The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01

stop, because / appreciate II is no part of my
that am merely The eMT of his y eT
dence. When close my eyes l can see that
man and that girl, l can see him telling her to
come up into the belfry, OF the beautiful view
that can be had from there. can see these
two walking out side by side from that library
room, up the stairs, up into the gallery of
the church to the belfry-door We don't know
that this belfry-door was ever locked before,
but after the Sd of April II was locked. Who
had the keys to that church? George King,
the president of the Ladies Aid Society, the
!anltor and Theodore Durrant Durrant was
the mechanic, the man who worBed with
nimble fingers. Who was the man who changed
the lock on the library door? Theodore Dur
rant.
Durrant furnished the
keys for the new lock.
Who was the man who furnished the keys to
that new lock? Theodore Durrant. He had
in his possession, / assert, from the known
facts in the case, from the inferences which I
draw, the key or keys that would lock or IN
lock that belfry door. l assert it as certain and
as sure that on Wednesday, the Sd of April,
between Ais and O'clock, in the belfry of
the Emmanuel Church, behind the door, was
this murder committed. That this girl
drugged outside, that she was murdered in
somebody's back yard and then dragged up
into the belfry, as Mr.. Deuprey argued on
Friday, seems TO me 10 be the meTest nonsense
and not calling for reply.
At this point the noon recess occurred.
When court convened in the afternoon
District Attorney Barnes continued:
Durrant had destroyed
his egreSS from the belfry
Through the church we have brought this
defendant and into the belfry. No words of
mine can impress upon you that scene any
more graphically than it is probably fixed in
your minds. What should he do? He must
preserve himself. The instinct OF self-preserva-
ton arose in him. Now nobody passed into
the belfry except the janitor, and he only oc-
casionally, and so he got the Ratchet from the
1aQltOr's N a hrnka the kO0hs Ia
knobs having been broken off, the force that
was used to break them was so considerable
open, and no key would afterward open it,
The necessities of the occasion compelled this
defendant when he had destroyed ingress, to
also destroy egress. In what position did he
lind himsef2 He could not remain in that
belfry. Your inspection of that belfry would
develop two facts.
Why DurrGnt sholced himself
to George King.
There are two means of egress, eliminating
the door-the second or false platform of the
opening broken in the ceiling; the other is
through q small door. He could not get
through the door OF the belfry, hence he must
pass into these other rooms. This brought
him into the modelling space where the sun
burners are. From that space there were but
two modes of descent-one by the ladder which
ran from the gallery; but he could not 60 out
OF that, because when he took that girl up into
the belfry that ladder lay in the gallery. You
DO not suppose, and do not suppose, that
man was going to let the girl lie there while
he fixed the ladder up, the ladder being in the
gallery? There was but one means of de-
scent-to pass over and through that mid
cel!lng space into the attic and down the back
stairs to the entry of the hall that runs behind
the pastors study, down the back stairs, which
would land him just where King says he saw
MN at the glass doors OF the Sunday-school
rooms.
King kne1O too little for
man 1VhO knel0 so much.
1t was the only way to get out Of the mid
celilng space, and when that man appeared to
the eyes OF King in that doorway he had come
down out OF that modelling space, down the
stairs TO where King sat, ana it is just as sure
as though we saw him there, as it is the only
route he could have followed. And now my
history brings me to George r. King. OF this
young man L regret 70 speak as it is my duty to
speak. de was produced witness for the
state. You saw him testify. George R. King
impressed me as man who knew too little for
man VINO knew so much. He was reluctant
witness, SO much so that had to drag out of
MN What testimony we did get What kind of
witness is this young man? Intimate with
the defendant; visitor at the defendants
mouse; the defendant q visitor at his All
along through this trial a visitor to the defend
ant, yet unable when called upon to remember
the subject of his conversation with him.
King aCiu regret the
part he took in this case.
He looked at me with face of brass saving
My mind is a blank" What kind of witness
Is IL VINO goes and sits down and hobnobs with
the attorneys for the defendant? In that lay
no cherge OF ill-doing at the doors of Mr.. Dick
lnson ana Mr.. Deuprey. These are honorable
gentlemen, and l admire them; l am not eriti-
clzlng them. He is in this position that 1t be-
comes necessary for the representative OF the
state to refer to him. Whatever Mr.. King may
know cannot tell; but believe that in time
10 come this young man who has his life be-
lore MIN Will regret the part he took in this
case, 1or DO not believe that George r. King
mas done his full duty. But we must not DIS
regard ms testimony. 1t is very impor tant
ana considering the individual who gives this
testlmony, considering the relation that he
maintained with this defendant, the testimony
tnat George King gave, unwilling as it was
anu reluctant, Is very important testimony.
Only King and Durraat had
Keys to the library.
klng says that when he came in to the vesti-
men, Go you suppose he did smell gas? The
testlmony OF the plumber is that he was in the
church the day before, and all the burners
were In perfect condition. But if he did go
INFO the library, what condition did he find it
m ne says he found it with the door open.
now lhls wss subsequent to the time when he
ana Durrant had put lock on the door to
Keep the books safe. Only two persons had
KEYS 70 the door, George King had one, Theo-
9ore Durrant had the other. When George
ring entered the church that afternoon and
Ioune tne II brary-room door open he knew in
Ine hrSt place that he had not opened it.
Eithsr Durrant mad been there and unlocked
the door with his key and gone inside for some
purpose or somebody had opened that door for
some improper purpose Ii King fancied he
Was alone IN the chOrph don't Won think hal