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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02
DURRANT ACCUSED
Strong Evidence Against Him
at the Blanche Lamont
Inquest.

Durrant is changed man. Close con-
finement has shaken his nerve, and the air
of cool indifference which he at first
assumed has vanished. The Morgue seems
to contain some mystical terror for him.
He shoulders when he approaches it, and
is i'll at ease during the time he is within
its somber walls. When the inquest was
being held on the remains of Minnie Will
hams, he had to be pushed into the room
in which sat the jury, and throughout the
taking of the testimony which eliminated
in his being charged with the murder, he
sat with downcast countenance, and
started at each movement as though afraid
of an attempt upon his life.
In the City Prison and in the Police
Court it was different. There his courage
returned and the man accused of two of
the most terrible murders in the history of
the State, was again his incomprehensible
self When the hour arrived at which he
was to be taken to the Morgue again, that
he might be present at the inquest on the
remains of Blanche Lamont, his nervous
ness returned, and when witness after wit
ness traced him from the Normal School to
the doors almost of Emmanuel Church, he
nearly broke down. The testimony was
not very full, but the men and women who
were called did not hesitate an instant in
pointing out Durrant as the man who met
Blanche Lamont opposite the school,
boarded car with her, rode down Powell
TO Market, transferred to the Valen-
cia street line, and then walked
from Twenty-frst along Bartlett toward
the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Within
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was on the Sunday after Blanche Lamont's dis
appearance.
Q.-How many ladies was he with? A.
cannot state.
Q.-Do you know the names of any of them
Al do not.
Q.-Are you positive? Ayes, I am positive
Q.-Where were they standing? Al think
they were IN the vestibule, but am not Ger
tain.
Q.-Were they there for a long period O.
time? Al do not think so.
Q.-Dld You ever see him when the services
knew? Ayes, sir; with Miss Turner
Glow long before Blanche Lamonts dis
appearance? A.-Two weeks
Q.-Who else did you see him talk with? A.
l cannot remember the names
Q.-How long have you belonged to the
church? h, a A.-Three or four years.
Q.-Have you any official capacity in the
Q.-Do you know the members of the congre
cation fairly well? A good many of them
Q.-And you DO not know these people with
whom he was talking, you cannot recall their
names? A.-No, sir.
Odd you know Minnie Williams? Al
Odd you ever see her in Durrant's com
pany in the church? Al do not remember
Q.-Have you ever had any conversation
with Durrart in regard to Minnie Williams OF
Blanche Lamont? Ayes
Q.-What was the nature of the remarks?
A.-Oh, just passing remarks. 1 cannot remem-
Der.
oM i-l9 t. you ou+ know the nature Of the re-
do not know. | believe something as to the
kind of q girl she was
Gle gave you his opinion? Ayes.
Q.1What did he tell you about Blanche La
mont? Ale had very good opinion of her.
Q.-Dld ne ever say anything about Blanche
Lamonfs disappearance? Ayes, he said how
sad it was.
Did he volunteer to searchfor the body of
Blanche Lamont? A.-No.
Q. Did he say he was going to or had? Ale
said he would do all in his power.
Q.-Dlo ne make anysuggestions as to the line
to be pursued? A.-No.
Q.-Do you know whether Mr. Durrant had
been very intimate with Miss Williams? Al
do not
Odd you hear some talk of his about it?
A.-From his talk judged he did not care for
her.
Odd you ever see them together? Ale
escorted her nome from church several times.
Q.-Was heintimate with Miss Turner or not?
A.-Fairly intimate.
Q.-Fa1rly intimate with Miss Lamont? Al
do not know.
Q.-Was he intimate with any other member
of the congregation? A.-Nearly all the other
ladies. Miss Upton was one.
Q-Is Miss Upton member of the congrega-
ton? A.-When she is in the city.
Q.-How do you know? A.-Because he has
escorted her home.
Q.-Now, Mr.. King, tell us some OF the others
with whom be was intimate. A.-Oh, could
mention all the young ladies of the congrega-
ton, for that matter.
Q.-Give us the names, then, of all the young
ladies you know or believe he was intimate
with. Al do not believe can state with any
certainty that he was intimate with any of
them.
Q.-Do you know the names of any ladies he
was in conversation with or escorted from any
social or other affair? Al did not hear of
any Others.
Q.-Did you hear rumors? A.-No.
Q.-You have belonged to that church for
three or four years and yet cannot give us the
names OF any ladies you think he had been in
innate with? A.-No, sir.
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decided TO pay the cost out of the police

