Arizona republican., 1898-01-08

o'clock Durrant, accompanied by Fdth- CT Logan, appeared at the door of the execution room. He was followed by his father, a friend, Warden Hale and the guards. His father and his friend walked around the gallows to the front, while Durrant and his keepers climbed to the gfllows plat form. Instantly on arriving at the gallows his legs and arms were pin toned and the rope was placed upon his Ieck. The hangman was about to adjust the black cap when Durrant announced his desire to speak
 Permission was given the doomed murderer and he spoke as follows: "I desire to say that although I am an innocent man, innocent of every crime that has been charged against me, I bear no animosity toward those who have persecuted me, not even the press of San Francisco, which has thinks that I am going to spring a sensation, I am not, except it is a sen sation that I am an innocent man, brought to the grave by my perse cutors. But I forgive them all. They will get their justice from the great God who is master of us all, and there I also expect to get my justice; it is the justice of an innocent man. Whether or no the perpetrators of the crimes of which I am charged are ever discovered, it will make no diff ference to me now, but say this: It will be great shame to the state of California. I forgive every one who has persecuted me, an innocent man, whose hands have never been stained with blood, and I go to meet my God with forgiveness for all men,"
 The words were delivered slowly and distinctly and without emphasis. Dur rant finished quietly and had scarcely ceased when the black cap was placed over his face. At the Same instant Hangman Lunt raised his hand, the trap was sprung and with a rattle Durrant's body shot through the open ing. There was a sound as of a stout rope being drawn taut and the broken necked criminal swayed to and fro be- fore the body became motionless. In eleven minutes and twenty-eight sec onds all signs of life had vanished, and the most noted criminal of the nineteenth century was officially dead.
 Durrant, ST., immediately went to his wife, who was waiting in one of the guard rooms and together they ac- companied the oly of their son to San Francisco.
 The prison officials were all en- thusiastic ia praise of Durrant's nerve. At one time several days ago he gave evidence of a collapse, but he man aged to pull his nerves together once more and proudly declined all offers of stimulants to enable him to make a bold showing on the scaffold. It was sad day, not only for Durrant, but for eight other murderers who are confined in San Quentin, and whose fate depended upon the succe ss of the fight made by Durrant's attorneys. They were prepared to follow the same tactics for delay, but now that the courts have shown that it is possible to hang murderers in California, they have given up hope.
 THE EXPATLATED CRIME.
 San Francisco, Jan. 7-William 1 Henry Theodore Durranf, who was hanged at the state prison at Sal Quentin today gave his lit5 In ex- change for the lives of two young wo- men, who were members of the church to which he belonged. While Dur rant was convicted of but one murder under the law, he was held respo si- ble by public opinion for the murder Of both Blanche Lamont and Minnie Will Hams, and it is felt that his death ex- plates enc crime as much as the other.
 Durrant's crimes were peculiar in their atrocity, from any point Of view. He was reared in a Christian home, and until the time of his arrest was regarded as a model young man of in- dustrious habits, who was trying to work his way through a medical col lege. The only characteristic that seemed marked in his nature was his piety. He had been a prominent mem Der of the Emanuel Baptist church for several years, and for a year previous to his arrest had been assistant super intendent of the Sunday school. In this capacity he made the acquaintance of Blanche Lamont and of Minnie Will Hams, both Of whom were destined to be murdered by him in the church where they worshipped together.
 Blanche Lamont disappeared on April 3, 1895, and was never seen alive afterward- She left the home of her aunt, Mrs. c. G. Noble, oa that day to go to school, and for ten days no trace of her could be found. Many members of Emanuel church assisted in the search for the missing girl, and among