Show today was set for the execution of durrant HE to lormil ills attorneys to prepare bill 0 f exceptions kc yiew of the murder SAN FRANCISCO feb 21 special theodora durrant the arch fiend and condemned murderer will not b executed today owing to an additional respite of twenty days granted on tho twelfth dinst in order to permit abo prisoners attorneys to prepare their bill of exceptions this will delay the consummation of alie sentence pronounced by judge until the early part of march and the prisoner will probably fiend the whole or greater portion of the interval in the san quentin penitentiary where he is at present confined on december alth last judge mur eliy in tho circuit court denied the motion for a new trial in the case of W H T Durran fc convicted of the murder of blanche lament under that created a national sensation and ordered that he be taken to the state prison at san quantin there to ba kept in close confinement until today when he was to ba by the neck until he waa dead with alie full story of the crime and alie remarkable chain of circumstantial evidence which re aulten in currants Dur rants conviction on the indictment charging him with the murder of blanche lament all newspaper readers are familiar the detente relied upon establishing an alibi but the effort was so weak that it was easily shattered long before the case on both sides had closed the jury was satisfied that blanche lamont had fallen a victim t Durrant fl lust and had then been brutally murdered to prevent his exposure A verdict of guilty was speedily reached and after unsuccessful efforts to ae eure a new trial durrant waa again arraigned and sentenced to be hanged today had ha been acquitted the state would have placed him on trial for the murder of minnie williama the case has been one which for ingenuity and dramatic interest has seldom been surpassed including the time occupied in cecur ing a jury the trial occupied nearly four months the crime of the century is what alie emmanuel baptist church murders are called in san francisco the jack the eipper murdena in london did not surpass them in horror in that case a series of out cafa women whose lives were a burden to them were made away with but in this case two young pretty and i cogent girls wera murdered in the moat atrocious manner within tho vry walls of the church f which they were devoted members while the man convicted of one of tha murders william hanry theodore durrant was the exemplary young man of the congregation he was ati tant superintendent auperin of the sunday school an earnest member of the ghristian endeavor society and alie trotted confidant of the he was a bright young man who acted as electrician and handy man around tho church and ho was a studious young man preparing himself for tha medical procession protes sion by study at the cooper medical school in san francisco he waa a member of the national guard and in all outward ways a model citizen on saturday april 13 the women of the congregation of emmanual baptist church going there t decorate the building for the great festival of easter found in the littly library of alie sunday school the body of minnie williams a member of the church she had been stabbed and strangled to death the horror cau cd by this discovery die covery wag in ful force when a second one raised it to frenzy on easter sunday a searching party penetrated to the belfry of the church and there fondd the dead and naked body of blanche lament williams had baen killed not earlier than the previous pre friday but the I 1 other had lain thera two weeks in fact as is universally unive rally believed since the disappearance of blanche lament on april 3 in the library was found blanche laments library card and this fact appears first to faaee suggest ed a connection between the two murders durrant th model young man of tha church wag th last person seen with minnie williami on friday night april 12 he was ake last person een with blanche lament on april 3 on the night of the bunday when the tatters body was discovered in the belfry durrant was ar feted while on duty with the militia signal service corps |