The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 5, 1895, Page 8

8 ———————— e ————————— e e —————— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1895. HE FORGED THE CHAIN AROUND DURRANT. Some Chapters in the Life of One of the Great Detectives. FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE Captain I. W. Lees Was a Tug- Boat Owner — His First Murder Case. SHEDDING LIGHT ON MYSTERY. A Long Career of Unraveling the Cunning Secrets of Great and Petty Criminals. “To become a successful detective one must have intelligence—that goes withont ing; one must have integrity and in- dustry—factors which are essential in every walk of life if the laurel wreath is to be won; one must have the faculty of appli- cation, persistence, concentration—which is the keystone of all success; and one must have, besides all these, a natural apti- tude for the profes: natural talents peculiar to the work in hand. Men en- dowed with these qualities, I think, may become successful detectives.” If there is one man 1n San Francisco more capable than all others to speak knowingly on this subject, that man is he whose words are quoted—Captain I. W. Lees, chief of the detective force of this city. X)t was Sunday morning when Captain Lees permitted himself to be interviewed, and he gave snatches of his opinions and theories and personal history between the orders and duties of a busy day, for he was making his final preparations to go to Sacramento and assist 1n the prosecution of the Weber murder trial. Indeed, be- fore the interview was quite over the hour had arrived for him to hasten to the train. “Why not wait till I come back?” he said to the interviewer. “Because the public wants to know now something of the man whose energy and sagacity has woven the chain of circum- stantial evidence about Theodore Durrant,” was the answer. The captain scowled, but not unpleas- antly upon the whole to those who knew him well enough to read the lines in his picturesque face. Itisnota pretty face— not by many degrees—but it is a face that the physiognomist and the artist find rich in material for their respective arts; a face that says most when it is most passive. “Idon’t believe the public cares much about the man: all they are concerned in is his work,” said the captain, reading an official document at the same time. ‘But I suppose you newspaper men have to be es—when you're not trying al secrets at all events. But if you're going to say anything about the Durrant case, don’t forget to say that I have had competent and intelligent helpers in this case, and that they deserve a good deal of the credit for the results achieved. There’s John Seymour, for instance; he’s been at my right hand all the time; and there’s the—"" “When were you born, captain?” in- terrupted the interviewer, bent upon get- ting the greatest amount of data in the briefest space of time, and wishing to limit the interview to the task prescribed— namely, a personal history of the man who has crowned a long and successful career as a detective with an admirable piece of work that bas won the unstinted admiration of every practiced eye which read the testimony upon which the great- est and most abnormal of modern crimi- nals was convicted. “I was born in 1830,” said the captain; then he dictated a dispatch to the Chief of Police at St. Louis, or somewhere. ““Where?"”" asked the interviewer. BB Lancaster, England —sign it Chief Crowley,” said the captain all In one breath, the latter half of it being meant for the stenographer. “T was a mechanical engineer in my early days on the coast. My folks settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., at a place called Red Hook. Ilearned my trade in Jersey City and then came out here with John Night- engale and went to the mines. Then I came back to the City and went to work at the Union Iron Works. I was in charge of the outdoor gang, whose work it was to repair disabled steamers. My brother was foreman inside. He and I helped to set up the steamer Mint, the first one ever turned out from the Union Iron Works. She was shipped out here in parts and we put her together. Tell Seymour to meet me at the train (this to the telephone clerk). “Where was I? Oh, yes; the Mint. She ran on the Sacramento River for a good many years. This was in ’52, after John Nightengalefand 1 had come down from Big Bar and the Middle Fork of the Ameri- can River. Say, you’ll have to put this in chronological order yourself, young man, for I'm giving it to you just as it occurs to me, and I haven’t the time to think it out consecutively. At that time Joseph G. Eastland was the bookkeeper at the Union Iron Works and Major Daniels was one of the clerks. The firm was com- posed of James, Michael and Peter Dona- hue. ‘““After I came down from the mines and before I went to work at my trade I took a trip back home with Ned Bonney. We went on the steamer Oregon, Captain Pier- son. N.T. Whiting was chief mate. On that trip down we had such a storm as that in which the Colima was lost. We finally made port at Acapulco, but the decks were as flush as this floor. “While I was East that time I married, but