The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1895, Page 4

H E SAN FHANCUISCUO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1895. e TIGHTER GROWS THE €. More Evidence Against Him Found in the Church. MISS LAMONT'S BOOKS, Hair Believed to Be His Sticking to the Murdered Girl’s Walist. HAD A WEAKNESS FOR WOMEN, Damaging Evidence Given at the Coroner’s Inquest—HlIs Mother’s Appeal. DURRANT’S WRITING. Like That Which Was on the Paper That Wrapped the Rings. Clouds are gathering black and fast around Theodore Durrant. When he was arrested he was suspected of the crime, now there are few who do not believe him guilty of murdering the two pure and blameless maidens in the church that will never be sacred again. The evidence against him that was brought to light yesterday is considered conclusive by the police. Three girls had testified that on the day Blanche Lamont had disappeared they saw Durrant with her late in the afternoon, and they further testified that she was carrying her schoolbooks at the time. The books were found in the loft of the church yesterday, and the dead girl's shoes, hat and gloves were also found there, proving that she did not go home, but went to the church after the girls saw her with the young man who they say was Durrant. It will be rememberad that on that aftar noon young King saw Durrant coming from the loft of the church with dust on his trousers. The student was agitated and called for a sedative. He said that he bad been in the loft repairing a gas or electric fixture. The janitor of the church yesterday said that nothing was wrong with the light or fixtures. Blanche Lamont’s garments were exam- ined yesterday by an expert who found on the st short hair that is like Durrant’s Several witnesses have contradicted Durran tatement about his movements at the time of and subsequent to the mur- der. arly this morning, as on yesterday morning, his repose was broken by a hideous dream, and his cries of fear and horror aroused the slumbering prisoners and brought the jailers to his cell. His mother has appealed to the public to sus- pend judgment u something stronger than circumstantial evidence has been pro- duced against her son. FINDS IN THE CHURCH Dark Lanterns and Axes Bring Forth Books and Clothing. Emmanuel Church yielded yesterday from its darkest and most uncanny nooks more evidences of the bloody crimes that have defiled it beyond atonement. In the belfry tower the hat of Blanche Lamont was dragged into view when the flooring of the lowest landing was chopped away, and when officers of the law crawled with dark lanterns into the darkest and dustiest recesses of the loft next to the roof they found the missing schoolbooks of the murdered girl and her shoes and the lost glove, whose mate was found by the bodv when it was discovered. The most 1mportant discovery was that of the school books. It was conclusive proof that Blanche Lamont took with her when she went into the church the books with which she left the Normal School at 3 ». a. on April 3, when she boarded a Powell-street car with a young man whom three of her schoolmates have identified as Durant. Shemust have gone to the church dieectly or nearly so that Wednesday after- noon when she went downtown with Dur- rant, and the natural inference would be that she was dead and stretched in the | high beliry tower before night, for such an Innocent and reputable girl counld not have been induced te stay alone in a lonely | church after the time when she would be expected at home. Indeed, the natural assumption is that she was enticed into the church for buta few minutes over some plausible pretext, for she had an appoint- ment with her music-teacher for Miss La- mont that afternoon is_supposed to have gone into the church with Durrant to get that copy of the ‘“Newcomes” he had promised her. All day yesterday and through last night Sergeant Reynolds and a squad of police- men guarded and held possession of the church. It would have been crowded be- iond any time in its history if two officers ad not been ¢onstantly on guard outsi and kept from the front door everybo who had no important business inside. During the forenoon Sergeant Reyuolds took off his uniform and white shirt and with other officers similarly prepared for dusty work, began a thorough exploration of the church. There are many deep holes and dark corners all through the big build- | ing between the plastered rooms and the foundations, shingles and sheathing. The cellar was first searched though not fully, but nothing was found. Sergeant Re: nolds declared that he would find thos books, and he did. About noon several men climbed the stairs at the front end leading to the tower. The first discoveries were made at the first landing in the tower in a room about 10x10 feet in size, into which a door opens from the gallery. Here the narrow belfry stairs begin to zigzag upward, and through it Blanche Lamont’s body was carried