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gnocent of the Double Crime for Which he was if?§§iil2§"..‘§‘i§I$Zi.‘i.Z3"§'§?;’.$.Zl“i..l?.ii€§

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the execution of the death sentence.

ll DECLARATIUN DN THE SC~Ai=i=oLn tourinnto .§“;.;:;°;i:§.i“e

Y urran muri ered Miss

Williams to conceal the murder of Miss Lamont. The two young women were ac

_ _ quaintances and D r, ~ t (1 h -Mor of Church in Which .Blanche Lamont and Minnie Mm W““°’“ belmfl .llliselis *lex

something about the disappearance of

Williams were Murdered. on Hlsjbeathbed, Confessed Mm L““1°““- L

the Crime and was the Murder- Nitmr Barons EXECUTION.

Talked With a Pressman and Proglaimed

EI' 0f Tlll'CC P€0 IC His Innocence

no following appears in a California

nw- ~ “one of the saddest and most atrocious

*l murders so far recorded is that of Qaxlore Durrant, who was hanged in

Qlifornia 1 few years since, for the mur- g¢fBlanche Lamont and Minnie Wil- “ga most diabolical double crime, its ‘fy Bendishness hardly having a paral- glin the annals of vice. and its perpe- umrwas sought high and low for sev- mldays, the whole world hoping forhis “tim and punishment. In the mean- iimethe socalled astute detectives and ,dice authorities concluded a victim was ggded, and after fasteninl their clutch- gon young Durrant proceeded to col- igt what they termed evidence, the whole mass of stuif in all probability be- igginanufactured for the purpose of con- vktion. and all of a circumstantial nat- ug, Durrant stoutly maintained from his guest up to the moment of his execu- tim that he was innocent of the horrible dm-ge, but. forsootli. because he could notexpluin every moment of his presence at certain times, he was convicted and lunged, and once more the niajesty of hw, along with the tliiCk‘Skl1ll8d th€Ol')’ #these police wiseacres. was duly vin- dicated. .\`ow the true sequel: A few dgysago. on his deathbed. Rev. _\lr. Gib- son, Wlioat the time was pastor of l`..n- mnuel church, where one of the murders nscoinmitted. confessed that he killed hotli of the victiuis. He was an active md important witness at the trial of pourDurrant, the reason of which is now quiz plain, and also in view of the fact tlutsuspicioii was strongly directed to hiletthe time." Thdore Durrant was hanged at San Qnlinprison, Cal., on Jan. 7, 1898.

IISTORY OF THE CASE.

ki the Murder and the Trial of int as Given in 1893. `H_`follov\'ing history of the crime for 'H1 Durrant was hanged and his trial

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'was telegraphed from San Quentin on the day of Durrant‘s execution;

San Francisco, Cal., Jan. T-\\`illiam Henry Theodore Durrant, who was hang- ed at the state prison at San Quentin to- day, gave his life in exchange for the

members of the churchto which he be- longed. While Durrant was convicted of butone murder under the law he was responsiable by public opinion for the murder of both Blanche Lamont and Minnie 'Williams and it is felt that his death expiates one crime as well as the other.

atrocity from any point of view. He was reared in a Christian home and until the time of his arrest was regarded as 8. model young man of industrious habits, who was trying to work his way through a. medical college. The only characteristic that seemed marked in his nature was piety. He had' been a prominent member of the Emmanuel Baptist church for several years and for a. year previous to his arrest he had been assistant sup- erintentdentoftheSundayschool. In this capacity he niade the acquaintance of Blanche Lamont and Minnie \Villiams, both of whom were destined to be mur- dered by him inthe church where they worshipped together. Blanche Lamont disappeared on April 3 1805 and was

'never seen alive afterwards. She left the _ _ _ _ house of her alum 1th.S_ C_ G_ N0b1e_ on _mit-suicide and the prison guards were that day to go to school and for ten days most' vigilant- But Duffanli 1 had H0

no trace of her could be found. Many members of Emmanuel church assisted in the search and among others was Theo- dore Durrant who had often acted asMiss Lam Jnt’s escort.He was seemingly greatly distressed on account of Miss Lamont’s

disappearance and at length expressed

fallen women. This theory seemed plaus- ible to the police and a search was made among the places Where it was believed the missing girl might be found. Durrant assisted in the inquiry which came to nought. Ten days had passed since Miss Lamont disappeared and her friends had almost given up hope of ever knowing her fate when a discovery was made which led to the finding of Miss Lamont’s body.

