Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-24
COMMEMORATIVE TESTIMONY.
What is Being Offered by the State in
the Durrant Case.

What is Being Offered by the State in
the Durrant Case.
The tenth week of the trial of Theodore
Durrant at San Francisco commenced yes
terday The prosecution now has its case
substantially before the Jury. and all that
the district attorney will no5 introduce Is
corroborative testimony.
Adolph Oppenheim, the broker who stated
that Durrant had about April Is tried to
pawn a ring, identified by Oppenheim as be-
longing to Blanche Lamont was further
cross-examined yesterday. On the day Dur
rant is charged with having tried to sell the
ring Oppenheim said one or two other per-
sons had called. Both were strangers, yet
he described them minutely and recounted
the particulars of their visits as If they had
occurred but yesterday. Oppenheim was
asked regarding other specified days and
answered promptly.
Counsel for the defense tried TO confuse
Oppenheim by showing him q number of
silver articles, and inquiring If he had ever
seen them before. III many cases the pawn
broker replied in the affirmative and deScrib-
ed the persons who had tried to sell or pawn
them The defense evidently considered OPP
penheim's testimony of great Importance,
and tried hard to break it down, but without
marked success.
w. ]. Phillips, cigar maker, a middle
aged man of good appearance and address,
testified that he had seen Durrant coming
out of Oppenhem's store in the early part
of last April He was attracted to the man
by his peculiar appearance and manner Of
his actions and the fact that he was coming
out of pawn shop
When the district attorney requested the
witness to indicate the man he saw coming
out of the pawn shop Phillips walked over to
the prisoner and, with pointed finger, said
in positive tone: THAT is the young man"
Durrant did not finch under the ordeal.
He returned gaze with gaze, and not Il mus
Gle of his impassive face twitched. He
neither betrayed guilt nor flashed back the
glance of injured innocence The witne ss
was cross-eXamined regarding his business
enterprises and his family history, with the
apparent intent of discrediting his testi-
mony. He said when purrant's portrait was
first published he remarked that he had seen
him some place. When Oppenheim's picture
was published the scene at the pawn shop
flashed across his MIND and all the details
came back to him.
Leigh H. Irvine, newspaper man, said he
interviewed Durrant on the eve of April IA
in the city prison. Durrants statement was
made in the presence Of Judge Tompson,
who was then Durrant's attorney. 1t was
as to his whereabouts on April 3. Durrant
then said he left home about 8 o'clock in the
morning and met Blanche Lamont at 21st
and Mission streets. She invited him to ac-
company her to the college on the day of
the conversation about 1.-The Newcomes''
took place. He went to the church at 4:3O
and took off his coat and hat and went up
stairs to fix the gas.
He stated that he met King in the church
and left it with King. He said nothing about
having seen Miss Lamont in the afternoon.
Mrs A B. Perry of Alameda, who was
visiting Mrs. Crosset on April 8, corroborated
Mrs Crosset as to her trip to the mission on
that afternoon. Mrs. Crosset left the
Haight street car at Market street to go out
to Valencia.