to the highest resting place.” The door from the gallery into this unused cor- ner tower shows that it was pried open with something used likea jimmy. The door had been found locked by Detective Gibson, and both door knobs and the bar that connected them were gone. In looking carefully about Officer Cole- man peered into an opening in one corner and espied one of the knobs which was fished out. Then J.J. McGreevy, son of Policeman Mc(reevy, and the young man who believes he saw Durrant on Bartlett street that night took an ax and split away the flooring for a foot on one side. The other doorfinob was found under the floor between the joists and two feet from the pide of the room where spaces opened between the unboarded studding. Pretty soon young McGreevy chopped away a foot of the flooring on the other gide'and a reach of his hand backward under the floor was rewarded with Blanche Lamont’s hat, which was dragged forth. Climbing up the belfry stairs two short flights, the searchers crawled across dusty timbers on to what was once the plastered feiling of the fauditorium. It is like a etter A cut off one-third way from the HAINAROUND DURRANT top, and above it spreads at a sharper angle the roof of the church. -After the building ture kept sending down the ceiling plaster, | and then several feet below it was built another ceiling that was boarded. Thus, along the center line of the church, above is first the present board ceiling, which can be safely walked upon, original ceiling ten feet above, through which one may easily put his foot by step- ping off the rafters, and above this several eet is the roof. Tt was between this original ceiling and the roof that the rest of the explorations of the afternoon were made. The bright sun- light outside came faintly through little cracks here and there, and just enabled one to sce where to step and crawl safely a]ung the timbers and among the rough and was completed, the shaking of the struc- | then the ! | used to pry open_that upper door through which é’lanche Lamont's body had been carried. One was a half-inch and the other seven-eighths of an inch wide. The dis- covery of the chisel in the pastor’s study is interesting, but its full significance cannot yet be explained. i One thing that started, or at least stimu- lated, the thorough search of the rear of the church was the discovery there during the afternoon of some marks that the volice and others thought were blood- stains. Across a part of the rear of the church, opening from behind the choir platform, runs a narrow hallway. Along it are three little rooms, one of which is a washroom, and it ends at one of the doors to the pastor’s study. About the marple washstand, on the door post at the entrance to the pastor’s study and on the wainscoating were reddish “drops and daubs much resembling blood. Had they proved to be such it would have been an extremely important circumstance, as all the evidences of both crimes are confined to the front end of the building. Four samples of these stains were last night submitted by the Carwto Dr. Avron usty braces. The searchers had two ' Newman, an expert microscopist and as- | the murderers could not have helped !Wé* ng in it, but there is nowhere outside the ibrary on carpet or wall a sign of blood. This points to the fact that the murderer must have shrewdly taken off his shoes when he left the library. ‘““Chute’s Physic,” was written in lettering the following: Learn what the book tells you. Do not expect anyone to explain any thing to you. Noone will use common sense. If you have none take the consequences. Domnot ask any questions. You may be taken for an idiot.© You may be one. "If you cannot make an .exgerimenfi keep still about it. No one will know the difference. The police believe that the lettering was done by Durrant, as 1t bears a strong re- semblance to his style of handwriting. Emmanuel Church seemed yesterday forsaken by evelav holy suggestion. The pulpit was yet decorated for the Easter festivities that were abandoned, but the lilies that described a great white cross drooped and were withered and molded. Jars of roses about the altar looked as desolate, and the petals had fallen in heaps to the floor, leaving scraggy stems above. On the inside of the ‘cover of the book, | quivering lips and blanched cheeks and caused his eyes to wear a haunted look came from the dread of personal violence at the hands of a mob whose intensity of feeling he gotan inkling of when he landed at the ferry on Sunday night, or whether the outward consciousness of guilt becom- ing u:reTressible were responsible for the ggysxca tokens of terror, can only as yet vgncssed at. hen ushered into the room where the | inquest was being held he glanced furtively around and his look showed that he ex- vected to be conironted with the remains of the dead woman. He paused for an instant, but the officers hustled him un- ceremoniously along and he was soon in