The record-union., 1895-11-01

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 3i-Dis-
tlict Attorney Barnes continued his
argument in the Durrant case to-day
He began at the point where Mrs
CrOsett had seen the defendant on the
Naiencia-street car. and said that the
defense's own witnesses had amply
sustained the lady's testimony as to
the time consumed in making the street
car trip. Durrant was no stranger to
Mrs. Crosett and her naturalization OF
the prisoner as well as her description
OF the murdered girl, were complete.
Durrant and his victim had thus been
traced to within one block of the
church, and it required but the evidence
OF Mrs. Leak to prove that they entered
the sacred edifce The prisoner select
ed the belfry for his purpose believing
that there he would be secure from
interruption. After the murder the
instinct of representation came to
the murderer, and he thought to bar
ingress to the gallery would be to
cover up his crime He therefore
broke off the knob Of the belfry door
In doing this from the inside. he cut
OF eSress by any means except the
two halls in the belfry which led TO the
ceiling. Both led to the space above the
ceiling where the sunburners were To-
Gated. That was where the murderer
found himself From this space there
were but two ways to escape One
was by the ladder in front. which was
not in place and could not be used: the
other by the rear stairway which led
to the Sunday-schoOl room. 1t was
down this back stairway that Durrant
came to the room, where. pale and agi-
tated ana with diSheVeled hair. he
burst upon the presence of George
King.
Barnes then made a telling point
against the defendant. which caused q
pathetic scene and showed for the first
tlIne since his arrest Durrant in an
othef light than a stolid prisoner. call
iGus TO evidence and abuse Barnes
sad that from the beginning of the
history Of criminal jurisprudence it
had been characteristic of murder
efS 10 leave undOne what they should
nave done, and to do what they shOuId
have left undone 1t was an ilhIstra-
ton of the peculiar atavism of great
CRIMINALS. 1t was ineXplicable. but it
was fact. Professor Webster bv If
preserved the metallic teeth of his
victim, DR.. Parkman. and other great
murderers had kept some tntrinsically
WI I4li'-''7 pieces OF tnGfr victims
property, and Durrant had done the
same. Why he had taken the rings
from his victims fingers and taken
them to pawnshOp God aIore knew.
but he had done it.
This catalOguing OF her son with tho
great murderers moved Mrs. Durrant
to tears She had with difficulty main
tanned hel cOmpOsure earlier in the dav
When Barnes eEcOriated Durrant bv
saying that Cain was the George WASH
lngton OF murderers compared to him
ana that by antithesis H H Holmes
was a gentleman and a scholar and
Professor Webster a kind and humane
murderer. But when she could no
lCpSer contain herself she laid her
hoad upon the shoulder of her son.
VINO sat in front of her, and wept bit
terry Durrant took her affectionately
IN his arms and pacitied her
Barnes referred to the incident. and
said he sympathized with the sorely
tried mother, who had been by her sons
side every day since the trial had be-
gun: but he called attention to the other
mother in Montana, to whom the man
gled remains of Durrant's victim had
ben sent, and said the duty of the Jury
men raised them above sentiment
Barnes had not finished at the close of
the afternoon session, and W4I4 deliver
the peroration tomorrow morning
Judge Murphy viii then charge the
jury 1t is thought that Juror Truman
Will be foreman Of the jury, as he was
to-day selected as spokesman to state
the jUryS wishes as to when it should
receive the charge.