The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-04

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 3.-The trial
of Theodore Durrant was replete with
sensations today. Henry J. Mccoy,
Christian association, who was cited
for contempt last Monday for telling
Juror Truman that if he did not hang
Durrant the people would hang him,
was fined $25, with the alternative of
five days in the county Jail.
During the cross-eXamination of a
witness summoned by the defense the
prosecution developed the fact that a
student of Cooper Medical college VINO
did not attend the lecture delivered by
DR.. Cheney on the afternoon of April
g. was recorded present in the roll call
book. This testimony is of the great
est Importance to the prosecution from
the fact that it shows the unreliability
of the roll call book, in which Durrant
was recorded present on the afternoon
that Blanche Lamont was murdered.
Good Girl.
The last sensation of the day was an
order made by the court committing
Miss Carrie Cunningham, a newspaper
reporter, to the county Jail for refus-
ing to answer a question. The defense
tried to impeach the testimony of Mrs
Leak. who said she did not tell Miss
Cunningham that she saw Durrant
and Miss Lamont enter Emmanuel
Baptist church on the afternoon of APP
ril 3. Miss Cunningham testified that
Mrs. Leak did not tell her what she had
seen, but when asked to reveal the
source of her information the witness
declined to answer. An order was
made committing the witness to the
county jail for contempt. but on motion
of the defense it was made to go into
effect tomorrow morning. when Miss
Cunningham will be given another
opportunity to answer the question
None Saw Him.
The defense placed on the stand to-
day eight more students who attended
the lecture delivered by DR. Cheney on
the afternoon of April 3, to testify as
to whether they had answered to Dur
rants name at roll call. Each wit
ness gave a negative answer With
the exception of six, all the members of
the class have now been asked this
question. One of the students has
died since April and the prosecu-
ton has been unable to obtain the
attendance Of the other five in court.
The prosecution limited the cross
examination in each case to asking if
the witness saw Durrant at the lee
ture. Not a student was found who
remembered having seen the defend
ant. The notes of each witness were
placed in evidence by the prosecution.
The notes promise to play an imDor-
tant part in the future proceedings, as
the prosecution intends to compare
them with the notes said to have been
taken by Durrant at the time
Attorney Duprey called the atten-
fiO0 of the court tho D011
ert n Lynch, private secretary to Rev.
j. George Gibson, was in the court
room, and asked to have him removed.
The court said Lynch could not be
removed unless he were subpoenaed as
a witness, when he could be excluded
like all other witnesses. A subpoenae
was at once made out for Lynch and
he was ordered to leave the room.
Lynch protested that he knew nothing
about the case, but the court insisted
upon the order.
Still Cropping.
II. S. Field, member of local
wholesale jewelry firm, was called to
testify with regard to the grade and
quality of the ring worn by Blanche
Lamont. which is said to have been
presented at Pawnbroker Oppenheim's
shop. He said the ring was of a, com
mon kind, but when asked by the
prosecution to compare it with SIM
liar ring introduced by the defense.
an objection was sustained.
The defense endeavored to show by
F. w. Ross, a student at Cooper Med
fcal college, that on the afternoon
Blanche Lamont was murdered he and
Durrant took a walk from the college
to the vicinity of the Golden Gate. Ross
remembered that he and Durrant had
taken such a walk, but said he could
not fix the date