The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-13
FLAW In DURRANTs STORY.
II Overcome by Gas He Needed Fresl
Air More than Bromo Seltxer.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1.-THE prosecu-
tion In the Durrant case has found another
flaw In the story told by the young medical
student on the day OF Blanche Lamont s
murder. When Durrant was suddenly con-
fronted by George King, the organist, he
explained his condition of utter physical
and nervous collapse by the statement that
he had been overcome by the gas while en-
gagged in repairing electric wires in>the at
tic. Durrant asked King, to get him some
bromo seltzer. The prosecution will con-
tend that IL Durrant had been asphyxiated
his knowledge of medicine would have
taught him that fresh air instead of a nerve
tonic was what he needed. Durrant's class
mates at Cooper Medical College will be
placed on the stand to show that the pris-
oner, as well as all of the students, had
been taught that the only remedy for par
tial asphyxiation is oxygen. Durrant would
prosecution will contend that he was too
well informed TO have ordered a nerve tonic
which nauseated him when he drank of 1t
II he had really been suffering from the eff
fects OF gas The prosecution also showed
that Durrant's hat and coat were not in the
library when King entered the church, but
store. The inference will be drawn that
Durrant wanted to get King out Of the
church, not to bring him relief with drug,
but to give himself time to recover from his
his coat and hat from the rear OF the
church to the library, where IL had been his
habit to place them while working In the
AS the defense will lay stress on the in
apility OF one man to carry heavy body
up such steep flight of stairs as leads TO
cution was elated at the testimony to-day
OF Richard Charlton. grocer, who had
weighed weighed blanche each sh wee week for six S
lis pounds; week later she had disap-
peared. Her greatest weight was III
pounds Henry ]. Shalmeunt, a cable con-
Lamont had ridden together TO school the
morning Of April 2; He had seen them fire.
tcuIariy directed to them month on this "s day pi by
their evident intimacy. Then the defense
admitted the fact that Durrant and Miss
iine % Of @ inquiry was abandoned and s a BY thls ths
Herman j. schlagler, a classmate of Dur
four days after Blanche had disappeared.
and before Durrant was mentioned in con-
nection with her absence. Durrant had
asked him II he remembered seeing them
Durrant parted from Blanche before the
former left the city. Witness was unable
so 70 remsmosr p9rrans volunteered the rhs IN
prisoner told the witness that Blanche was
easily led and controlled by him. and that
he feared that she had gone 10 some ques-
Miss Minnie Bell Edwards a cassmate
OF Blanche, testified that on the afternoon
or April Blanche Lamont and herself
left the Normal School together. Miss La
mont was soon Joined by a young man
whom Miss Edwards recognized as Dur
rant. Miss Edwards last saw the couple
at the corner OF Market md Powell streets,
where she left the ca-z The witness de-
scribed minutely all The movements of
Durrant. herself and Miss Lamont before
and after they boarded the car. She also
described Durrants attire minutely. To
accommodate the jury recess was taken
at this point unti.-~e>nday.