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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ted here in Court. (Offered notes in evidence—witness numbers and initials pages containing notes of that lecture.) ,Those five pages which I have initialed and numbered constitute thenotes of Dr. Cheneys lecture, taken by me on that afternoon. (Admit-ted five pages in evidence as Defendants Exhibit 35.) At the closeof the lecture on this day, I left the college, went down Webster streetto the Sutter street cars, took the Sutter street cars and transferred toPolk street, went down via Larkin to the corner of Mission and Ninth,and transferred there to the electric car going west on Mission, andwent to 22nd street. Got off the car and went up 22nd to Bartlett,up Bartlett to the south side of the church. I entered the church bythe rear door—on the south side of the church nearest to 23rd street.I was alone during all that time. There was no gentleman nor ladywith me,at that time on that journey, or any part of it; none in mycompany. I conversed with and met no one that I knew on that
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LOWER HALLWAY OF CHURCH FROA\ MAIN STREET ENTRANCE. Straight ahead leads into Sunday School rooms. The stairway up to the Auditorium of the Church. The open door into the library, and the inner door is the door of the little room in which the body of Minnie Williams was discovered. THE DURRANT CASE. 81 occasion. My object in going to the church was to repair the vibrator—the spark vibrator that was situated on the gas jets in the upperauditorium in what is known as the sun burner. The one I particu-larly desired to fix was the one right over the rostrum. Of the threesun burners, the one over the rostrum and the middle one are usedabout an equal number of times, but it might have been used a littlemore; at times it is. I went straight through to the library afteropening the south side door, which I found unlocked. On my way tothe library I removed my watch from my vest pocket and placed it inthe breast pocket of my coat to guard against it dropping out of mypocket from the sun burner

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