The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-25

Ferry.
San Francisco. April 2i.-It NAV be that
the emanuel Baptist church murders
the killing of Miss Blanche Lamont. on
April ., and of Miss Marian Williams. ON
April l5-may go down as unsolved rnys-
terles in the criminal annals of San Fran.
CISCO The police, it is true, have gather.
ed much evidence, all circumstantiaI but
the witnesses for the state, under the fire
OF cross-examination, have not held sc
firmly to their statements-they wavered
in the matter of identification when MIN
ned down. The result of the second
! DAY preliminary examination led CHEZ
OF Police Crowley to remark that it was
/ rather disappointing and not what he
/ had reason to anticipate
Certain it is that Durrant the medical
student accused of the murder of Marian
/ Williams, has not yet lost his assurance
or nerve. His demeanor is so peculiar, so
enigmatical, that the conclusion forces
itself upon the observer that he is either
most consummate monster or a most
cruelty Wronged man. 1t is said he is
anxious to make his defense in the police
court, relying upon the weakness of the
case against him so far and his alleged
ability to prove an alibi, but his lawyers
are too cautious to allow him to have his
way.
The Net is Woven.
The police have abandoned their search
for additional evidence, and say they
have the net woven good and strong
about Durrant. OF course the public, or
at least large portion of it, is skeptical,
but as the police still have some twenty
five witnesses, and perhaps more evil
denee of which the people have not been
apprized. it is possible that the police may
be right and will succeed in presenting a
ct.se strong enough to warrant holding
the accused for trial.
Additional light has been thrown on the
murder of Marian Williams. Searchers
have found bloodstains in the church.
showing that the murderer had made his
way in the dark from the library closet.
where lay the niutilated body, to the
wash-room back of the pulpit in the rear
end of the church
bloody Fingers.
The prints of bloody fingers were seen
at intervals. The extent of the blood
stains in the wash-room goes TO prove
that the murderer had no light while he
was washing his hands, for a judicious
person, as his actions prove him to be-
would not have spattered so much blood
around it If he could have seen what he
was doing. And it is evident that if he
had a light, he would not have left the
bloodstains on the basin. This tends to
prove that the murderer was familiar
with every part of the church building.
Durrant is making strenuous efforts to
prove an alibi in the Lamont case by
attempting to prove that on the day Miss
Lamont disappeared he was not her es.
cort from school at $3.50 o'clock in the
afternoon. Three young ladies have iden- !
tilted him as the young man they saw
with Miss Lamont at that hour Durrant |
will call on his college classmates to
prove that he was at lecture at that
hour 1t is said that Durrant's notebook 1
contained no notes of the lecture and
that he obtained informa ton as to the /
subject matter of the lecture from an
other student. This matter is a point of |
Importance to Durrant and he bases his !
hopes on. the memories of his fellow STU
dents. Durrant was marked present at |
this lecture, but as it has been a habit |
Of students TO answer for each other, the |
does not count.
A Mediums Idea.
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 plain
ly saw Durrant in the act of killing his
helpless victims. He was undressed at
the time she says, and after strangling
Miss Lamont carried her body to the
belfry. Mrs. Young says she believes
that if the police will search the parti-
ton on the west side of the church they
will find the shoes worn by Durrant on
the night that he is supposed to have
Minnie Williams. She claims
that after dressing himself, Durrant
dropped one of his shoes In a pool of
o,,I hot - 10 III
both of them in the partition. 1t is not
probable that the police will pay any at
.ention to the mediums dreams.
Durrant passed a quiet night, and when
he entered Judge Conlon's courtroom
his morning he appeared refreshed and
vas as self-composed as ever. He con-
Iersed with his attorneys earnestly for
some time before court opened.
Mrs. Amelia Voy, with whom Miss Will
Jams was to stop before going to Taco
ma, testified that Miss Williams had
.ome to her house on the afternoon of
he murder and had left about s o'clock
lone. Mrs. Voy was not allowed to tell
where Miss Williams was going.
Mrs. Voy Identified the clothes worn by
he dead girl when she left the house and
which were found on the murdered girl.
Adolph Hobs, of Oakland, testified that
e had seen Durrant. with whom he was
cquainted, at the ferry on the afternoon
{ the 18th. Hobs says that Durrant was
n the company of a young lady smaller
han himself He did not see the lady's
ace, but she wore cape. He did not
peak to Durrant.
Miss Florence Voy corroborated her !,
lother's testimony.
Half dozen witnesses for the prose-
ution failed to respond to their names.
DR.. Gibson's Story.
Dr. Gibson was the next witness called. s
lie answered the questions put to him In
loud, clear voice. DR.. Gibson said that
e had seen Durrant on Good Friday
light, at the Christian Endeavor meet
lg>held at DR.. yogels home. He thought 6
urraSt came to the meeting about $3.50 I
clock. After the conclusion of the bust, 8
sss meeH,g. Durrant remained until r
lie party Hbroke up. Witness had seen q
rrra,t None in the library of the Z
',,rch -, March II. Witness was at the /
,,,.oh -, Ahe morning that the body of q