The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-19

"You took them to the door only?"
eyes. SIR
"When did these occasions happen?"
"On Sunday evenings"
"Did you have any conversation with Dur
rant concerning the disappearance of Blanche
Lamont?"
eyes SIR"
"Where and when?"
"On the evening of April 10 on the way
home from church"
"What was said?"
"He remarked how sad 1t was that she had
completely disappeared. We both expressed
our willingness to help search for her."
"Did you ever accompany Durrant on such q
"No, sir"
"Did he ever tell you of having searched for
mo, sir"
"Was there prayer-meeting on the evening
of April 1O?'
Eyes, SIR"
| 'Were you presentT'
az did not get there till 1t was over
| Ibid you have any conversation with Dur
rant about the disappearance of Blanche
| Lamont between the time you left him on
April and when you walked home with him
on the 10th?'
mo, sir"
What time did you leave the church that
EVENING""
| 'Who made the first remark"
81 don't remember. 1 think did,
what did you say?"
81 can't remember
odd you discuss this conversation with Dur
| rant at the jail?"
81 don't think so-except he asked me if
| remem bered it,
"DId you repeat the conversation to him at
| that timer"
81 think not"
what is your best recollection of the con-
| versa tons you had with him in the jail?"
| "He asked me if 1 remembered seeing him in
the church on the Sunday after the Sd OF
April"
"Did you remember"
! eyes"
"Did he ask you anything else?"
| az don't recall that he did"
| "Your memory is blank as to that?"
| Deuprey-We object to that.
| The court-The objection is overruled.
| Witness-I can't remember.
"When were you in the church prior to the
| 3d?"
"The day before"
| "Were there workmen in the church thenT
| eyes, sir; fixing the gas.
"Was Durrant there while you were there on
the 2d?"
| ''No, SIR"
| "How long were you there"
| "TWo hours"
"Then when Durrant told you he had been
| upstairs fixing the gas burners you knew they
| had been fixed the day before by the work
| men?'
| eyes, sir"
"Did you remark that to Durrant?"
| 81 don't remember having done So"
"Was there prayer meeting on the evening
OF Wednesday, April 81"
| eyes, sir"
1
"Yes, sir.
"Did you have any conversation with him
| then?"
"I remarked to him that the smell of gas had
| disappeared"
as there looking-glass in the church,"
| eyes, sir; in the classroom"
| "Did you two go there that afternoon?"
| "Durrant did. l did not"
| "Why did he go to the glass?"
''To see how pale he was"
"Did he say anything about his appear
| ance?"
''He asked me if his eyes were congested and
| If he were very pale"
| "What did you say?"
| 81 said they were"
Juror Dutton-May 1 ask question, your
| Honor?
| The court-Certainly.
Juror Dutton-When you went into the
library closet to see if the gas was escaping did
| you find that it was escaping?
| WitneSS-No; 1t was escaping.
| Barnes-On the day before when you were
in the church, did you smell gas?
| 81 don't remember that
! "Did you notice anything the matter with
| the chandelier IN the lobby"
| az did not"
| "Where did you smell the gas?"
| 81 think smelled it all over the church"
| "Was it after he took the bromo settler that
| he went to the mirror"
eyes, sir; just before we carried down the
twas the smell of gas strongest in the
lobby?"
| EYES, SIR
| = lu ~ make you IeeI SICK!
| ''No, SIR"
"Did it make you faint, or affect you so that
| you wanted a bromo seltzer?"
| mo, sir"
"Did you look to see if your eyes were con-
gested and your face pale?"
! mo, SIR"
| This concluded the main examination,
and Mr.. Deuprey picked up the thread of
his cross-questioning at the point where
| MIR. Barnes left off.
Only few questions were asked, one
about the front door being unbarreG when
witness entered, and another about the gas
smelling stronger in the lobby because
witness had just come in from the fresh
air.
| Then the noon recess was taken.