The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-13

ing. The prisoner told the witness that
Blanche was easily led and controlled
by him and that ne feared she had gone
to some questionable abode.
Miss Minnie Bell Edwards, who had
bsen a classmate of Blanche, gave the
following testimony:
'On the afternoon of April Sd Blanche
Lam ont and left the normal school to-
gether. AS we approached the car she
was Joined by a young man whom l
recognized as Theodore Durrant. They
boarded the car together, sitting on the
dummy while went inside. At that
time Blanche had parcel of books and
wore black dress, both of which | aow
identify. | was particularly attracted to
Durrant anu fully identity him. | last
saw the cou ole at the corner of Market
and Powell streets, where | left the car.
l had never seen ths defendant before.
/ next saw him at police headquarters.
where | fully identified him. | also
recognized his portrait published in the
papers when Durrant was arrested. No
one spoke to me about my testimony. |
told my school teacher what l knew
about Blanche, and was then summoned
as a Witness
On cross examination the witness was
made TO describe infinitely all the move
ments of Durrant, herself and Miss La
mont before and after they boarded the
car. She was also made to describe min
utely Durrant's attire. She stuck to her
story and made an excellent witness for
the prosecution. To accommodate one
OF the Jurors recess was here taken until
Monday morning.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT.
District Attorney Barnes hammered
away today forging link after link in the
chain of circumstantial evidence on
which he proposes to hang the body of
Attorney Dickinson strove to tear those
links apart, to scatter them and to make
all the theories OF the prosecution count
for naught.
The district attorney was tracing the
prisoner through that fateful day, April
Sd, when blanche Lamont disappeared
from public view and presumably was
choked to death somewhere in Emanuel
hurch.
With pitiless persistence and in
chronological order he produced the wit
nesses who had seen Durrant going with
the girl toward school on the morn ing
car and those who had seen him return
ing with her from the school in the after
noon.
Down Powell street the two were fol.
lowed to the corner of Market. There
they were left until Monday next at the
request of the jurors, today being
'steamer day." the time for collections
and business settlements.
AS usual Durrant bore the ordeal we'll
As witness after witness carried him
nearer that dread belfry, ii company with
the murdered girl, he sat looking them
fairly in the eye. There was no quallng
under the scrutiny of the jurors. Men
who have tried the experiment say they
cannot look him down" Some, how
ever. insist that they have noticed that he
braces himself for the emergencies that
when he knows the time Is coming that
all eyes will turn his way IN inquiry az
70 how he takes a certain bit of testi-
mony, he prepares 10 I've nonchalant,
affable and uncertain. He brushes bits
of paper from his lap or losses an airy
head, or seems to take hold of himself
and ''sit tight.''
In the early hours. after the prisoner
had settled himself for the days struggle,
he went into transcript of testimony
and studied 1t with a lawyers care.
He seemed to be noting the weak points
and treasuring up the parts that did not
hang together. Judge Thompson, the
Populist lawyer, who seems a sort of fifth
wheel in the defense, Joined him in the
examination and the two scanned to agree
upon something with much bobbing of
heads.
Mr.. Barnes tried yesterday to prove
Blanche Lamont's weight by her sister
but as the sister had not actually seen
the figures on the scales it was necessary
to produce the man who had done the
weighing. Dickinson made "a mistake in
forcing this technicslity.