Show 1 witness lenahan did not testify as elpe expected ted TRIED TO PAWN A RING but it was the afternoon when he called on the pawnbroker and not tho the forenoon while doirant entered the shop la in the morning prosecution also disappointed by dukes san r net ca oct 8 after wandering through a maze mate of 0 unimportant witnesses the defense in the durrant case this afternoon summoned to tho the stand two of the most important witnesses that have been called since tho the prosecution closed cloned its case 0 one n 0 of th the a wit nesses materially aided the defense from the fact that upon cross examina he failed to give important testimony teg 1 ilion expected by the the examination of the other viness had onty only just begun when the court took look a recess until tomorrow morning but in the short time that the witness was on the stand he testified to one important tact fact which was directly opposed to what the defense had hoped to estall lish hall the most important witness of tile the day was chillies charles T lenahan the youns young man who the defense contends was mistaken in staken for durrant by pawnbroker oppenheimer lenahan who aho does not bear a striking resemblance to the prisoner said that on april 3rd ard he attempted to 10 pawn it a small beall diamond ring glint similar lar to the one woi woin n by blanche L la it at Oppen heimers shop chop ahe 1 I it e witness said that ahat he asked mer the same tlona and received the same panic answers that quoted in relating the conversation he had with tt tte tle e young man whom oppen hellner testified was durrant then came the surprise to the defense which counteracted nearly all the I 1 strength a obtained from the witness te testimony lenahan said that ho he tried to pawn the ring in the afternoon while oppenheimer Oppen helmer testified that durrant durrent entered his shop in the morning attorney deuprey was ass considerably discon cel tei by the statement of the witness and endeavored to lo impeach Len ahans thans testimony by reading a letter written by lenahan to the attorneys for the defense lit in which lie he divulged the fact that he had tried to pawn a small III lla L mond line ing at on the th e samo same day that was said to have entered the place the court interrupted deulley De however and refused to let him read only such parts of the letter 01 aa 4 referred to I 1 the he question deuprey then asked that the letter itter bo be admitted in evida ties find and at the close of the struggle over this move the court adjourned for the day the court refused to aar adr admit alt the whole letter in el evidence dence as some parts were devoted dented to the expression of the writers opinion as to the correctness of OPP test testimony imon the remainder of of the letter was admitted DEUPREY BECAME suspicious after lenahan surprised the defense by stating that he tried to pawn the ring in the afternoon attorney deuprey became very su suspicious spi clous of the witness and asked him m beveral questions intended to indicate that he had transferred hla his sympathies from the defense to tho the pro prosecution elution amono other things attorney attorn ry deuprey asked lenahan if he had not been in influenced fluen ced by persons persona known to be in sympathy with tile the prosecution se deuprey also asked him hill IN when hen he shaved off the moustache he wore more A when hen ho he entered opp shop lenahan said ili he I 1 had I 1 never worn a moustache in ills his life deuprey intimate led that he would impeach the ny of the kvitne witness 5 on this point by it a statement contained jn in tho the letter written fit by lenahan to the attorneys lor for the defense disappointed disappoints D BY DUKES W A dukes ti student at cooper medical college who lie was aug expected to give strong evidence el dence for the prosecution gave disappointing testimony dukes said eald that Durr durrant arit asked him if he be could not remember that he attended dr cheneas Chen Che eyB lecture on the afternoon of april stilt and to that end r recalled I 1 a a number of incidents said to have taken place at the time although dukess seat scat in the lecture room was waa next to Dur ranta dukes could not remember whether durrant Jur rant was there or not and told lold him so no dukes said it was untrue as had been reported that durrant asked him as a favor to testify that he tild old attend the lecture on the contrary dukes said that durrant told him he him to testify only to the facts as he remembered them with one exception the ierna inder of tile tho witnesses lineages were called to testify tei alfy to the previous good reputation L aelon of tile the defan dant II 11 N F r marshall a reporter on oil a morning paper testified that on abill ath detective gibson who discovered discoN ered blanche lamonta L body in ili the belfry of nanuel 1 church told h him I 1 in that ile saw the prints print of a number nine slice shoe near whore where the body lay durrant wears a smaller shoe in the case of bliss conte can ie cunningham it a newspaper reporter who aho le ic fumea tuned to disclose the ibo source of certain information relative to the nature e or 0 mr airs acal desks s testimony judge murphy ruled that tile the witness was right in refusing to answer tile the question MISS cunningham was therefore not punished d for contempt in le cognition of miss C u ann I 1 11 ll a m I 1 a nr it rm ileSs the press club t today oil a y elected cleate her ber an honorary member |