The San Francisco call., 1898-01-15

his work with some assurance that he will not be molested. For months past he has been practically under a guard, for he believed that there was a plan to make away with him; that some day he would be found dead, a letter tell ing of his suicide in his pocket and an- other confessing his guilt of the belfry murders. That his fears were not without foundation was not wanting confirmation. He was constantly be- ing called for by people who would give no name, to travel to all parts of the city and at all hours of the night and day He was at one time called on to perform a wedding in the church by man who wished to be married with out witnesses and late at night The man would give no name nor would he tell the name of the bride to be. He told the pastor he wanted to be mar ried quietly and he wanted none but the minister and his bride and himself present; he was told he must have witnesses. and that there would be meeting of the young people in the par lors of the church that night and one of them could come up to the big audi tOrium and be a witness. This scene I to meet the disfavor of the insistent swain and he said he would think of it. The result of his thoughts was never known by the pastor, for the man and
 
 The attitude of the pastor during the notoriety of the case was not a clear nor a comfortable one. He has been referred to as the enemy of the Dur rants throughout the whole trial and all that has followed it, but he claims that the first assault was made upon him by the prisoner and his friends and that after such a show of antag oniSm he could not offer to assist them, knowing that he himself was consider ed by them as their greatest enemy.
 The first idea he received of the un- der current against him was when he was shown a telegram from Los An geles telling the Chief of Police to lar rest the pastor at once: will follow la ter with facts" Right or wrong, the pastor attributes this telegram to the emissaries of the defense. who were working every means to stay the tide of public opinion which was turning so fast against Durrant. There was no name signed to the telegram, and there was no indication as to who sent it. but the evident purpose was to ] bring the pastor within the grasp of the police and divert attention from the real culprit.
 Chief Crowley paid no heed to the telegram and the fact of its existence
 was never known to more than the pastors most intimate friends, but to that circumstance was due the pas tors desire to hold aloof from the Dur rants and their defense and the law yers defending. It was also such incl dents that prompted his remark about Deuprey making him a friend instead of an enemy He has explained it by saving he meant that had Deuprey come to him and the officers and prom inent members of the church and ask ed them to help, instead of vilifying fn them n the general suspicion, he would have had a better chance to clear his client and he would have had people willing to assist where he had only people who were anxious to let the whole dis graceful affair sink out of sight.
 Trustee Taber represents the feeling of the church people when he says:
 'T think I voice the sentiments of most of the people who make Emmanuel Baptist Church their church home when I say that we consider it unwise for us, as we'll as the public at large, to agitate or talk any more of the un- happy experiences which we have pass ed through the past two and half years"
 Continuing about the plan of the church people, he said: "As one of the trustees, cannot say now what we will do in regard to closing down the tow CT. We probably would do so if we had the money. At present we are bending all our energies toward reducing the debt; this we find very hard to do in these times of general depression in business. The congregations are large. but many of the number are strangers or visitors who contribute very little to-
 ward the support of the church.
 "We all like MT. Gibson; he is by far the best preacher the church has had for many years. We deprecate uncalled-for remarks made by some people, especially by Mir Cressy, a for
 mer pastor, who has never seen Mir Gibson. MT. Greasy feels a bitterness toward our people because they did not
 want him and would not retain him. Surely, MT. Gibson was not to blame.
 You ask me to explain MT. Gibson's remarks about MT. Deuprey having him for friend. Well, from the conversa- tion had with him about it he felt, as we all have, that it would have been | much better for the defense if it had