The herald., 1895-09-17
NINTH WEEK OF THE TRIAL
Prosecution Will Consume Fif=
teen Days More
MISS LAMONT'S MOVEMENTS
Miss Mary Vogel Becomes intensely
Dramatic
Unknown Lady in the Vicinity OF
Emanuel Church


A Associated Press Special Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-Slowly tho
prosecution is taking Theodore Durrant
up to the Emanuel Baptist church door
with Blanche Lamont. Another long step
was taken today. and the two were traced
to the mission-to the corner of either
Valencia and Twenty-frst streets, or Va
lencia and Twenty streets. Ii
they got off the car at Twenty-secon nd
street, they were within 300 feet of the
church door. Now the next move in the
progression will oubtediy be to bring
out testimony of Martin Quinlan. who
says he saw Durrant and the young LADY
at Twenty second and Bartlett streets.
Then will probably come the story OF Mrs.
Leake, who saw them enter tho church,
then the reluctant tale of Organist King
to whom Durrant appeared fustered and
said he had been overcome by gas.
After this there is the pawnbroker's S
girls rings, and the other bits of corrob
orative evidence to bolster up the main
case. And after all this is over, the de-
fense will begin the work OF tearing the the
whole fabric TO pieces; of renGlng the
chain link by link. in proving the inno-
cence of tae defendant in the face OF tn e
appearance of guilt, and then the case
Will be closed.
Lawyers for the defense, in the face OF
all that is piled up against them, are easy
and confident. I'VE will clear him IN
three minutes" is an expression said to
have been dropped by one of them.
p Those who are admitted to the court
room sit through the tedious hours in a
reekng atmosphere and hear little or
nothing. Today they were fairly we'll
rewarded. They saw one excitable wo-
man, with German accent. step down
from the witness chair and point out the
defendant with gesture that would
have done credit to the most thrilling Of
melodramas. They also saw feeble old
woman brought in bent in and tottering
to tell her story from the brink Of the
grave.
But 1t did not seem to disturb the pris
oner much. He frequently smiled at his
mother during the day, as if pleased at
the efforts of his cross-examiner s.. The
mother smiled in return. but it is evil
dent that the showing of the prosecution
is worrying her. She looks worn. Tne
few white hairs in her head seem to show
more. She is thinner than she was. But
her solicitude is most shown in the in
crease of her attentions to her son. When
the testimony seems most damaging, she
can hardly keep her hands off him. One
hald will constantly steal up along his
back-a caressing, solicitous hand-as If
she yearned to take II i'm to her heart and
balm his woes as she used to do when he
was boy. There is no disturbance ap-
parent in his demeanor all this time,
however. Even when the women in the
corridors had broken through the officia
Gordon and were ordered back with loud
hallooIng. his was the only head that
was not turned toward the door. The
d. t1t hue
seemed to matter not at all to the man
most concerned in the outcome of such
an affair."
. During the day a maniac shrieked
wildly while being put in prison van
in the area below. All eyes except those
of Durrant we're apop with inquiry.
When family friends come in he greets
them cordially. "He does the honors of
the place with freedom that is really
charming, said one who has watched
him much with critics eye.
Today was noticeable as showing Law
yer Deuprey in the role of cross.exam-
iner. Hitherto Dickinson has borne this
burden and has worked hard TO pick
flaws and accentuate inconsistencies in
the stories told by tie prosecutions wit
nesses.
Dickinson is persistent and dogged,
but he does not fire up much. He is not
pyrotechnic. With the mild hammered
district attorney on one slde ana DlcKln-
son on the other, there are few objections
or interruptions and very little lshtin
with the court.
But when old Mrs. Crossett was brought
today, supported on the arm OF her son,
Deuprey shifted over into Dickinson
place and prepared to make Things inter
esting. He did. Before the day was
over he had become quite angry. had
rather roughly badgered the old lady and
been severely reprimanded by the court.
He entered a snappy objection to the
repri mand noted an exception to it, and
altosethe. put more interest into the case
than it has had IN some time.