The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-01
DURRANT'S TRIAL.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BARNES con.
TINUES HIS DENUNCIATION.
Emotion of Durrant's Mother So
Great That Il Juryman Felt OBJ
liSed to Call For Recess.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 31.-Dietrfct
Attorney Barnes did not finish his argu-
ment in the trial of Theodore Durrant
as ne announced last night that he would
DO. The jurors asked the court not to
send them cut tonight, as they would
prefer TO be charged tomorrow morning
ana nave all day to consider the case.
Inc request was granted, and as the dis
trict attorney desired to have his words
still ringing in the ears Of the jurors
when they should retire to agree upon d
verotct, he spoke until time for court
TO adjourn and then announced that he
would not finish until tomorrow morn
ing. AS Judge Murphy's charge is under
stood to be very long, it is believed that
the jury will not retire before tomorrow
afternoon.
That Durrant is not only a monster,
| but a criminal whose actions, both be-
fore and since April have been in keep
ing with the actions of other great Grim
lnals. were the statements that the dis
the jury today. The impulse that prompt
ed the prisoner to steal Blanche La
mont's rings from her body, he said, was
the same impulse that had caused
Other Criminals to Steal.
that for which they had no use after
committing a similar crime. If it were
not for the fact that criminals always
do things that should be left undone, and
fail to perform important acts, he said
law breakers would never be detected.
AS the district attorney dwelt upon the
ghouliSh nature OF a man who could
steal the rings from the body of an in
nocent girl that he had murdered, his
denunciation of the defendant became so
bitter that Mrs. Durrant was unable to
retain her composure. She burst INTO
tears and flung her arms abeut the neck
of her son as If to shield him from the
torrent of invectives of which he was
being made the object. Durrant re-
manned measurably calm, but his mother
although she made several efforts could
not control her emotion. In the mean
time. the district asaorney, who did not
notice her state, his face being turned
away. continued his scathing argument,
until Juror Smythe finally brought the
incident to an end by asking for five
minutes recess. The request was grant
ed. and when proceedings were resumed
Mrs. Durrant had recovered herself. Mer
cileas arraignment of the defendant con-
tinued. however.
Theodore Durrant," said Mr.. Barnes,
Stands forth in American Jurisprudence
today as
The Most Brutal Criminal of the Age
He is a creature beside whom Holmes
the multi-murderer who is now on trial
in Philadelphia, is a perfect gentleman
and "a scholar; beside whom Prof. Web
ster. the Harvard instructor who killed
DR.. Parkman many years ago was a kind
and genial citizen. and as compared with
whom Cain was a George Washington.
He took this child into the church
alona and enticed ner, by what means we
know not, up to the belfry. She was
with him alone in that great building,
this weak and sic1ly child, unable ply
sicaily to cope with this monster, and as
the Russian proverb SAYS, .Heaven was
high and the car afar off, No one was
there to come to her aid, no one could
hear her call for mercy as it fell upon
his callous ear She stood alone, the
prospective victim of a lustful murder
a murder that shall be spoken of by our
children. your children and your chill
drens children until the end OF history
of Jurisprudence. There are no witnesses
to tell of the details of that awful strug-
gle between virtue and vice, but there
are circumstances fraught with more
meaning than words that tell the whole
story and declare Theodore Durrant the
consider these circumstances and saw
whether or not the prisoner shall not
give his life as he took that of his vic
tim