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THE EXAMINER. SAN ffBAKCISCO FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7, 1898. AHCIEHESTS. HOW BLANCHE LAMONT WAS ENTICED FROM SCHOOL AND.

LED 'TO HER DEATH. Her Disappearance, the Finding of and the Long Trial of Theodore Durrant. I lifSq i sir- ii i i i young man approached them and raised hit hat to one of them. Mrs. Vogel saw all this and was relieved.

Her fears had been idle ones. The et range young man was not a robber after all. Mrs, Vogel saw the young fellow and one of the girls board a Powell-street car at Clay, taking a seat on the dummy. Another of the girls went in the car and the vehicle was soon on Its way toward Market street. Mrs.

Vogel did not see the strange man again until she went to the court-room, and, pointing to Theodore Durrant, said that he was the young man who bad walked on Powell street for nearly an hour and then with one of the young ladies of the Normal School had taken a car toward Market street. The defense tried in vain to break Mrs. Vogel down. She was positive that Theodore Durrant was the man. When Blanche Lamont left the Normal School at 8 o'clock that afternoon she was in the company of three schoolmates, Miss Minnie Edwards, Miss Mary Lanlgan and Miss May Pleasant.

The girl who was so soon to begin her journey to death vas not well known to ber companions. She had been an attendant at the school only for two days, and none but her intimate friends and Theodore Durrant knew the fact. As Mrs. Vogel saw. the four girls walked slowly toward Clay street after leaving the S'lbool.

A moment after a young man ap-, proached Blanche Lamont acd lifted bis hat. The other girls stepped back and the young fellow and Blanche conversed until the PoweJl-street car approached. So It READING THE BULLETINS AT "THE EXAMINER" BUSINESS OFFICE. Great crowds thronged Market street and Grant avenue yesterday in front of "The Examiner" business office, to read the bulletins on the progress of Durrant's last struggles for life. Public interest in the case is as keen now as it was during the trial.

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eetMaut ratac tUatH. feta. pawaa 6 TO. KKSiDKM'K. ms Vawrka Mn kraiileasai tleao 'Vharcaj' 'Uv -lis The Mystery Her of 5n April 3, 1895, Blanche Lamont dropped out of the view of 'mortal.

A days went on and she did not appear at her home, at "the Emmanuel Baptist Church, at her school or at any of her usual places of meeting her friends, the entire city became interested la the mystery of her disappearance. On the morning of April 13, 1895, the 'dead body of Minnie Williams, frightfully mutilated, was found In a small closet opening into the library of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. The horrifying discovery was made by several young ladies who had gone 'to the sacred edifice to adorn It for the Easter services that were to be held on the following day. An alarm was at once raised, the police were notified and in a few minutes an excited throng was at th church. There was at that time very little apparent evidence to point to the fiend whe had committed a double crime and then I completed his awful work with an almost Incredible butchery.

Very little was known of the murdered girl, although she was a member of the Emmanuel Church. Hei slayer had left nothing to indicate his identity, and a dozen theories were advanced to explain the crime. The police learned enough to convince them that some cne, familiar with the architecture of the church, was the murderer. A person In the crowd directed suspicion against W. H.

Theodore Durrant, the assistant superintendent of the Sunday-school of Emmanuel Church. The detectives suspected another officer of the church and the mention of Durrant's name passed without notice. It was not until late at night, alter several! officers and the pastor of Emmanuel Church had been closely questioned and the significance of certain facts was better un derstood, that the Chief of Police decided to arrest Theodore Durrant. In the confusion that followed the terrl bla discovery at the church in the morning the police had overlooked the fact that the library card of Blanche Lamont had been 'found near the body of Minnla Williams. It was natural that the police should attach no importance to the tiny card that was on the floor near the body of the murdered girl.

But to those who were members of the church the card of EUancha Lamont possessed a deep meaning. She, too, was a member of the church and oue highly honored In the'esteem of the members. It was then ten days since she had disappeared as If the earth "had opened to receive her. The officers of the law, the girl's relatives and friends had searched for her in vain. After days of Investigation the police had learned only the Bingle fact that on the day Blanche Ijamont disappeared she was last seen with W.