my wife did not come out until about six months after I had returned. I had shipped as first assistant engineer on the Tennessee for the return trip, but by an accident I missed the ship. That was the luckiest accident I ever had. The Tennes- see was lost in a storm that trip. I came out on the next steamer. I forget the name, but I can look it up if you want it. Never mind? All right. Well, after I left the Union Iron Works I bought a tug- boat—the Millen Griffiths. Augustus Van Horn Ellis, a brother of John 8. Ellis, was my captain. I was the engineer. John Ellis, yon know, was Sheriff of this County. Gus was afterward killed at the battle of Gettysburg. He enlisted in a New York regiment. . - ““Well, 1 finally sold the Millen Griffiths, through a man named Martin Bulger, to some parties in Oregon. After I had gone on the police force she was lost at the mouth of the Columbia River. “When did I go on the force? Here's | | Test. | of the City then, | put on the Kearny street beat, from Sutter the date on this paper. It was the 28th of October, 1853. I had been working pretty hard, and John Nightengale, who had been elected Assistant Alderman, sug- gested that I go on the force and take a At that time the policemen were ap- pointed by the Aldermen and the Assistant Aldermen. So I went on the force to get a rest—and I've been resting ever since, as you know.” Captain Lees stopped at this point to in- duige in a quiet smile. ‘“That was the biggest mistake of my life,” he went on, *‘thinking that I should get a rest on the force. Any man makes a very serious mis- take gvhen he goes into the department with that idea in bim.” But Captain Lees is a man who would not rest if he were cast away on a South Sea 1sland and had docile natives to min- ister to his every want. If he had been made of “‘resting’’ material he would not now be ranking as one of the few great detectives of the world. His is a mind that finds rest in activity. “] was a patrolman just three weeks. I was on Stockton street the first week. That was the boulevard, the Van Ness avenue The second week I was to Washington streets. My side partner, who had Kearny street north of Washing- the one with the back action, secret slides. There were ballots found in it that were three years old. That ballot-box wasan !Iot at Market and Valencia streets and | then pounded him with stones till he was | mashed out of all human semblance and object lesson in itself. I surrendered it to | buried him a conple of feet under the the Vigilance Committee. Of course, it wasn’t quite regular to do that, but I had no option in the matter, and if I hadn’t given it up gracefully they would have | taken it away from me. “No; I don’t think the Durrant case is the most remarkable one I ever had to do with. Some features of it arc almost unique in criminal history, but there have been more difficult mysteries to unravel. There's the case of Edward Bonny, who murdered his employer, a stationer and fancy-goods dealer, on Kearny street, named Hirsh. Hirsh was found murdered at the forks of the road in San Leandro, which was then the county seat of Alameda County. Harry Morse was Sheriff of the county at that time. That was one of the most marvelous cases ever tried in this State. Talk about Durrant’s nerve—Bonny discounted him. I proved atthe trial that Bonny had driven around for hours with his dead victim in the buggy with him. “Ask Judge Murphy about the Bonny case. He considers it the most remark- able case of circumstantial evidence ever tried on this coast. Murphy defended Bonny in the lower court, but, as he got no fee for his work, he withdrew before the casecame to trial. It was tried before Judge Samuel Bell McKee of Alameda County. Elisha Cook, father of Carroll Cook, and John B. Watson were the defending coun- sel. The District Attorney was assisted stones. “Wallace’s son ismow about the sharp- est and most daring petty criminal in these parts. He's in San Quentin now, though | his term is nearly up. He won his last | sentence by guessing on a jar of nickels. | That was three or four years ogo. A | Kearney street merchant put a jar of nickels in the window, with a sign offer- ng the customer who guessed nearest to | the number of nickeis in the jar a suit of | clothes. ““Well, Tom Wallace guessed the whole jar bodily, and then went inside and | bonght some underclothing with the nickels.” “‘How about this case of Charles Kyle, captain, in '69; the record shows he was convicted of murder?”’ “Kyle was a soldier at the Presidio. and Carr, a dive-keeper, killed a young Frenchman for his money. They gave him beer to drink in which had been soaked a large package of tobacco. At the trial Kyle confessei and took the stand against Carr. Both got life sentences. Kyle died in prison and Carr was after- ward pardoned. “But, there, you don’t want to fill your paper with these black pages of crime, do you? It would take a whole newspaper to tell half of them. ““About ray library? Well, you can see for yourself. It's in there in the detec- He | and delights. You must be always ready for work. Criminals refuse to consult your convenience in the perpetration of their crimes. And success—that only comes after years of the hardest kind of toil, and perhaps not at all. I have known men to | spend their lives as detectives and never | amount to anything. A man needs not only such natural tal- | ents as are essential for success in all pro- | fessions, but he must come to his task gifted with a natural aptitude for logic, for reasoning out from cause to effect—in a word, with a genins for shedding the noonday sun on the midnight of dark and tangled threads of crime. “He must be systematic as well in his methods ard in his summing up and pre- senting a case. When all the evidence is | in he must know how to present it to the lawyers—how to lay it before the District | Attorney in such a way that it shall be | most effective when presented as evidence. “He must know something of the law as | well. He must know what is evidence and what is not evidence. He must have | good judgment and tact—never talk too much or too little when you newspaper men come prying around. He must be | able to stndy human nature intelligently and know something of human motives and desires. Perhaps no one detective, however successful he may have been, combines all these qualities completely; | but you ask me how the model detective | should be equipped, and I tell you to the best of my ability.” In Captain Lees’ forty-two years as ) N RTINS A7 AR TN e NN N R CAPTAIN I. W. LEES, THE DETECTIVE, TELLING HOW HE TRAILED DURRANT. [Sketched from life by a * Call” artist,) ton, was Henry J. Kereson, who died a few years agoin Oregon. At the end of my fortnight on Kearny street, I was trans- ferred to the detective department as one of the four assistant captains. In other words, I had charge of the detective de- partment, ranking as an assistant captain. The assistant captains were subsequently abolished and four captains created. I was given one of these captaincies and the charge of the detective department. There you are. The rest is told in a few words— I have been here ever since—resting.” “What is the first detective work you ever had a hand in, captain ?” “Say in the letter that I know the man— can vouch for him” [this fo Sergeant ——, who had interrupted the interview with official business that would not wait]. Then to the interviewer: “I guess my first de- tective work was done while working in the shop. That was in ’52. Jose Forner murdered Jose Roariquez, at the corner of Firstand Mission streets. He was hanged in December of that year—the first man ever executed in this county. Some of the boys at the Union Iron Works and myself dug up most of the evidence that convicted im.” ““What other big cases, captain?”’ ‘“Oh, that's a day’s work, man. I've been here forty-two years. ‘Do you think I can give you the history of those years in an hour?” ‘‘Ask him about the Vigilante days,” whispered the artist, who was conspiring to have the captain remain in one pose long enough for the purpose of art. “Weil, I dug up the patent ballot-box, br Harlow 8. Love, the father of John Lord Love. “Heigho! what memories your questions call up! There was the case of Wright Leroy, who murdered Nicholas Skeritt. | That was as great a case as the Bonny | case. It took a lot of hard work to present the case against Moses Tate, the negro who killed Billman, the cattle king of that time. Tate was a lover of Mrs. Billman, and so were John William Kelly and Mi- chael H. Kelly. We arrested the wife, Mary Ann Billman, and her three lovers. Tate accused the two Kellys of the crime and gave evidence against them. But we showed that it was Tate alone who did the murder and the Kellys were acquitted. Of course, Tate was abetted by Mrs. Billman, but it’s hard to convict a woman, you know. All this was in 59 and ’60.” By this time the interviewer had the volice records in hand and was using them, as the lawyers say, to refresh the witness’ memory. “What about this Wallace case, in '63, captain? Do you remember that?” “Do I remember? Does a man remem- ber a broken leg? I was four months on my back as a result of digging in that case. The king bolt fell out of my buggy whilejI was scouring the country for evidence to convict Michael Wallace. Yes, we con- victed him. He got life, but escaped from San Quentin and fled into Nevada, where he was drowned in the Truckee - River. Andrew Cummings and Wallace murdered William Lauretta, an old man, The three were on a drunken orgie, all old men. They threw Lauretta into a pit on the gore tives' room. About 1000 volumes, I should think, exclusive of the pamphlets, which are by far the more valuable part of the library. “No, there’s very little fiction in that library. It's mostly history—criminal his- tory. I have read just from detective novels—that’s all. I have read two of Gaboriau’s books, Catherine Anna Green’s ‘Leavenworth Case,’ and one of Conan Doyle’s stories, the Sherlock Holmes book.”” One ought to dwell a moment here to tell something of Captain Lees"library. Itis probably the greatest and most complete criminal library in America. There is the “Tichborne Trial” in seven royal folio Newgate Calendar complete, in royal