Identifier: reportoftrialofw00durr (find matches)
Title: Report of the trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant, indicted for the murder of Blanche Lamont, before the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco : including a full history of the case after defendant's conviction ... : also including a complete synopsis of the evidence in possession of the authorities in the case for the murder of Minnie Williams, for which Durrant was never tried, but which developed into an even stronger case than the one upon which he was convicted : illustrated from numerous photographs in the possession of the Police Department of San Francisco
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Durrant, William Henry Theodore, 1871-1898 Peixotto, Edgar D
Subjects: Durrant, William Henry Theodore, 1871-1898 Lamont, Blanche, d. 1895 Williams, Minnie Flora, d. 1895 Trials (Murder) Murder
Publisher: Detroit : Collector Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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the intoxication only goes to the first stage, the personwould feel a decided sense of burning pain in the face and pain inthe head, pulsation in the temporal arteries and blood vessels there.The face would look markedly flushed; the visible mucous membraneof the eye, the conjunctive, and the mucous membrane of the lipswould look very red; later on the party would see things floatingbefore his eyes; he would become dizzy, and that would represent thestage from consciousness to unconsciousness. He may have sensationsof a pleasurable kind, or sensations of a disagreeable nature beforeunconsciousness comes on. Then he would become unconscious andremain so if the intoxication continued. The symptoms of the firststage are a feeling of burning of the skin, especially of the face, fullnessin the head, pain in the back of the head, pulsation in the temporalarteries, marked flushing of the face, redness and also an\ appearanceof redness in the visible mucous membrane of the eye and of the lip.
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EDGAR D. PEIXOTTO. Assistant District Attorney of San Francisco, junior counsel for the State. THE DURRANT CASE. 135 The redness of the face would he liable to continue for quite a time,say an hour or two hours. The blood is turned of a cherry red colorby the intoxication with carbon mon-oxide—caused by a combinationof carbon with the coloring material of the blood; the taking up ofthe oxygen of the air is caused by the red blood corpuscles in the bloodand thereby life is sustained in our body. If the carbon oxide or carbonmon-oxide, as it is also called, is taken up into the blood, this gaschanges the coloring matter of the blood corpuscles which, underordinary circumstances, takes the oxygen of the air and changes it sothat it cannot take up any oxygen any more, and if thereby a sufficientnumber of red blood corpuscles are made unfit to take up oxygen, lifeis destroyed and this combination of carbon oxide, with this coloringmatter of the blood, is called haemoglobine and forms thi

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