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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form that I speak of is the one situated in front of the blackboard, onthe north wall of the .Sunday school room. I just stretched myselfout there with my hands under my head and laid there until hereturned. I met him in about the middle aisle of the Sunday schoolroom, and he and I walked into the kitchen together. I undid thebottle and emptied out some of it into a glass and put a little waterwith it and drank it. That was the first time I had ever tasted anyof that stuff. I knew what it was good for, and I made a rather wryface over it. I asked him if he would not like some of it, and he said,No, not if it is as unpleasant as you make it out to be. Then wewent back and sat on the platform, a few minutes, and we wentup-stairs then to bring the organ down after sitting there for a fewminutes; it was in the organ loft, in the main auditorium, when wewent to bring it down. We pushed it along the floor until we got itas far as the door leading out of the choir loft into a small hall five
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AUDITORIUM OF CHURCH.The door to the right leads into the pastors study. The door to the left leads from the organ loft, downa narrow flight of stairs, into Sunday School rooms below. It was down these stairs Durrant wentafter crossing over the false ceiling; also down the stairs King and Durrant carried the organ. Oneof the sun burners is shown by this picture, which Durrant claimed he was fixing. THE DURRANT CASE. 85 or six or four or five feet long. Part of that hall leads to the pastorsstudy on the opposite side of the church; and he took the lead onthe organ and took hold of it preceding me, and I took hold of thehandle that was in the rear end of the organ, and he assisted inlifting it down the three or four steps that are in that portion of thehall, and I guided it from the rear, holding it up to keep it from tear-ing the carpet. I had hold with my right hand on the round woodenhandle situated about two-thirds of the height of the organ from thefloor. I was leaning over like th

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