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8 WHAT DURRANT SAID WAS IN THE BELFRY. "HeToldMeSheWasMurdered on the Second Landing," "there was no blood." Miss Cunningham Testifies to Her Conversations With the Defendant. near the end of the trial. Practically All the Evidence In. Ma.

Peixotto Will Speak To-Day. tiik dubrant trial in a the evidence in. The trial of W. H. Theodore Durrant for the murder of Blanche Lamont is now rapidly drawing to a close.

All the evidence is practically finished and it is expected that some time to-day Mr. Peixotto will beein his opening argument for the people. Yesterday there were three chief witnesses. The first of them was Miss Carrie Cunningham, the reporter, who told that I) arrant said he saw Blanche Lamont's body on the second landing in the belfry, she was murdered. She was cross-examined at some length.

Dr. W. H. May? and Dr. Julius Rosenstirn were called as experts on the effects of gas inhalation.

Both of them testified that the poisoning of the blood from inhaling illuminating gas caused a redness oi the surface of the skin. The case is continued at 10 o'clock this morning. TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. What Durrant Said About the Body In the Belfry Both Sides Have Rested. After twenty-seven days actually consumed in taking testimony, that part of the trial of Theodore Durrant is about concluded.

When the session was at an end yesterday Mr. Barnes announced that in all probability when court opened in the morning his statement would be that the case for the people was closed. However, there might be one short witness still to be heard, but only the one at most, and probably not that. There is a possibility that Mr. Dickinson may have some surrebuttal to offer; but that is not likely.

He does not expect it. At all events, it is a very safe prophecy that Mr. Peixotto will be on his feet addressing the jury in the openinc argument for the State at least some time to-day. His will not be a short speech. He has a stack of notes prepared, and even a poem of several stanzas for his great effort.

The chances are he will surprise Eome people and make a telling arauruent. The three chief witnesses in rebuttal yesterday were: Miss Carrie Cunningham, who related conversations with Durrant in the jail, and two medical experts, who gave scientific explanations of the toxic effect of pas inhalation. There was nothing particularly new in Miss Cunningham's testimony. It was fully as strong as had been expected, and a most searching cross-examination did not seem to shake it in any way. As to the envelope Durrant showed her the one addressed to his attorneys, with the directions only to be opened in case of that was ruled out by Judge Murphy.

He said it was a dangerous class of proof, and one that would be likely to open too widely to the jury the door of speculation as to what the contents of that envelope might or might not be. Then Miss Cunningham told how Durrant Lad said hs saw "her body on the second that "she murdered on the second landing" in the belfry. The "she," of course, refers to Blanche Lamont. Mr. Dickinson tried hard to keep out this testimony, for he doubtless realized that it, too, opened up a world of speculation for the jnry.

Waa she, then, murdered on the second landing? Had she been decoyed that far alive and then cruelly strangled? Mr. Barnes will be apt to argue that such a theory is the probable truth. Miss Cunningham said she had visited Dr.rrunt nearly every day since the middle of August. She took him the weekly papers on Sunday and had the oflice send him all the morning papers by carrier. She said she promised Durrant not to print the story, and she kept her word.

He made her take an oath not to publish it, and, though it would have made a very neat, exclusive and sensational story for her paper, she kept her and finally gave the information to Mr. Barnes. She said she was not employed by the detectives or by the prosecution. She was and is a newspaper that, and nothing more. Then came the experts on the effects of gas inhalation.

These were Dr. W. Id- Mays and Dr. Julius men of unquestioned authority in their department of science. They said that gas inhalation poisoned the blood, filled it with carbonate oxide and turned the surface of the sKin not white, as Durrant was when he came downstairs and stood iv the folding doors before George King.

The crowd in attendance was as large as usual yesterday, and hundreds sought and failed to gain admission. THE MORNING SESSION. Miss Cunningham Relates What Durrant Told Her at the Jail. Another Medical Expert. Dr.

Graham was recalled when court opened for the day. Mr. Dickinson asked him only a few questions. These concerned the dates upon which he had been interviewed by the reporters and elicited nothing new. Miss Carrie Cunningham came next.

