The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-31
BAD DAY FOR LIZZIE BORDEN
c'rcumstantial Evidence Strong
Against Her.
Professor Edward Wood Testifies as to
the Time o. Desth of tho Murdeyeta
oo"p'e-Lizzis Known to Haye Been
TN Her Mothers Room, About tho r,,,s
the Deed Was Communicative n,,a..
<onnd Upon Her Dress or Hatchet.

ALL RIVER, Aug. 30.-GSpecial1-
Two things were demonstrated bv evil
dence shis morning in the Borden trial
One is that Lizzie was in her sten
mothers room at $50 and that was.
about the time of the murder, and that
she was In her fathers room about the.
time OF his death. It is understood that.
while' to the general pablo, the testi-
mony OF P.of. Wood was favorable IN,
Lizzie because it appeared to demon.
strate there was no blood stains on her
clothes OF Ratchet, that 1t was really
against her because Of his evidence in,
regard TO the time OF death.
officer Harrington testified that in ono
room he found Miss Lizzie and Miss
Alice Russell. Lizzie was cool and COL.
lected, but would not or could not tell.
the witness anything about the matter
Fhe examination Of Lizzie Borden at
the coroner's inquest was put in evil
dence. Miss Borden said her father
gave the girls house on Ferry. street.
ana few weeks ago he bought IL back
again, paying Emma and her Separately.
Lizzie had heard Mr.. Morse saw sew
eral years ago that her father had made
awill. Her father never said ANYTHING
about his will. He once, about two
weeks ago, had trouble with man
whom she did not know; they had some
talk and she heard the man saw II
thought man with o reputation, for
getting money like you would accent
my oifer.' Her father said he had STAYED
long enough and requested him to get
out, ana he wentaway saying he would
consult his partner.
Lizzie had had some trouble with her
step-mother about two years ago. but IL
was trivial. In some way her relations
with her step-mother were not as be-
tween mother and daughter. She
changed from calling her mother TO.
Mrs. Borden when there were some
words over her step.sister, now Mrs.
George Whitehead. Emma had stood
as mother TO Lizzie. She made two
statements about her whereabouts ON
the day of the murders At first she
said she was upstairs, then she said she
was in the kitchen. and to this last
| story she stuck.
When she found her father she ran at
! once to call her servant, never thinking
OF calling her stopmother, because she
supposed she was out, and she said to
Mrs. Churchill that she wished some-
body would see II she was in the house.
She thought IL was not more than five
minutes after her father came in when
she went to the barn, and was there
twenty minutes. Lizzie said further
that Mrs. Borden's homestead was for
sale and that it was bought in by Mr..
Borden for her. Lizzie stated that she
said that what he did for her he ought
to do for them, meaning herself and
Emma.
About that time she commenced to
feel sorely towards her step. mother.
She said she never went into any drug
store for prussic acid. She said that
about two weeks before the tragedy she
heard or saw somebody run down the
steps and away; she saw something SIM
liar about the house last winter. When
she iirst saw the form recently it was ON
the back steps, and ran towards the
barn; last winter she saw person run
away on Sunday night when she was
coming home from church and told hor
father OF the occurrence, but said moth
ing to him about the second affair. This
closed the governments case.