The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-01
A MISSING REGISTER PAGE.
Proof Conclusive that Durrant
is Lying.
No Room for Doubt But That He
Met Miss Williams the Day She
Was Murdered, and That They
Entered the Church, or Mt Least
the Grounds, Together-Doctor
Barrett Gives Expert Testimony.

San Francisco, April 30.-The police
authorities have invoked the aid of a
Pinkerton detective in the Emmanuel
Baptist church murder case.
Detective Simmons, who was for
merly at the Chicago headquarters of
this agency and of late years has been
connected with the Portland orr
branch Of the service, has arrived in
this city, has inspected the scene of the
murders and has taken copious notes
from which to map out his line of
work.
Whether this acquisition will enable
the detectives to obtain further evil
dence against Theodore Durrant, the
young man accused of these murders,
is problematical. In the meantime adj
ditional circumstantial evidence is
cropping up.
Another Strong Link.
Chauncey NJ. Johnson, clerk in the
state board of trade exhibit rooms,
says that he is positive Durrant visi-
ted the rooms on April II last between
4:30 and o'clock in the afternoon, in
company with a young woman, who
answers Marian Williams description.
He says he noticed the couple partic-
ularly because ne requested them to
leave at closing time. shortly before
o'clock. Then he saw Durrant's picture
in the papers and puzzled over 1t till he
remembered that he had seen Durrant
as stated. When Johnson went to the
visitors registry book to see what
names the couple had entered he found
that the sheet bearing the entries of
names on April II had been distracted.
Miss Williams came from Alameda to
San Francisco on that day at APO p. m,
but did not reach the house where she
was living until after o'clock. She
went out that night before s O'Clock.
The next morning her dead and multi
ated body was found in the church IL
brary room. Durrant has all along de-
MED meeting the girl on that day. while
the police theory is that he made an
appointment with her that afternoon
to meet him in the church that even
ing and there assaulted and then slew
her.
All Evidence In.
The evidence in the preliminary ex-
animation of Durrant for the murder
of Minnie Williams is all in, and Police
Judge Colon will deliver his opinion
next Thursday morning. He denied
for the time being a motion of de-
PENDANTS counsel to dismiss the case,
and also refused TO ADMIT DurrdnC 10
bail. When Durrant was taken to the
courtroom today he looked pale and
worn, his confinement apparently be-
ginning to tell upon his health.
DR.. ]. S. Barrett, who performed the
autopsy on the body Of Minnie Will
liams, was on the stand and was cross
examined for hours by the defendant.
He stated that Miss Williams died
from asphyxiation and hemorrhage,
the former caused by rags forced down
her throat and the hemorrhage by the
severing of arteries in her wrists.
Other wounds in various parts of her
body were inflicted after death.
Thought 1t Was His Wife.
C. Hills testified that a man re-
sembling Durrant met woman an
swering to Miss Williams description
near Emmanuel church on Good Fri
day night, walked rapidly down the
street and disappeared inside the dark
church. He watched them intently,
because at first he thought the woman
was his wife. keeping an appointment
with another man. When he went
home, however, he found his wife
there. He examined the entrances and
exits of the church next day and found
that the pair could not have left the
church while he watched and have
escaped observation.