Show HO 40 J JURY CRY I 1 IET ET san pan francisco aug 17 on aonda monday i y the tr hia of theodore durrant or fo for r tire the murder of blanche lamoot will ill enter upon its fifth week drain dubins the he firby two twe weeks a bub class of jurors was drawn from the box and it was comparatively ensa to secure eight men who said they had no bias and were satisfactory for every reason all of the past week was spent iu in a 8 vain elloit to find a satisfactory As the case progresses the re counsel find it more difficult to be satisfied with veLAir emen any one n ho seems acceptable to oue one side appears objectionable to the other on general principles counsel find it easy to dispose of objectionable veni remen without peremptory challenge the defense has twelve of its peremptory challenges left and returns haie base been made on nearly 1000 venire men should no progress pio giess he be made next neek tire the defense nil hiob ably renew its motion for a change of venue if it can bo be shown that it is practically impossible to obtain a jury merethe he rethe motion will be gr grantee antel a abe egin e i ning of the trial was only provisional the statement tta lement of ills caroline leak that she saw theodore dur arut and blanche Larri lament ont enter En emmanuel emillian illian up baptist church churchon on apt april il 3rd ard a few min minutes lites before miss aliss lamont lament is tip pored to have been pied has broken the ice and two more wit witnesses have come for I 1 who say they saw durrant and nd the girl in the vicinity church at al the same time about 4 p i in one of the new witnesses is ohn john rush a carpenter rushs story is ia to the belleci that in company with a friend the man iuan whose identity the police are keeping a secret sc ciet lie was strolling rolling bt along twenty second street A young man and a girl nero walking toft ward ancl them thein fron from the direction of valencia street the man inan and girl turned into bartlett street going in the dai action of the church and on the came anie side hide of the street rush and the other witness passed on eleven days later is when lien the news of the murders in the church became known rush had a visit from hit his companion of april 3rd ard lie ife was astonished to learn from lihn that the young man whom they had met on twenty second street with the pirl girl was theodore durmant dun ant ruih lush asked if there could be any po possibility sivility of a mistake and his friend told him that there n afta a none that lie he had knon u durmant a long time arid and could not be inie mistaken talen about bib hia appearance miss lament was unknown to rushs friend and lie could not identity her but blit as to durrant he was positive the anen hesitated for burns time about making their information known to the but finally decided that it was the their r duty to do 0 o they made a N asit I 1 sit to captain lees arid and told him film their story they wei e show n the clothing of a lemont lamont which was found in the belfry and both men declared as certain that they were the tha garments torn by the girl whom they saw walkin walking with durrant then captain cantal n lees showed them I 1 I 1 a photograph of dur W friend identified it pd positively and ruth was mas 1 cutain Q jin that it n as the picture of t ho be i i met on twenty I 1 |