Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — DURRANT'S FATE IS SEALED. [ARTICLE]

DURRANT'S FATE IS SEALED.

California Murderer Must Suffer th* 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 Lamont 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 condemned man. Chief Justice Fulk announced the court’s conclusion, but made no remarks in doing so. save to cite a few authorities on which the court based its decision. The Staniland, Merkle & Staniland Marble Works Company of Dayton, 0., has made an assignment. Assets, $23,000; liabilities, $25,000. Health Officer O. A. Bonner, who is a stockholder, demanded a financial statement and received instead the president’s resignation. An assignment followed. A wolf was killed on one of the principal residence streets of Little Rock, Ark., just as it was about to attack a party of children playing on Arch street. The animal emboldened by hunger, had come out at tiie swamps south of the city.