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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ody of that young girl inEmanuel Baptist Church. There is but one thing left for you to do andthat is to render your verdict of guilty. It is ours by right, by lawand by justice. We ask it as a matter of duty. We ask it as a matterof right. We ask it in the name of the law, in the name of the Peopleof the State of California. You will be but doing your solemn duty.Do it, as quickly, as surely and as certainly as Durrant with his fingersstrangled and stifled that young girl. On Friday morning, October 25th, 1895, General John H. Dickinson,counsel for the defendant, commenced the opening argument on behalfof the defense. The argument is in part as follows: Mr. Dickinson. May it please the Court and Gentlemen of the Jury,we are approaching the conclusion of a very long, interesting andimportant trial. The amount of testimony which we have taken, muchnecessarily of which has been immaterial, has been very great and aswe are all anxious to get through with the trial as rapidly as possible,
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GEN. JOHN H. DICKINSON.One of Defendants Counsel. THE DURRANT CASE. 149 I shall proceed at once with my argument as to testimony which Ibelieve important and which bears upon the case. I will start with the morning of the 3rd of April and call attentionto the position and relations of the two principal actors in this tragedy.The defendant, a young man of the age of twenty-three, a man ofgood associations and unsullied character, and which after the con-clusion of the testimony still stands unsullied. My learned friends who opened for the prosecution yesterday madesome reference to unbridled passion and sensualism and sadism, butI challange the prosecution to point out one iota of testimony thatpoints in any manner or degree to the truth or even the suspicion ofthe existence of any such state. This is particularly important, as itwas given by the gentlemen as the motive. On behalf of the defendantwe submit that there is nothing in this entire case to show the motivefor the commission o

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