Book #73265
Item #73265 Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant, Indicted for. Trial, William Henry Theodore Durrant, Defendant.
Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant, Indicted for..

Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant, Indicted for..

"A Classic of American Criminal History": McDade 276 [Trial]. Durrant, William Henry Theodore [1871-1898], Defendant. Peixotto, Edgar D., Reporter. Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant: Indicted for the Murder of Blanche Lamont, Before the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Including a Full History of the Case After Defendant's Conviction, Giving in Detail All the Numerous Appeals and Motions of Defendant's Counsel to the State Supreme Court, the Governor, And Finally to the Supreme Court of the United States. also Including a Complete Synopsis of the Evidence in Possession of the Authorities in the Case for the Murder of Minnie Williams, For Which Durrant was Never Tried, But Which Developed into Even a Stronger Case Than the One Upon Which He was Convicted. Illustrated from Numerous Photographs in the Possession of the Police Department of San Francisco. Detroit: The Collector Publishing Co., 1899. vi, 214 pp. 20 plates. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Later cloth, lettering piece and silver fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior, slightly heavier in places, clean tear to fore-edge of leaf containing pp. 65 and 66. $350. * Only edition. "Durrant was a twenty-four-year medical student who also served as the assistant superintendent of Sunday school of the Emanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco. By any standard he was a 'good' young man, and the mystery, if there is one in this case, is how, from a seemingly proper life, he could within the space of nine days commit two atrocious murders in his church. (...) The case is a classic of American criminal history": McDade, The Annals of Murder 276.

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