Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-27
OI THE MIRROR Durrant Knew he Was Wanted for Two Mur-
 ders.
 MAN OF WONDERFUL NERVE Ample Opportunity to Have Es- capped - Statement of the Mother of the Young
 Man.
MAN OF WONDERFUL NERVE

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 SAN FRANCISCO, April 19-The in
 terest in the Emanuel church murder
 is still intense, and the progress of th'
 coroner's inquest is closely wstched fo
 exciting developments. So far nothing startling beyond what is already knowr . has been brought out.
 The strong sentiment against Durran
 seems to b. undergoing rei ction anC
 the number of people who assert beliet
 in his innocence is on the increase
 Durrant does not act like a guilty man.
 His demeanor is more that of man who
 is perfectly confident that his innocence
 of the awful crimes viii be certainly
 proved when the proper time comes.
 If he is a ravisher and murder he is certainly possessed of wonderful nerve. Nothing appears to shake him or disturb his air of confidence. He has been sleeping badly, but that is probably natural under the circumstances. Dur ing his waking hours he is quite, gentle manly and self-poSsessed. He makes 10 slips nor awkward admissions in spite of the many traps laid for him by re- | porters and detectives. He converses readily on any topic except that of the | crlmes with which he IS charged. When | that subject is broached he begs to te | excused and refers queetioners to his attorney.
 The testimony at the inquest today, while in some respects damaging to Durrant, was not as strong as hes been anticipated. The fact that he had once made an improper proposal to pr. Vogei's niece was brought out and that will probable tell against him, but the attempts 10 positively identify Jim ss the man who entered the church early in tue evening in company with woman failed. The witnesses could only ssy
 
 in every instance it was shown that Us far IS the knowledge of the various wit nesees went, DurrRnt and Miss Williams were not intimate. They Were never seen together, TOT dld they speak o; each other. Miss Williams father is the only enc apparently to whom she had ever talked about Durrant
 Some new facts have come to light tending to show the accused mans re- markable powers of selfcontrol. On Saturday afternoon when mem bers of the signal corps flashed the message from the top of Te.egrape Hill to their comrades many mics away on Mount Diabio that Durrant was the man want d for the murder of Miss Williams, Durrant was the man who received the message and read the flashes on ths mirror. His companions say that his face Eever moved as he read off tha letters and he appeared to be unconcern ed, though greatly surprised. That night Durrant was on guard for four hours while the rest of his comrades slept. There were dozen horses at hIs disposal, one of them unusually fast | and he had en opportunity to attemp: to escape aud could have secured lead | of many miles over his puEsurers had he | so desired. Instead be started to re- turn to San Francisco with the rest of | the party.
 Mrs. Durrant, the mother of the young man accused of the murder of Marian | Williams and suspected also of having | killed Blanche Lamont, has made a | statement to the newspapers in which | she claims there is conspirancy to fas | ten the crime on her son.
 The chief points of interest in thls | statement are is follows:
 "Wby do they not arrest all of them l and make them show where they were | at the times of the murders?
 The body of Blanche Lamont was carried up the belfry and Theodore is not strong enough to have done that | She was well built girl and she was choked to death. Theodore is pot large aud strong enough to kill her in that | way. Theodore wore on the afternoon of A pril 3d a double breasted sack suit | of blue chevoit-his, ordinary, everyday clothes. Il is here ln the house. The l detectives came here and searched over his clothing for three days. They found | nothing wrong, however.
 "ln the Williams case, toe, the mur derer must have got blood upon his | clothes. Theodore that night wore the l same suit he is now wearing in prison, | and there IS not the lightest spot upon | them.''
 Mrs. Durrant then recites in detail l the movements and alleged movements | of her son last Friday, the day of Miss | Williams murder, and continues:
 "I believe that all these things which | look so badly against my boy are the re suit of conspiracy. Either somebody i wants to Injure my son or the guilty man | Is trying tJ shield himself by throwing | suspicion on Tbeo. There gre some | questions Tn the case which have never | been satisfactorily answered. Why did | MT. Gibson want to hush the matter up | at first, and why did he refuse to let the | police have the keys to the church? | Why dId Mir. Gibson refuse himself to | the reporters on Saturday? Did not | Minnie Williams say something about | q man forty years old? To whom did | that gray har belong which was found | yeste rday in ths clotted blood on the | floor of the book closet? Theodore has net gray hBIr on his head. They found | horse hair on the waist of Miss Will ] liams. Who, attending that party, had | ridden a horse?"
 The statement shows an analytical | turn more likely to be found in the at torney than in the mind of woman.
 Chief Crowley was asked what he | thought of Mrs. Durraut's arguments, and replied that they might have been expected from mother. He had been unable, he said, to find evidence point ing to the guilt of another person.
 Durrant complains bitterly that Pastor Gibson has not called to see him.
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