She came, of course, to tell of what occurred between her and Durrant during their many and lengthy interviews at the County Jail. Miss Cunningham said first that she lived at 1133 Bush street; that she first worked as a reporter on the Examiner for two years, and then went to the Chronicle and worked there until the 15th of this mouth, when she went back to the Examiner. "Do you know the defendant in this case?" asked Barnes. "Yes, sir; since the 18th of August of this year." "Since that time to the 15th of October did you ever visit him at tne County Jail?" "Yes, sir." "How often did you visit him?" "Almost every day." "For how long a time?" half an hour to two hours and a half." "You went there for your paper?" "I did." "How did trie interviews take place; did you go in the cell?" "Only "Was any one with you on this occasion?" Chief Jailer Sailer and an artist from the paper." "And on the other occasions?" "I outside the cell on a stool because I was not tall enough and talked to him through the wicket." "At the County Jail, at cell 29, on the 22a of September, did this defendant show you a small envelope addressed to Messrs. Dickinson Deuprcy and marked 'To be opened if I am convicted and returned unopened to me if I am not convicted object.

That is not admissible, and no foundation has been laid for it. The it is admissible at all what other foundation could be laid for it? Mr. make the offer not in the light of art extrajudicial confession, but to show that in other piaces and at other times the defendant has made statements contrary to and inconsistent with his testimony as a witness. The Of course we are only dealing now with the testimony as to the envelope. That was brought out in cross-examination and was not a part of the main examination.

Would it not be permitting a forced inference as to the contents of that envelope to permit the question? It might be argued that the envelope contained either a confessiou of guilt or a protestation of innocence. There is nothing to show the contents of that envelope. I believe no offer is made of thnt. think it would be dangerous to admit this question, for it would open a world of speculation to the jury and be liable to confuse their minds. sustain the objection.

Barnes (resuming the Did you visit Durrant at the jail on the Ist of October? "Idid." Did you have an interview with him 1 did." Iv the course of thnt interview and in reference to Emmanuel Baptist Church, did Mr. Durrnnt say to you, 'When I was fixing the sunbnrnera I heard a nome in the beliry. I followed up the noise to the belfry and looked I through an opening and there saw the body of i Blanche Lamont on the Second lauding. She was murdered on the second object; that is not admissible as a confession and is not rebuttal testimony. The understand the defendant testi- fied that he last saw Blanche Lamount alive on i the morning of Aprils at Gough and Slitter streets, and that lie did not see her again, dead or alive.

Now, if that be correct, they had a right to cross-examine him on that point and they have a right now to prove, if I they can, that at other times and places the defendant made statements inconsistent with his statements on the Btand. I think there can be no doubt of its admissibility and 6hall permit the question. The question was once more read to Miss Cunningham, and stie answered: "He made that statement to me." "At the time and designated by my I question?" "Yes, sir." "This was on October 1, and you had visited him almost every day since August IB?" "Yes, sir." The About whom were you speaking when you held this conversation? "Of Blanche Lamoni." "At thnt same time or at some other time did not this take place or was not this said?" "Mr. Barnes, there was no mention of the sweet-pea girl lhat night. I did give a note to Mr.

Durraut after he had finished telling me all this story, and 1 had promised I would be a witness for him and tell this story on the stand. He said: 'Will yon promise to tell the I had an understanding with Durrant i from the first, that I was not to publish in the paper anything he told me, without his con- 1 sent that I should do so. I sp.id to him, 'That is a great newspaper story. 1 1 promised I would not publish the story, but I did not kiss any Bible. I held up my hand like this, but I did.

not know Durrant had a Bible." "Your promise was then in relation to the publication of the story?" "Yes, sir." "And you did not publish it?" "I did not publish it." it has noi been published since?" "It has not been published since." "Did you have a conversation with the de- i tendani on Octobers?" did." "Did the following occur: Did you say, 'Are you sure it was the second landing where you saw 1 JUDGE LISTENS TO DR. MAYS' DISQUISITION ON THE TOXIC EFFECTS OF ILLUMINATING. QAS. by a "Call" "Mr. Barnes, he did not tell me he saw her killed." Dickinson asked that this be stricken out, as not being responsive to the question, and the court ordered it out.

Then Barnes proceeded to repeat what had already been mentioned where Miss Cunningham had asked particularly if the belfry stairs were not in the way so that the second floor could not be seen, and also about the spots on the picture frame which Durrant had Baid were made by water. To this Miss Cunningham said, "Yes, such a conversation took place." Dickinson objected to the question, and Barnes withdrew it only to repeat it in a different form, asking if Durrant had not said there was no blood on the picture; it was only water. "He said that last clause," Miss Cunningham answered, "but those were not his words." "Is the remainder of the conversation as I have stated it correct?" "Yes, sir." "Can you change that sentence and put it as he put it?" "He said there wasn't any blood. There wasn't any blood at all. This ended the direct examination, and Dickinson commenced his questioning.