H. Theodore Durrant, tho assistant superintendent of the Emmanuel Sunday-school. This circumstance- was not known to the Chief of Police until many hours after the discovery of Minnie Williams' body. Then the incident of the morning was recalled and the probability of a second crime was added to the fact of the first. The suspicion that had been directed against Dur- rant received unexpected strength and orders were Issued for the young man's arrest.

Commands had been given to search the Emmanuel Church in every part. Officers were detailed to make investigations at Durrant's home and eoveral detectives were sent out to lefck for the young man biisself. Then the police rested for the day. I When EaBter Sunday dawned the police bad possession of Emmanuel Church. In the darkness of the night they had worked for hours but had found nothing to reward their search.

Gradually they worked their way 'upward toward the tower. People were beginning to gather at the doors for the morning services. The bells were tolling in neighboring sanctuaries, but still the seekers had found nothing. A notice was placed on the door of the church that no services would be held that morning. The crowd at the doors increased in numbers until Bartlett street was blocked from Twenty-second to Twenty-third.

Within the church the officers were working their way toward the belfry. At last they stood at the door leading from the gallery. The knobs were broken off and the marks of a chisel showed where some one had madu an effort to wrench the plate from Its fastenings. After a moment's hesitation the officers placed their shoulders to the door and burst It with a crash from Its hinges. Then the search was resumed far up into the shadows of the belfry.

Candles were lighted and keen eyes peered into every dark crevice and corner in the ascent. Two galleries had been passed and the searchers could hear the murmur of the crowds in the street below. There was one more gallery before the officers could look up into the steeple with Its black timbers crossing and recrosstng until they were lost in the dark ness. In a moment the police stood on the high est platform. Their candles dispelled the shadows and far In one corner of the gallery they caw the naked, dead body of Blanche The story of their discovery spread with Inconceivable rapidity throughout the city.

People heard it as they came from their churches and hurried to the scene of the horror. Then the news went from mouth to mouth that the pocketbook of Minnie Will iams bad been found in the overcoat of Theodore Durrant. The young man bad departed the morning before for Walnut Creek with his comrades of the Signal Corps and he bad left his overcoat at home. It was not long after the announcement of the finding of the tmirdered girl's pocketbook that news came that the officers were bringing Theodore Durrant back to the city. It was a day of great excitement in San Francisco.

Thousands thronged the thoroughfares leading to Emmanuel Church. Other thousands gathered at the ferry to see Durrant as he was led back to the city. Still other thousands jostled and awayed at the City Trlson long after the doors bad closed upon Durrant. The police authorities asked the accused man but one question. They told bim that be to be Body placed on trial for his life.

He was to be charged with the murder of Blanche La mont and Minnie Williams, and he was asked only to explain how he came to possess the pocketbook of Minnie Williams, He told two different stories and no further questions were asked. A Coroner's jury assembled a few days later and Theodore Durrant was formally charged with the murder of both girls. He presented no defense. In the course of time a preliminary police court examination was held In each case and again Durrant was held to answer for the awful murder of the two girls. Acting under the instructions of his attorneys, the young man offered nothing in his own behalf.

It was in the province of the prosecution to choose the case that should be tried first. Time had passed quickly since the murders. Week after week detectives had been at work upon the case and new facta were being added to the terrible store that Durrant was forced to meet at his trial. At the beginning It seemed wiser to place Durrant on trial first for the murder of Minnie Williams, but the facts of guilt had ef-cumulatcd against him more quickly in the Lamont' murder and the prosecution changed its plang. Before the verdict of guilty was given the evidence of guilt was stronger in the Williams case than it had been in the Lamont murder.

The trial of Theodore Durrant for the murder of Blanche Lamont began In September, 1895, and continued for three months. The essential proof of the prosecution, sustain- ed and strengthened by several minor claims of. evidence, was concerned with the record of a single day, April 3, 1895. The State was forced to trace every movement of Theodore Durrant and of Blanche Lnmont on that day. It was necessary to show something of the character of both, and in a measure to demonstrate the motive of the awful crime.

