Show T 11 GUILTY OF MURDER ML philadelphia PI pa nov 2 ilear henry y 11 II holmes was convicted of murder in the first degree pt tonight for killing benjamin enjamin ll F bietzel lie he coughed slightly that was all when he heard the N vordi that was the only sign the jury retired to deliberate at 5 40 this afternoon according to one of their number they had biad reached their verdict before the alie doors of their room clo closed sedon on them for hungers sake they ate their supper first then they took a ballot and without hesitation every member of the twelve nn guilty of murder in the first degree but however atro aaro the crime however fiendish the criminal crim mal it is hard to send a man to the gallows in one minutes time lime so for bake ake they talked about the case for a seemingly i long period about an hour and in d a half then word was sent into court that they had agreed this was at it took half an all lour hour to get the court in readiness to receive the verdict holmes spoke to his bis counsel rolan and shoemaker in the cell room before he WAS taken to mo yam prison to them lie said il 1 feel aba this condemns condern ns me it was an unjust trial ile he would say no more than that immediately after the verdict the usual I 1 application for leave to file a in motion for a new trial wasi wai made nade the principal reason urged will be lack of time for the preparation for the defense should a new trial be refused in an appeal will be taken to the supreme court and arguments heard at its next sitting iu in cais t lia city january 1806 1896 so even if everything goes against hit him holmes hits has yet sometime to spend on the earth from which he be is fill alleged eged to have sent so many luany fellow mortals DURRANT MUST DIE san francisco kovl theodore durrant assistant superintendent 0 of if tile emmanuel baptist church sunday runday school iol was wait today convicted of f the murder of blanche lamont for which he has baa been on trill trial since pines july last the jury was on out sweat twenty y minutes rainus and arrived r at the verdict on the first ballot As there nas no recommendation men dation of mor mercy cythe the punishment was fixed fit at death it 11 was exactly twenty one min minutes from the time the jury left the court room to the time the verdict ai nas as announced but that time was not all taken up in deliberation in fact there was no deliberation at all the jury had bad evidently decided c upon a verdict before they left the box it was 3 i 34 when they filed out of the court room into the grand jury room which had been placed at their disposal it took the men until before they settled themselves comfortably fort ably and at a knock on the doo anor r announced to the anxious waiters that it a verdict had been f found CC d I 1 it to took 1 just five minutes of f actual time to elect a foreman and take the one ballot the big doors it at the rear of the ille room opened and the ibe members of the jury field in and took their seats io in the box in the intense excitement that followed follo ned the room although it itwara was filled to it utmost capacity was almost a as ani quirt t as am if it had been a cant it judge murphy who had retired tire to his hib chambers chamb eiB was sull summoned and took his place upon the bc ench bench clerk morris morria asked the usual question as to i bother tin the july had bad acied upon it a berdt ver diet foreman warren n dutton arose and replied in n affirmative the we ve the july said he find thi th ferdina di william henry 1 llie heodore odore durrant guilty ot or mui der in the fit lait itt degree A As the ogeil foie maii nian pale and I 1 iball ad thu the words worda that 5 fi dived dui rants fate a low rum 0 0 filing bling naise like the rumbling of a Inlo baloe e flom tle the rear of the i e rhe ilie next moment 0 inen chec checking ting wildly while 0 11 omen I 1 ept hysterically in excite the bailiff rapped foi but the tumult conti continued for a minute before anything like 1 I quiet could bo brought brough tout out of the 1 I disorder d is order then n district attorney A darnes arose and asked that a day be set upon which the pen sentence of death should be passed upon the prisoner judge murphy emil aid that sentence sen lence would be passed next ati day upon u pon which day he would also sef set the day for the thial of durrant on the charge of murdering minnie williams buting dm ing the tumult that bullo followed I 1 the announcement of the verdict act durrant and his mother were lost sight of except by the few who sat nearest to lu them As tb the lat last i words of the verdict were nere uttered durrant made a spa to a ai ich me to his fert feet but before be could do so his mother with a half sigh half ino id threw her arms around his neck fieck and sank rank back into her chair ilia mothers grief seemed to make durrent dilirang Dil irant forget his hie own position and for the next few min minutes he sat at with his arms around her neck trying to soothe her tile the long of the trial however had completely shattered her self control anil and it was some time before mrs leave the courtroom durrant recovered his old time coina composure 0 sure at soon he left his mother and prepared to 0 o return to the county jail with his overcoat swung cri cn lessly over I 1 is ilia arm lie he walked leisurely out of the room twirling his slight flight r mustache nu stache with apparently as aa little conce concern rn as if he were merely a spectator of in blead alcad of the principal figure the exciting scenes |