folios; thereis the volumes. There is an original royal folio edition of the “State Trials of England,” once the property of the great Duke of Marlborough, in eight volumes. Take some titles now at random: ‘Trials and Crimes of the Clergy,”” “Criminal Pris- ons of London,” “Knox Upon Crime,” ‘“Juvenile Crime,” *‘The Italian Brigands,” “Memories of Fouche,’ “The Crime of Arson,” “Great Forgery Cases,” etc., etc., an awful feast of crime. g “I don’t allow a volume of crime to get into my home,” said the captain. “I try to forget that phase of my life when I go home. It’s really not a pleasant business, anxious as so many amateur detectives are to get into the profession. I can’t see what attracts them to it. It means work all the time—the hardest kind of work, both mental and physical; it means the sacri- fice of home comforts and entertainments Chief of Detectives he has not only ac cumulated a very valuable criminal library, containing about all the au- thoritative works on crime and its causes and effects, but he has also acquired what he calls his “Current History.” This occupies a large cabinet in the de- tective’s room, and contains the complete records of every crime and criminal with which Captain Lees or his department has had any connection, however slight. In it are the biographies of nearly all the modern criminals of any note and of all— whether great or small—of those who have had dealings with the detective force of San Francisco. There is another side to Captain Lees’ life—the social side. He is a wealthy man—credited, indeed, with being more than a milliopaire. He is nearly that, at all events, and his home life is that of a retired capitalist. He has two children living, one son and one daughter. Heisa man entirely unostentatious in manner; though sometimes taciturn in manner, yet never haughty ncr distant. He is a de- tective, nothing more, nothing less— thoroughly a detective. Long years of practice have gifted him with a keener sense of perception than is vouchsafed to laymen, but these same long years have taught him, in spite of his 2 ‘‘man’s a man for a’ that.” = No red tape ness must be stated with expedition, for there are others who also wish to see him Captain Lees’ long career has been wealth and his professional successes, that must be unraveled to secure an audience with the captain of detectives, but if the | fense, the n{- ) audience is sought at his office, your busi- | Dardly a possibil | crowned with the success that hasattended his efforts in unraveling what was orig- inally the almost impenetrable mystery of the double tragedies of Emmanuel Baptist Church. How well that work was per- formed, how nearly the noonday sunshine was cast upon the awful blackness of those horrible crimes, all the world knows now; but how admirably the work was done, how skillfully the chain was forged, with what master touches the rope was woven about the neck of the greatest of San Fran- cisco’s criminals, only those can appreci- ate who sat in court and saw the testi- mony marshaled forth. e DICKINSON’S IRE AROUSED. He WIll Carry Durrant’s Case to the Highest Court in the Land. General Dickinson is busily engaged in the preparation of the bill of exceptions which is be the basis of his motion for a new trial of Durrant for the murder of Blanche Lamont. He intends paying a visit to his father, at Portland, and is de- sirous that the hearing be had at once, or that the date for argument be set for such a time as w:ll enable him to make the trip in the meantime. The motion for a new trial will be made when Durrant goes be- fore Judge Murphy for sentence, on Friday. Judge Murphy may decide to hear the argument at once or he may decide to postpone it until after his.vacation, as he intends to take a rest before trying the Williams case. There is a possibility therefore that the finale in the Lamont case, so far as the Superior Court is concerned, will not be reached for some weeks, but it is generally believed Judge Murphy will be disposed to get rid of the Lamont case for good and all as soon as possible, for it is a foregone conclusion that the motion will be de- nied. Judge Murphy was exceedingly careful in his rulings and often gave the defense the benefit of the doubt rather than leave a loophole that would serve as good foundation for such a motion, which was, of course, anticipated. General Dickinson stated yesterday that the defense is ready to proceed to” trial in the Minnie Williams case at any time, and intimated that he had a much stronger de- fense than was developed in the trial just ended. Hesaid he was not sure that a change of venue would be asked, but from his recent expressions relative to the state of public opinion it is practically certain that such a procedure will be adopted. That a change of venue will be granted if asked is very probable, as it wonld be next to impossible to secure another jury here, and the District Attorney has announced that he will offer no opposition to such a motion. For these reasons there is very little likelihood that the Williams case will be tried in S8an Francisco, General Dickinson, in speaking yester- day