decided TO pay the cost out of the police
contingent fund.
The Consent of the murdered girls father
was obtained and that afternoon the pooy
was exhumed at Laurel Hill Cemetery
Cantain Lees, Mr.. Williams, Charles L..
Morgan (chemist), Detective Gibson! and
the undertaken being present.
Yesterday Mr. Morgan sent the foll0W-
ing renort to Coroner Hawkins, who I'M
mediately forwarded it to Captain Lees:
I hereby submit my report on the case OF
Minnie Williams: 40 +b a
s+o,nach and liver were removed from the
bodI for chemical analysis. The BLADDER was
found to have been perforated ana us contents
lost so it was not removed. ,+.;r obor+
three f1uh ounces of thick mucllaglnou;S SUI n?
stance This was mostly food III partiaiiy III
gested condition. .-.,os 20 sbo1y the
nresence of any organic or vegetable poison.
Three different analyses were maoe WIZ tiie o
special object in view OF determlnimns pG f
presence or absence of morphine. Two %
these analyses were made by Professor GTeeh ol
the pharmaceutical and medical Departments -
of the University of California, who Worked IN
connection with myself me o+ r tbe siiehtest
three analyses were Identical, mol tAo S15A
trace OF morphla being found. -. .,aob
Mineral poisons were found in both stomach
and liver arsenic being the most notapIe: nc to
presence of these poisonS are eVldenIIy uuo W
absorption from the embalm1ng dulu useu'
Further analysis of the stomach will be
made in regard to the question OF food, but ~
so far the analysis shows that the girls
death had occurred not very long after par
taking of food. This tends to strengthen
the theory that she was murdered shortly
after leaving Mrs Voy's house.
The test in regard to morphine was
made at the request of Captain Lees, as he
thought the murderer might have drugged
the girl before numbering her.
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eyes sir. He is sitting over there by
the window. / was standing on the corner
of California and Powell and [ saw them
sitting on the dummy of the car that was
going toward Market. Miss Pleasant was
with me and we both took particular
notice because it is against the rules OF the
school to go home III the company OF
gentleman. Miss Pleasant said to me:
There goes the new girl. She'd better be
careful or she viii get into trouble. she
beginning early to break the rules OF the
school, The car disappeared down the
hill and that was the last time l saw
Blanche Lamont alive"
Miss Alice E. Pleasant of 323 Twelfth
street corroborated Miss Lanigan's testi-
mony. She identified Durrant and said
the last time she saw Blanche Lamont was
in his company on a Powell-street car at 10
minutes past o'clock. They We're look
ting at an open book which Durrant held.
The witness could not recognize the books
nor hat of Miss Lamont, but she did iden-
tify the dress shown to her by Deputy Cor
oner Mccormick.
The testimony here took Jump, and IN
stead of tracing the couple to their desti-
nation the Coroner called the organist of
the church to describe the prisoners sud
den appearance in the Sunday-school on
that fateful afternoon.
He said his name was George R. King and
that ne llYed at JZl Capp street, AIter StatlHS
that he knew Theodore Durrant, his testimony
was as follows:
Q. Where were you on the afternoon of
Wednesday, April %? AT what time do
you mean?
Q.-Between the hours of and q P M. A
At about half-past four on that day visited an
old music teacher of mine, to get some music,
and at about l went into the church.
Q.-The Emanuel Baptist Church? A.-1es,
sir.
Q.-For what purpose did you go into the
church? A.-To practice on the piano.
Odd anything unusual happen while you
were there? Awhile was playing Durrant
entered the room flom the back door in the
lower Sunday-sehool room, with his coat off,
his hair disheveled and very pale. asked him
what was the matter, and he said he had been
fixing the gas above the auditorium and had
been overcome by the gas.
Q.-What was the appearance of his c1othing9
Al did not notice anything wrong.
Q.-Was his necktie torn or disordered? A
No, sir.
Odd he make any other statement? A.
Not that remember; he asked me to get him
some bromO-seltzer.
Odd you leave Immediately for that pur
pose? Al did.
Q.-How long were you gone? A.-Three
minutes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02
A NOVEL EXPOSITION.
The Merchants Association to Exhibit
Paving Materials and Road
Machinery.

