Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-02
news By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
IS PROBABLY GUILTY.
Miss Borden is Held for the
November Term.
DISASTER ON THE GREAT LAKES.
A Single Survivor of Pas
sengers and Crew.
SULLIVAN OFF FOR new ORLEANS.
Murders His Wife and At
tempts Suicide.
PROBABLY GUILTY.

PROBABLY GUILTY.
Mass Lizzie Borden Held for the No.
vember Term of COurt-A Strange
Case-The Popular sympathy for the
Prisoner-The Government's Argu.
ment The Prosecutor Dwells on
the Contradictory Statements OF the
Girl and tho Alleged Strained Re-
lations Between Lizzie and MRS.
Borden.
b.. FALL RIVER, Mass. Sept. 1--Miss Borden
will be taken to Taunton TO- morrow. 40.
eording to the statements of the police hez
actions tonight do not differ from those
of the first night she spent in their
custody, three weeks ago. Her friends are
indignant over the verdict rendered to-day,
but if the truth were told they have ex-
pected it from the moment Judge Blaisden
determined to preside at the hearing.
Many persons who have read Mr.. Knowl-
toms summing up of the prosecution state
that the verdict was the only proper one
to preserve the interest of safe govern
ment, but not few of them are skeptioal
about conviction on the evidence SUBJ
mitted at the hearing. Tonight Marshal
billiard has commenced to outline the plan
for the government to pursue. In this
matter he has been directed by At
torney General Pillsbury aud District
Attorney Knowlton. It is said at
police headquarters that there is much yet
to be done before the case is fit for sue
cessful prosecution. No habeas corpus
plea will be made by the defendants law
yers. They will devote their time to hunt
ing down the mysterious people seen about
the Borden house the day of the murder.
Andrew J.Jennings believes firmly in Miss
Lizzie Borden's innocence. His great plea
is the principal topic of conversation to-
night. It appeals to the popular ear and
it will be many days before the citizens
begin to look upon the prisoner as GRIM
inal.
District Attorney Knowlton opened his
argument for the government. After some
preliminary remarks on the crime of muir
der he said:
STRANGE CASE.
This murder was 30 causeless, 80 wicked,
so unnecessary, the people who were killed
were SO free from the active chickering's of
many around them that it is case which
presents the strangest features. When the
news spread abroad that this daughter had
been charged with this crime he could full
ly sympathize with the feeling of surprise,
anger and indignation at such a charge and
many friends for her. Without the slight
est desire to cay one word against this
woman, and only actuated by duty, I am
doing my best to unrsvel this mystery. 1
am not here to defend myself. am not on
trial. I am sworn to discharge the pro-
visions of the duty of my Office and I am
going to do it. Here the district attorney
defined the various stages of the necessary
proceedings in a murder case.
NO MOTIVE, BUT A CAUSE.
Returning to the crime the district at
torney said:
Now, as to the motive. There was no
motive; there never is motive, but there
is cause, always.
How was the Ratchet which was used as
an instrument used? By some one who
Was physical, If not moral coward7 Or
one who did not want the persons to see
who did it? It was done from behind. As
we listen to DR.. Draper's testimony we are
struck by the fact that it was not a man
who did the work; but that convicts no.
body. We see in it, however, the weak,
irresolute, imperfect feminine hand that
only knew the impulse to strike,
not with the strength of man.
Yet we do not know she did It,;
those blows were not even evidences of ma
lice, because they were all weak, irresolute
blows; we are faced with the enormous,
unnatural fact that somebody did this
work, and the first obvious inquiry we
a. & L To
THE STRAINED RELATIONS.
Mr.. Knowlton then dwelt upon the
strained relations between Lizzie and her
stepmother, and said:
Do you suppose there was well of af-
lection and sympathy flowing between
these two? There was no adequate motive
for killing this woman, however. He as.
that house, done that work and got away
| without being seen.
wELL-LoCKED HOUSE.
That house was the most uniquely looked
up house in all Fall River; the front door
was looked, the windows were shut, the
| cellar door was locked and all the avenues
of approach and escape barred. You could
| uOb RO 1EOLA dhy OAc pdCG VI LILO Aou5O W
| another without key. It was found that
every person about there was seen-the
man at the gate, the man on the street
but nothing was seen of a person going
| into or out of that house. And 80 all the
| inmates of that house have been subjects
| of suspicion the moment the fact appeared
| that the murder was committed from
| within.
LIzzIE's CONTRADICTIONS.
| When Lizzie Borden testified at the in
quest she told different stories; she contra
dicted herself. Where were Mrs. Borden
and Lizzie when Bridget came into the
house that morning after she had gone into
the yarda They were upstairs alone; be-
fore that Mrs. Borden had told her to wash
the windows; Mr.. Borden had gone away,
and when Bridget came to the screen door
Lizzie appeared and was told by Bridget
| that she need not lock the door; that she
| would be in the yard and could see any.
body going or coming; that she would gel
her water in the barn If Lizzie said 80; all
the honse was clear, but of Lizzie and he'll
step mother, but when her father wal
away, when Morse was away, when Bridget
was at work in the yard,
THEN THE DEED WAS DONE
in that upper room, and when Mr.. Border
was let in by Bridget, Lizzie and Abbi'
Borden are alone in tho guest chamber
one dead, the other alive. And wher
Lizzie was at the head of the stair
when Bridget was at the door she was wher,
a woman was go killed that when she fel
with her macs of flesh to the floor ani
bruised her face and nose and made sucl
noise it must have been heard. The,
she takes out her things to begin to iron
Bridget went upstairs, leaving,
Il LIZZIE IRONING
At three minutes to II O'Clock nearer +
her father than Lam to your honor. Il
five minutes her father was dead. Sh
could not have been downstairs, becaus
she would have heard the noise; not MP
! stairs, because she was ironing. Il I
now more difficult than it was to imagin
the improbability of that story she toll
: about that barn. Where the man whor
Lizzie thinks did the deed was a
this time We do not know. Wher
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