Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-25

was as self-composed as ever. He con-
versed with his attorneys earnestly.
Dr. Gibson testified that he had seen
Durrant Good Friday night at the
Cnusuan Endeayor meeting at Dr..
VOgePs home. He thought Durrant
| came to the meeting about $50 o'clock
after the conclusion of the business
meeting. DUrrant remained until the
party broke up. Witness had seen
Durrant alone in the library of the
church on March Il. Witness was at
| the church on the morning that the
body of Miss Williams was found. He
heard a noise in the church but did not
investigate it. He saw Miss Williams
for the last time to his certain knowl-
edge March 2 in the Sunday school
room, when she told him she was go
ing away and bid him goodbye.
A NEW WITNESS,
Dennis Welsh, an Alameda policeman,
said he saw Durrant and Miss Will
Jams together in Alameda on several
occasions, about two weeks prior to
the discovery OF the young lady's body
in the church.
1t may be that the Emanuel Baptist
| Church murders will go down as un-
solved mysteries in the criminal an
nails Of San Francisco. The police, it
is trne, have gathered much evidence,
| all circumstantial, but the witnesses
for the State under the fire of cross
examination, have not held so firmly
TO their statehents-they wavered in
| the matter of Identification when
| pinned down. The result of to-day's
preliminary examination led Chief of
Police Crowley to remark that it was
rather disappointing and not what he
had reason to anticipate. Certain it
is that Durrant, the medical student,
accused Of the murder of Marian Will
iamS has not yet lost his assurance or
nerve. His demeanor is so peculiar,
| so enigmatical, that the conclusion is
forced upon the observer that he is
either a most consummate master or a
most
CRUELTY WRONGED MAN.
1t is stated he is anxious to make his
defense in the police court, relying
upon the weakness of the case against
him so far and his alleged ability to
prove an alibi, but his lawyers are too
cautious to permit him to have his
own way.
The police have abandoned their
search for additional evidence and say
they have the net woven good and
strong around Durant. Of course the
public, or at least a large portion of it,
is skeptical, at least the police still
have some twenty-five witnesses and
perhaps more evidence of which the
people have not been apprised. 1t is
possible the police may be right and
will succeed in presenting the case
/ stronge enough to hold the prisoner
| for trial.
Rev. George J. Gibson, pastor Of the
Emanuel BaDtisb Church, at whom
the nnger OF suspicion has been point
| ed, cannot possibly have been con-
| cerned in it, for during the time the
murder was committed he was at a
gathering Of church members. AS to
the nature of his evidence there can
be no surmise, as he has been silent
on all matters touching the case.
Additional light has been thrown on
/ the murder of Marion Williams.
Searchers have found blood stains in
/ the church, showing that the mur-
derer had made his way in the dark
! from the library closet, where lay
THE NIUTILATED BODY,
to the wash roo mback of the pulpit
in the rear end of the church. The
prints of bloody fingers were seen at
/ intervals. The extent Of the blood
stains in the washroom so to show that
| the murderer had no light while wash
ing his hands, for a judicious person,
as his actions prove him to be, would
not have spattered so much blood
around if he could have seen what he
was doing. And it is evident if he
had had a light he would not have
left the bloody stains on the BASIN
This tends to prove that the murderer
was familiar with every part of the
church building.
Durrant is making strenuous efforts
to prove an alibi in the Lamont case,
by attempting to prove that on the dag
that Miss Lamont disappeared he was
not her escort from school at $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon. Three young
ladies have identified Durrant as the
young man they saw on a car with Miss
I Lamont at that hour. He will call on
his college class mates to prove that hS
was a Ia lecture at that hour. 1t is
said that Durrants notebook con-
tains no notes of the lecture, and that
he obtained information as to the sub
iect matter of the lecture from another
student. This matter is q question of
importance to Durrant, and he bases
+ his hopes on the memory of his fellow
students. Durrant was marked pres
ent at this lecture, but it had been q
habit of students to answer present for
each other on the roll
DOES NOT COUNT.
A sensational statement was made
This morning by Mrs r. Young,
trance medium. who says that several
davs ago she went into a trance. and,
according TO her story, plainly saw
Durrant in the act of killing his help
less victims. He was undreSSed at the
time. she says, and after strangling
Miss Lamont carried her body to the
beIfrv. Mrs. Young says she believes
that if the police will search the parti-
tom on the west side of the church
they will find the shoes worn by Bur
rant on TIE night that he is supposed
m have murdered Miss Williams. She
claims that. after dressing himself,
purrant dropped one of his shoes in