The herald., 1895-10-21
Who Knew Durrant and of His
DOings
AT NIGHT IN THE CHURCH
The Handwriting Experts Will Cut Very
Little Figure
The Prosecution Amply Prepared With Evil
dsnce in Rebuttai, and the Defense
VIII Not Impeach II
Associated Press Special Wire.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2c.-The pros
eoution in the trial OF w. IL. 7. Durrant
has found witness who will testify hat
everything was not right in Emanu ell
church prior to the murder of Blanche
Lamont and Minnie Williams.
This witness is a oolored bootblsck by
the name of Budd Wilson.
Tonight he was served with a subpoena
and told his story to Detective Seymour.
II knew King and Durrant so well
that they talked freely before me-" said
he. AT first was surprised that such
religious young men should be carrying
on in such fashion, but after a while
concluded that thsy were about the same
as other young men. | learned from those
two boys shem selves that they were TAX
ing girls to the church every night
often heard them tell of the fun they had
there and of the different girls who ao.
COMP panied them. | know myself of Il We
girls who used to go to the church at
night with those boys. The people in the
Mission would be very much surprised If
they knew who the girls were. They
all belong to respectable families, and the
worst of it all is that their parents never
dreamed that such things were going
on
District Attorney Barnes has decided
not to introduce experts on handwriting
in rebuttal. The defense did not 60 into
th s. matter as deeply as was expected, so
that there is no real need OF following
up the handwriting exhibits on behalf OF
the people. Besides, there is so little
writing on the wrapper and newspa per
which enclosed Blanche Lamonts ring
that it would be very ditncut to prove
by expert testimony that it had been
written by any particular individual.
The subject of handwriting will be left
simply for judgment by the jury. The
defense -lll not keep Witness Lenahan
long on the stand tomorrow. This wit
ness did not fulhll expectations. Dur
rant and his attorneys thought he would
60 on the stand exhibiting q striking re-
sem blance to the defendant and testify
that he offered to sell chip diamond
ring to Pawn broker Oppenheim at about
the time the latter says that Durrant Wis
tied his place, with Blanche Lamont's
ring. Lenahan surprised the defense by
testifying that he never wore moustache
IN his life and that his visit to OpplIen-
helms place was after Blanche Lamont's
ring had been returned to the dead girls
aunt.
The defense will close as soon as the
attorneys are through with Lenahan and
then the rebuttal, for which kthe prosecu-
tion is amply prepared, will begin. ]. S.
Dunnegan it is understood, will be the
first witness called. He will be asked
regarding his visit with DR.. G. +. Gra-
ham to the Jail where Durrant was CON-
fined and about Durrant's request for
private conversation with Graham. Then
will come Graham himself and Students
Glaser. Dukes and Dodge. Miss Carrie
Cunningham will close the rebuttal evil
dence.
Ii is understood that the defense will
not make any strong efforts to impeaoh
the prosecutions evidence as given in re-
buttal, as Durrant"s attorneys are anxi-
Gus to close the case. 1t is possible that
the arguments will be reached by the eEd
of the week. There are still some doubts
as to whether or not Deuprev will be able
to make an argument to the Jury. He
has hopes himself, but his physician is
not so sure. At all events the attorney
has the evidence at his home and is pre-
pairing himself for great effort.