The herald., 1895-09-10
iSSES' EYESIGHT TEST
Details to Be Supplied Not Accessible, |,
at tn Examination
tharrsnt's Attorney wn.' Attack the icissr-
ness Of Vision OF the
Witnesses
Associated Press sp ecial Wire

of Blanche Lamon,vs. hast journey vii be
fully told in Judge Mhrphy's court ro ON
during the present week. Many dsta lis
which the prosecution was unable to su p
ply at the preliminary examination wi II
be forthcoming and tho proceedings viii
furnish a dramatic INT crest strongly IL
contrast to the mathe natical monotony
OF the past week.
Eyes were on the young school girl and
her escort ON that April afternoon and
the owners of these eyes awill tell of the
steps they saw taken on that tragic jour
ney. Eyes were1on the unsuspecting girl
and the young man suppoAed to be Dur
rant when they boarded the car at Powell
and Clay streets and when thev entered
the Bartlstt-street church. from which
one of them was never to emerge alive.
The owners of those eyes Will tell their
story, fully believing that their organs OF
vision we're not deceived. Attorneys for
the defense will stoutly contend chat they
are mistaken; that theiI eyes have played
them false and that 1t was not DuErant,
but some otii5r person, they saw with
Blanche Lamont.
In two cases at least there has been no
conoealmens that Durrant's attorneys
would directly attack the clearness OF
vision OF the witnesses on the ground that
there was plain physical defect in th cir
eyes. These two. by the way, are the
most important witnesses for the prose-
cutlon-Mrs. Mary Vogel and Mrs. Caro-
line Leak. The prosecution has been
aware of this intention for some time ana
preparation has been made to frustrate
r. - 81 Mrs Ind
it IS understood. has confided to the po-
lice-that on the day Durrant and the
Jury visited the cnurcn sne was easily
able to identify the defendant in the
crowd on the sidewalk from her window.
She had not been previously notified of
his coming, but the moment the party
took up its stand on the sidewalk op-
posite she is said to have picked the pris-
onsr out Immediately. Mrs. Hackett was
at her side, and as soon as the old lady
saw the group she turned 10 her compan-
ion and said "Why, Mrs. Hsckstt,
there's Theodore Durrant."
Mrs. Leak has not been seen herself to
confirm the story she still:prefers to keep
her story until she reaches the stand. 1t
the story is correct. it will undoubtedly
90 a long way to establish the competen-
cy of Mrs. Leaks vision.
With Mrs. Vogel the test has been even
more severe. On Saturday morning her
ewes were examined by Optician Muller
and his assistant Harry Clark. They
put her to all the tests known to the
business. and at the end OF the examina-
ton her eyes were pronounced to be in
good condition. They will tetify, If
called upon the stand. that Mrs. Vogel
could easily have distinguished from her
window the features of man standing
in front of the normal school.
Il happened to return to the store"
said Mr.. Muller, "wbile Mr.. Clark was
examining Mrs. Vogels eyes. He ex-
planned the case to me, and l made an
examination myself. / found that with
her left eye she is capble of seeing all she
claims to have seen. There is slight
near-sightedness in that eye. The other is
almost so. Without glasses she read test
type calculated to be discernib BILE to the
naked eye at fifty feet at twenty. The
action OF Doth eyes corresponded.
5s '.AsI said before she read the fifty
foot test type at twenty feet with the left
eye. With the right she could not do SO,
but you bear this in mind, whore there
is differnt power of the eyes the better
always controls. If both eyes we're like
her right eye she would not have been
able to distinguish features for the dis
tanoe across Powell street-that is, there
might be some doubt about it. There
Is no uoupt. however, tnaG Will ner lofG
eye controlling as it does she is able to
do what she says she has DONE"
With an. opera glass;" queried Mr..
Muller in response TO question, why,
with good opera glass. any defect in
vision for that distance would BIZ over
come-more than overcome?"
The question concerning the effect Of
opera glasses was nut for the reason that
Mrs. Vogel has made an additional state
ment to the police that she used pair OF
lenses in watching the young man walk
ing in front of the normal school. She
=. did not trust her eyes alone. She was so
excited over the actions of the man,
whom she firmly set down as suspic-
ioUs character that she desired to be abb
solutely positive as to his identity. After
watching him fol- long time she sud
denly bethought herself of the glasses.
She placed them TO her eyes. She leveled
the lenses at the man across the way.
Every lineament which showed in the
circle sne noted, and that is the reason
why she is SO positive that she cannot be
mistaken IN the man.
A RUMOR UNTRUE
Another rumor in regard TO the myster-
ious woman in the Durrant case has been
proved untrue. Miss Ida Clayton, who
was saiu to have known a young woman
before whom Durrant appeared in a nude
condition, returned to the city today and
emphatical.y denied the story. She saws
she knows nothing whatever about tn Q
case.
In every respect DR.. Price's Baking