| Show ULHRANT IS HESprnm I When He Receives the News Ho Drops on His Knees and Prays I I STATE SUPREME COURT ORDERS A STAY I I AI I oRdT foirthr11 1 11 bill 1 11110111tlyIlurmut Mont I If I JllnUliM Ills Innminte San Francisco Nov 11 William IInry Theodore Durrant will not ben Mn be-n at SanQuentln Friday mornIng morn-Ing after all the sUprime1 court of this flat liirtne granted him another re bpi at the eleventh hour Cp to the time this afternoon when tM n we flashed over the wire from Face monto that the court now In ooi I n there had granted a writ of 1 pent Ie cause and Instructed Warden Hale not to carry out the execution of Dmnl flAtIl further orders lhoro Has piarently nd further hOlle for the condo ined murderer ot lllanche Lament La-ment and Minnie Williams as his at tornr > Messrs Dickinson I < Hoard i man had made a futile effort to secure se-cure hla writ of habeas gIn I g-In the United States circuit I court and I I had not > even been granted permls I Sin P Applied l from the deelloll l to i the frupiemo Court ofthe UnlliJ blatn iiiinwhile honoer Attorney Deu rrey h tened to Sacramento and ap j f plied tu ale state Istilirerno court for a Utlt of prohablo catlso for the ptir QC nf Playing l the proceeding I against his client upon tho I grounds that no oillclal knowtrdge nf the action ac-tion of the Supreme court of the United Uni-ted States In the matter of Durrant 1 appeal from the decision of the fcd I eral court had yet boon received that 1 the tup rlor court had acted too hastl I h In sentencing Durrani to hr hanged tomorrow as the I law required that he be given at least sixty dajs grate nd consequently that tho ptndettcy of another appeal In the supreme ourt rrIIn the cond emit el WB of Itself lIlllelent cause of a stay of oxo coUon The matter was partially argued 111 I chamber and later argued bUorc the fullCurt ahd taken unlcr ndvHe men I Shortly afterward the I court mi f ouncid Its decision l granting the writ I applied for In which all the juotlee concurred VURRAOT nuciivis Tim NEWS Son Quentin Prison Cal Nov II This h a been > n day of great but BUI rroed excitement In I anti about Iho plnltentlary The preparations l Cur tho execution ot Theodore Durrllnl had all been completed and the prison om claim mere In readiness to carry out the death aentenre from which here t seemed no fulther appeal The man alollewaR hopeful that lie might yet 0110111 II loner leooo of life lie I pent themaler part of the dllY In 1 reading and had little to say to I any one At 4N p m the news that the 011 preme court had granted a reprle mas reeetnd al tire Prison In a message mes-sage to Gordon Hale from Chief Jug lki t > IVitt Cnpt Edgar who opened the dispatch 1 tin absence of tile war den hnmtdlately wrote a note Convoy full the Information Lo tM condemned man The message was Pent to the death cell by a guard Purrant quick ly rend It still without any great dis play of emotion Ml on his knees and praid silently for several minutes Mrs purmnt the mother of the i frlnoner was n passenger on the I 330 bent from Fawl Francisco Wilt mile reached the 1Barh news wass told to he She was cheerful on the way oer snjlng that she had put 1 hep falth In Cod Anti felt that He would not de I tert hrr On nrrUal nt the prison i he was i Informed that her sons life had ton spared And that she night see i him later Thank God shesald Then the ent to i u hotel for rest and refreshment 3 At 7 oclock this evening she re turned to the prison and was admitted I j to CoPt rdgnrs oince whetv I her boy as malting to meet her The dellth vell 1 T as removed x hn Durrnnt wa brOught down to the office And It nIII I lot ftgain lie placed nvr the Prisoner urClr er tile rIred by future developmentm I hwth oe dra Durmnt mnlned I > lIh ter Pon In I close conversation for 1 IOme time 1 COXTINUIS TO AIHrn1 illS IN I BallQuent INOCIINC11 CalNov1tAnAsso ololed Pre os rter wa admitted to I the Prison nice where D los Durmnt nod mother wrre treated Oil II orn III ill others arms Durrantaltiol ex t red a desire to make n tatmellt to the Associated Press And In the cO urge of nn Interview nlol Naturally I Wilt < greatly elnteel at the nB of the relTlve although my firJt Intimation based her If lots Ihonp rnerpng Wilt < not positive Soon altrnor1 tire nw ws confirmed All I Could 10 vils to thank OtKl Wo the llIlevo a surprise Dur tant Arab iHkI Not IX4etl All along I have hall r feel falth in in Got This Afternoon 111f jlt jl gfl Ps lited Ity two SIsters of Charity M d I 11100 that their Prayers and the vrem of all those who have In terd I for me have bn Instrument At 110 bringing about this reult Then Durrall remarked that he could not ulllr lid hY Christian People houl 119 him In letter to confess I 1 am onnellt he ahl and would I Ittier 1fism to uch v lIe clmes h Inewr r later the truth Atli Ile known hm Alth that the rent n pernetriltor All I ho dloverecl ant Punished All or leme little emys bring us nearer IL I now that the Lord will sooner or lat net all thing right I shall Mrer r ve u p tire light because I he iihe boll er 7ith me he ridded embrit Ing still k rig his mother ion mrs I nurrnt toco was II smile A r ni itment 1 but th son looked sad him 1 n were dull He earnestly re J Jlatl many times tint faith in God JyuU ve him In the future ns In the It D x rally in conclusion Foy I am Innocent 41 will never 6ald tlld md find is I with me lit half an hours rhote talk with It 1 r son Mrs Durrant returned b hr hotel and Durrant was taken hark tr cell 2l In l the murderers uw 11Iled 1 Wch lu had oorupled before the deal > Seto tell laB t over him |