"Did you keep notes of your visits to the jail?" he began. "I did." "And you are able to state exactly whon you made those visits?" "Yes, sir." at was the first occasion that you visited the jail? 111 keep a note of the first times I a'il hen dla firSt commence t0 visit the "On August 18." "You were then on the Chronicle THE SAN FRAXCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1895. "I was." was part of your duties to go to the jail?" "Yes, sir." "Did you ever meet Durrant prior to the time you first visited the jail?" "No, sir." "Wbat time did you go to the jail on August 18?" "I think in the afternoon." "How did you make yourself known to him?" "I think one of the jailers told him 1 was there to speak with him?" "How long did this interview last?" "Not very about fifteen minutes; but he told me then that he would not talk to me for the papers." "Did you inform him of your capacity?" "As a reporter?" "Did you see him that time in the cell or in the rooms of the jail?" "I think it was in the cell." "Was that the time you went into the cell? "I don't think so." "August 18 was a Sunday, was it?" "I think so." Miss Cunningham was then temporarily to give way for Dr. H. Mays, an expert on mental diseases.

Peixotto examined Dr. Mays. Under preliminary "questions Dr. Mays said he had been practicing physician for twenty-one years and had made a specialty of mental diseases. He had been, he said, an assistant physician in the Stockton Insane Asylum for a year and a half, and had been" its superintendent for two years.

He claimed to be an expert on mental diseases and insanity. Peixotto's first questions referred to the hallucinations and delusions which arise from a constant reading of sensational topics of the day. Dickinson lodged an objection to this question. The court then suggested that delusions and not hallucinations had been the subject of inquiry in the previous testimony, and Peixottb changed his question to: "Will the constant reading of a person of sound mind upon a certain topic create a delusion in his mind?" "I think not." "How may such a condition of mind be produced?" Dickinson put in a fruitless objection, and the substance of the witness' answer was that when such a case was presented it could always be found that the subject was originally weak-minded. The court then asked for a little light on the difference between hallucinations and delusions, and the witness went into a long discussion of the subject.

Dr. Mays was then asked about Illuminating gas, and this question was put to him: "Suppose we have a subject in normal physical Health, of the age cf about weighing about l'2O pounds; suppose our subject desires to make some alterations or repairs in a gasburner and proceeds to the burner, which consists of a circular gaspipc about 18 inches in diameter, with twenty-four gas jets in it, that is contained in circular cylindrical contrivance, wilh a flue lending "up and out to the outer air; that our subject before going up to the burner turns on the gas, an illuminating gas which from chemical analysis is shown to contain from 15 to 'JO per cent of carbonic oxide; that our subject removes three plates, making an aperture sufficient to insert his head, lies down flat on his stomach, inserts his hand and head into the opening, in a position like thai shown in the diagram, and remains therp three, four or live minutes, working on the fixture and breathing that atmosp thus charged with what in nil probability would be the physical condition of a subject after submitting to these Dickinson objected because the question was not entirely based upon the mony in the case, and in pursuance of his objection the question was little, but still it did not suit. The court finally decided that the had better be withdrawn until it could be made to more I accurately tit the evidence. Once more the question was fixed up, and was read to I the witness. He answered "I think such a subject would be driven to insensibility within two or three minutes." "What is the effect ol Illuminating gas containinp 15 per cent of carbonic oxide?" "In small quantities rapid Insensibility: if more than small quantities the Insensibility becomes very profound, the whole of the body becomes Hushed, and coma ensues.

The reddening of the surface of the body is a well established fact." The court Then instead of becoming pale his face would redden? "Yes, instead of being pale he would redden." is the cause of the reddening of the body?" continued Dickinson. "The mingling of the poisonous gas with the blood, and the driving of the blood outward." "Suppose the person had taken sufficient to affect him, but not enough to produce insensibility, what would be the outward physical signs?" "Collapse and loss of strength approaching insensibility and redness of the surface." "If he had inhaled sufticient to nearly to cause insensibility would the mere breathing of fresh air bring him back to consciousness?" The defense objected, but the objection was overruled. "No. The more breathing of fresh air would not prove curative. There is a certain amount of virulent poison in the system; it is more than a mere asphyxiation." Another hypothetical question was then put to the witness.

