Show TIlE STATUS OF DURRA IS CASE It Is Peculiar and Excites Ouch Comment A DECISION WILL BE GIVEN TODAY CORONERS JURY LOOKING UP r THE HOFFMAN CASE f Inquest Will Not be Held Until the Business Books of the Firm Have I Been Experted Lillian Black Marries the Man Who Stabbed Her Los Angeles Has a New ExchangeSeIl5ation in Mining Exchange the Davis Will Case San Francisco June 7The peculiar status of the Durrant case is exciting an unusual amount of public comment Since the postponement of Wordens execution the opinion is generally expressed ex-pressed that Durrant will not hang on Friday next Attorne General Fitz unless gerald however said today that officially notified or restrained Warden Hale stands ready to carry out the sentence Warden Hale has asked for the opinion of the attorneygeneral who will render his decision tomorrow So confident is Theodore Durrant of the outcome of his appeal to the court of last resort that he is already making mak-ing plans for the future It is generally gen-erally believed among the legal fraternity fra-ternity that pending the action of the supreme court Governor Budd will f grant a reprove In order to prevent the necessity of resentencing the prisoner and the endless litigation which it might result In THE HOFFMAN CASE Inquest Postponed For Very Good Reasons San Francisco June 7The jury subpoenaed by the coroner in the mysterious Hoffman case was taken down to the scene of the tragedy this morning by Coroner Hawkins and Dr Gallagher who performed an autopsy upon the body of the deceased On arrival at the Battery street office Chief of Police Lees proceeded to explain ex-plain the situation but was interrupted inter-rupted by Attorney Ach who represented repre-sented the relatives of the deceased He classed the conduct of the chief as highly improper and a lively tilt ensued p en-sued as the chief resented the implication impli-cation that he was attempting to influence in-fluence the jurors toward the suicidal theory No date has yet been set for the inquest in-quest the coroner having acceded to the request of the police not to hold It until the books of the firm have been experted Davis Will Case Sensation San Francisco June 7A sensation was sprung by counsel for the contestants contest-ants In the Davis will case today when it was shown that the ashes of the > deceased millionaire over whose property prop-erty his heirs are now wrangling are being held by Undertaker Schuyler of I Philadelphia as security for the sum of SOO the value of the casket In whIch the remains reposed before being cremated as well as for the process of embalming It is contended by the other side however that the ashes only remain in the custody of the undertaker because be-cause no one has any authority to take charm of them t Loved Him All the More Fresno Cal June 7Alfred Corkey t who stabbed his sweetheart Miss Lillian i Lil-lian Black at Kingsburg Sunday and t was charged with assault to murder was married to the woman at noon today Miss Black procured the li i ense and went to the jail for the per t iormance Mangled Under a Train Fresno Cal June 7Alfred Pearce in attempting to board a train at Men dota this morning fell and was run over and horribly mangled After being be-ing taken to the hospital here he died He Is said to be a cousin of exMayor r Ellert of San Francisco l i Los Angeles Mining Exchange LosAngeles Cal June 7Today was the first time on which stocks i have been called at the new Mining t Exchange in this city and 62000 shares t were handled principally the stock of the Desert mines of southern California Califor-nia There was a large number of people 1 peo-ple present and much interest was I taken I Another Frisco Fire I San Francisco June 7Another big fire threatened the southern portion of the city this afternoon Four alarms were turned in the first at 120 oclock and following so closely upon the fatal fire of yesterday it caused much excitement ex-citement I The extensive plant of the Truckee 1 Lumber company and box factory on Berry street between Fourth and Fifth A was the scene of todays fire The Ii blaze started in the sawdust bin in the fj rear of the factory from some unknown un-known cause and spread with such y rapidity that before the arrival of the fire brigade the main building was enveloped a en-veloped in flames From the factory r the fire spread to the lumber yard adjoining ad-joining but was checked before much f damage had resulted to the stock on < hand there f The factory was completely gutted 4 however and a rough estimate of the damage places the loss at 30000 of which at least onehalf was in machinery I ma-chinery The latter was insured for 19000 and the contents of the building were Insured for 6000 more About J6000 worth of finished lumber was so charred and warped by the heat and flames as to be useless |