The ladies of Emmanuel church were

Minnie \Villiarns was found in the library. A number of ugly wounds and some rags had been forced down the young lady's throat told of the unequal struggle she had made to protect her life. Miss Xi il- li2lins` body was found in the afternoon and late the same night the first clue to the murderer was obtained. From some of the young womans friends it Was learned that she hail been seen with Dur- rant and although there was nothing else to show that he had any connection with the crime, the police decided to ar- rest him. Durrant`s home was visited

midnight with the signal corps of the National Guards, to which he belonged, to make some heliographing experiments at Mount Diablo. The next train carried two detectives toward the mountain and after completing their journey by stage, Dun-ant was found late in the afternoon and arrested. While these events were taking place ou Mount Diablo, 60 miles ‘away, adiscovery had been made in this city which filled the streets with men and women crying for vengeance. lroip the first the police associated the finding of Miss William’s body with the disappear- Q ance of Miss Lamont and a search was at once begun in the church for her body. ‘Men worked all night tearing up floors and breaking down partitions and at 10 dclock Sunday morning the bod! Of Miss Lamont was found. A broken door knob and a turned bolt excited the sus- picionsof the searchers and the door lead- ing to the belfry of the church was

' ' V broken down. Up the winding stairs the

H 0 1 policemen groped their way and at the

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Ihne this d“Y di9P°s9d of *the :dei tocommit the crime, as W# the

“wk “nd 80°d Wm cf th” Medial casein the murder of Miss Williams, but

time landing, lyme in the darkened belfry. the body of the murder-

irl was found No knife had been

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une llth 1900

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tion for awrit of habeas corpus in the case.

_As stated in the item from the Califor- nia paper, Durra.nt maintained his inno- cence to the last. _ _Ali his Wfluest a _reporter of the Asso- ciated Pressinterviewed him the night before his execution His mother W

lives of two young women, who were' ' as

present.

::How.do you feel?" was asked, , Hopeful, buoyant, and ready to meet

my Maker,” was the reply. ‘I know the Lord ` is with me.. No one knows what, faith is until tried. I am going to a Judge who has never committed a. wrong and l who cannot. My faith is so strong that, 1 have kept up and will be sustained to the

Dnrrant`s crimes were peculiar in their \ °“d°"

Then turning to his mother he said,

‘°Mother, I have come to the conclusion that it needs trial to know God. And you may say that to the world," he added.

“What will you say at the last?" he was

asked.

“I shall proclaim my innocence loudly,

strenuously,” answered Durrant. “Make this as strong as you please. I will not falter at the end. I will die bravely, knowing I am going to a better world. I thank God my hands are clean, not stain- ed with blood; but the fair name of Cal- ifornia. will stand stained with a crime that can never be wiped out, the blood of an innocent man.”

BRAVE T0 THE LASTL

It was feared that Durraut would corn-

thought of suicide. He passed his wak- ing hours in prayer and when the night before his execution the jail physician re- marked reassuringly that he would visit Durrant in the morning .prepared to give him stimulants, Durrant’s smile and easy increased tone told, if he had not said a

the belief that she had joined the ranks of "°l`d» l'h°t he W°“1d S°°m Such 9“PP°l'U

or comfort.

So impressed was the penitentiary doc- tor with the attitude of Durrant that #he declared: “Why, that fellow is the man of the ceuturv."

The day of his execution Durrant awoke

at 6.15 a. m. after sleeping from one o’clo:k. He was not given a collar and necktie, as they would have to be removed when the noose was placed around his neck. Durrant noticed the omission and at his request the missing articles of at- tire were sent to him. '

engaged in decorating thetedifice prepar- “You never Saw a bmver mam.. Said tha atory to the celebration ol the Easter jailgovernon “He is calmer than you or Sumdy Service when the mangledbody of I, not the least bit nervous. There is no

danger that he will weaken. He has nerve and is determined to die bravely."

srnrzcu os 'run canrows.

