Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
HOPE FOR A HUNG JURY
All Other Hopes Of Durrant's Attorneys
Have Evidently Fled.
HIS CLASSMATES WILL NOT TESTIFY
Prisoner is Quoted ns Saying He
Wonders the Witnesses Who
Testified Against Him Have
Not Becn struck Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2S.-An evening
paper publishes an interview with Theodore
Durrant in which the prisoner expressed
his disgust at the witnesses who had testi
fed for the prosecution.
81 wonder the fate Of Ananias and Sap
phra has not overtaken some Of them" he
is quoted as saying at is strange to me
that they have not been struck dead for
what they said against me on the stand"
Durrant expresses confidence of his ulti-
mate acquittal.
In the opinion OF many members of the
local bar the counsel for the defense has
opened door for the the admission Of all
the evidence in the Williams case at the
present case for the murder of Blanche La
mont. During the examination OF Sergeants
Reynolds and Burke. who were called by the
defense, questions were asked concerning
shoe with brown stain on the sole, found
in the pastors study. The prosecution may
claim the right to demonstrate that the
stain on the shoe might have resulted from
walking around Emanuel church on the
morning the mutilated body Of Minnie Will
Jams was found. Evidence could then be put
in showing the condition of the room where
the murder was committed and the pussibil-
ity of a person entering it getting blood on
the feet. The defense will fight any prop
osition that has for its object getting before
the jury any fact regarding the Williams
murder.
has put in a very strong case, and does not
like to take the chance of introducing the
testimony that might be declared irrelevant
by the supreme court
The defense does not seem to rely so much
on the alibi now as it did few days ago, and
their efforts are now being devoted to an at
tempt to find flaws in the prosecution. Not
one of Durrant's seventy-fve classmates will
step to the front and say the accused at
tended DR.. Cheney's lecture on April g. II
he was there every member of the class
would know it, and dozens would appear and
tell Of little incidents that happened during
the lecture whereby the presence of the ac-
cused was impressed on their minds. The
simple fact that nobody recolects his pres
ence is proof positive to the prosecution that
he absent.
If General Dickinson fails to put the stu
dents on the stand Mr.. Barnes will call them
in rebuttal, and although their testimony to
the effect that they do not know whether or
not the defendant was at the lecture will be
| negative in character, it will thoroughly dis
sipate from the minds of the jury any i'm
preston that the introduction of the roll call
might have. In rebuttal the district attorney
will attack the roll book and will by a great
! many witnesses, show the careless way in
| which the record of attendance at the col
| ege is kept 1t will be shown that hardly
student has not at some time or another
| had the roll falsified by his classmate an
| swering for him.
Durrant's hopes now rest on the ability of
his lawyers to so manipulate proceedings as to
| create doubt in the mind of juror, also as
| to secure a disagreement He can build on
| nothing more substantial, and it seems i'm
| possible at the present writing that he can
| expect acrutta,
| TONAWANDA, N. Y, Sept. 2s.-Mrs.
| Williams the mother of one of the young
| girls whom Theodore Durrant is accused of
| having murdered at San Francisco, has been
staying for several days as the guest OF Mrs.
| Stryker of Broad street. She came here to
I get away from the sensational scenes attend
| ing the trial OF Durrant. She has kept
aloof from everybody and refuses to be in
| tervewed. She still broods over her
daughters fate and passes most of her time
weeping. Today she went to Niagara Falls
| to spend some time with another relative.