of the Williams case, said: “Pl1 fight this thing to the end, you may believe me,” indicating that he would carry Durrant’s case or cases to the highest court in the land before he would yield up the life of his client. “Do you suppose we can get witnesses to testify for the defense,” he said, “when they know that as_soon as their identity is known something will be trumped up against them? Take that man Clark. He went voluntarily to Deuprey and told his story. He believed he was right, and he was right, but it was no sooner known that he was to testify for the defense than he was made out an embez- zler and everything else that was black, and it was even said that a warrant was out for his arrest. It wasall a lie, there wasn’t a word of truth in it, but it kept him from telling what he knew. Lenni- han was another instance, and so it went. I tell you that the public mind was so prejudiced against the young man that those jurymen wouldn’t have dared go home to their wives if they hadn’t con- victed him. Talk about a fair trial, there never was a more inhuman travesty on the term, and it will be the same in this case. But I told you we were going to fight, and we'll show you we mean it before we are through.” e A CHANGE OF VENUE. The Prosecution WIll Interpose No Objection to the Defend- ant’s Motion. “The prosecution will interpose no ob- jection to a change of venue,” said Dis- trict Attorney Barnes last night. “If it is found that a fair and unbiased jury cannot be secured in San Francisco the prosecution will have no objection whatever to offer to a motion for a change of venue.” *Do you think it possible to get twelve intelligent, unprejudiced men to try Dur- rant for the murder of Minnie Williams?” was asked. “I cannot answer that as it should be answered. I know that, as the case of the century, men, women and children of the whole " United States have read and dis- cussed the trial, and the securing of a jury to try the defendant for the murder of Minnie Williams will be a problematic and serious undertaking. But, as I said, the prosecution will interpose no objection to a motion for a change of venue.”” Mr. Barnes was next asked if he re- garded the Minnie Williams case against Durrant as stronger than that of Blanche Lamont, on which the defendant was con- victed. ‘At first I did not think so. That is why the Lamont case was tried first, but subse- quent developments have convinced me that the Willlams case abounds in much stronger proof of Durrant’s guilt than the one wbicE led to his conviction. If you stop to think you will recall that the pre- liminary examination in the Williams case occupied nearly two weeks, while the Lamont case took us only three days. *‘Yes, it is an unusual course to pursue. ‘When a murderer accused of two crimes of like character is conyicted of murder in the first degree on one charge it isnot castomary to try the defendant on the second charge. “But in_this case we have had to make an exception on accouut of the appeal which will be made and for other reasons. Those other reasons may be explained briefly. The appeal for a new trial may be with the Supreme Court for months.” In the meantime witnesses may marry, wit- nesses may move away or di Many of them are young women and likely to marry and lose their identity. Therefore it is necessary to hasten the trial of the Minnie Williams case. ‘‘So far as I am aware there are no new witnesses for the Williams case. The engineer Zenger will be very valuable to the prosecution, as is generally under- stood. He saw Durrant and Minnie Wil- liams near the church on the night of her untimely death. Hall, the carpenter who had private reasons for watching Durrant and the young woman closely, followed them until they entered the church, poting that Durrant, whom he positively identified, fumbled in his pocket and pro- duced therefrom a key which admitted them to the dark interior of the sacred edifice. “‘I really cannot say what new evidence the police have secured, though I feel as- sured that the evidence connecting Dur- rant with the killing of that poor littie girl on the night of Good Friday is even stronger than that which influenced the jury in the Lamont case. ¢ **We wiil not be able to take up the Williams case until the first part or middle of January. Though the Supreme Court may have the appeal in the Lamont case under consideration for months, 1 have no doubt as to_the final decision of that august body. If Judge Murphy has erred it has been on the side of thie de- ling side, and there is ity of a reversal of the lower court’s decision denying a new trial—as it will in all probability.” Mr. Barnes has been overwhelmed with congratulations, and he said last night that he had received telegrams nnmber'lng E hundred from all parts of the Unite tates. A WYNNE’S AID VALUABLE. The Druggist and Wheelman Was the First to Suspect Durrant. “I can’t imagine what Wynne h against me.” Durrant is quoted as saying, “I have nothing against him in the way of personal feeling,” said Mr. Wynne yesterday. The speaker is well known in the Mission, being the proprietor of a drug- store at