He was asked what kind of a case of pas inhalation it was where a man had, after working under the circumstances previously described, gone walking across the rafters of a roof, clown a twenty-foot ladder and then lifts the ladder, weighing about forty pounds, down from the aperture by the rafters and lays it in its place, goes to the gascock and ascertains by trial that his work has been a success; then goes down a flight of stairs, across an auditorium, then down twenty steps more across a room twenty-five feet wide, then goes to the opening in a folding-door and appears to a friend with hair disheveled, face pale and eyes congested and then asks for bromo-seltzer, which, when taken, nauseates him? Dickinson objected, and the Judge sustained the objection because, he said, the prosecution could not impeach a witness in that manner, and the question was not allowed. "What are the facial symptoms of great excitement caused by some great deed or criminal act, such as murder was then asked. An objection to this was sustained, and then the cross-examination began. Dickinson then described the reflector over the sun burner, and asked if under such conditions as he mentioned a man would be insensible in a few minutes. "I should think so," said the witness.

would he necessarily inhale a sufficient quantity "1 should tliink he would in two or three minutes." "Is it not a fact that in a large room if there were small escape of gus at the ceiling the whole atmosphere of the room would become impregnated with the o(jor so that one opening the door would smell it "Yes; I think that is the case. I would depend, of course, upon the quantity of gas escaping." "A person leaning over, as has been described, and fixing the gasburneis, would he MISS CARRIE CUNNINGHAM AS SUE AIPEaRED WKIIiB REVEALING DURRANI'S SECRETS. be compelled to take large inhalations in order to sustain life "I should think he would be apt to take deep inhnlations to prevent the gas from overcoming him entirely." "Do you think there would be any danger to a person who understood his business and knew his position, who should remain inhaling the amount of gas-laden atmosphere, as described, for from one-half to three and a half minutes?" "That would depend entirely upon the how much gas he inhaled." When the cross-examination of the expert was concluded, Miss Cunningham came back to the witness chair, to be furiher questioned by Mr. Dickinson. "What was the next time that you visited Mr.

Durrant after the 18th of August?" next clay." "1)1(1 you see him on the 20th of August?" "I think I aid. I went there every day." "On the 21st?" "I presume so." "When did you commence to keep notes of your visits?" "On the 17th of September." "Can you stftte whether you Eaw him on the 22dof August?" "Not positively. It is very likely that I did." about the 23d?" "I am not sure but I went every day." "In August what was your object in visiting him?" "I went for the paper." "Did you converse with him?" "I did." "Dili you use any of these conversations in articles that you published?" "I did, but I never published anyth ing without previously telling him of it." "Prior to the 17th of September had there been any intimation conveyed to Durrant that you visited him in any capacity than that of a reporter?" "He Knew I was on the paper." "Dirt you furnish him with reading matter?" did." was it?" "The weekly papers." "When did you lirst bring them?" "I commenced the first Sunday after the 18th of August." "At whose instance did you bring them?" "I ottered to do it." "How long did you continue to brins? him the weeklies?" "Until two weeks ago last Sunday." "Thftt was the Sunday before these questions were put to the defendant when he was on the stand 7" "It was." "Did you send or take him the weeklies?" "I usually took them." "Hid you send him any daily paper- "Yes the morning The I all, Chronicle and Examiner." "Did he ask you for them?" "I offered to send them." "How were they supplied to him?" "By carriers, through the office." "Is it customary reporters to register when they visit the Jail?" "I don't know." "Did you register?" "Sometimes." "Did you ever send him anything besides the papers?" "I sent him flowers once. "Were they returned to you?" "No, sir; the jailer kept them. He said that flowers were not allowed the prisoners." "Were you on the Chronicle then?" "Yes, sir." "You went to the Examiner after these questions were put to Durrant?" "I went the night before." "On the Chronicle were you a salaried reporter or were you paid for what you a space-writer?" "I was salaried." "The whole time?" "No, sir; but when I was put on this case I was al.so put on a salary." "If you obtained a 'scoop' you were entitled to extra compensation for it from your paperwere you not?" "I did not consider so.

The Chronicle very rarely pays a bonus. The city editor himself told mo it was very unusual foj the Chronicle to pay a bonus fora "When did he tell you that?" "When I took him the Mrs. Leak story." "Did you have any conversation with Durrant about the Leak story?" "Perhaps I did; I don't remember exactly." ''In August how long were your visits to the defendant?" "I couldn't state that." "Two hours?" "I couldn't state." "You used to stay a good while, didn't you?" "Oh, yes, sir." The two hands of the clock now pointed to XII and the noon recess was taken. THE AFTERNOON SESSION. Miss Cunningham Admits That She Took Chewing Gum to Durrant and Once Sent Flowers.