As the trial progressed it was In1 evitable that the connection between the Lamont and Williams murders should be shown, but Durrant's attorneys bitterly fought any effort to bring to light the facts in tho Williams murder. The prosecution was forced to accept this limitation. As a preliminary to the essential proof of the prosecution an outline of the character of Blanche Lamont and of Theodore Durrant was given. Blanche Lamont was a pretty girl, twenty-one years of age. Six months before her death she came from her home in Montana ami went to live with her aunt, Mrs.

C. 0. Noble, at Twenty-first street. The girl was in delicate health and made few friends outside of her aunt'3 immediate circle. She became a member of the orchestra of the Emmanuel Baptist Church and joined the Sunday-school of Graco Methodist Episcopal Church.

She W3 an enthusiastic student, and shortly after her arrival in this city began a course of instruction at the Lowell High School. A few days before she was murdered she joined the Normal School to take several special studies. She had no friends that her aunt did not know, and she was never in the company of a young man of whom her aunt did i.ot approve. Her life seemed occupied with her studies and her church. On the morning of April 3d, shortly after 8 o'clock, Blanche Lamont left her home for the Lowell High Echoed.

She promised her aunt that she would be home early that afternoon as an engagement had been made with her music teacher. It was the pur pose of the girl to remain at tne Lowell Ugh School during the morning and at the Normal School until ciock in the after noon. After leaving homo she proceeded down Twer.ty-tlrst street to Mission, where Theodon! Durrant was wailing for her. Miss Lamont had met the young man on several occasions at the Emmanuel Baptist Church. The young man was assistant superintendent of the Sunday-schco! and In many ways an active worker In church af fairs.

He made himself a person of gen oral utility about tho place, attending to minor repairs, fixing the gas and electric appliances and planning diversions for tho younger people of the congregation. He was a student at the Cooper Medical College and a member of the Signal CVrps of the National Guard. So far as Mies La mom know, he was a young man of most exemplary character. Blanche Lamont accepted his escort that morning and together they took the Mission street car. At Ninth street they transfer red to the Larkin-street branch and at Sut ter to the car that took Miss Lamont to her dcstlnntion.

At Gough and Sutter streets the girl left the car and Durrant continued on to Webster. This morning itinerary of the girl and her escort was fully establish ed by the prosecution. The conductors ot the Mission, Larkin and Sutter-street cars identified Durrant as the young man who had ridden on their cars that morning. A fellow student of the murderer remembered that he had ridden part of the way with Durrant and a young lady who answered the description of Blanche Lamont The defense vigorously fought every witness, questioning the accuracy of every statement and the credibility of every as sertlon. Then to the surprise of the prose- Citlon the defense admitted that Theodore Durrant did accompany Blanche Lamont to the Lowell High School on the morning of April 3d.

Both sides agreed that Durrant remained at the Cooper Medical College until some time between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock in the afternoon and that BCanche Lamont went to the Normal School on Powell street, near Clay, during the noon hour. The prosecution next placed Durrant on Powell atreet, between Clay and Sacra mento, a few minutes after 2 o'clock. Mrs. Mary Vogel, living at 819 Powell street, almost directly opposite the Normal School, wore she saw him there, pacing up and down, impatiently waiting for Fonre one or something. vogel did not know Durrant, but she said she could not be mistaken In her identification.

She had good reason that day to be closo in her scrutiny. Robbers had terrified the neighborhood and she had several hundred dollars in the house intrusted to her keeping. As she knitted at 'her window she observed the young man across the atreet. At first she thought he was waiting for a car. but several pissed and be remained.

The watcher at the window began to get nerxous. There was something unusual in the actions of the young man and Mrs. Vogel went for her opera glasses to get -a closer view bim. She Inspected him closely and was sure she would remember -him again. For nearly an hour Theodore Durrant walked up and down the street.

At o'clock tho girls from the Normal School began to leave the building. Mrs. Vogel saw that strange young man was suddenly intereeted. She saw bim follow a group of four girls who bad come from the school and were slowly moving toward Clay atreet. The! THE LAST PAPER IS SERVED ON WARDEN HALE.

