The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-25
DR.. GIBSON TESTIFIES
HE SAW DURRANT ALONE IN THE
LIBRARY OF THE CHURCH.
Williams'n body Was Found, but
Did Not Investigate.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.-Theodore
Durrant, the alleged murderer of Minnie
Williams and Blanche Lamont, passed a
quiet night. and when he entered Judge
Conlon's court room this morning he APP
peared refreshed and was as self-composed
as ever, He conversed with his attorneys
earnestly.
Mrs. Amelia voy testified that Miss Will
liams came to her house on the afternoon
of the murder, and left about 8 O'Clock,
alone. Mrs. voy was not allowed to tell
where Miss Williams was going. Mrs. voy
identified the clothes worn by the dead
girl when she left the house, and which
were found on the murdered girl.
Adolph Hobbs. of Oakland, testified that
he had seen Durrant at the ferry April IL
in company with a young lady smaller than
himself. She wore a cape.
DIR. Gibson, pastor of Emanuel Baptist
Church. where the murders were commit
ted. the next witness, spoke in a loud, clear
voice. He had seen Durrant Good Friday
night at the Christian Endeavor meeting
at DR.. Vogeps home. He thought Durrant
came to the meeting about $3.50 o'clock.
after the conclusion of the business meet
broke up. Witness had seen Yurrant 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. He saw Miss Williams for
the last time to his certain knowledge
she told him she was going away, and bid
A new witness in Dennis WEIGH. an Ala
media policeman, said he saw Durrant and
Miss Williams together In Alameda on sew
eral occasions about two weeks praor TO-
the discovery of the young lady's body In
the church..
Additional light has been thrown on the
murder of Miss Williams. Searchers have
found blood stains in the church, showing
that the murderer made his way In the
dark tns ,ni frUm the sod library az the closet metb where nI lay
of the pulpit In the rear end of the church.
The prints of bloody fingers were seen at
in the wash room go to show that the muir
derer had no light while washing his hands,
him to be, would not have spattered SO
much blood around If he could have seen
he was doing. And It is evident II
the bloody stains on the basin. This
tends to prove that the murderer was fa-
miiiar with every part OF the church build
ing.
Durrant is making strenuous efforts to
prove an alibi in the Lamont case by at
tempting to prove that on the day Miss
Lamont disappeared he was not her escort
from school at $3.50 O'Clock in the afternoon.
as the young man they saw on a car with
Miss Lamont at that hour. He will call
on his college classmates to prove that he
was at a lecture at that hour. 1t Is said
that Durrant's note book contains no notes
of the. lecture, and that he obtained. infor-
ture from another student. This matter is
a question of Importance to Durrant, and
he bases his hopes on the memory of his
fellow-students. Durrant was marked
present at this lecture, but 1t is a habit of
the students to answer present for each
other. and the roll book does not count.
A sensational statement is that of Mrs.
E. Young, a trance medium, who says that
several days ago she went into a trance,
and, according to her story, plainly saw
Durrant in the act of killing his helpless
victims. He was undressed at the time,
she says. and after strangling Miss La
Wons carried saxs sb her be eHiey to th she r Dsl try police Mrs
Of the church they will find the shoes
supposed to have murdered Miss williams.
She clairps that after dressing himself
Durrant dropped one of his shoes in a
hid both of them In the partition. IT is
not probable that the police will pay any
attention to the trance mediums dream.
Detroit's Dead Girl Identified.
DETROIT. Mich. April PA special
cablegram from Birmingham Identifies the
young woman who died in a lying-in hosp
tai in this city from the effects of a Grim
inal abortion, as Miss Emily Hall, of Long
Lane. Halesowen, seven miles from Blr-
mingham. Miss Hall left home Immediately
after Christmas to visit some friends In
Leeds. Two or three weeks later a letter
was received from her stating that she had
been engaged to travel with a lady and that
her parents would not hear anything more
of her till the spring months had parsed.
A letter written at a later date from tho
friends with whom she had been staying, In
no light was thrown on her whereabouts.
and nothing had been heard of her since.
The Rev. Jonathan Bell. who ~ CHARGED
for the primitive Methodist body In six or
seven towns and villages near Birmingham