When court convened in the afternoon Miss Cunningham again resumed the stand and Mr. Dickinson went on "Have you your notebook with TOnr" he asked. "1 have not." "When did you see It last?" "October 1 lost it after that." here did you see it then?" At my house." "Did you look for It?" "Yes, sir; several times." "What kind of a notebook did you have?" "I had a small book for dates and wrote my notes on copy paDer." "You have" lost both of these?" "Yes, sir." "Have you searched diligently for them?" "Yes, sir." "How do you fix October 8 as the last day you saw them?" that ii the day I made a statement to Mr. "Where was it made?" "In Mr. Barnes' office, this building." "What time?" "Between 5 and 6 o'clock." "Did you have your date book and copy paper then?" "I did." "What did you do with tnem?" "I took them home." "Did yoit have an interview with any member of the detective force about this matter prior to October 10?" "No, sir." "Were you present in court when these questions were asked Durrant?" "Part ot the time." "At whose instance did you make a search for the notes?" "At my own, I wanted to look over them." "Did you take other notes except those lost?" "Yes, sir.

I often took notes, but always destroyed these immediately after using them." "When did you last visit Mr. Durrant?" "I think it was on the evening of the 9th the night after I had talked to Mr. Barnes." you have a conversation with him tnen?" "Xo. sir; he had retired." "Did you visit him on the Bth of October?" "Yes, sir." "How long?" "Some time, I Ruppose: you were there then "les, I remember that; after I went away did you resume your conversation with him?" "I did." "For how long?" me time I couldn't state exactly." "Did you visit him on the 7th?" "I thfnk I did." the sth of October did you visit him?" "Yea, sir." "How long did you remain?" "1 don't remember." "On the 4th?" "I think so." "On the 3d?" sir; I think I went every day." "On the'id?" "Yes. sir." Mr.

Dickinson led the witness through the calendar dates and then showed her the register of the jail and asked her to point out her signatures thereon. Wnen she had done this she was asked about the time she left the Chronicle and went to the Examiner. "You took an oath that you would not publish these things?" "I did, and I kept it." "Did you tell Durrant you would bring stories from the Mission to him?" ''I don't recollect of having done so." "At the time you were visiting him did you see Mr. Gibson?" "Oh, yes; I saw him nearly every "Who else did you see who have been witnesses in this case?" DR. JULIUS ROSENSTIRN TRIES TO SHIELD HIS HANDSOME FACE PROM THE ARTISTS WHILE TELLINCJ THE DURRANT JURY ABOUT GAS INHALATION.

(notwithstanding) by a "Call" "Elmer and Clarence Wolf, Dr. Vogel and his son. Dr. Gibson, Mr. Lynch and others that I can't recollect by name just now." "Did you ever send Durrant any chewing gum?" "Oh, several times." "Order!" shouted the bailiff so sternly that even Judge Murphy ceased to smile.

"Did you have- a conversation with him about the sweet pea girl?" "Yes, sir." "And you finally wrote about it?" "No, sir: 1 did not write that story." "Did Durraut ask you whether you were employed by the prosecution?" "Yes, sir; he did." "What did you tell him about your working for Captain Lees?" "I told him I had no connection whatever with Captain Lees or with any member of the prosecution, and that I was only a newspaper reporter. Which was true." G. A. B. Hall, who called the roll and kept the records of attendance at Dr.

Hansen's lectures at Cooper College, was then called. "How many times a week did Dr. Hansen lecture?" he was asked. "Twice a week," was the reply. "On what days?" "On Mondays and Wednesdays." "Were the students required to be present at those lectures?" "They were required to attend the one on Monday." "Were they required to be present at tne Wednesday lectures?" "Yes, sir." Dickinson objected once more to the line of testimony being introduced and Barnes was asked to explain what he hoped to prove.

He wanted to show that Hall kept the roll of Hansen's lectures; that he called the roll at the four lectures prior to April 3, and that he had called the roll at the lectures of April 3 and April 10. He also wished to show that Dr. Hansen's lecture oh April 3 immediately preceded Dr. Cheney's lecture, and that at Dr. Hansen's lecture Durrant was not present.

General Dickinson, Mr. Barnes said, had asked general questions regarding the actions of Durrant on the afternoon of April 3, and he, therefore, thought the W3y clear for Hall's evidence. The objection was sustained, however, and Hail was called from I the stand. Dr. Julius Rosenstirn came forward as the next, and, as it proved, the last witness of the day.

