with
| a curious and excited crowd. Police and
| detectives spent the day in searching
every nook and corner of the sanctuary
for further evidence which would throw
light upon the crime. The police believed
it impossible for the butcher of Miss WILL
Jams to accomplish his brutal murder
without having smeared with blood some
| article of clothing. To find some trace of
| the assassin's presence was the OBJ ject of
their unsuccessful search.
rumor was circulated in the mission
that there was a plot on the part of resi-
| dents to burn the desecrated church. No
| overt attempt at violence was made, but
the project was seriously discussed by re-
| spectacle citizens. Police Surgeon Sum-
| mers says: Medical works abound with
| cases of men whose animal passions could
not be aroused without the sight of blood.
| IL may be that Durant is one of that class
of human tigers. The crimes with which
he is charged appear to have been the act
of a man inspired by such bloody in
stincts, as the post-mortem examination
clearly proves that the victims were killed
and afterwards outraged"
George r. King, organist of the church
where the horrible crimes were both COM
| mitted, made q statement to Chief OF Po-
lice Crowley late this afternoon which
tends TO fix one crime at ieast-the muir
der of Miss Lamont-on Durant. King
says that on April he went to the church
about o'clock p. IN. to practice on the
organ. II saw Durant there. much to my
surprise. He came down from the organ
loft in a highly excited and overheated
condition. l asked him what was the
matter and he replied: Il was overcome
by gas up there in the loft
"He was very weak and pale and asked
me to give him a glass of bromo seltzer.
/ knew he was fixing up some electrical
contrivances about the church and
thought nothing strange about his going
up in the loft"
This is direct evidence OF a most start
ling nature. Miss Lamont, il will be re-
membered, left the high school abo ut ID.
m. on the day she was last seen, April 3.
She was seen with Duraut. The theory
now is that Durant had just completed
his fiendish task wheE seen by Organist
King.
The report that Durant had broken
down and will confess is Indignantly de-
MED by Judge Thompson, who is acting as
Durant's attorney. "Durant has made
no additional statement and will make
none," said Judge Thompson, when ques-
toned at the morgue this afternoon. "The
young man told all he knew yesterday
afternoon" he continued, "and has MOTH
ing more to say" Judge Thompson has
asked and received permission from the
coroner to be present at the inquest with
a stenographer, that he may follow the
testimony in behalf of his client.
IL He Guilty of This?
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, April 15.-In the
search for motives for the crime many
curious theories have been evolved. Even
those who believe Durant guilty are
forced to admit that it is hardly probable
that he would have outraged the girls
after they were dead, even il he would
have committed such n crime when they
were alive. Assuming that Durant is
guilty, one theory for the motive of the |
murders is that the crimes were commit |
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