The Merchants Association is making
preparations for special exhibit of their
own at the next Mechanics Institute Fair,
which will open in September. They will
call it paving exposition" and the in
tention is to make the exhibit an object
lesson in street paving and road work, in
teresting not only to those in the City, but
to people living in the country.
Paving expositions have been held in
several of the larger Eastern cities within
the past five years and they have met with
success. One was held in Minneapolis on
April 1 and over thirty exhibitors, from as
many Eastern cities, exhibited asphalt,
stone. wood, brick and other kinds of
street paving materials, road rollers,
scrapers and all the machinery used in
street and road work.
The Merchants Association has in
structed its engineer, Ernest Mccullough,
to arrange for a similar exposition at the
coming fair. Mr.. Mccullough has CORE
sponded with a number of gentlemen in
the East and he says the project is favora-
bly, considered. 1t will be the first of the
kind held west of the Mississippi River
and the novelty will make it a success in
this City.
Dickens youngest son is a Member OF
Parliament in New Soutb Wales
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02

Dickens youngest son is Member OF
Parliament in New South Wales.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02

hundred yards of the sacred editice they
were passed by Attorney Martin Quinlan,
who positively identified Durrant as the
man walking with the girl supposed to be
Blanche Lamont. Forty minutes later
George King, organist of the church, testi-
fed that the prisoner came down from the
upper part of the church in a state of great
excitement, and that he, at Durrant's re-
quest, ran to the drug store on Valencia
street and got bottle OF bromo settler for
him.
The jury retired about noon to consider
its verdict, and it was after o'clock before
they finally arrived at decision. They
found as follows:
That Blanche Lamont, age 81 years, nativity,
Illinois; occupation, student; single; resi-
denee, 209 Twenty-first street, City and County
of San Francisco; found dead April IA, 1895,
in belfry of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Bart
lett street, between Twenty-second and Twenty
third streets, City and County OF San Francisco
came to ner death from asrhyxiation due to
strangulatiOn, and we further find that the
crime of murder has been committed by Theo-
dore Durrant. Fl. NJ. Fortescue (foreman), Fl.
Mohr, J. Fl. Newbauer, c. A. Smith, V. J. Fell,
S. c. Newbern, Joseph Sullivan, Charles Dillon,
Martin Erlenbach, Louis Hartter, 4. Birdsey.
W. J. HAWKINS, NJ d., Coroner.
Mrs C. ]. Noble, aunt of the deceased,
was the first witness called. After stating
that she knew Theodore Durrant the wit
ness said: con Wednesday evening, the
day Blanche disappeared, Theo Durrant
spoke to me at the prayer meeting. He
asked me if Blanche was coming ana an
swered him no. He then told me that he
had ridden part of the way out to school
with her in the morning and had
promised her the loan of Thackeray's The
Neweomes' He said he had been unable
TO get the book, but would bring it to the
house. He brought it the following Fri
day and gave it TO Blanche's sister"
''Were Blanche Lamont and Durrant
friendly?"
Eyes, sir; very friendly. On one occasion
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02
HER BODY EXHUMED.
The Police Have the Stomach
of Minnie Williams
Analysed.

Captain Lees, realizing the Importance
of the omission to have the stomach of the
murdered girl, Minnie Williams, analysed.
has determined to have it rectitied.
Last Thursday he called upon the Coro-
ner, but that official told him he was I'M
able to bear the expense of an analysis, as
the Board of Supervisors would net appro-
pirate any sum for such purposes. The
captain consulted Chief Crowley and it was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02

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Electrical Construction and Repairing
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Special attention given to Sporting
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-24

ury, who to-day transmitted it to the
President. The conclusions arrived at
by the agents are With held, but the
local papers have charged that short
age existed. Sending reports OF special
agents 10 the President is unusual, and
is only done, it is said, when the bindings
ara of such character as may require
official action on his part.
General Malone is still here, but
doesn't come to the Capitol as frequent
" now as he did some time ago in the
interest of the bill for the purchase of
the lot in which he is interested.
The House foreign affairs committee
to-day heard VIM. R. Cremer, mem
Der OF the British Parliament, in sup
port OF a memorial, he presented, pro-
posing to submit to arbitration all dis.
putes between the United States and
Great Britain. Mr.. Hit, Of Illinois, in.
CURED as to whether Great Britain
would be willing to give arbitration to
weaker nations. He could not answer
the question. No action was taken on
the matter.
Secretary Lamont reported to the
House to-day that the Monongahela
Navigation Company of Pennsylvania
had refused to enter into negotiations
for the sale to the United States of its
property, locks and dams, on the Mo.
nongahela river, and recommends that
condemnation proceedings be insti-
| tt,fod
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-24
TILE BROOKLYN STRIKE.

