The San Francisco call., 1895-07-29
DURRANT AND THAT PLAY
Manager Daley Will Disregard
Any Order From Judge
Murphy.
STILL HUNTING FOR CLARK.
District Attorney Barnes Completes
the List of Cross-Inter-
rogatorieS.
THE DURRANT CASE IN MINUTE-THE
CALM BEFORE THE STORM.

THE DURRANT CASE IN A MINUTE-THE
CALM BEFORE THE STORM.
Charles II. Clark, the new witness for Dur
rant, bothers the police. Detectives were busily
engaged yesterday unearthing his antece-
dents, but met with small success. Dlstrlct
Attorney Barnes has concluded the draft OF his
cross-interrogatories and they are as complete
as they could be made. They have been manu-
factured and will be cast as a dragnet, and will
make things very interesting for Mr.. Clark.
The police have not yet found the mysterious
woman, and seem to be no nearer to her than
If she had never existed.
The great feature in the case to-day, aside
from the selection of jurors, will be the atti-
tude of the court in the matter OF the produc-
ton of ''The Crime of the Century at the Al
cazar. Judge Murphy will undoubtedly make
an order enjoining it, yet the management
saws it viii ignore any such order. w. X DALEY
has employed counsel, and in case the court in
terferes and he and his players are arrested
proceedings in habeas corpus Will be instituted
at once for their release.
The court will convene at 10 o'clock this
morning.
Forecasts in the Durrant case for to-day
are portentous. Already the array of COM
ing events has cast its shadows before, and
J06 u1Iu Ody OA bllO b4AoA W AAA w AAS@A'~N- ~
one OF the busiest.
There was lull il the camp of the de-
fense yesterday, but none in that of the
prosecution. There everything was hustle
and activity despite the fact that District
Attorney Barnes had gone to Monterey to
spend the day with his family and did not
return until late in the evening. The de-
tective force, which has gathered all the evi-
dence against Durrant, displayed as much
activity as on any day since the discovery
of the body of Minnie Williams in the
library of Emmanuel Baptist Church.
The hunt for the mysterious woman, who
is supposed to be the possessor of so much
damaging testimony against the prisoner,
was renewed with redoubled vigor, and
several of the brightest men on the force
bent all their efforts to unearth the least
scrap of history concerning the new wit
ness for the defense, Charles ii. Clark.
Their efforts, however, were crowned with
but the smallest modicum OF success.
As for the personages who will figure
most prominently in the defense, they
took things remarkably easy, enjoying
that calm and rest which are supposed to
90 hand in hand with the Sabbath and
California. The central figure, the pris-
oner Durrant, passed a most restful day.
He had no callers and, in all probability,
desired none. 1t was the one day since his
arrest at the foot of Mount Diablo that the
daylight hours were absolutely his own,
and he must have enjoyed the sensation,
as a change, at least. General Dickinson
kept to his beautiful home in Sausalito,
while Messrs. Deuprey and Thompson
rested, gathering that peace Of mind
necessary for the great legal battle so i'm
minent.
The new witness Clark was still sup
posed to be basking in the sunshine at Mar
ragansett Pier, entirely unconscious of the
impending weight of cross-interrogatories
which the District Attorney has prepared
to launch at his head. The mysterious
woman was-nowhere.
And those neutrality-suspicious. are
something wonderful. After twenty-four
hours OF the hardest kind of labor the Dis
trict Attorney had drafted them and they
will be filed in court this morning. There
are Just 155 of them, covering almost every
step that the witness may have taken
from his infancy up to the present time.
They are framed artfully and In order, and
woe betide Mr.. Clark should he trip up on
any one Of them. To begin with, the de-
ponent is to be asked concerning his birth,
his parentage, his relatives and acquaint-
ances, and the places he was wont to fre-
quent IN San Francisco. Next, he is re-
quested to give a list of his previous en-
pIoyers and to explain his present business
in the vicinity of Cape Cod, explaining,
incidentally, who is defraying his ex-
penses. The interrogatories then narrow
down somewhat to the case, and one of
them calls upon Clark to tel if, when he
left San Francisco, he was informed that
he would be expected to give testimony in
the Superior Court in the Durrant case.
"Were you in San Francisco from April
3 to April 20?" is another of the interroga-
tories. the evident drift of which, as gath
cred from those which follow, is to pin the
deponent down to explaining why, If he
were in San Francisco between those dates,
he did not present himself for examination
at the Coroner's inquest or the preliminary
hearing?
Several minor questions as to his having
discussed the Durrant case are put and the
witness is asked to state when and where
he first informed the defense of his in
formation concerning Blanche Lamont.
Further on he is asked as to his acquaint-
ance with Detectives Thomas W. McFar-
land and Harry n. Morse and with Attor-
neys Dickinson, Deuprey and Thompson.
An interrogatory is also put to him as to
whether ne has ever served in the National
Guard of California and if so IN what
capacity. in what company or regiment.
He is also to be interrogated concerning
as to how often he has seen him within the
last year. An inquiry is also made as to
whether or not he had ever visited Durrant
in the City Prison or the County Jail.
After an interrogatory as to whether or not
the defendant knew that the trial OF Dur
rant was to come on in the Superior Court
on July o. some very pointed questions
are propounded:
If you knew this, and knew that you were to
be witness in the case, what induced you to
leave San Francisco?
Has any inducement been offered to you to
remain away from San Francisco during the
trial of this case?
Is it not fact that you are remaining out
side the Jurisdiction of the State of California
because you are unwilling to present yourself
as a witness and undergo cross-examination?
Have you taken legal advice on this ques-
ton; and if so, from whom?
The deponent is questioned concerning
his possible acquaintance with Mr.. and
Mrs. Durrant, Mr.. and Mrs. P. d. Code,
Miss Bessie Code, George King, Mrs. King,
and very extensively as to Miss Blanche
Lamont. He is also requested to tell every
move he made in every day of April past.
Two other interrogatories are put before
the close, which are interesting from some