Twenty-second and Folsom streets, and throughout the City as an enthusiastic wheelman. “Durrant thinks I am the Mission drug- gist who said he was afraid to have him about his prescription case,”” Mr. Wynne said. “Now that was absurd. The man who made that remark is one who believes Durrant guilty of the murder of Eugene ‘Ware, and do not lay that at his door. I suspected him of the Lamont murder from the fact that I knew his character through an acquaintance of years’ standing. I knew him to be a prominent figure in church gatherings and yet ready to go out‘with the boys' wherever they proposed. When I heard of the disappearance of Blanche Lamont and was told by my clerk, Harry Par- tridge, that Durrant had been seen with the girl the day she disappeared I said, ‘That is the man,’ and 1 have never had a doubt of it since.” Mr. Wynne has been recognized by the prosecution as a tower of sirength in the case. He was probably the first man to voice his suspicion of Durrant and 1t was through his suggestion that Mrs. Crossett’s testimony was gained. | . “If Ihad talked with Mr. Wynne a few days earlier we could have prevented the second murder,” said C. Noble, the uncle of Blanche Lamont. e TWO NEW WITNESSES. Willliam Ellingwood and Miss Bessle Code WIIl Appear for the Defense. William Ellingwood of 1113 Shotwell street has, as he put it, “told all he kxnows’’ to General Dickinson, and will, in all probability, be one of the witnesses for the defense in the Minnie Williams case, The young man, who is a clerk in the Bank of British Columbia building, was an acquaintance of the accused and_a member of the same signal corps. He met Durrant at the armory on Page and Gough streets, about 5:30 P. M. on April 12, when, he says, Durrant busied. himself in preparations for his ride to Mount Diablo on the following Sunday. ’ The young men left the “armory to< gether and rode to the Mission on a Valencia-street car, passing the home of P. D. Code, 940 Valencia street, about 5:45. Mr. Code’s daughter, Miss Bessie, was standing on the sidewalk, near her home, and recognized and bowed to the young men. She will also be a witness for the defense. Ellingwood says he went with Durrant to a blacksmith-shop on Twenty- fifth and Mission streets, where the accused made arrangements to have his horse shod. The yonng men were together until nearly 7 p. M. The value of the evi- dence, if any exists, lies in_the proof that Durrant was not in Miss Williams’ come pany between the hours of 5 and 7. SeEsagEi b PERSECUTED A CHILD. A Portland Woman Claims Durrant Forced Her to Leave San Francisco. The foilowing story comes from Port. land concerning alleged improper conduct on the part of Theodore Durrant toward a young girl some time previous to the murder of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams: PorTLAND, OR., Nov. 4.—Since the co clusion of the Durrant case the sto: of a widow and her daughter, who le San Francisco some time ago for tl express purpose of escaping the notori murderer, has come to light here. Both mother and daughter could, had they chosen, thrown considerable light on the moral character of Durrant, at the trial. The widow, while living in San Fran- cisco with her daughter, whoé is only 18 years old, attended a church social at which Durrant was also present. It was the first time they had ever met, yet the next day the girl was in recelgt of a letter from Durrant, couched in such terms as to show him to be a lecherous wretch. The letter was shown to the mother, who administered a scathing rebuke to Durrant. He paid no attention to itand at every opportunity attempted to forca his attentions on the girl. Affairs reached such a stage that the mother and daughter moved to Portland. The people move in good society hera and are members of a prominent church. To avoid notoriety, incident to appearing as witnesses at the trial, they have kept the matter secret, divuiging it only to an intimate friend, who, in the heat of a bit« ter denunciation of Durrant, told of it, but immediately pledged all present to se« crecy as to names, —_— VISITED DURRANT. His Father and Two Interesting Friends Called to See Him at the Jail Yesterday. Durrant is now reading Ignatius Don< nelly’s * Ceesar’s Column.” The book was handed to him yesterday. He says he finds great interest in it. His father saw him for a while yesters day and he was also visited by Miss Cole~ man of 11 Guerrero street, a tall young woman in black,” who was a frequent ate tendant at the trial. She is preparinga play entitled “Back to the Old Home,” a drama of pathos. Another visitor was G. F. Baldwin, an old schoolmate. He and Durrant were in the ninth grade together at the Lincoln School, and Durrant has not seen him for several years. e A rich deposit of gold and silver is re- ported to have been discovered recently on a farm in Chatham, N. H. 0.K, TABLETS The Great and Only Pure Kola Preparation. | Kola is a name that every | one knows or should know. | The business man, athlete | and the unfortunate all have realized its benefits. The bicyclist won’t be without 0. K. 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