The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-01-15
INGENIOUS LAWYERS WORK IN VAIN
Governor and Federal Courts Turn
Beat Ears TO tho isinai APP
peals % lEtcr-
ference.
BLANCHE LAMONT IS AVENGED
Last Hours of tic Noted Prisoner
nnl thu Final Act So Long
Postponed While Justly
Mcritcd.

ssAA1 49,
ing in the state ~penitentiary. lie as
cended the scaffold calmly, following
Father Lugan, who administered TO
his spiritual wants. He made a brief
speech in quiet tones, asserting his in
nocence, forgiving those who had per
secuted him, mentioning especially
the press Of San Francisco. His last
words we're: II am innocent" Deaf
appeared painless.
After the drop fell Durrant did not
struggle, his neck was broken, and in
fifteen minutes the body was cut
down. The ceremonies We're very SIM
pie. Durrant no sooner entered the
room than silence fell on the gather
ing. The door of the condemned cell
opened and N2rden Hale followed by
Father Lagan and the guards APP
pearcd. The priest stepped aside and
Durrant, in a voice e~motionless and
apparently unaffected, made a short
speech. The words were cold, and pas
%sionless. There wa no scene on the
gnllows.
Mrs. Durrant did not witness the eN-
ecution. She remained in the room in
the lower part of the prison, and
showed unmistakable signs of grief,
tempered with a doggcd desire to ere
ate the impression that shc~Sxas too
proud to weep.
Durrant's farewell words were spok-
in n very subdued, but clear, voice,
which, by the calmness and freedom
from passion or emotion, caused many
heads tx turn away and many eyes to
fill with tears. He forgnve his enemies
with no trace of concealiment OF resent
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with a cnlmness of one asserting an
indubitablc truth. He was the least
affected of any gathered at the final
| scene. Even after the drop hes did
not culver or give other evidence of
having suffered pain.
His E,,tf,c. xvns Therc.
n,rront,s fnther. ncco,nnanicd his
sor On tles Anal n,arcb ~ lthws
,nd ,yhan thn strset .,ss ,eachcd
,n,li.ed ,ro,,n,I 3tostha yrn,,t ,vlileNtbe
cnnIemne5 ma,sassen5sa +i,e th;rteen
stans tn n n1.tfn,Yn stnnainr on
tha 1,-,n I,,,,ra haIa ,,;s sl;a,lf%fu q.
ure MS erect. as thousrhgif had beer his
Wedding day, his tinpers resting light
lly onstha broad strap which bound3 his
nm M stili rested there as tho
BODY swung 1T tbe end Of rome.
The 3 Waz nmick1ysknotted about
his necLs lnrran shoIdinps his chin
high to faeiiifata the work. His face
was pale. haS mot WITH Ne ashv1nnle-
ness ofsfenr 4 the face M a man
who. ma g u@.n,nentnus
thing { al, re.eIyed#fo m Il, likesa
man. Standing AIIfs. wfih lis feet 81
the tran, 5thescord about his necE.1ttooIIyy,
water Of baptism on.his head. she aid
thesc3fnul5w words: sssSs
II desire tossay 4itntlanltIgAigh 4 am
an innocent man eyery
crime charged agninst. n,ps I shtar "a
nnimosity TownrdssS & htsSts I hat n4vse.
cnted ms NOT even: tisa ,,rrss al Snn
Francisco. which me ia the
grave. Iflany3 man tKinls. am ,Tnin q
To s,irinu "a sensntinnI Il an mi an.
cent itsis 4. NM m IN.
nncr,t. man brn,iSAf s. 4has yIaya Nv
nv nersccnfors sSi,YtssT fnrp;v D. 3 hem
All 'rhev win ~. fha;n im.t;aa tom
the S,ant Gna iii,
md there i ia, IN i;.srfy y ir.t ins.;ce
thntS;s Il imstisas ;;noce,.t man
yVI,etha,,s IL ,,aTas IN aIe,,,at ~, t.,rs Il
tl,c crime ~ 4Vylsiah sI& nm ch.,r.rea nm,
" Nj s.naka 80; tfs,encs
70 me nov i,nfs $40 fI,nf th;s day wslj
he d shame. { ia great state al GaE.
fornia, i giisyesesery6edy swhoshns
persecuteds me, innocent whose
hands haye been staiieaed in
blood, ss,ndI Easto meet my God with
tie forgiveness for all meii. During
this delivery his father stoodsfedseyed
and fearless x S;'
Thespectators gave no sign as DhfFs
rant concluded The black cap .sF.ia IN
quickly drawn over his calm ia II
the trap sprung. The bodyEdTSpped,stht
ropeSswlshed taut and the majesty d
the law had been vindicated. fTherstls
elder pqrrant's head dropned on ths
shonldeTsskof the maj a front hftni
btIrsang his griefsfrom those resent, q q