The San Francisco call., 1898-01-06
NO WOMEN ADMITTED.

ing for the hour when a legal death awaited him, and they say that unless he is different from them all, Durrant will never be able to climb the gallows' ! stairs; the strain has been too much for him and when the end finally comes they believe he will collapse. 4 sensa- ton is looked for when the fatal hour arrives tomorrow.
 Yesterday another disappointment was added to the already long list of those gone before; the United States Circuit Court denied his application for a writ of habeas corpus, and what was worse still, when his attorneys wished to file papers on appeal the court re- fused to allow them to be placed in charge of the clerk. He has a repre- sentative in Washington, however, who e.: will present to the United States Su- pTeme Court an application for a writ of error on the proceedings in regard to the sentencing of November 10, but the - lower court passed upon the very point they are trying to make before the higher court, and the ruling was against the prisoner.
 E.. The Governor is the last hope and an appeal was made to him yesterday . afternoon by General Dickinson. Will :-4iam Hoeffler, w. W. Foote and ex- :iJudge Sanderson. The gentlemen ap- : I'll, at the house of a relative.
 :: The Governor was not asked to com #"TnlIte the sentence; the plea was 8 :1new one in the case, for the only re- 1fuest was one for time. General Dick /: :fnson urged the trial of the Williams :: :Gase, for he said the two cases had been so closely connected by the pub :;'.i iiI that people were trying to hang the % prisoner for both crimes and on thC :" .:evidence of but one. Suppose" said Z, t4le general, that Durrant should b- acquitted of the murder of Minnie Will Hams would it not have a decided ef- = feet upon the sentiment in regard to the . Lamont case? We don't ask for Q , communication of sentence; we only ask for time-time to try the other case-time to perfect the legal point: . now before the courts-time to secure q the truth of both cases instead of only tene."
 Mir Foote. Judge Sanderson and MT Hoeffler also spoke, the burden of theil remarks being that they did not think Durrant had had a fair and impartia trial Chief Justice Beatty of the SU- preme Court spoke to the Governor or behalf of Durrant on Tuesday evening ; and the Governor has received numer- ous communications on the subject.
 The petition was listened tc with at tention, and when all the lawyers had spoken the Governor said he would
 
 From the Governors manner, General Dickinson says he has strong hopes : that the prayer will be granted.
 Mir. Deuprey conducted the proceed ires before the United States Court ~ yesterday morning. At Il o'clock Judge Morrow and Judge de Haven ap- peared on the bench and Judge AIor- row read his opinion denying the appli- cation for writ of habeas corpus.
 The opinion recited the facts of the case in detail and then dealt with the contention of the prisoners counsel that the defendant had an absolute right of appeal This contention was based on the action of the Federal Judges after the sentence of November 10, when they refused even to allow the clerk to handle the papers. They decided that an appeal was not an in- herent right when it was prosecuted for the evident purpose of obstructing the :: process of the law. The court consid- cred that the Judge had discretionary powers to the extent of refusing an ap- peal when such a state of facts was :. apparent.
 It is plain the attorneys have not court; their energies are all bent on the governor and the only ray of light sx that g1mmers in the darkening hori- - zon comes from him. General Dickin- son was much encouraged by the Gov 'ernors manner when listening to the petition for reprieve, and places great TeAa nee in the promise to carefully