The tenth day of the Brooklyn Elec-
trio Railroad mems strike was full OF
exciting incidents yesterday. During
o disturbance in the morning the sol
diers drove some three hundred strikers
into Odd Fellows Hall and locked
them in. The executive committee K.
of l.. applied for writ Of habeas cor
nus, but before the case could be heard
the men were released. Thomas Carney,
while leaning over the edge of roof,
was shot and fatally wounded by sol
der. A corporal of the Seventh Regi-
ment dubbed one man with his mus
ket and bayonetted another for refus-
ing to move on when told. More cars
were run than on any day since the
tie.up became general. Numbers OF
strikers were arrested for disorderly
conduct. President Lewis said last
night that on his entire system about
900 cars had been running during the
day, and he expects to have an adj
ditional 100 cars in operation to-day.
he added that it was only a question
ola very short time when all his lines
would have sufficient numbers of cars
running to accommodate the traffic OF
the city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The introduction of financial bills by
Senators Smith and Jones, of Arkansas,
does not improve the situation of the
currency question.
Amos Broadwater, aged ninety-three
years, and Miss Eliza Warwick, aged
fifty years. both of Garrett county, Md,
were married last night in Frostburg.
The contract for new cup defender,
which New York syndicate is to have
built, was signed at the Herreshofs'
works, in Providence, R. l., yesterday
afternoon.
Three children of William Reabach,
all under twelve years of age, were
burned to death while attempting 10
start fire with coal oil in their home
at Milldale, KY, yesterday.
Gen. Scott, for eighteen years general
solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, resigned yesterday, to take
effect February l, and ex-Judge James
a. Logan has been appointed his sue
cessor.
Leander Shut, of Dunmore, KY, was
knocked on the head on q bridge near
Bowling Green yesterday, robbed of his
money and clothes and thrown into the
river, from which he was taken in a
dying condition.
At meeting of the Senate finance
committee next Tuesday the republican
Senators will announce their readiness
TO agree to a proposition which will
meet the current deficiencies in the
national treasury.
There was q rumor at the Capitol
yesterday that President Cleveland is
preparing a message to be sent to Con-
gress at an early day, in which he will
suggest plan of financial legislation
that can be enacted before the 4th OF
March,
II. Clay Evans, the republican claim
ant for the gcvernorship of Tennessee,
was at the capitol, in Washington, yes
terday. He met many republican Con-
gressmen, and had long talk with
Representative Reed. Mr.. Evans says
that he has no doubt that the legisla-
ture will count him out.
All hope for the safety of the Graham
and Morton screw steamer Chicora has
been abandoned at Benton Harbor,
Mich, by the finding Of wreckage from
the vessel off South Haven. The fate
of twenty-six men who are known to
have been aboard when the steamer
left Milwaukee for Benton Harbor
| Monday morning is almost as hopeless.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-24

FIRST REGIMENT TRoUBLEs-The court
of inquiry called to investigate the troubles
in the First Virginia Regiment convened in
Richmond yesterday. Lieutenant Gherhart, I
8. A., and Mr.. C. V. Meredith represented Col.
Jones, while Capt. George w. Anderson rep
resented the petitioners for the inyestigation.
Captain Mushbach. Company F, Third Vir-
gina Reg; ment is president of the court.
Captain Anderson pSde 9 statement of the
troubles under investigation, in subetsDce as
follows: That he became convinced more
than year ago that colonel could only or
der regimental court-martial and not gen.
eral court-martial, and since that time he had
fe1t certain that all such general court-mar-
tails had been illegal. He tried to convince
Colonel Jones to that effect, but failed. He
laid the matter before the court and the court
decided that it was not legally called. He
was utterly amazed when Colonel Jones told
him that the court had been guilty of gross
dis6bedtence Of orders. Captain Bossieu1' s
testimony was OF similar piture to that of
Captain Anderson The court then adjourn
ed until Tomorrow