The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-21

~ BID tosttmony. One of the letters
o1lored him $500 on the condition that
~ stated on the witness stand that he
eould not positively identity Durrant.
h WAs not to see any one IN connection
With the bribe until after he had given
bza testimony, whom the money would
bepaid to him. The second letter was
ol similar character. The witness said
that he bad turned Soth letters ever to
the police.
NO SENSATION CAMN.
The expected sensation in the sxamina-
tion Of Organist King did not materiaiize
il the trial OF Theodore Durrant this
!, morning 1t was expected .ths prosecu-
ton would put him on regarding the
alleged contradiction of his testimony.
Ana the variation from the statDenrs be-
fore the police after Durrant's arrest. HIS
fostimony this morning consisted In
rpiteration of the statement that he had
been playing the piano two or three min
ut6s IN Emanuel church on April Sd, be-
fore he was aware of DuiIant's presence.
Amer Durrant took the .bromo-seltzer he
md King sat together on the platform
Of the class room.
When George R. King. the organist OF
Emanuel church, was on the stand in the
Dnrrsnt trial Wednesday, the prosecution
bysn oversight failed to examine him
on two material points. When King was
{fret interviewed in reference to the muir
ders by representatives of the different
Newspapers he denied all knowledge of
anything which in the remotest way
might connect Durrant with the commits
sion OF either crime. His denial was
made in way which left strong i'm
preston that the young man was not
telling the truth. 1t was then that the
suspicion arose that he knew moro than
he cared 10 tell. This opinion rapidly
cTystallized into an idea that he knew
something he did not care to tell. His
father became frightened at this cond-
ton Of affairs. and the result was young
Kings i'm portant announcement to the
police that he was in the church that
afternoon and saw Durrant in strangely
agitated state.
King was seen by the interviewers and
f0a reporter from each of the morning
newspapers declared voluntarily and with
emphasis that after Durrant had gone to
small mirror in the church he also went
there and on the shelf below the mirror
saw Q clot OF blood, as if Durrant had
wiped his finger there. Shortly after
young King made his sworn statement to
the chief Of police the father of Theodore
Durrant is said to have called upon him
and begged him to change his testimony
in its most important particular. He
begged him to saw that the man he saw
In the church was not really the man who
- now on Lrldl 1Or MS lie. Ming all
uwered that he could not change his tes-
tinony even to save his friend.
RATTLE-BRA1NED FEMALES.
Durrant receives letters almost daily
from women in different parts OF tn .
country assuring him of their firm belief
in his innocence and wishing they could
be with him to comfort him. In every
instance thus far the letters have come
from some con wnom he has never seen
or heard of. Among number of tender
missives received recently was one signed
by woman giving the name of Mrs. l..
Pangborn of Aurora Ill. The author
assured Durrant that she knew he was
Innocent; that her belief had come to her
IS an inspiration and that she would
never be convinced to the contrary. She
also assured him that she prayed nightly
for his speedyldelivsrance.
ODDS AND ENDS NOW.
The main case against Theodore Dur
rant Is in. There are some odds and ends
of evidence to prop the carefully built
structure of circumstances, but to all in
tents and purposes the prosecution has
had its day.
Tonight after Oppenheim, the pawn
broker, had told how Darrant came to
him to pawn one of Blanche Lamonts
rings; after Sademan, the ianitor. had
said that the gas fixtures which Durrant
asserted he had been fixing on that fate
full day needed no fixing whatever; after
the long line of witnesses had taken the
prisoner right no to the church door;
after the prosecution had done its best to
hang the man they consider the GRIM
inal of the century, that man. attorneys
were as merry as larks and as confident
as men can be. They were also as silent
as rocks as to what evidence they pro-
pose to offer to break down an apparently
invulnerable case against their client.
Next week you will be just as m UGH |
with:us as you are now against us. said
Attorney Deuprey.
Next week you will be with us, but |
we are forced to silence now
General Dickinson and Detective Morse |
were equally confident, equally cheerful. |
1t was their manner more than what they |
said that gave listeners the i'm preston
that they expected to blow away all the |
structure of the persecution as il it were |
. house of cards or castle of the air. If |
they were acting their counterfeit of joy |
Gus certainty was not to be distinguished |
from the genuine article.
This confidence is now what keeps |
those who have followed the case on the |
fiptoe of expectation. All are looking |
forward to the day. not far distant now,
when Eugene Deuprey shall tell to the |
s1urv and the world, in his opening Of the
sdefense, just exactly how he expects to |
save the neck of Theodore Durrant from !
sthe San Quentin moose.
There has been no period OF the case
awaited with such anxiety. II the de .
lfense can make its confidence good there
Twill be nothing more dramatic in the an
.nals of law. Conviction on circumstan- !
3tlal evidence would be an impossibility in |
3he California courts after such de-
tnouement. For this young man, Dur |
31ant. has been considered guilty by |
sninety-nine men and women out of every
lShundred for months past. To have his |