The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11


If you we're marked present7'
Il did not"
DO you know whether you are marked pyes-
- do not
you were not there7"
Il was not"
Now don't you know for q fact that you are
marked PRESENT."
THAT is not fact; an not marked pres
ent"
'I thought you didn't know?'
mot OF my own knowledge; but I heard
Dodge testify mere that am not malkeo pres
ent on that roll"
ssIsn'tit fact that when you met Dukes and
Dodge there, and they asked you Wnat you
were doing, You said that you were waiting
foT members OF tne sigma IA CoIRs !, cftt"
81 told them was going away the next day
and that was waiting 10 see q IneIlD s OA lhe
Signal Corps who was going Win me.
Then my error was in making plural out
OF the singular"
"Did You tel them you were waiting for
Blanche lamont"
"Is il not fsct that you told Dukes and
Dodge that vou were waiting for members OF
the Signal Corps and that if they did not come
soon you would 80 AZ; assy :. "l'hou' 'hemE
.Didpit You hear Dukes testify to that?"
y did"
"He ws.. Why, that is foolish to any one
stSog' was il fact that you were waiting for
member. OF the signal Corps or Tor member
OF the Signsl Corps
AT is not correct either way"
ssyEhv did YOU say so 10 them then?"
'fBecsuse these men knew this member of the
a4nd y5a mentioned nothing about Blanche
Lamont 70 them?
..Now, was it fact that you were waiting
for her OF for the student!'
al was waiting for Blanche Lamont and
IL hr
from TemeSCsl."
rs il not q fact, Mr.. Durrrant, that you were
q: the ferry on e. entirely different business from
III is not fact. was waiting for Blanche
Lamont and searching for her TO the best OF
ny ability. That's fact and nothing else is a
"Tnat's fact?"
That's fact"
You were searching for her on this cley
given By the strange genteman7"
Il was; yes, sir
AT this point q recess of ten minutes was
taken. This came as a welcome relief to
everybody in the courtroom. They had
listened 70 every word intently, the atmos-
phere Of the room was sitting and the ten
sion was great After the breathing spell
Mr.. Barnes continued:
AZ have questioned you about your converse
don with NJ. Dukes; did you have talk with
Nr. Dodge al the same timer"
I'll remember correctly It was Mr.. Dodge
who put the first question 70 me"
Did you not state TO Mr.. Dodge that you
were waiting there for some OF the boys OF the
Signal Corps you expected to see that after
ssNo. sir"
THAT is not faet?"
'sI- is not"
"Did you meet any one else that afternoon'"
CT did
"Whom?'
Mrs Whining"
ANY one else7"
''IeS. sir.
Whom elseF'
aWeIl, can't remember exactly. know I
saw some others at q distance"
was Mrs Whining going across the bay7"
81 don't remember that"
''Where was she2"
standing in the waiting-roon.'
"Was she alonee"
4 don't remember exactly"
Whereabouts did she stand7"
Just st the edge OF the wsitin groom, nearly
on the street"
How long have you known herr"
-Four or five years"
How was she dresSed?h
"she wore q hat-s turban style hat,
think
"Did she carry any psrcels?"
- think she had her cape on her srm-I an
How long did your conversation with hel
last?n
about five minutes. It was just as the guar.
ter 10 5 boat came in"
Where did she go?"
~ don't know
.'Did she. take boat7''
- ~ don't know"
Did she tsll you what she was doingf'
''Did you tell her what you were doingT'
Ibid she ask your"
mo sir"
AFTER leaving her where did you gor'
around 70 the Mission-street cars"
''You abandoned the search then?'
Yes"
.swhy?"
at was ny intention to go away in the
: T.vn- tf,d 2
pack ny blankets for the trip"
well, you followed the advice OF this strange
man by going 10 search Tor Blanche; did il
not seem more important 10 stay there and
continue the search for the lost girl than to &c
10 pack your blankets77
1T might seem so TO others-it did not seem
Did you give information of the clew you
obtained from the stranger 70 any one else?''
no, sir; I didn't see any one else"
Didn't you go TO the Christian Endeayor
Society meeting that night?"
''Ies, sir
,.9id you see Tom vOgsl therer'
.'Did you tell himT'
mo, sir"
YOU knew he was vesy much interested in
the matter-next TO you"
"Tes, sir"
why didn't you tell him 90
"The matter had passed out of my mind
''You had forgotten this clewF
'YeS, sir"
WAS Blanche Lamont at this meetIng7"
you went to Tom vogePs houser'
- did"
"How long were you there?"
"Au hour or So"
Miss Lamont was member of the Christian
Society that met there that nightI
She was
And had been for some timer"
Eyes, sir"
there7"
SYes, sir"
Friends Of hers?"
''Yes. SIR
"Aud Elmer Wolf9'
'Yes, sir"
"And George KiDg?
'Yes, sir"
"And Miss Turner3''
HShe was not there"
"And Gertrude Wolf?'
Yes, ,sir,"
And all these were her friends, and she va;
ABSENT"
Eyes. Sir"
And yet you didn't tell any Of them of tht
inporsnt clew you got from the stranger?"
81: had slipped my memory"
's0id you know Minnie Williams in her life
tiEie7'
DickiDson-We object
The court-The objection is oYerruled. The
question is merely preliminary.
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