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SAX Fit Ay CISCO: FRIDAY MORXIXG, JANUARY 7, 1898. NO. 7. DURRANI WILL HANG TO-DAY lit THEODORE In an Interview Granted Alice Rix in the Death Cell, the Condemned Man BUT ONE MOMENT OF AGONY. 1 AgainProelaims His InnoeeneeHis Father DURRANT IS NOW A CATHOLIC vMy only sorrow is for those I leave behind.

A HP! .1 TT TAT 11 "I am now a Catholic. I think I shall send for God has me in his keeping and he makes no mis- A Tl Oil Tl P.PQ I I HP Will A PPPiTTl 1 Father Lagan to-night. This is my last inter- takes. When I first heard that I must meet this iXllllU ULllVJUO JLlJLCvU LJLJ I JJLX JLJLWVJU111" viewonearth. My message to the people of fate I had one moment of agony of which I am "I ill in- California is that my hands are as clean as a tww ashamed." From Durrant's interview 1 wavitt ll -j Vs-v-m 4- 1 IV I 1 rhild't" From Durrant's interview with Alice -v I 1 VI II I I I I AMI I Iffl I I I 1 A yj -l lllll with Alice Rix.

MUiiy jliio uuii uu uiiu uuaiiuiu. Rix IT fi n-Tisr: fi i) fi i SERVING THE PREPARING LAST PAPER Durrant's Counsel Has FDfTTHE END. The Rope Stretched, the Trap Tested and the Gallows Ready, Warned Warden Hale Not to Proceed. t3 3 2 FITZGERALD'S RESPONSE LAST WISHES HEEDED. The Supreme Court of the Warden Hale Will Be Present When the Parents Say Farewell to Their Son.

United States Re uies to Grant Any Rder. In spite of rebuffs from State and Federal Courts, and decisions innumerable against his client, Attorney Eugene N. Deuprey stood his ground yesterday and made oht last effort to save Currant's life. That th law was bis fault. He more than any client could have es A By H.

Hamtltaa. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, January The long light to sar Theodore Durrant'a neck la nearly over. The law's delays hav exhausted their Irksome ways. The mur der of April 1895, la to hav Its blood atonement after nearly three troubled years. At half-past 10 o'clock to-morrow William Henry Theodora Durrant will ascend tha scaffold and face the hangman.

After that there will be nothing left but conjecture end the tears of those who loved him. A crowd of notable men will assemble In the old furntturo factory to hear the last At 11 o'clock In the morning he appeared i in the United States Circuti Court with his bill of exceptions, the basis of an appeal, or writ of error, as It is more properly called, from the United states Circuit Couit to United States Supreme Court. In this bill of exceptions he alleged nine errors, l-cf them, as a matter of course, question emphatic declaration of Innocence, to see 1 1, A the black cap adjusted; to. shudder at the of the" proceedings had prior to Wednesday drop. It has been no easy matter to secure admission to the dreadful place.

All sorts last. They were as fellows: The judgment of the Superior Court of D' of InSuonce has been exerted by thoea who eember Jjh was contrary trj lew; that tt was Jong for the sensation of gasing upon sud without fere? under the Coutttluticn cf the den death. Politicians of nation-wide fame will be I'D 1 ted State; that there? is an appeal lu the United Sttte.s Supreme Court, and that it there. Business men whose names are good as clinking gold will lift their faces towards the place of doom. Lawyers whe should first be determined, otherwise the fendanl would ba "deprived of life without dun process of law; that in the petition for the ktxw each quirk and turn of processes writ of habeas corpus, which was denied, it was rhown that the State Supreme Court bid which sink or save their fellows will come to tell what might have been it other meth denied a writ of supersedeas and had refused to stay all proceeding folio wins the judgment ods of procedure had been pursued.

Grins of December 15th; thst by the denial of a writ officers of the law, given to running with of error by the State Supremo Csurt, the de crime and Its punishment to the end, wQl nod approving heads at tha fendant's tights and privileges, guoranteed by State and Federal laws, were abridged; thet And to them all Theodore Durrant will Sections 1227 and 1243 of the Penal Coda are contrary to the Constitution of the United tell that he did not kill Blanche Lamont la Emmanuel Baptist Church on that awful April day. States, and that ail these farts had been a-t forth to Judges Morrow and De Haven. That he will go upon the trap with bia To these nine) general errors were added r.crvea In perfect leash is conceded by those the specific objections of the attorney to the rulings of Judges Dc Haven and Morrow ba have watched him In his times ot stress. In court and cell he ever has kept In the proceedings of Wednesday last. The errors were slipped, first.

In denying the veil within himself, complaining but rare writ of habeas corpus; second, in refusing ly, smiling much, hopeful when hope seem ed all but dead to thoee who were making the struggle In his behalf. the petition for an order allowing an appeal to the Uniud States Supreme Court; third. 'I will die like a Durrant," he dramatic in reiuBiiiK luc nxui lu itio a. vunu uu tiuuroi oily declared to-day. urth, In refusing to leaue a citation to Hi pride la In his family name In the arden Hale, and fifth, In refusing various DURRANT GIVES HIS FINAL INTERVIEW TO ALICE RIX.

