People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — EVIDENCE IN DURRANT CASE IN [ARTICLE]

EVIDENCE IN DURRANT CASE IN

Jealous Husband Saw the Accused and the Williams Girl Together. San Francisco, Cal., May I.—The evidence in the preliminary examination of Theodore Durrant for the murder of Marian Williams is all in, and Judge Conlon will deliver his opinion tomorrow morning. Dr. J. S. Barrett, who performed the autopsy on the body of Miss Williams, was cross-examined for hours by the defendant’s attorney yesterday. He said Miss Williams died from asphyxiation and hemorrhage, the former caused by rags forced down her throat and the hemorrhage by the severing of the arteries in her wrist. Other wounds on various parts of her body were inflicted after death. C. H. Hill testified a man resembling Durrant met a woman answering Miss Williams’ description near Emanuel Church Good Friday night, walked rapidly down the street, and disappeared inside the dark church. He watched them intently because, as he testified, he thought the woman was his wife keeping an appointment with another man. When he went however, he found his wife there.