The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-09
NOTHING CAN SAVE
DURRANT MUST REALLY AND
TRULY HANG THIS TINE


tion. From San Fr.ncisco. His Appeals
to the Supreme Court Having Failed to
do Any More Than Was Expected OF
Them rs Means to Gain TiDe-win
Probably be Ke-sensenced TodAy-Tws
Cool Hands Held for = Bloody Murder |
in South Dakota-Crime News.
San Francisco. Dec Slate this after |
noon the supreme court dispeiied the last
hope OF w. H. T. Duran. the murderer
of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams
by disposing in a summary manner OF
his two appeals In a written opinion
from the pen OF Chief Justice Beatty,
which is concurred in by all but one OF
his colleagues, the court afirns the juds
ment of Judge Bahrs IN remanding the
prisoner to San Quentin until The date
set for his execution, but reverses the re-
sentencing OF Durrant to be hanged on
November II, and renlands the case 10
the superior court with instructions 10
proceed according to law. AS the re-
niittur was ordered issued forthwith and
the court holds that the execution can
AMY be stayed now by the issuance OF a
certificate of probable cause, il only re-
mains TO re-Sentence the condemned
murderer, which will probably be done
tomorrow.
Justice Garouette alone dissented from
this opinion, maintaining that Durrants
appeals should have been dismissed, as
the time required by law for their per-
lection had been allowed TO lapse.
TWO COOL MURDERERS.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. S.-Weltering
in his own blood and literally hacked to
pieces with an Ak which was found IN
the next room, the body OF Roy Erickson,
maker Of wicker baskets, was found
shortly after midnight in an old shanty
on Main avenue. The police were raid
ing the place for another purpose when
the horrible discovery was made. In the
next room sat the two men who are now
behind the bars for the murder. One is
William West, whose daughter Erickson
is accused of having ruined. and the
other IS James Garrahan, the owner OF
the shanty Both men refused to talk
when arrested. L Is the theory Of the
police that West and Garrahan lured
Erickson into the shanty about o'clock
last evening and then hacked him 10
pieces with the bloody ak which the po-
lice now have. What puzzles the officers
is the coones5 OF the crime and the ap-
parent indifference of the alleged perpe-
traitors TO arrest. A light was burning
in the room, nothing had been done to-
ward disposing OF the body and when the
men were discovered they were enjoying
a social smoke. Vests daughter, who is
alleged to have been ruined by Erickson,
was sent TO the reform school at Plank
inton and was a few weeks ago burned to
death in the fire there. Garrahan made
confession to the chief Of police today
in which he implica tes West in the kill
ing.
NO LAW FOR THE CRIME.
st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 8.-A Madison,
Wis, special TO the Dispatch says: The
case of Lizzie Denom1ne, a young half
breed from Las La Flambeau, was be-
fore the federal court today, charged
with assault with intent to kill two Indi-
ans. and her case brought up an import
ant oversight in the federal qaws. The
assault was committed by Lizzie at
dance, August %. After spending lis
days in jail here, Judge Dunn today dis
missed her case for want OF jurisdiction.
Congress in 1885 passed law 10 provide
punishment for assault committed by In
dans on a reservation but left 1T to the
other statutes TO settle in what courts
and in what manner the offense should
be tried. Upon investigation 1t was
found that there is no other Statute
| which contains these provisions and the
+, court was without jurisdiction. The de-
cision Is one OF national Importance.
BURIED WHERE SLAIN.
Victoria, B. c., Dec. S.-The body OF
Ernest Hawthorn, who disappeared from
the Silver Stream district, near yelling
ton, New Zealand, recently, has been
found. 1t had been pressed into a hast
lily dug grave on the spot where Haw-
thorn and a man named Stanhope had
established a camp. After the disap-
pearance Of Hawthorn, Stanhope moved
camp and vas afterwards arrested,
charged with forging check, and is now
in jail. That Hawthorn was murdered is
beyond douD-
KATE MEALS ABDUCTOR.
81. Joseph, Mo-. Dec. s.-A special 10
! the Daily News from Jefferson City, Mo.
Gays that Governor STEPHENS has Issued
a requlsition for Joseph Johnson, the
negro coachrlan who eloped with Miss
Neal. wealthy white girl OF Swee;
Springs, No. officers have gone to Mis-
soula, Mont, after Johnson.
ROBBERS SHOOT A WOMAN
Kansas City. No, Dec. s.-Mrs. Emma
SchumakeT. keeper OF a grocery 81
Eighteenth and Campbell streets. was
fStally saot tonight by robbers who de-
r1anded the case in her money drawer.
J1 attempting 10 defend her property
Mrs. Schumacher drew a revolver and
vas shot down by the rdboers. The
Two men ran out and drove away in a
buggy TIE woman is s:lof In she a5do-
men and a; the city hospital II is stated
that she cannot recover.
Springfield. Ohio. Dec. s.-T1e cpl
dsmic OF messles in this city "a admit
terly beyond control. total Q. I,lsS
cases have been reported in the last six
weeks, toiay's report being twenty-five
new cases. The quarantine mas oeen de-
clarsi useless. because ot negligence %