With his feet on the gallows, the rope

about his neck and the hangman turning toget the black cap. Durrant whispered a request to be allowed to speak and it was granted. In his speech he protested his innocence, declaring he was not guilzy of the crime.

TURNED CATHOLIC.

Durrant, who was a Protestant, on the

late at night bht he was not there. His _ morning of the day he was executed deciiu- parents said that he had leftshortly before ed to see two Protestant cle;-gymen who

had previously vi sited him. Later he accepted the Catholic faith and in the death chamber Rev. Father Logan gave him the extreme unction and the Catholic service was performed.

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But that is just precisely what the eye

cannot do. A column of even moderate strength, when on the move, lengthen; itself out abnormally; so much so, indeed, that a body of troops which in review or- der could be packed within a 'moderate- slzed parade ground, will occupy ribbon- _ wise eight, ten, or even more miles of - country. L - _ We will, therefore, take up a position on *an eminence--a kopjeif you like-and watch in imagination a column of British regulars marching on, say, Pretoria. - ~ I First there will come in sight,riding at a walking pace athwart the boulder-strewn veldt a. solitary pair of horsemau. These agethe advance points, as they are ter. med, and are thrown forward perhaps a mile ahead of the vanguard. They are on look-out for the enemy, and on the Brat hint of danger it is their duty to ride back to left and right and alarm the; Bankers. _ These latter are thrown out fanwise

from the cavalry, which screens the in- fantry vanguard, and they in their turn pass the word back along the trailing, snakelike _ribbon of armed men, till within half an hour, say, of the enemy’s, being first sighted. the entire- command knows of the threatened danger and is L prepared to deal with it. 'J

The two advanced points h`ave_b¢en wel]

likened to `a couple of electric buttons, which,on being touched, thrill the alarm down both flanks throughout the entire. length of the column with which they are in communication. .The simile is not quite perfect, however, for the alarm is sounded by these living electric buttons while yet the danger is remote. Some hundreds of yards in the rear of the cav- alry screen comes the -Advance guard, and a main guard. This latter constitutes the first fighting unit of the advancing column, and its strength is, of course, pro- portionate to the strength-of the force it is covering. With it are field and ma- chine guris, miners, sappers, engineers, ambulances, reserve ammunition Waggons

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After the advance guard has passed we

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The unint-imated in matters military

will now probably expect to see t-he main body of the army; but no. A single infan- try battalion, or maybe two, will pass, marchingstrictly “to. attention,” bayonets fixed, and officers swords carried naked at the slope; after which there will heave ` slowly into sight anwapparently endless train of field artillery, machine guns, arn- munitiou wagons, ambulances, tool carts, forage and store waggons, and numbers of led horses. It is only when this he- terogeneous processipn has come to an end that the thickening of the dust-cloud and the-measured tramp, tramp, tramp! -herald the approach of the infantry brigades. On they come,1-ifles at the slope or at the trail, talking, laughing joking, singing, smoking, as though war and its attend# ant horrors were a thoisand miles away. On they come-and still on! Batallion after battalion; brigade after brigade,

It becomes almost monotonous after

a while, for the mighty fighting machines. each composed of a thousand or more individual fighting "units, swing past with the mechanical precision of- gigantic automata. Everything moves as if by clockwork. Thirty paces` interval is the regulation distance between battalions and brigades, and thirty paces interval it is-no more, no less. There is no slack- ening, no hesitaucy, for all the apparent I free-and-easiness.

A Company lags but a foot or two; it is

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With the p-rising of the rearinost

brigade the interest to the average spectator largely vanishes. True, there follow more machine guns, more tool' parts, ammunition waggons, led horses, etc., but all these we have seen. before. The bearer. companies, with their trim stretcher-s and the Red.Cross of Geneva showing conspicuously on their tunic, sleeves, amuse a brief curl. osity, but they are out of sight, swallowed up in the dust cloud almost ere we realize their presence.

Ifrhowever, we care to occupy our kopje

fo;-.another hour or so we shall seeyet arlother cloudof dustndvancing toward us. This is formed by the baggagetrain vvhfchfollows all armies. Lastly comes the rearguard, followed bya small de- ‘ tachment of military police, Who* dui? it is to lock after stragglers.

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