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Theodore Durrant
Theodore Henry Durrant (1871 – January 7,1898 at San Quentin prison, San Francisco), known as "The Demon of the Belfry", was hanged for two murders committed at the San Francisco Emanuel Baptist Church, where he was assistant superintendent. He maintained his innocence of the crimes. His sister was Maud Allan.
==Early life==
Theodore Durrant was born in Toronto, Canada to William Durrant, a shoemaker, and his wife Isabella Hutchenson Durrant.〔("Allan, Maud (1873-1956)." ) ''glbtq.com''.〕 The family emigrated to San Francisco, California, USA in 1879.〔 He had one sister, Beulah Maud Durrant, born in 1873, who became an actress and interpretive dancer and later changed her name to Maud Allan.〔 At the time of his arrest, Durrant was a twenty-three-year-old medical student at Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, assistant superintendent of the Sunday school at the 21st Street Emanuel Baptist Church and a member of the California Signal Corps.〔
It is believed that Theodore Durrant suffered from manic depression. Durrant was apparently noted for strange behavior; "For a year or so during the early eighteen-nineties Durrant visited the brothels in San Francisco's Commercial Street several times a week. He always brought with him, in a sack or a small crate, a pigeon or a chicken, and at a certain time during the evening's debauch he cut the bird's throat and let the blood trickle over his body".〔Herbert Asbury, ''The Barbary Coast,'' 1933, p. 254.〕
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