The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-01
THE EVIDENCE ALL In
First Preliminary Examination Of
Theodore Durrant Concluded.
MOTION TO DISMISS DENIED
Testimony OF c. Hills and chauncey
Johnson Against the Prisoner
--Judge Conlon VIII Deliver
HIS Opinion Tomorrow.

san Francisco, April 30.--The evil
dence in the preliminary examination
Of Theodore Durrant for the murder
Of Minnie Williams is all in and Po-
lice Judge Conlon will deliver his opin-
Ion next Thursday morning. He de-
MED. for the time being. a motion Of
defendants counsel to dismiss the
case. and also refused to admit Dur
rant to bail.
When Durrant was taken to the
court room to-day he looked pale and
worn. his confinement apparently be-
ginning to tell upon his health. DIR.
J. 8. Barrett. who performed the au-
topsy on the body of Minnie williams.
was on the stand and was cross-exam-
ined for hours by the defense. He
stated Miss Williams died from as
phyxiation and hemorrhage. the for
mer caused by rags forced down her
throat, and the hemorrhage by the
severing of arteries in her wrists.
Other wounds In various parts OF the
body were inflicted after death.
c. Hills testified that a man re-
sembling Durrant met a woman an
swering Miss Williams description
near Emanuel church on Good Friday
night. They walked rapidly down the
street and disappeared inside the dark
church. He watched them intently,
because at first he thought the woman
was his wife keeping an appointment
with another man. When he went
home, however. he found his wife
there. He examined the entrance and
exits OF the church next day and found
that the pair could not have left the
church while he watched and escaped
observation. i7 lff
Chauncey M. Johnson. clerk In the
state board OF trade exhibit rooms,
says that he is positive Durrant vis-
tied the rooms April ~ last, between
4:so and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. In
company with a young woman, who
answers Marian Williams description.
He says he noticed the couple particu-
larly because he requested them to
leave at closing time, shortly before
O'Clock. When he saw Durrant's pic
ture In the papers he puzzled over II
till he renembered that he had seen
Durrant AZ stated. When Johnson went
g. fbA yisitors' registry book TO see
what names the couple had entered,
he found that the sheet bearing the
entries Of names on April ~ had been
abstracted. Miss Williams came from
Alameda to San Francisco on that day
at 4:20 p. m. but did not reach the
house where she was living until after
5 o'clock. She went out that night be-
fore 8 o'clock. The next morning her
dead and mutilated body was found In
the church library room. Durrant has
all along denied that he met the girl
on that day. while the police theory is
that he made an appointment with her
that afternoon to meet him I'm the
church that evening. and there as
saulted and then slew her.
After Durrant had been arraigned
yesterday for the murder of Blanche
Lamont he said he was not worried
over the matter. and his demeanor
certainly did not indicate any distress
Of mind.
The police authorities have invoked
the aid of a Pinkerton detective in the
Emanuel Baptist church murder cases.
Detective simmons. who was formerly
at Chicago headquarters of this agen-
cy. and OF late years has been con-
nected with the Portland. Ore, branch
Of the service, arrived In this city, has
Inspected the scene OF the murders,
and has taken copious notes from
which to map out his line OF work.
this acquisition will enable
the detectives to obtain further evil
ience against Theodore Durrant, the
young man accused of these murders,
q problematical. In the meantime. ad-
iitional circumstantial evidence is
;ropping up, and the police feel more
han ever confident that they have the
In the person OF Durrant. /