a seat where he was partly hidden from view. When the taking of testimony was fin- ished for the day Durrant was glmost pros- trated. Although only four witnesses had been examined their testimony was very damaging to the accused. As Witness Morgan told in detail of hisattempt on the honor of Miss Williams several weeks srior to the tragedy the prisoner sank eeper and deeper into his chair, and when Frank A.Sademan told, of their meeting SCENE AT THE CORONER’S INQUEST — QFFILER AB RIEHL [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] H. MORGAN TELLING ABOUT A BLACK SPOT IN DURRANT'S CAREER. dark lanterns, which were turned like searchlights into every little corner and | eranny, down dark spaces between stud- | dings, under the eaves and up among the rafters and along beams and braces. he belfry rises at the northeast corner of the building. By the middle of the afternoon several men were crawling about the northwest corner, just under the roof and next to the eaves. rodding about with a stick and a dark antern, and soon he reached down be- tween two studdings and hauled out Miss Lamont’s bundle of books, still slra’l)%ed together, as she had carried them. That gave more elation and encouragement. In a recess among the dark rafters young | McGreevy next found the missing glove. This corner of the loft proved to be a mine. Right in the dark corner, and peculiarly placed among the beams and rafters, the two shoes were found, one just a little above the other. That was the extent of what the after- noon brought to light. Every hour’s work helped to wreck the building, in every cor- ner of which a curse seemed to haverested. Upstairs a murderer’s 1 mmy had wrecked the beliry door and policemen’s axes had wrecked a floor. In climbing about the loft legs constantly went down through the plastered ceiling, for in the dark and along the inclined beams feet would slif). From the stairway below big holes could in the ceilings above. An illustration of the possibilities of hiding things is the well, two feet square and forty feet deep, leff somehow in the structure. Officer Herve determined to in- vestigate it, and while going carefully down he slipped and went to the bottorn unhurt. AIF he found was anold pair of workmen’s shoes. The discoveries of the afternoon showed that the murderer had used a strange care in hiding the clothing of his victim. He had distributed it about in a queer way, and with much trouble most of the cloth- ing was found on the beams, above the bhody when it was first discovered. The hat had been tucked far under a belfry floor, and to dispose of the books, shoes and ‘one glove the murderer had with much pains climbed and crawled a hard clear across the front of the church, under the roof, to find still darker hiding- places. One wonders what could have been his motive in hiding all the victim’s clothing so carefully when the naked remains were left to the certain view of anybody who climbed the belfry stairs as somebody would soon be apt to do, especially when the broken door would start early investi- gation. Did the fiend mean to dispose of Hie body lsewhere With mead ot tasnsie cation absent? In the evening a still more vigorous and ruthless campaign was begun by the police. Ten patrolmen under Sergeant Reynolds went to work with axes in the rear of the church. The pu]{:it itself could not hide anything that should be known. The pastor's study was first investigated, and it appeared to yield something of great im- portance. In one corner amid a little rubbish, as though carelessly thrown there, was a car- penter’s chisel and it fitted one of the }Immi'nmarka on the broken beliry door. Two instruments of that kind had been be seen i Officer Herve was | sistant to Dr, Albert Abrams, professor of pathology in Cooper Medical College. Dr. Newman was not afforded time to use the spctroscope, but his microscopical examinations and the scientific tests that he used showed him that the stains were | not made by blood. In the little library room under a stair- way, where Minnie Williams was mur- dered, the blood remains undisturbed. On the floor are two great pools, so deep that they have not dried. On the wall on one side of the room the red stains show that arterial blood had spurted far from a | 1n a little prayer-meeting room police- | men’s pistols, cark lanterns, collars, etc., were litiered about among sacred books. AT THE INQUEST. Durrant Was Afraid of Mob Violence and Quailed Un- der the Testimony. | The lines of mortal fear were never more BLANCHE LAMONT’S MISSING CLOTHES AND BOOKS FOUND IN THE CHURCH YESTERDAY. the wall and in places striking it in quantities. A similar spraying on the opposite wall indicates a struggle, dufing which the bleeding victim moved across the little room. There is a little blood on the inside of the door and the door was unguestion- ably closed when the killing was done. There was then the library door, the read- jng room