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 . the purs
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 . the purse by saying that he had found it whilst hewas walking along the street. There were some spots of blood found on a washstand at thechurch, but no blood stains were ever found on Durrants clothing,which fact was always argued as a point in the prisoners favor. As appears from the foregoing pages, Durrant was never tried forthe killing of Minnie Williams. The inquest on the body of MinnieWilliams, however, was held before that of Blanche Lamont and theCoroners jury promptly charged him with the crime of her first preliminary examination before the magistrate was on theWilliams case and the magistrate promptly held him to answer on thischarge. It was thought by the prosecuting officers that the chain ofevidence was most complete in the Lamont case and it was for thatreason that the Lamont charge was first tried, although in develop-ing the testimony in the Lamont case the witness Zenger was discov-ered which made the Williams case probably stronger than the DETECTIVE JOHN SEYMOUR,Assistant to Capt. Lees. Popular Series . .OF Celebrated American I rials Vh, Webster7/furcier ase. THE Collector Publishing Co. will bringout within the next few months a seriesof great trials, including generally thestory of the case, the examination of the wit-nesses and the speeches of counsel. The firstof this series is now ready. It is the greattrial of Prof. Webster, of Harva
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