Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — DURRANT’S FATE IS SEALED. [ARTICLE]

DURRANT’S FATE IS SEALED.

California Murderer Must Suffer the Death Penalty. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court for the California district, refusing a writ of habeas corpus to William Henry Theodore Durrant, under sentence of death for the murder of Miss Blanche Lament in San Francisco in April, 1895. The case has attracted attention throughout the whole of the United States and this decision permits the law to take its course with the man.