Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-10-14
QUEER STORIES OF LIZZIE
BORDEN.
Said to Have Been Seen in Her
Mothers Room.


the Borden murder case, which it
says is in the hands of the police
and is to be given by twenty-five
new witnesses, who will testify for
the State at the coming trial of Miss
Lizzie Borden.
A WOMAN IN THE ROOM.
John II. Murphy, who resides on
Bedford street, Fall River, will
testify that he was standing on the
sidewalk close to the Borden house
when Mr.. Borden entered his yard
about 10:4O o'clock ON the morning
of August 4, and he saw him a
minute or two latter ushered into
the lobby by Bridget Sullivan.
Murphy will swear that while Mr..
Borden was walking in the yard he
saw a window blind of the room in
which Mrs. Borden's body was after.
wards found cautiously opened by a
young woman who had the same
morning told him when he called at
the Borden house about $50 o'clock,
that her father had gone down town
and would not be back until noon
or later. This woman he has identi-
fed as the defendant, Lizzie A..
Borden. The window Mr.. Murphy
designates as the one in which he
saw Miss Lizzie is so situated that
she must have been standing over
the mutilated remains of her mother
at the very time that her father was
about to enter the house, between
1885 and 1O:45 o'clock.
RECOGNIZED THE FACE.
The next witness of Importance is
Mrs. Gustave f. Ronald, of Paw
tucket, R. l.. who was a guest OF
the Wilbur House. About $40 on
the morning of the murder she was
wheeling her baby carriage near the
Borden house when she heard a
terrible cry or groan.
She looked up at the Borden
house and saw in room through a
partially open window woman
whose head was in part covered by
rubber cap or hood, whose face
she saw plainly, as the distance was
short. She recognized her as the
younger daughter of the Borden
family, the members of which she
knew quite well by sight.
Augustus Cunning, at the time
lodger in Mrs. Churchill's house, is
said to have seen Lizzie Borden in
the window at the same time and
under the same circumstances.
These witnesses, the Globe says,
fix Miss Borden at her mothers
side almost at the minute when she
probably was killed, and when Miss
Lizzie, according to her story, was
elsewhere.
A FAMILY SECRET.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Chace, of
Fall River, and Mrs. Abigail Man
chester, their daughter, were friends
of the elder Bordens, and visited
them on the evening previous to the
murder. They overheard, it is
stated, quarrel between Lizzie and
her father. ALI heard Mr.. Borden
say: "You can make your own
choice, and do it tonight. Either
let us know what his name is or take
the door on Saturday, and when
you go fishing fish for some other
place to live, as will never listen
to you again. l will know the name
of the man who got you into trouble.
Lizzie is said to have replied ''IfI
[ marry this man will you be salts
fed that every thing will be kept
from the outside world ?"
Then the visitors were announced
and conversed with Mr.. and Mrs. |
Borden on the subject of the quarrel. |
MRS. sIssoN's STORY,
Mrs. George j. Sisson, of Fall
River, is said to have heard Lizzie
say to Bridget Sullivan, the hired |
girl, "Why don't you say how much
money you want TO keep quiet ?"
Bridget's answer was, II don't
know what you mean, but you are
not the girl l took lou to be-"
Mr.. George Sisson, it Is said, will
swear that less than a month before
.he murder MIR. Borden told him he
made will giving Emma and Lizzie
s25 900 each, which is more than he
would have allowed them but for