Show evidence durrent DAMAGING non yet suf ta convict san francisco april 24 it may lo 10 that the emmanuel baptist church mur dere the killing of miss blanche la 1 mont on april 3rd and of miss marinn williame on april may go down as unsolved mysteries in the criminal annals of san franciaco iaco the police it ie true have gathered much evidence all but the witnesses for under the fire of cross exam have not held so firmly to their statements they evered in the matter of identification when pinned down the result of the second daye preliminary examination led chief of police crowley to remark that it was rather disappointing not what he had reason to anticipate certain it ie that durrant the medical student etu dent accused of the murder of marian williams has not yet lost his assurance or nerve ilia demeanor is peculiar so enigmatical that the conclusion forace itself upon the observer 1 that he is either a most monster or most cruelly wronged man it is eaid he is anxious to make his defense in police court relying upon the weakness of the cabo liim far and his alleged ability to prove an alibi but his lawyers are too cautious to permit hirn to nave his way the police have abandoned their tor additional and say they have the net woven good and strong about durrant of courne the public or at least a large portion of it is skeptical but as the police detill have bome twenty live and perhaps more evidence of which the people have not been apprised it is pua ablo that alie police may be right and will succeed in a case strong enough to warrant holding the accused tor trial the first witness this morning will bo the kev J georgo gibson of emmanuel baptist church at whom the finger ot suspicion baa been pointed us the man who possibly committed the crime but who cannot possibly have been concerned in it for during the time the murder was committed lie waa at a gathering of church members ae to the nature ot hia evidence there can be no surmise ds ho hae been almost silent on matters touching the case additional liht has been thrown on the murder of marian williams searchers have found blood stains in the church showing that the murderer had made his way in the dark from the library closet where lay the mutilated body to the washroom back of the pulpit in the rear end of alie church the prints of bloody fingers were seen at intervals ter vals the extent 0 the blood stains in the washroom goes to prove that the murderer biad no light while he was washing his handsy for a judicious person as his actions prove him to be would not have spattered so much blood around if he have eeck what he was and it la evident that if he had a light ho would not have left the blood detains on the basin this tends to prove that the murderer was familiar with every part of the church building durrant is mailing strenuous efforts to prove an alibi in the lament case by attempting to prove that on the day lament disappeared he was not her escort froia school at in the afternoon three young ladies have identified him as the young man they saw on car with miss lamont at that hour durrant will call on hie college classmates to prove that he was at a lecture at that hour it is said that note book contained no notes of the lecture and ho obtained information as to tho subject matter of the lecture from another student this matter is a part of importance to durrant and he baagee his hopes on the memories of his fellow students durrant was marked present at this lecture but as it has been alie habit 0 students to answer for each other the roll book docs not count A sensational statement is that of mrs E young a trance medium who saye that several days ago she went into a trance and according to her story plainly saw durrant in the act of killing his helpless victims vic tima lie was undressed at the time she says and after strangling miss lament carried her body to the belfry sirs young says she believes that tt the will search the partition on the west side of the church they will find the shoes worn by durrani on the night he is supposed to have murdered minnie she claims that after dressin 1 1 if durrant dropped one oi hi i shoes in a pool of blood and that to avoid detection he hid both of them in the partition it is not probable that alie police will pay any attention to tho mediums dream |