and tne front wall of the church, in which isa window, between the trag- edy and the sidewalk not thirty feet away. wound, spraying There was so much blood on the floor that strongly depicted upon a human counte- nance than they were outlined upon the face of W. H. Theodore Durrant when he was taken belore the Coroner’s jury yes- terday to hear the testimony that was to connect him with the murder of Minnie Williams, the girl who was so foully mur- dered in the Emmanuel Baptist Church last Friday night. ‘Whether the thrills of fear which coursed through him and set their seal upon his at the ferry and what Durrant had said about Blanche Lamont he did not know which way to look to escape the eyes of those watching him. After the inquest was adjourned he was taken in charge by the police. He did not like to leave the building, being evidentl afraid that a crowd was awaiting him. He had no cause for fear, however, as over fifty police were stationed on Dunbar alley and Merchant street and no one was allowed nearer the jail than Kearny, ‘Washington and Montgomery streets. Once in the jail Captain Douglass had re- course to a ruse that was successful in dis- ersing the crowd. He dressed a man in Burmm‘s overcoat and hat and hustled him into a waiting hack. The horses were turned around to face Montgomery street and when all was ready a_dash was made for that thoroughfare. The crowd was principally congregated on Kearny street, and when_the people saw the hack dash- ing away in the other direction they made a rush down Clay street in a vain attempt to intercept it. Half an hour later there were not a dozen people around the jail and then Durrant was quietly put in an- ?Ithlelr hack and driven to the new City all. The Coroner’s inquest was set for 10 A. M. festerdny, but it was not until half an hour ater that the first witness was called. Eugene Deuprey and A. W. Thompson, at- torneys for the accused, were prompt, but District Attorney Barnes was dilatory. A few minutes after the latter’s arrival Dur- rant was brought in and then Officer A. B. Riehl was called to the stand. In answer to questions put by Coroner Hawkins he testified practically as follows: On Saturday, the 13th inst., about 1 ». »., I was going up Mission street in company with Officer James A. Feeney. AtTwenty- first street a party came along and said, ‘There’s a dead body over in Emmanuel Baptist Church.” We went over there and ound & number of people in the library. 'he Coroner or the Coroner’s deputy was there and I saw the dead body of a woman also. It was the remains of Minnie Wil- lams. She was lying in the library, that is in the closet. The door was open and there was blood all around. She had all her clothing on, ex- cept her cape. It was on the table, but had been on the floor. One of the women mem- bers of the church picked it up and after examining it laid it on the table. Her clothing was open at the breast and I saw the knife wounds. There was a gash on her forehead and her right wrist was cut around.” Coroner Hawkins—Did you meet any one else von knew in the church outside of the Coroner’s deputies ? Riehl—There were several people there when I came in, but 1 did not know any of them. “Do you know anything else ?”’ “Nothing, except that I saw them re- moving the gag from her mouth. One of the deputies or a reporter took it out.” A juror—Did you know Minnie Williams personall{ ? Riehl—I did not, but parties who came identified her. Riehl was then excused and C. H. Mor- &n‘ president of the California Casket mpany, fm'“ called. His testimony was the most important given during the hear- ing, and the verbatim guestions by the Coroner and answers by the witness were as follows: Q.—What is your name, please? A.—C. H. Morgan. Q'_iym“ residence? A.—I have none at pres- ent, sir. Q.'Awhe‘re have you been living? A.—Ala- meda. Your occupation? A.—Manufacturer. Q.—Did you know the deceased, Minnie Wil- liams? A.—Idid; yes, sir. Q.—_When did you last see heralive? A.— Last Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Q—Where? A.—In Alameda. Q—In Alameda? A.—Yes, sir. She left my residence then. Q—Did she make any mention of where she was ing? A.—Going to San Francisco to Mrs. Voy. £ Q.—Slie said she was going to San Francisco to Mrs. Voy? A.—Yes, Sir. Q.—She told you to pay a visit? A.—It was not a visit; she wes going there to board. Q.—She said she was going there to board? A.—Yes, sir. She was over there the week be- fore and made arrangement to board there for an indefinite time. Q.—How long had she been staying at your hous 7( A.—S]mce last MI&)',I May —Since when? Ast May. g, \\'agihc emplug’e in the house? A.—She was the latter part of her stay. Q.—As & domestic? A.—Yes; she helped Mrs. Morgan about the work. Q.—When did you next see A. Miss Williams? | of the California Casket Company, 934 936 Mi A have not seen her. Do you know whether she had any ap- Y A—i S(}:‘ tment with anybody on that day? id not. Q.