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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
Wholesome Advice.
For People whose Stomaches are
Weak and Digestion Poor,
_ mi.;
»
Dr. Hari'-antlson, whose opinion in dis-
uses is worthy of attention, says when a
man comes to me complaining of indiges-
lion, loss ot' appetite, sour stomach,belch-
illg,soui~ watery rising, headaches, sleep-
lessness. lat-l~; of ambition and ageneral
run down nervous condition I advise them
to take after >ach meal one or two of
Stuart`s Dyspelzbia Tablets, allowing the
tablet to dissolve in the mouth, and thus
mingle with the food eaten. The result
lsthat the food is speedily digested before
ithas time to sour and ferment. 'These
tablets will digest the food anyway
whether the stoinnch wants to or not be-
Gluse they contain harmless digestive
vrinciples-_ vegetable essences, pepsin and
Golden Seal which supplyjust what the
Unk stomach lacks.
Ihave advised the tablets with great
Success, both in curing indigestion and to
Build up the tissues, increasing flesh in
lhlnnervous patients, whose trouble was
flspepsia, and as soon as the stomach
was put, to rights, they 'did not know
What sickness was.
Alifty cent package of Stuart’s Dyspep-
liu Tablets can be bought at any drug
550112, and as they are not a secret patent
medicine, they can be used as often as de-
liwd with full assurance that they contain
Wthinl! harmful in the slightest degree;
°lI the contrary, anyone whose stomach is
it all deranged will find great benefit from
me use of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets.
“PY Will cure any form of stomach weak-
ness or disease except cancer of the stom-
_ sch.
'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
I - - ' ' corner of the
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
Hill to Mr. J. G. Jamieson, B05 ‘ ` im riot of live fingers buried in her
the D _
'0lild ask friends and customers 50 throat revealed the manner ill. Whl°h me
“Will to him a liberal share of your young woman had met her death-
ihde.
The trial which began on July 23 and
5 W  lasteduntil Nov.1W3,5 ‘me °ft'h° most'
une llth 1900
“D0 llth, 1900-1.'.'i&wt,,
J ' . lbrated in criminal jurisprudence'
oe e _
l men were examined be-
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__ Referring to the above the under. girl;  W; secured and six weeks
"PQ requests from the Public at ed before the taking 05 testimony
Gontmuetion of the liberal po'r0iJi£9 53:; begun. The evidence throughout
b°9f0'€d in the past, and hopei, _by was circumstantial, but when taken to-
and strict attention to busi- gether formed a chain so strong as to Def'
“$910 merit a larger share of the-mi; of no reasonable doubt. The cr\S€
‘was ...tained mule Jury on the “fwf-
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The night before Durrant-‘s execution
----~-~ ________________________________________________________________________ _ _ the Slllirllme court denied an appiim.
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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Scores of hundreds of faniillos would
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RU
A British column advancing in time of
war through an enemy’s country is at
once a magnificent and a remarkable
spectacle or, rather, to be quite correct,
it would be, provided the eye could take
in all the details as a. single glance,
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
'and so forth. 'In fact, the advance guard J
of a. large column constitutes in itself a
lighting force-a miniature army, so to
speak, complete in practically all essen-
tial details.
After the advance guard has passed we
shall probably see-emerging from the
clouds of dust which always, except in
wet weather, envelope as with a mantle ,
a column on the march-another solitary
pair of horseman, and then at intervals
another and yet another. These are the
connecting links. A half troop, or per-
haps, if the force is alarge one, a whole
troop of cavalry- will come next, then
more connecting links, and lastly the
officer commanding, surrounded and ac-
companied by his staff.
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
spurred sharply forwarl by a. biting
phrase-half expostulation, half com-
mand-uttered by its captain. A _bat-
talion doesllikewise; and a wave of the
hand from its ever-watchful chief sends
the arljutaut galloping down the right
11ank,_ exploding as he goes. So is the
force kept "strung up.” And a very neces-
sary process is this same stringing up.
The loss of a few yards at the head
means hundreds at the tail. A trivial
_check to the frofitxof a long column is a
serious delay tfo the men in the rear of `
it, and continu il stepping out or rapid
closing-tends to exhaust the troops.
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.
Your best friend can give you no better
a ivice than this: “For impure blood,
b id stomach and weak nerves take Hoon s
b:\rsapartlla.”_
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the suit.
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holds, 25c ones look
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Every kind but the dingy kind W,
J nat warm enough for spring.
Not too heavy for hotter days and
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o .
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FAMINE HORRORS OF INDIA
‘VI
. ;,. .
The _Cholera Outbreak and
Blind Fear Have Kept
.Down the Relief Pigues. 

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LONDON, fl une 13.'-The famine in India.
grows worse. The Standard’s Simla. cor-
respondent, in a mail letter, says!-“It
would be rash, to assume from the .almost
stationary relief figures that the corner
will soon be turned. So devastating has
been the cholera outbreak, so enormous f.
the mortality, and so blind the terror in-
spired by this black death, that the
famine relief campsin Bombay! Presidency
which contained thousands of workers l
melt awayand are left empty in the course 1
of a couple of days. _ 
“Starving though they be, the people `
prefer to ily totheir own homes and to die j_
lief camps, where the cholera is strikingi
down a hundred workers daily.
“Terrible stories come from Dohad. l
There thefamine is at its worst, and now L
the cholera. has arrived to complete - the
work. An eye-wit-ness says:-‘As we
walked through those quiet streets we
saw deserted homes and dead bodies.
One of the bravest acts witnessed was a
little girl about seven attempting to care
for two little brothers after the mother
had given up all hope and laid down near _
L them to die. She was feeding a Dre which
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s , r
burned beneath abroken pot in which
simmered the almost rotten feet. and
bones .of some dead animal. The some
cannot be painted too black. No account
we have ever read of any famine would
picture the state of affairs at ~Dohad.' "
The Sta.ndard’s correspondent says the
mortality estimates are inaccurate. Un-
numbered dead bodies are polluting the
streams and spreading contagion. _
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