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Show Tdurrant talks. Says He is Innocent and Scores the Newspapers. WILDE'S WIFE QUITS HIM Ana Will Seek Divorce From the Brute She Hai Heretofore Calied Huibtnd $1,800,000 Worth of Wheat to be Thrown on the Market at Once. San Fuancisco, April 29 For the first time since the charge of murdering Miaa Marian William in the Emanuel Banish church of thia city was formally form-ally made against Y. II. T. Durrant, the prieouer Lug cunsenttrd to talis. He spoke first of the Lamont case, Baying: "Por Blanche! I am accused of Btraniing her and then remaining unmoved un-moved at the detai a of the most boi- rible cr.ma in history. Ne one will ever know the sorrow I feel and no one could begin lo comprehend my thoughts even if I were to tell all the anguish her terrible fate has caused me. I could not have murdered that girl. I liked her too well, not better than anyone any-one else in theaworld, but I respected and admired her, and we were good friends. "J adding by newspaper communications, communica-tions, I am looked upon as a coldblooded, cold-blooded, diabolical monster. I am painted as a devil in human shape, and very little ia said In favor of trie possibility pos-sibility of any other person having killed those two girls; but when my trial ia over the world will know that I am innocent. My composure and self-control since my arrest are held against me, but no person will ever know the terrible ordeal I am undergoing. under-going. It is said that I use opiates to induce sleep. That is a lie, I am able to sleep well because my conscience is clear of all crime. I am not of a nervous nerv-ous temperament, and haye always been able to keep cool." A sensational rumor baa obtained currency in connection with the prisoner, pris-oner, and if the tacts should prove the rumor true the police will have a ctrong Hut in a cnaia or. circumstantial circumstan-tial evidence that so . faiiifl not very hiioDg, in the Williams case, at least. Tnis rumor is to the effect that an Oakland official hat communicated to Chief of Poiice Crowley of this city a statement to the effect than an Oakland Oak-land physician told niui that some time ago he had been called upon to attend the 15 year-old daughter uf a resident 6t San Francisco. Toe girl had been aaaaulted and she alleged that her assailant as-sailant wai Durrant; that he had lured her to the belfry of Emanuel church and had there accomplisned his nefariouB purpose. For proltB-sional proltB-sional reasons, it is believed, this physician has refused to make the mater mat-er public. Chief Crowley, when Been last night, reiustd to either confirm or deny the story. , Darrant was arraigned tctfay in the police co irt on a charge of murder for the killing of Blanche Limont. BHS LEAVES THE BRUTE. London, April 29 It haa been learned that Immediately after her nusband was arrested, Mrs. Wilde look her children and her belongings from the Wilde residence on Tite .street, and instructed her lawyer to in-etitute in-etitute proceedings for a divorce. The proceedings will hinge somewhat on the decision riven in the present .-liminal proceedings against Wilde. Will'e, Oscar's brother formerly the uutband of Airs Frank Leslie, who di-voiced di-voiced him, had to raise the money hat week to pay Omar's lawyers for their services. Willie and Oscar have not been on friendly terms for a long time. When the i-roier visited the Old Baiiey on Fridav, to inform his brother that the money bad been paid to Sir Edward Cianc, Oscar's counsel, Oscar said: "Don't come to see me; I don't wiBh to see my people." TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND TONS OF WHEAT. San Francisco, April 29. -The Evening Bulletin says that the two hundred thousand tons of ''syodicate wheat," which has been stored for two years in the warehouses of the late James G, Fair at P.irt Costa, haa been placed on the market. The wheat is of the crop of 1892, 1893 and 1894. It is said that the Luning estate loaned Fair $100,000 1 1 corner the wheat and that the Luuing estate management, nervous tor fear wevil might dam ace its security, has pressed the Fair estate to take up this loan. Th9 '92 and '93 vh at cannot, under the rules, be sold on change, ao the wheat will be adyer tised for buyen generally. The wheat is estimated to be worih $1,800,000. Whether sold here or not, getting so large a quantity of wheat out of port will be a problem. Negotiations have 'eon made for a shipment of part of the wheat by rail to New Orleans, thence to Liverpool. It mould require ".000 cars to move half the stored syndicate syn-dicate wheat To ship all of the wheat to Liverpool would take seventy -five vessels. |