Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-31
The Spots on Miss Lizie'S Clothing
Are Not Blood.
THE STATES CASE SEEMS TO BE
Materially Weakened by the Tes-
timony Taken at Yesterdays
Session of the Hearing-There
Was no Poison in the Stomachs
of the Murdered People-Details
Of the Evidence Brought Out.

hearing of the great Borden murder
case was resumed.
The first witness called was Prof.
Edward s. Wood, the man for whom
everybody has been Looking for days.
He said he had received a package con-
tanning two stomachs on the fifth OF
August and two jars containing milk
used on the fourth and fifth OF August.
All were labelled. The stomachs were
labelled "Mr. and Mrs. Borden.
The stomachs appeared TO be per-
fectly natural. Mrs. Borden's stomach
contained about II ounces OF solid food,
the food was partly digested and showed
wheat, starch and meat. The contents
contained meat and there were vegeta-
BILE pulp cells, which might be bread or
apples. The digestion seemed to be
advanced in the neighborhood OF two
hours and half more or less. The
stomach was tested for prussic acid,
but with negative result. The stomach
of Mr. Borden contained only six ounces,
chiefly water. In Mr.. Borden's stomach
there was only a small portion of starch,
in this case the contents, being nearly
all water, was much further digested
than in the case of Mrs. Borden. There
were few threads OF vegetable tissue
in his stomach, which might have been
pears.
Witness had not analyzed the milk
and could not report on that.
On the tenth of August / received
from DR.. Dolan hatchet, two axes,
blue dress skirt, dress waist, white
starched skirt, lounge cover and three
small envelopes in which were hair ta-
ken from Mr.. and Mrs. Borden and
hair taken from the hatchet. On Au-
gust 18th witness received pair or
black stockings. The hatchet con-
taiLed a number Of suspicious look.
ing spots but careful examination show
ed no traces OF blood. Every spot
which looked like blood was examined,
but no traces Of blood could be seen. A
big spot on the blue skirt looked like
blood, and was found TO be blood. The
white skirt had one spot which looked
like blood, and was found TO be blood,
and it was directly In front about six
inches from the bottom. Tho carpet
was !ood-stained (this was the sitting
room carpet.) There was no blood
on the lounge cover.
The entry marked "Hair from A. j.
Borden" was simply white hair; Mrs.
BOrden's was dark. The hair on the
hatchet was not human hair, sensa-
tion more like that taken from an AMI
NAL. The spot on the right shoe was
not blood and there was no blood on
either shoes or stockings. There was
nothing on the two axes. Near the
edge OF tle hatchet were spots which
seemed TO be blood, but were found not
to be.
There was a spot on the blade, but it
was not blood, and there were spots on
the side of the head OF the hatchet
which looked to me like blood, and /
thought they were, said witnhss, but
they were not.
The Ratchet was then produced and
Lizzie examined it with as much inter
est as her counsel. One paper was pro-
duced by witness on which was written
chair" placed at time mentioned but
no hair was there.
On cross-examination Professor Wood
said the spot looked larger on the out
side OF the skirt than inside. The spot
was about the size OF a pin head.
Questioned: This you say was human
blood? Al have not examined 1t.
In regard TO the position OF the muir
derer witness said 1t appeared TO him
that the person stood In the dining
room where the first blow was given, be-
cause Of the spots on the frame or the
dining room door.
Here the witness was allowed 10 look
at the stain on the door tfame under
his glass and resuming the stand said 1t
was not blood.
Witness said ii would be impossible
for the assailant on the murdered folks
to escape getting blood on his body In
some way, and that the stains on the
sittin3-roOm doors might have been over
the head OF the assailant as the instru-
ment was lifted. The blood would hit
the assaiant from the knees. The
blood in the case o. Mrs. Borden would
be shown anywhere above the feet.
Thos. Woodward, undertaken, testi-
fed that In searching the body OF Mr..
Borden he found SIS In bills, watch and
chain, keys and some loose change.
Adjourned TO p. N.
The first witness this afternoon was
Annie NJ. White, official stenographer.
Her notes as written out were offered in
evidence. The examination OF Lizzie
Borden at the inquest was read. Lizzie
stated substantially that she was 81
years old, that her father had been
married to her steDmother about TWEEN
ty-seven years; she had no idea Of what
her father was worth. Lizzie had
heard Mr.. Morse say several years ago
that her father had made will; her
father never said anything about will.
"Father once, about two weeks ago,
had trouble with a man whom did not
know; they had some talk and | heard
the man say: L thought man with
reputation for getting money like you
would accept my offer My father said
he had studied long enough, and re-
quested him to get out and he went
away, saying he would consult with his
partner" Lizzie had some trouble with
her stepmotner about five years ago, but
il was trivial. She made two statements
about her whereabouts on the day OF
the murders when her father came
home; at first she said she was up stairs,
then she said she was in the kitchen,
and to this last story she stuck. Lizzie
said she saw her step mother down
stairs, and that the latter s2id she had
the guest chamber all ready, except TO
put on some shams, for she expected
company on Monday and wanted every
thing all right. Lizzie could not state
whether her mother came down stairs
again after she went up stairs With the