Attorney Deuprey obtained yesterday from the clerk of the United For all these assertions Durrant could offer absolutely no corroboration. No ono at Cooper College would say that he was there after 1:30 o'clock, although his Instructor nnd every student in the class was placed on the stand. All of them refused, even his neighbor in the classroom, to say that ho v.au there. No cne would support his story of hew ho had gone from the college to the church. No student had accompan led him on the way.

No one else had seen him. Ho stocd alone, but the record of Cooper College stowed that he was in his classroom until 4:10 o'clock In the afternoon. That record also showed that another stu dent who was present was marked absent Students were in the habit of answering for each other and Durrant had asked such a favor often. Tbero were errors and eras ures In the record, bo It counted for little. It was then that the prosecution IntrO' duccd one of the most convincing proofs of Durrant's guilt.

One of the student's own classmates, Dr. Charles Graham, took the stand to add the last link to the chain form cd by the State. Dr. Graham tcok the wit ness stand and awore that to him Durrant had admitted that he was not at the lec lure. Ho asked Dr.

Graham for his notes that he might mako some of his own. Dr. Graham refused to grant the nquest. Durrant declared on the witness stand that ho had renalrcd the sun burners In the church that afternoon, but tho evidence showed that the burners needed no repair; they were in perfect condition before and after the murder of BUncbe Lamont. uur rant was not asked to make any repairs and he told no officer of the church that he had done so.

His story of how he had repaired tho burners fell to the ground under the rigid analysis of the prosecution. He then attempted to explain one more fact. On the day that Minnie Williams-body was found at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Mrs. Charles G. Noble, the aunt of Blanche Lamont, received a package containing the rings that had been worn by tho dend girl.

Tho package was addressed in a disguised hand. The wrapper was part of a newspaper printed on April 19th. At the trial of Durrant one of the most Important witnesses called by the State was Adolph Oppenhelm, a pawnbroker. Oppenhelra testified that some time between April 4th and April 10th a young man called upon him at his store and offered to pawn two rings. On the witness stand the pawnbroker Ides-titled the rings as these that had been sent back to Mrs.

Noble. When he was asked if ha knew the young man who had offered to pawn the rings, Oppenhelm pointed to The odore Durrant. "mat is tne ne saia, and co effort of the defense could shake his testimony. Then the defense atemptcd In another way to break the force of this evidence, which in a mcst unexpected manner was corroborated by James Phillips, who swore that Theodore Durrant went into Oppenheim's store. To meet this testimony tne attorneys of Durrant placed Charles J.

Liniban on the stand and insisted that it was he and not Durrant who had tried to pawn the rings. The evidence showed that Liniban, who in no way resembled Durrant, nad tried to pawn a ring on April 13th. The defense had again fallen. Nothing of Its case remained except the unsupported, uncorroborated word of Theodore Durrant and the Cooper Medical College record. The Jury took one ballot and the vote was unanimous that Theodore Durrant should be hanged for the murder of Blanche Lamont.

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dreaded the effect of her testimony, but when sho was on the witness stand she said: "1 must tell the truth. I saw Theodore lnuritnt on that car." Blanche Lamont was thus taken to within a few steps of the sanctuary where she was to up her life. Sho nnd th young student passed down Twenty-second street to Bartlett. At the corner Martin Quintan and James Clark wire standing. Quintan knew Theodore Durrani, by sight.

Tho attorney bad seen tho young man frequently enough to know his feutures. When Durrant pe.psed down Twenty-second atreet with Blnncha Lament and turned Into P.artlett, Quinlan recognized him. The incident was of no apparent Importance, but Quinlan remembered It and when he took the witness stand at the trli.il ho swore positively that about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of April 3, ha had seen Theodore Durrant and a girl ralltlng towards the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Durrant replied that Martin Quinlan was mistaken. The medical student and his victim were within a few feet of the church gate.

Durrani was walking on the insldo. He stopped a moment at the gate, unlocked it and thca turned to allow Blanche Lamont to pass through. Then ho followed and 1 Lamont passed forever from the vision of all but her slayer. But before tho gato of churchyard closed she nnd the murderous student had been seen again by sharp eyes. As the young man and the girl walked up Burtlett street towards the church an aged woman stood watching from tho Vlndow of her homo across the street.