—Had she received any letters that day‘ the day of her going, or the day before? A.— could not tell you, sir- Q.—Was she employed in your casket factory? A.—She had been. ‘Q—Until about how long ago? A~—Two or three months; 1 don’t remember precisely. Q.—Did Mr. Theodore Durrant ever_ call on Miss Williams at your house? A.—I don’t know, sir. 2 Q.—Do you know whether he evercalled upon her in the factory? A.—I do not. Q—Did you eversee Mr. Durrant? A.—Yes, | Q.—Did he visit your house? A.—No, sir. Q—When did you last see Mr. Durrant? A.— At the reception_given to the Rev. Mr. Gibson, I think, last November in the Emmanuel Church. Q.—You say that Miss Williams said she was going over to make arrangements to board? A.—No, sir; I did not say so, Q—What did she tell you? A.—She was go- | ing over to board. ;3—Sho was going over to board? A—Yes, sir. si Did she tell you anything she was going over for, any other object of the visit? A.—She ceme over that Friday, sayiug she was to at- tend meeting, as I understood her, of the young people in the Emmanuel Chureh,' I may have en mistaken about the place of the meeting, but I think she said it was to be there. That is all she said to me. Q—Do_you_know whether she made any preparations for this? Yes, sir. Q—What was the nature of the preparations? A.~She had & garment made specially to wear on that occasion and brought with her a quan- tity of flowers for Easter decorations. .—Do you know whether she went to the hairdresser’s or not? A.—She went to the hair- dresser’s from our place about half-past 2 or 3 | @clock Friday and came back to the house and | got her Howers. worked in the family of John N. Young, a near neighbor of mine. " We mentioned tat Mr, Young nad a doll to do the work; she yeighed less than 90 pounds; she became acqhainted ‘with us through our hired girl. After leaving Mr. Young’s (I think she was therelnearly nine months) olr hired girl was takin £ and went home to Grass Valley. We yanted some one, and suggested that we get Minnie to come over and help Mrs. Morgan. 1did so, and she stayed with us abohit six weeks. Mrs. Morgan then said to her, with my approbation, we said to her, “Minnie, f you ever want a home, if you get out of a job, haven’t a place to work or break down, whnt & home, come to us. You have perfect libelty to come here and stay just as long as you hive a mind to.” I knew the circumstances df the separation of the father from the family. I he(fu‘rl to raise the money to send the mdther and the youngest children back to Canda, and last May, my wife being unable to do |the housework, Minnie came to cur house and re- mained there. She felt as one of our famil paying no board and having k f until she was able to go to work, and the min- ute she felt able she was anxijous. This is why she feit the confidence and confided in me as she did, I suppose. Q.—Do you know anything else of the case, Mr. Morgan—any other particulars of the cgse 117 'A.—Of what case, sir? egarding the death of Miss Williams? sir.She left our house at 4 o’clock. I v n nothing of her since. Iwas told by Chief Crowley my evidence before the Cor- oner’s jury would be 6f no earthly eccount. Q.—Did he tell you at the Police Court it would amount to something? A.—He did not tell me so, I have not seen him since. I went to him at once when I heard of the case and laid the case before him. I had tickets in pockets for Tacoma; it was necessary I sho: go. I went to the attorney in this maiter and made this statement here to him, and he said, “Your evidence at the Coroner’s jury is unnec. essary—you can go right along to Tacoma about your business.” Q.—Did the Chief tell you to stop over, Mr, Morgan, to give your testimony? A.—Sunday night an officer came to my house to subpena mé to appear, as I supposed, before a Coroner's jury, but I found it was before the Police Co 1 was told by his deputy after making the r | mark, “The Chief said I conld go to Tacoma,” he said doubtless further knowledge of the case had changed his mind and he would require me before the Police Court. By Juror—As I understand the lady supposed to be Minnie Williams had made herself a new dress the evening she left the house? A.—She did not wear it. Q—In regard to that pocket-hook a are you sure there is not another t that” ticket represented here to the jury, no other one in this State? A.—I will give & hun- n coin for a similar one. ket-book yon are sure is hers? A.— 1 am sure it is hers. Icould identity the waist she wore if necessary, or the waist that was made for her. By the Coroner: Q.—What was the color of the waist, Mr. Morgan? A.—Itwas achangeable green and blue, I should say. A waist being shown to th ness replied, “That is hers? 227 ou identify that as the waist she wore? es, sir. E. S. Chappelle, a Southern Pacific de- tective, was the next witness. *‘I sawTheo Durrant at the Oakland ferries last Fri- day,” said he in_answer to a question. by the Coroner. ‘It was either ten minutes to 3 o’clock or twenty minutes past To witness, the wit- Q.