The herald., 1895-09-24

his testimony. He said he would know
Durrant If they had shaved his heao IN
stead of giving mis- hair the intermediate
pompadour of the county jail. sort OF
midway coiifure between the city prison
and San Quentin.
Oppenheim was the first witness OF the
morning. and he was taken in hahd by
Dickinson for cross examination. FROM
the severity and searching nature oi the
irquisition it is evident that the defense
regards his testimony as Important. Ihey
had detectives working up his record and
have sent people to him with articles for
sale in order to test his memory. They
showed him a silver corkscrew, il watch
charm, u gold chain and couple Of
watches and asked him to say II he had
seen them before. He had seen them.
They had been offered him for sale in his
store. Then they asked him to describe
the clothes and appearance of the men
who offered the articles. Oppenheim was
able to 40 this in some degree. 1t is a
together possible that among the articles
shown were some that were never offered
him for sale. That sort OF thing is called
testing the memory of the witness.'
= OF course, Oppenheim's memory for
clothes and outward characteristics of
casual visitors to his store is a most inn
portant element in the value of his testi
mony. as his description of the man he
believes to have been Durrant is specific
Further, they asked him questions re-
garding some Transactions in which he
was mixed up with the police. The bear
ing OF the questions was not made clear
at tho tins. but were obviously put to
lay foundation for future testimony in
the way Of impeachment.
The man who goes on the stand in the
Durrant case takes his reputation in his
hand.
The prosecution has not ye. attempted
to prove by the students at the Cooper
medical college, Durrant's classmates,
that the accused did not attend DR.. Che
ney's lecture on the afternoon that
Blanche Lamont was straDgled to death.
1t is understood that number OF the
young men have been notified that tney
may be wanted, but whether or not their
evidence will be consid cred necessary to
add to the already formidable array OF
testimony, has not been stated.
DurIanJ mas been Watching fur this de-
velopment of the case with apparently
special concern. He recently sent for
three of his class mates and asked them
to try to remember that they saw him in
the clsss room Oh the afternoon of the
3D.. He assayed to recall little instances
which occurred on that day and which
he hoped would cause the students to be-
lieve that they really had seen him there.
Two of the students summoned could
not be persuaded to admit that they
saw bin during the lecture, but the third.
who was +. W. Rose. was inclined to
think that Durrant was right about it.
AT the accuscd's solicitation Rose looked
ON his nots books and concluded finally
that he had seen Durrant in the class
room between l and o'clock. He will
now be summoned, it Is said, as wit
ness for the defense to assist in proving
an allbi. There are breakers ahead for
Rose, however. If he testifies as he says
he intends to do, he will be confronted
with the daily roll call. which shows that
Durrant was marked absent from the
particular lecture which Rose says he at
tended According to Roses statement
as made to the accused's attorneys, Dur
rant put in al appearance at O'Clock
and listened to the first lecture delivered
taht afternoon. He is not positive
whether or not his c!assmate remained
there throughout the lecture, but does
say that he did not see him lcave the
room As Roses seat in the class room
is quite close to the door, he says ne
does not think Durrant could have
stepped out without being seen by him.
Student Roses name has been associ
With the DurraDt case-a story regarding
which he may be asked some questions
by the prosecution when he goes upon
the witness stand. Rose Is said to have
repeated to George Bewell and another
acquaintance remark which Durlant is
al'eged to have made to him at the COL
lege on the morning OF April Sd. That
remark WAS to the effect that ne had an
engagement with young lady for that
a lewd suggestion Rose claims now that
he does not remember exactly what Dur
rant said, and he is not quite sure that
it was intended seriously