The San Francisco call., 1898-01-10
REST HAS
 NOT COME
 WITH DEATH Remains of Durrant Not Suffered to Lie
 in Peace. Even Up. to the UnhOly Hour of Midnight Wis
 itors Called. Rumors of Hack Hired as the Murderer's
 HeapSe. DEEP SECRECY PREVAILED All Kinds Of Strange Stories Current as to the Disposal Of the
 Body.
Rumors of Hack Hired as the Murderer'S
 HearSe.
DEEP SECRECY PREVAILED
All Kinds Of Strange Stories Current as to the Disposal Of the
 Body.

Death has not brought that rest Theodore Durrant so often asserted was to be his-at least so far as the casket of clay delivered to his parents when the hangman had finished his work is concerned.
 Up to midnight out in the little dwelling on Fair Oaks Street father and mother kept watch over their dead. Toward the "witching hour' rumors of 8 secret funeral at dead of night began to fly through the town. Well-defined stories of a cortege of private hacks destined for Fair Oaks street, en route for an out-of- town cemetery, were commonly current.
 Names, hours and other particulars were mentioned and the idea was read fly caught up, so well did a midnight, secret interment chime in with the popular theory of a beftting end for the murderer. At the house, how ever, the stories were fiatly denied One of the attendants stated positive ly that the corpse had not been re- moved, but at o'clock this morning was still in its casket at the home of the bereaved parents.
 In addition 1t was claimed that a permit to remove the body from the country was essential and Secretary GodchauX of the Board of Health posi- lively denied that any such permit had been issued.
 Some disposition of the body must be made within the next thirty-six hours. or the Durrants will find themselves in conflict with the law. That part of the Code providing for the Board of Health reads in effect that all deaths must be reported to that body within five days and some disposition made of the re- mains, either by burial cremation or removal to another place.
 Secretary GodchauX of the Board of Health was in his office the greater part of the day yesterday, but no word was received from the Durrant family; not even was the death certi- f1cate filed. AS nothing can be done with the remains until this has been done and the necessary permit has been granted, decision will have to be reached by the parents of the youthful assassin within the next few hours.
 It was stated by a friend of the fam fly that they were waiting to hear from the Los Angeles Crematory people be- fore making their decision. Up to last night no reply had been received to MT. Durrant's telegram asking if the body could be cremated there, and it was still hoped that permission would be granted. If it is refused, the burial will probably take place in Holy Cross Cemetery.
 There were few callers at the Dur rant house yesterday, and none but close friends were admitted to the house of death. Both MT. and Mrs Durrant kept close within doors, and as the drawn blinds were no attraction to the curious, there was no lettering about the vicinity.
 The question was raised yesterday whether the authorities had a right to deliver Durrants body to his parents without an autopsy being held, and the opinion was expressed that the State Board of Health had the right to hold an autopsy if its members thought fit to do so- There is no law relating to the holding of autopsies by the Board of Health, that function being left tc the Coroner of the county who in cases of violent death may waive the holding of an autopsy. if he chooses tc d0