—Do you know what boat she left on for | San Francisco? A.—She left our house, sir; she left on the train about five minutes past 4. | Q.—She left your house? A.—The train leaves our station; we are only half a minute’s | walk from the station. i Q.—Did she send her trunk away, too? A.— | She sent her trunk, I think, in the morning, some time that day, to Mrs. Voy. | Q.—Mr. Morgan, do you.recognize that paper [statement]; did you make that statement? A.—I do not,sir. I'made a statement. 1donot | recognize that paper, however. | Q—Mr. Morgan, listen while we read this | statement. i The Coroner then read the following‘ ! statement : | «“Statement of Clark H. Morgan, pres(dendlf an ion street, April 13, 1895: | “Miss Minnie Williams was employed in the | casket factory until about three months ago, since which time she has been employed as a servant at the residence of Mr. Morgan in Alameds. Mr. Theodore Durrant, a medical student, residing with his parents in San Fran- cisco, called on Miss Williams a few days ago | and said he wanted her to come over to the | city as he wished to say somethfng special to | her. Miss Williams revlied that he could in- | form her there as well, as she seemed to be | suspicious of him. Mr. Durrant then desired | 0 know when he could see her, and she replied that she was coming over to the church social on Friday night, the 12th inst. Miss \vminm§I 12t] went to_the hairdressers about 3 P. inst., to have her hair dressed and left on | P. M. boat for San Francisco. Greeley & Co.’s express called at Mr. Morgan’s residence and took away Miss Williams’ trunk before she leit | on the 4 o'clock boat. Harry Snook, son-in-law | to Mr.George W. Keeler, manager of the Golden Gate Undertaking Company, 2429 Mission | street, informed Mr. Morgan that Mr. Durrant | had @ key to the church study. Mr. Morgan | was introduced to Mr. Durrant about sixwy months ago at a reception tendered to the Rev. | Dr. Gibson and has not seen him since. Miss Williams informed M took her out for a wal and grossly insalted her. wife speak very highly of Miss Williams. took a kindly interest in her weliare. Morgan_treated her like a foster-mother and believed her to be a good girl. Miss Williams’ | parents have been separated for neerly three | years. The father neglected the family and | resides here, while the mother resides in Bean- ville, Canada, and provides for several younger children, Miss Mintie being the eldest ehild.” = By the Coroner: Q.—Did you make this state- ment, Mr. Morgan? A.—Part of it. Mostly correct. Q.—In what portion is it not correct? A.— Well, I will father it all. Q.—You made this statement, then? A.—Yes, I made that statement. Q- You made this fll tatement, then? A.— es, sir. Q.—Would you know the pocketbook which belonged to Miss Minnie Williams? A.—I think I should, sir. Q.—Do you récognize that (showing pocket- book)? A.—I could not swear that was Min- nie’s pocketbook. Q.—You could not swear? A.—There is some- thing (indicating a car ticket he took from in- side the pocketbook) I could havesomething to say about. Q—Tell us aboutit. A.—In my preparations | to g0 north 1 have a little tin box in which I | kept papers and receipts, etc. I have them | back for a number of years. It was getting | crowded. I emptied it out on the dining-room table, preparing to burn up lots of things that were not any account. Among the thingsscat- | tered on the table was this little ticket—a pe- | culiar ticket; a horsecar ticket. Itis 19 years | old, been in my possession nineteen years, and itgattracted Minnie’s attention. She waited, and say What is that?”’ and picked it up, | and says, “I am going to see if I can ride on it in Oakland.” I said, “All right, take it,” and being found in what Rurpor(s to be Minnie's | pocket, I would swear the whole thing is hers, | to the best of my knowledge and belief. | Q.—Do you identify this pocket-book as being Miss Williams'? A.—I think it is. QL.—DD you identify the ticket? A.—The ticket is the one she took that evening. Q.—Mr. Morgan, did you see Mr. Durrant at |- vour house at all? A.—I never saw him at my ouse, sir. Q.—How do you know he asked Miss Wil- liams to go to the city? A.—I was informed on very reliable information. Q—Who informed you, Mr. Morgan? A.— | Miss Williams. Q.—Miss Williams informed you Mr. Durrant | 1‘1'51(1 lsikcd her to come over to the city? A.— es, sIr. Q —And she asked him to tell her what it wi for, and he refused? A.