People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Sensation in the Durrant Case. [ARTICLE]

Sensation in the Durrant Case.

San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 15.—Mrs. Durrant, mother of the young man who is accused of murdering Minnie Williams and Blanche Lamont, was approached recently by a mysterious woman whose desire was to sell something of extreme importance to the safety of Theodore Durrant. It was intimated that at least three of the jurors already accepted could be influenced to vote for an acquital. Mrs. Durrant not only spurned the offer but Informed the attorneys for her son and also notified the police of the nature of the offer made to her.