She was Mrs. Caroline Leak, a member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, who had known Theodore Durrant for more than two years, and during that lirne saw the young man several times every week. Mrs. Ltak was uneasy and anxious that after neon. Sho gazed eagerly up and down the street and then glanced at the clock in her room.

Hor daughter had promised to come before she took the o'clcck train for her borne iu San Mateo, Something bad delayed nnd tho time was quickly passing. Mrs, Leak rooked In vain for her daughter. As rhe looked she saw S'. me one she knew coming down the street towards Emmanuel Church. It was Theodore Durrant witn a young lady whom Mrs.

Leak could not recognize, but thought was Blanche Lamont. Mrs. Leak saw the young people stop at the church gate. Durrnnt placed his key in the lock and the gate swung open. Th; young man turned to permit his companion to enter.

The sun shone full in the student's face. Mrs. Leak wns absolutely certain that she had seen Theodore Durrant. It was so sho told her story on the witness stand. But Theodore Durrant said she was mistaken.

Over on hour after Theodore Durrant and Blanche Lamont passed Into the church Gcorgo R. King, the young organist, entered the sauctuary. King was cne of Durrant's closest friends. Both devoted a great deal of their time to the church. Each shared the other's confidences and when King was forced to tell what he knew ho did so reluctantly.

He said that he had been playing the piano for a few minutes in tho Sunday-school room when he was sur prised at the sudden appearance of uur rant. The young medical student was hatless and coatless. His face was deathly white and bis eyes were bloodshot. He was weak and trembling and sank Into a chair, say Ing that he was ill; that he was repairing the gas fixtures above the celling of the church and had been overcome by the gas. He begged King to a to a drug store for some bromo seltzer.

King hastened away and when he returned Durrant seemed very much better. He had donned his bat and coat and was quietly waiting. He asked King if his eyes were bloodshot and the young organist said they were. King went to the looking-glass a few minutes later and on the little shelf below it saw a clot of blood. The two friends left the church about 5:30 o'clock.

The dead body of Blanche Lamont was far up among the shadows of the belfry. Thus far the prosecution had carried Its case against Theodore Durrant, but the nroof of guilt was not yet complete. By his own admission Durrant had placed him self at the scene of the terrible crime that afternoon. His closest friend had told the ttory of his great agitation and distress. But the prosecution went rurtner.

xney demonstrated that Blanche Lamont had eons from her schoolroom to the chamber of death in Emmanuel cnurcb tnat day. The murderer, It will be remembered, had disrobed the body and had hidden the cloth ing and the girl's school books in the bel fry. Then descending from 'his diabolic work he had wrenched the knobs from the belfry door. No one could enter without breaking the door or climbing from tne celling of the church auditorium over the rafters to the belfry. In this act the mur derer had himself fixed the time of his crime, fqr on the morning of April 4th James Stirling, a plumber, had attempted to enter the belfry and had discovered that the knobs had been wrenched away.

This closed the main case of the prosecution, but it did not by any means end the proof. The presentation of the defense opened oth er views ot tne crime. The accused student had only a single fact for bis defense beyond his own un supported; uncorroborated word. He admitted that be had accompanied Blanche Lamont to the Lowell H'gh School on the morning of April 3d. He dented that he ever met her again, and insisted that Mrs.

Mary Vogel, Miss Minnie Edwards, Miss May Pleasant. Miss May Lanigan, Mrs. Elis abeth Crosett, Martin Quinlan and Mrs. Caroline Leak were mistaken. They were all In error or had lied.

Durrant declared that he had left his college about 4 o'clock and had gone directly to the Emmanuel Baptist Church, arriving there at 4:30 o'clock. He claimed to have repaired the burners and was slightly overcome. George King, be said, bad grossly exaggerated his condi tion, and Miss Tleasant were in error, but there was not a student at tho Ccoper College, nor a friend anywhere else who would tny that be was at the college at 1 :30 o'clock that in the day he served on the Warden, the United States. This notice was Durrant. day.

Theodore Durrant and Blanche Lamont transferred from tho Powell-street car to one on the Valencia-street line. They took seats on the dummy and the car was soon on its way toward the Mission. At the junction of Haight. Gough and Market Mrs. Elizabeth D.

