and shaken. Durrant had given him some money, requesting for him to go to a nearby drugstore and purchase some medicine, in the hopes that he may feel better. Mr. King returned a short time later, and said Durrant seemed somewhat better by then, though still complaining of lingering "fatigue" and "dizziness". Mrs. Noble came to the church looking for Lamont a few hours later, during the evening prayer service. Durrant approached Noble and inquired about Blanche; she told him that she was worried about her. Durrant told Noble that he was sorry that Blanche was not there, but that he would come to her house later to bring a book for her. Mrs. Noble later said that he did come by later with the book, having even suggested that Lamont might have been kidnapped, forced into prostitution, and/or that she may have run away to become a sex-worker of her own accord, thus "abandoning her religious virtues". Mrs. Noble found these notions to be bizarre and unsettling, and highly unlikely. The next day, Durrant tried to pawn some womens' rings at a pawn shop in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. These were determined to belong to Blanche Lamont. That same afternoon, Mrs. Noble received an unexpected package, consisting of several rings belonging to the missing Blanche. Strangely, the package was directed to George King (the church choir director); his name was written on wrapping paper, packed around Blanche's rings. It was three days after her disappearance that Mrs. Noble had reported her missing to the police. Police questioned Durrant because he was the last person Blanche was seen with and, additionally, because a young woman of the church said that she had once come upon Durrant in the nude at the church library. Police did not have a body, or any evidence that anything had happened to Blanche, so she remained listed as a missing person. Minnie Williams During this time, Durrant began refocusing his attentions on 21-year old Minnie Flora Williams (August 1873 – April 12, 1895), also an Emmanuel Baptist parishioner. At 7:00 p.m. on April 12, 1895, which was Good Friday (nine days after Lamont disappeared), Williams told her friends at her boarding house that she was going to a church member meeting, at the home of a church elder named Vogel; it was Vogel's wife, Mary, who had seen Durrant walking with Blanche Lamont on the