Evening star., 1895-09-13
DURRANT'S ALiBI FAILS
He Was Seen With Blanche Lamont on
April 3.
A Witness Who VIII Testify That She
Rode With Them Both I'm a Car ON
the Afternoon of That Day.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, September 49,
The prosecution of Theodore Durrant are
prepared now to produce a witness who is
expected to overwhelm the young student
and destroy his last hope of an alibi. One
who knows him well. who left the city
that she might not he forced to testify
against him, will go upon the witness stand
and testify that on the afternoon of April
the day of Blanche Lamort's murder).
she rode to the Mission upon the same car
with Blanche Lamont ard DIrrant
AS the car Travelled on its way she no.
ticed the young school girl carefully. She
observed her clothing, noted her books,
watched her movements and followed her
conversauo IN with the young student. The
girl was unknown to her. but she had
watched Durrant from his childhood as
she would one of her own children.
Shortly after o'clock the car arrived at
I'D street. The woman who had been in
tereSted in the young couple arose to leave
the car. Durrant and the school girl were
already on the way out. The student as
sisted the girl from the car and then gave
bis hand to the old lady. The three walk
ed to the sidewalk together and stopped
there for a moment to chat.
Durrant introduced Blanche Lamont to
her to proceed down 22d street toward
Bartlett street. He and Blanche, talking
and laughing, walked toward tine church.
The story will be told by Mrs. James
Srossett, who lives with friends in the
MISSION Mrs. CroSSett knows Durrant too
Well to be mistaken. The very conditions
OF the case make it impossible for an err
ror TO be committed. Mrs. Crossett not
only saw Durrant, but took his nand and
spoke to him. She will be placed on the
witness stand next week.
Testimony for the Prosecution.
AS ha dafo 10,
ability of one man to carry a heavy body
up such fight of stairs as leads to
the belfry of Emanuel Church, the prose
cution was elated at the testimony yester-
day of Richard Charlton, a grocer who had
weighed Blanche March q or %. that she
mad weighed lis pounds. A week later she
disappeared. Her greatest weight was I21
pounds.
Henry Shalmount, a cable conductor, tes-
t,f1ed that Durarnt and Miss Lamont had
ridden together to school the morning of
April :. He had seen them frequently be-
fore, and his attention was particularly di-
rected to them on this day by their evil
dent intimacy.
Then the defense admitted the fact that
Durrant and Miss Lamont were together at
that time, and this line of inquiry was
abandoned by the prosecution
Herman ). Schiagfer, a cIassmate of Dur
lant at the medical college, testified that
four Gays after Blanche had disappeared
and before Durrant was mentioned in con-
nection with her absence, Durrant had
asked SchlaSler If he remembered seeing
them together. and if he did not remember
that Durfant parted from Blanche before
the former left the city. Witness was un-
able to remember.
Durrant volunteered the information that
Blanche was missing. The prisoner told
me witness that Blanche was easily led
and controlled by him. and that he feared
she had gone to some questionable abode.
Miss Minnie Bell Edwards, a classmate
OF Blanche. testified that on the afternoon
of April Blanche Lamont and herself
left the Normal School together. Miss La
mont was soon joined by a young man
whom Miss Edwards recognized as Dur
rant. Miss Edwards last saw the couple at
the corner Of Market and Powell streets
where she left the car. The witness de-
scribed minutely all the movements of Dur
rant. herself and Miss Lamont before and
after they boarded the car. She also de-
scribed Durrant's attire minutely
To accommodate a juror a recess was
here taken until Monday.