Crosctt boarded the car, taking a seat Inside and next to the front window Tho old lady sat cn tho opposite side to the young man and woman on the dummy. She was therefore facing the young man and the girl. Mrs. Crosctt knewTheodore Durrant well She had seen him at her son's home scores of times. He and her grandson were close friends, whose intimacy brought them together nearly every day In the year.

Young Durrant was almost one of the Crosett household and Mrs. Crosett believed that she knew bim as well as she knew her own grandson. She liked him, as he seemed to be a manly fellow honorable in his thoughts and actions. Mrs. Crosctt's asso ciation with the young man extended over a period of several years.

Mrs. Crosett had proceeded but a short distance on tho Valencia-street car when she noticed Theodore Durrant on the dum my. He was talking to a very pretty girl and Mrs. Crosett tried to catch his eye. She could not, however, although she tried time and again to do so.

Then she said to her self: "Theodore is with a pretty girl to-day. and be doesn't care to notice me." The front door of the car opened and again Mrs. Crosett tried to attract Durrant's attention. But she could not and she saw the young man and the girl leave the car at Twenty-second and Valencia streets. Th next morning Mrs.

Crosett said to her daughter-in-law in banter: "Tell Theodore that I am angry with bim. I saw him yesterday afternoon, but he was with a pretty girl and would not notice me." But Theodore Durrant said that Mrs. Crosett was mistaken. He denied that be was on a Valencia-street car that afternoon. Mrs.

Vogel was in error. The schoolgirls were wrong and Mrs. Crosett, who bad known Durrant for years, was blinded by a remarkable case of mistaken identity. But Mrs. Crosett was firm.

The defense attempted to persuade her to say that the young man she bad seen looked like Theo dore Durrant. but may have been some one else! Mrs. Crosett did not wish to testify the young student. For nearly six months she bad told no one but her daugh-ter-tvlaw of what aha had aeen. She States Circuit Court a certified copy of the bill of exceptions filed Wednesday by him in that court, after the dismissal of the petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The attorney served this certified copy on the Warden at San Quentin, and later who was then in the Attorney-General's in this city, a notice of an anneal to the Supreme Court of I a the last paper served in behalf of by four interested persons, the woman in the house across the street and the three girls a few feet away from where Blanche stood. Blanche Lamont had committed an offense against the laws of the Normal School. Every girl In the school was enjoined from meeting any escort olther going to school or coming from It. Miss Lamont was a new Btudent and her girl friends believed that she had unwittingly violated the rules. That made them scrutinize her companion more closely.

And they wanted to see, too, what sort of a sweetheart the new student had. When the car stopped at Clay street Theodore Durrant and Blanche Lamont took seats on the dummy on the side nearest the Normal School. Mies Minnie Edwards took a seat inside the car. As the vehicle passed toward Market street Miss Lanlgan and Miss Pleasant again looked at Miss escort. In a few moments the car lad passed from their view, but now and again M'ss Edwards would look out of the window at her i and her com panion.

Alls Edwards saw them leave the car at Market street. The girls thought nothing more of the incident until several days after, when a detective questioned them in reference to the incidents of the afternoon. Blanche Lamont had never returned to the Normal School, but thai in itself was not an inci dent of significance. The detective asked the girls to describe tne young man who met Blanche Lament that afternoon. Their description fitted that of Theodore Durrant with remarkable accuracy.

But Durrant had denied that he was with ths girl that afternoon and the detective did not press the matter. When the horror of Emmanuel Church swept over the city and the picture of Theodore Durrant was published the school mates of Blanche Lamont recognized the features of the young man who bad met the unfortunate girl on the afternoon of ber death. After Durrant was arrested Misses Edwards. Lanigan and Pleasant identified bim absolutely as the man who bad accompanied Blanche Lamont. When the young student was on trial for bis life these girls took the stand and awore that he was the man.

ineir testimony oouia not shaken. They were positive and Durrant was drawn one step nearer to the scene of the murder in the church. He had said thtt Mrs. Mary Vogel was mistaken. He bad said that Miss Lanlgan, Miss Edwards.