The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14
Accidentally Locked I'm q Baptist Edi-
flee After q Festival and Found
Dead in the Pastors Study.
DENTAL STUDENT SUSPECTED
CRIME UNEARTHED ny
THE POLICE OF BOSTON.
Body of an Eight-Year-OId Girl That
Had Been Violated Found i'm a
Pile of Stable Refuse.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13-A Sunday
school teacher with her scholars, enter
ing Emanuel Baptist Church, to-day, to ar
range the Easter decorations found the
body of a young girl frightfuly mutilated
in the pastors study adjoining the main
auditorium. Her clothing was torn and dis
heveled, and she had evidently been out
ragged before she was killed or else her
murder was the result of chagrin and rage
on the part of her baffied assailants. Her
body was covered with blood and wounds.
The walls of the study were bespattered,
and there was large red pool under the
table near her feet as she lay dead. A cut
on her wrist had severed the arteries and
terdons. She was stabbed in each breast
and over the heart flesh wound in
which was sticking part of broken blade.
The assalant had evidently possessed all
the ferocity of Jack the Ripper The
weapon, which afterwards found was
a snver-handled table knife, used the previ-
GUS evening at church festival and
so dull that the victims dress had to be
opened at the breast to enable the blade
to pierce the flesh.
The body has been identified as that of
Minnie Williams, domestic residing in
Alameda, but a member of Emanuel Church
in this city. She was about eighteen years
of age and remarkably pretty. She left
her employers residence in Alameda yes
terday afternoon to attend a festival in
the church last evening, remaining all
night with friends and assisting in the
decorations She wore her best frock and
carried an older dress to wear while work
ing When the entertainment closed last
evening she is presumed to have entered
a closet adjoining the study to change her
attire The sexton, believing every one had
gone, turned out the lights and left the
church. The girl had excellent repu-
tation, going to entertainments other
than those at the church. She had two
male friends, dental student whom she
had not seen lately and a dental student
whom she said had once insulted her and
whom her friends suspect of the murder.
This student, whose home is in Beviant,
wrote her yesterday, asking her to meet
him in San Francisco last night. Miss VIII
liams was suspicious and refused, but said
she would be at the festival in the church,
where he could see and converse with her.
They met at the festival and no one saw
either of them leave the church at its
conclusion.
A curious coincidence in connection with
the murder is the fact that Miss Williams
was close friend of Miss Blanche Lamont,
a young girl from Montana, who has been
missing for ten days. Mrs. Noble, Miss La
monts aunt, the first to discover the
dead body of Miss Williams in the church.
Mrs. Noble to-day received through the
mails paper in which were wrapped three
rings worn by her missing niece the night
she disappeared. In the paper the
name of Theodore Durant, the young dental
student who made the appointment with
Miss Williams, the murdered girl, last night.
The police have as yet made no arrest, and
the double mystery is puZzling the whole
city. Miss Williams was not a servant,
at first stated. Her parents had separated,
and, as her mother could not support her,
the girl was living with friends who kindly
gave her home until she could secure en-
nlOYment.