The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-05
FEELS BETTER NOW
DURRANT HAS FOUR MONTHS TO
CHEER UP AND BE GAY.

| San Francisco, June 4.-Theodore Du
rant will not be hanged on next Friday
HIS attorneys have gained for him new
| lease OF life for four months, at least
! and the condemned man made merry il
his cell when he heard the Cheerful
news. He had become resigned TO hi
: fate, and his fearful eyes had turned
| to the Bible as his only solace, when in
| formation was received at the prison
| that Judge Gilbert, Of the United Stae.
/! circuit court, had granted his attorney:
permission to appeal to the United State:
supreme court from his order made or
! Wednesday, denying the application fol-
writ of habeas corpus.
The appeal was perfected today, wner
| Theodore Durrant's father filed bond
in the sum of $500, to cover the costs OF
the appeal Even if the appeal should
be dismissed early in the, term, the thir.
ty days allowed by the state law between
the time wnen the day for execution Is
| fixed and the day of execution would
carry the matter pretty well toward the
end of the year. The possibilities for
further delay are so numerous that prac-
ticany he has an insurable lease Of life
inc the new year.
SAFE TILL AUGUST THIRD.
San Francisco, June 4.-Late this az
ternoon Warden Hale, OF San Quentin
was served with a citation issued by
Circuit Judge Morrow. at the instance
of Durrant's attorneys, orering him to
appear before the supreme court Of the
United States al Washington on Au-
gust 3, this date being selected in order
10 properly bring the case upon the cal
endar. The effect of the citation is to
stay the execution OF Durrant, without
regard TO the opinion OF the state at
torney general. The latter official ad-
mics the service OF similar document
upon Warden Aull, at Folsom, the date
set. however. being October 4. Warden
Aull is also cited TO appear in the cir
cult court Of appeals on June %.
Durrant's attorneys regard their imme
date labors m his behalf as at an end
and are preparing for their next effort,
which will be before the United States
supreme court.
A NEGRO, BUT NOT LYNCHED.
Fairfax w. Va, June flames Lewis,
colored, who was recently convicted Of
criminal assault on Mrs. Reidell Of this
place, was hanged at sos this morning
in the Jail yard N the presence of about
fifty people. Lewis was quite cool and
walked to the gallows without assist
ance. There was no demonstration OF
violence on the part Of the crowd.
The crime for which Lewis suffered
the extreme penalty Of the law was that
Of ravishing Mrs. Ida Reidel. a white
woman, Who lived with her son some
miles below Alexandria, Va. The crime
was a brutal one and stirred the indig-
nation of the people Of the surrounding
country almost to the lynching point. He
had three trials in as many days, the jul
ry in the first two cases being unable
to agree and in the last trial declaring
him guilty and imposing the death pen
atty. He asserted his innocence until
yesterday, when he admitted that he
committed the assault and also confessed
that he had at various times committed
assaults upon three other women, for
one Of which he served a term in jail
NEGRO HANGED IN LOUISIANA.
Mansfield, La. June Aim Willis, a
negro, was hanged here today for the
murder of his wife and the latter's ia
Their. Aaron Jacobs. about year ago.
SHOT BY AN CONVICT.
Kansas City, No., June 4.-Tom Clark,
a notorious negro ex-convict. tonight
shot and instantly killed Elizabeth
Hatch, an aged negro woman, MORALLY
wounded her daughter. Elizabeth, and
shot another woman, Mary Robinson, in
the ankle. Clarke went 10 the home of
the women, on Brooklyn avenue, near
Ninth street. determined o kill the
daughter, VINO is known as Elizabeth
Williamson, and who had been his mis-
tress. The other women were shot as
a result OF his bad aim. Elizebath. with
three bullets in her body, is dying at
the city hospital. Clark escaped
HE killed POLICEMEN.
Columbus, Ga, June Henry White,
aged twenty, was hanged here this af-
ternoon. He died game Wh.te was ex-
ecuted for his share in the slaughter of
three policemen and the serious wound
ing Of a foutr in this city on the 14th
of last October. His companion in crime
was mis- father. a drunken shoemaker,
who was killed while resisting arrest af-
ter the triple murder.
QUACK SURGERY.
Denver. June 4.-Dr. Lewis T. Pres
ton was arrested today on a warrant
charging MIN with the murder OF David
Prank. cigarmaker from Brooklyn. n.
Y. DR.. Preston is consumprive special
list Il is said that his method Of treat
ment IS TO run a trochar or hollow nee
die. through the walls % the chest and
introduce an elastic wire into the lungs.
Prank died under his trea tment The
doctor sent a certificate 70 the fleakh de-
partment giving consumption and weak
ness Of the heart as the cause OF the
mans death
MAKES SUICIDE STICK.
Baltimore. June 4.-Edgar c. Harris.
the letter carrier who tried 10 commit
suicide after killing two OF his children
Wednesday. died this morning.
MORE THEFTS CONFESSED.
s.; Paul. Mimi. June t.-Charles r.
Ssscnau. the receiving teller OF the Ger
man-Anerican National bank. who last
night confessed 70 the Sealing OF the
package OF s13.seo on last Saturday. at-
ded 70 that confession the further STATE
ment that during his connection With
the hank he has stolsn al least 50. 100
more He says he VIII throw hiTns=i: on
the mercy % the court. Seschau inss,s
tina, the man Jackson. arrested as an
accomplice. mad NJ connection with the
crime
FOR BEING IN BAD COMPANY.
New York, June flames B Kei-
logg. OF James b. kellogg & Co. OF this