This bill of exceptions was signed by both achievements ot other Durranta, who, on battlefield and In time of stress have shown that they know bow to face the grim destroyer and make no moan. He asks for Federal Judges. Peuprey then tried to file bis appeal and the accompanying bond; but Tl StaTklJ af4 I 7" "aT 1 4 It A 0 rllslf A Fj -f 1 ltSWfhsla ft fft ft Atilll till ataT-al as neiiner was accepted tno attorney leit no stimulant to quicken his fading pulse and strengthen his sinking heart. To the wv tvic vi iv jl re our ucui- to to iwov crif tf cirit cf tiif tat uto icr cv once of crime, I am glad to again proclaim Alice llix has heard in this, i last interview to earthly mortalst 'lll-Jf MM f- Itll fill JO 7 (it)ll1l14olf a rl liMt ilf 7 ill -4-' 1 1 -i end he will assert his dependence on re ligion for his courage and declares hie faith will uphold him unto the end. At San Quentin yesterday the Idea pre WW vailed, permeating thought.

Intruding upon all conversation, that the exeeutioa AN QUENTIN, January 6. "Eleven o'clock and all is well." The watch sounded the hour from post to post along the prison walls, and the man in the death chamber who will be hanged before another eleven hours would be postponed. Among men concerned In the punishment of crime there was an underlying, overmastering feeling that them on the counter In the office of the clerk of the United States Circuit Court. In his endeavor to obtain at least the appearance of official sanction for his procedure, Mr. Deuprey asked United States Marshal Baldwin to accompany him to San Quentin that a certified copy of the bill of exceptions might be served' on the Warden.

Having learned from United States District Attorney Knight that such action could Invest the serving of the papers with no official significance, the Marshal consented to accompany Mr. Deuprey. At San Quentin the attorney handed the papers to the Marshal with the request that they be served on the Warden, The latter looked at them and told Mr. Deuprey ne would consult the Attorney-General. Mr.

Deuprey spoke to Durrant for a few have crossed the clock looked up and listened. Mrs. Durrant sat besjde the screen. She laughed excitedly. "That's pretty good, Theo," she said.

"That's just what they would say. I wouldn't talk about the case any more now if I were you." Durrant laughed too. "It certainly cannot do much good to discuss it now," he said. But he did discuss it. He could not leave it.

He went back to it to this point and to that and demonstrated according to those theories which men have time to elaborate in prison cells how the prosecution erred here and there, always to his un Durrant bore a charmed life. They have had their expectationa worked up for the denouement ot the tragedy again and again. Then, by some miracle ot the law, tome turn "Eleven," he asked, quietly, "or ten?" His tone was the tone of any man who wants to know the time of day. His man of fate, the notorioua prisoner has taken a new lease ot life. So he had ecme to be ner was unimportant.

He sat with his face close to the wooden bars of the cell and regarded aa a special favorite ot chance. doing. ooked out through die screen of wire gauze, which is one of the precautions of the law, beyond the reach ot the executioner. "My one severest criticism," he said, "is that no testimony was looked into in this and chatted cheerfully. Around and about the subject of his execution he wound a thread of small talk.

He aired a psychic theory jfo account for his peace of mind. He minutes and then told the Warden he would eerve upon him a copy of the appeal and also of the necessary bond. Warden Hale sent word to Attorney-General Fltsgerald that Deuprey had served the bill of exceptions, and, that he would Ilk to be informed of Its effect as a stay of execution. The Warden, in response to Mr. Fttzgaralde request, cam to this city.

But when at last the Attorney-General directed the grim Warden to proceed, brushing aside the laat technical objectlooa. paying ne attention to the final, frantic demand for a stay. It slowly forced Itself upon the doubters that the patience of the law had been exhausted and that Ita terrible vtn-geance was at hand. The man la the ecll. however, gtve no sign.

Te his spiritual adviser he said that hope would go with bin to the engulfing trap. For his mother and father he had a few quiet tears. To the curious who came to talk with him he expressed himself guardedly aa te the past, freely to his feelings asd desire s. Tha mother and father talked to their sen through the wire screes of his cage. They could net bold him la their arms.

whole case except that which was unfavorable to me. I have been convicted of murder, and my hands are as clean as a child's. This is my last earthly interview, and this is my message to the people of California. Let the responsibility rest with them." The words were dramatic, but the voice was not. Durrant spoke absolutely without excitement.

His extraordinary calmness is not that still exaltation which settles over men braced to meet a great crisis. It is the superlative of that self-control which has marked him throughout the dreary length of this trial. It is the quintessence of a nerve more than half physical. Durrant, however, insists that his strength conies from above. "I am sustained," he said, "I might say, uplifted, by some power not my own.

I walk about here in this cell, which I am so soon to leave, and I am only half conscious of my surroundings. I have ceased absolutely to sorrow, except for my poor mother and discussed the comparative importance of ritual and creed, while expressing his inclination toward the Roman Catholic faith. He smiled often. He laughed once or twice. He accepted felicitations on his composure with quiet satisfaction.

He betrayed little emotion, and that little only when alluding to his mother's grief no agitation, no fear, no unhappiness. "I am," he said, "extraordinarily happy so much at peace that I do not care to go over any of the old ground, the long, long stor- which has been told so many times. The case is ended, and I am satisfied that even-thing has been done for me that could have been done by my lawyers. It would be weak and childish for me to say at this time that I have not had a fair trial. If I should make such a plea the public would reply, "That is what thev all when be arrived at the Attcrney-Gen- al'a office, was served with a copy of the bo bond on appeal, which Deuprey had prepared, and also of the alleged notice of appeal.

A consultation followed, and then the. Attorney-General Informed Mr. Hale that the bill of exception did not act as a it'oatlawesl Pace Twt.) There waa no last kisa. To-morrow sawra- (Conttnmed Paaus FarJ.