He said he had practiced medicine and surgery for twenty years in this city and for a number of years in Germany. He claimed to be qualiiied to answer questions on the symptoms of pas inhalation, and so once more the hypothetical question prepared by the prosecution was repeated. In answer the witness said "After breathing for three, four or five minutes a combination oi nir and gas, where carbonic oxide formed from 10 to 15 per cent, the probabilitos are that the person would become unconscious, or at least intoxicated, and would Sliow symptoms of the inhalation of gas." "What are the outward symptoms?" "A person would go through three stages. He would feel a burning pain in the face and he ad, a pulsating in the temples and arteries, the face would be full of blood, the mucous membranes will become a deeper red and he would see things before his eyes. That represents the stages from consciousness to unconsciousness.

He may have sensations of a pleasant or unpleasant kind, and then unconsciousness." "What are the marked symptoms?" "A marked flushing of face and a tinge of redness to the visible mucous membranes." "How long does that continue?" "It is liable to continue quite a time, say an hour, or two hours." "Can you explain the causes of the redness or flushing?" "The blood becomes cherry red by the combination of the monoxide of carbon with the coloring material in the blood." "Is this your actual experience?" "I have seen in my practice, two cases of the first stage of gas poisoning, but I have seen many cases of asphyxiation." "In those two cases were the symptoms as you hove stated?" "They were." "And they were similar to those described in medical works?" "Yes, sir." "There was flushing or redness of the face?" "Yes." General Dickinson then commenced to cross-examine. "Does not nausea follow in many cases of gas poisoning?" "Yes, sir." "In what proportion must the air and gas be mixed so to cause death?" "That depends upou the individual, but I should think that in three minutes, in an atmosphere containing fifteen parts of carbonic oxide, one should be affected in a marked degree." "Give us some idea of the percentage the atmosphere should contain to destroy does or rabbits?" "Dogs and rabbits are easily killed; fifteen or twenty per cent would be certain to render them unconscious in from four to five minutes." "In human beings is the susceptibility greater or less?" "Ordinarily they are about as susceptible as these animals." "What are the symptoms of the first stage?" Dizziness, nausea, (lushing, temporal arteries pulsating." "Suppose a person in this first stage passed into an atmosphere free from gas, would he recover immediately?" "The result of" the intoxication would gradually go away, as the carbonic oxide would be gradually eliminated from the blood." "What is the shortest time this recovery would "After such a condition it would take at least an hour." "How long could a man work over a sunburner such as has been described and under such circumstances?" "He might operate there five minutes, but that ought to bring him to the first stage." "Might he regulate his breathing so as to allow himself to work longer?" "No, be must breathe a certain amount." "Is it not possible to regulate and reduce the number of breaths'." "Yes, but the same amount must be in: haled." would become of the gas in the sunburner described to you?" would be diffused into the air." "How soon would it do this?" "It would take some little time." Then Peixotto asked if the upward tendency of gas escaping under pressure would not make it ascend before diffusing, and the doctor said it would. This ended the examination of Dr. Rosenstirn, and Barnes announced that he had but one witness more anyway, and he was doubtful as to whether or not he will put him on the stand. It will take but a short time to examine him if he goes on at all, and Barnes will announce his decision this morning.

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i. Catarrh positively cured Are you will- ing to spend 50 cents for a cure that posi- tively cures catarrh by removing the cause of the disease? If so ask your druggist for a 25-cent bottle of Munyon's Catarrh Cure and a 25-cent bottle of Catarrh Tablets. The catarrh cure will eradicate the dis- ease from the system and the tablets will cleanse and heal the afflicted parts and restore them to a natural and health- ful condition. Munyon's Liver Cure corrects headache, biliousness, jaundice, constipation and all liver diseases. Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneumonia and breaks up a cold in a few hours.

Munyon's Cough Cure stops cough, night sweats, allays soreness and speedily heala the lungs. i Munyon's Female Remedies are a boon to all womem. Munyon's Headache Cure stops head- ache in three minutes. Munyon's Pile Ointment positively cures all forms of piles. Munyon's Asthma Cure and Herbs are guaranteed to relieve asthma in three minutes and cure in five days.

Price, 50 cents each. Munyon's Blood Cure eradicates all im- purities from the blood. Munyon's Vitalizer imparts new life, re- stores lost powers to weak and debilitated men. Price $1. Munyon's Homeopathic Remedy Com- pany, 1505 Arch street, Philadelphia, puts up specifics for nearly every disease, mostly for 25 cents a bottle.

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