—She said, T can’t go this is what she said to me, “I can’t go.” says, “I Want Lo see you on particuiar business, private conversation.” She said, “If it relates to the matter of our last private conversation I don't care to near any more of it.”” He says “It is an entirely different subject; T want to see you:; T am going to Germany to finish my studies”; and he wanted her, as 1 understood | her, to go over that night 1o stay to some en- tertainment, and she declined. He &says “When can T see you?” She repiied she was going over to Mrs. Voy’s Friday and would at- tend the entertainment, as I understood her, at Emmanuel Church. She might have said to Dr. Vogel’s, but I do not know. I understood h:{l:sr;; at t‘)il?ic]?u;"cla; but it was a church €, an e had'any eqcol}%liidsele her there. THHuEID Myt ler ) — she give any oth: suspicious of him? ARo, sz, oot 1ot belng .—Did she ever t 0“;“";? N m"e you she was suspicious .—You state in your statemen Williams rePlied that “he cmlled ti;}‘xm“h‘:: there as wel and she seemed to be suspicious of him”? A.—Very well; that is correct. Q.—Did she give any grounds for her suspie- ion or make any remarks? A.—To your former question—*Didshe tell me she was suspicious of him"—I said no; shedid not. Q.—Did she give you any grounds for sus- pecting anything about Mr. Durrant or did she tell you whether she suspected Mr. Durrant of anything? A.—Yes, sir. Q—What was it? A.—He called there last summer or fall and took her out for a walk; took her out on the electric cars_and, she said, to & very secludea part of Fruitvele, as understood it, a romantic part of the country which he was' familiar with. There it was he insulted her. Q—Did she come home and tell you of the conversation she had the instant that it hap- ened? A.—She told me that which I have re- ated to you. I perhaps might say, being worse that fatherless, she confided in me and callea me fi ndfather; she had no other home in the world. That you may understand how this all happened: After her father leit his hmils this little girl had to go out to work, an { not sure, because I never sa be quite positive I would have to consult the ticket-taker at the ferries have known Durrant for seven or eight years and could not be mistaken. He was watch- ing the people coming off the boat and as T was in a hurry I did not speak to him. I don’t know anything else about the case.” Frank A. Sademan of 25} Lapidge street, the janitor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, gave some important testimony in regard to a conversation he had wit Durrant at the ferries last Friday at 4 p. M. “What is your business?”’ asked the Coroner. “I’am employed in a lumber- yard as a piler, and have also been janitor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church since last October.” In answer to other questions the witness told all about his connection with the church, “I generally go to the church about 8 o’clock on Sunday morning,’ d he. *Ilight the furnace to heat the build- ing and generally remain there until after the services. Then I go home and get back about 6 in the evening and open up for the mesting of the Youag People's Society of Christian Endeavor. After the regular service I gut out the lights, lock up the church and start for home about 9:30 . M. On Wednesday evening there is prayer meeting, and I get there about 7 .M. to light up. The service is over about 9:80 o’clock, after which I again lock up and go home. Then, once in a while, we have an entertainment. ,Latterly we have had quite a_number of gatherings in the church of a Friday evning. ‘‘Lately, since I have been employed in the lumber-yard, my boy, 15 years old, does the sweeping and cleaning during the daytime. Then I go there on Saturday nights and put on the finishing touches. T clean the furnace and lay the fire so as to be ready for Sunday. I have seen Durrant in the church dur- ing week days, but he was mostly_always in the comxpany of George Knox. While I believe he had a key to the rear door, I am w him use one. I have heard George King state positively that Durrant had a key. George King also told me that he himself had keys to the front door. Two keys are necessary to get into the church by the front door; one opens the iron gate and the other the door proger. The Coroner—When were you last in the belfry ? Sm{emsnflt might have been a month ago since I was in the belfry. The boys used to rvn up and down there playing, so I went up one day and locked the door. I looked in first of all, because I thought one of the boys might be in hiding. There ‘was no one there, so I closed the door and locked it. The lock and knob were in per- fect order. Idon’t know of any one wio had a key to the door. The Coroner—Were there any electric wires in the building? Sademan—Yes, sir. The chandeliers in the church were lit by electricity and there wereelectric bells throughout the building. Durrant used to attend to the batteries and keep the apparatus in order. Q.—Were there ever any young ladies in the church alone? A.—Not that I can re- SANPLEw - PACKAGE (4 to 7 doses) —OF— Dr. Pierce’s =t Pleasant Pellets To any one sending name and address to us on a postal card. (Qnee Used, They are Always in Favor. Hence, our object in sending them out broadcast s ON TRIAL . 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