Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-06
AFTER A MURDERER.
MAN AND WIFE FOUND BUrcHsREo
IN THEIR HOME.
A Drother-In-Law of the Husband and
Daughter Of the Dead Couple
Suspected.
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Far RrvER. Mass, August 5.-Andrew
J. Borden. u wealthy real estate owner
and mill.man, and his wife. were founa
dead AZ their home. % Second street, about
noon Yesterday. Both had been mutt
lated about the head and face with an axe
cleavor. or razor. Mr.. Borden lay on
sofa in a room on the top floor OF tho
house. His head had been cut. and
oasbes from four TO six inches long were
found on his face and neck. Mrs. BORDEN
was in her own chamber on the upper
Hoor and the con lition OF her face ana
head was the same az that of her husband.
She Law face downward in the bed, Whlcn
was a yeritable pool Of blood.
After a most thorough and persistent
search no trace has been found OK the muir
derer.
A SUSPECT.
The strict watch which was promptly
established over John w. Morse, a brother
,n-law of Mr.. Borden by first marriage,
was even more strictly kept to-day than
yesterday.
The following advertisement will appear
in ,o-night's local papers:
49,. 900 kEwARD.-rhe above reward will
be paid 20 any one who may secure the ar
rest and conviction Of the person or per-
sons who occasioned the death of Andrew
}. Borden and his wife.
lSignedl EMMA J. BORDEN.
LIZZIE j. BORDEN
Late this afternoon it was reported at
the police station that a young man, said
to be a nephew Of Mr.. Borden, was being
suspected of the murders. 1t arose from
the fact that some time ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Borden were overheard III angry talk with
"A young man over the division of some
property. As the young man was parting
from them at the front door he was heard
to say :" BY C., you have cheated me,
and | Will make You suffer-
The report was sfted, and IL was found
that such n conversation had occurred, but
II happened ten months ago. and the young
man has not been seen since. The police
left this clue at once and again turned
their attention TO the house.
MoRsE's ANTEcEDENrs
The antecedents of John W. Morse and
his connections are being closely hunted
up, and the girl Lizzie is being subjected
10 a rigorous examination. Morse ~ 50
years of age. and came here from Hast
lngs, H., two years ago. He became very
intimate with Borden and lizzie Borden,
spending a great deal of his time with
them. lie came from New Bedford at
noon on the day before the murder and
and spent the night III the Borden house.
He left there at o'clock on the day of the
crime, and was next seen twenty minutes
after the bodies were discovered.
The police believe that there was either
previous attempt al killing by poison,
or that the poison was administered a. n
preparatory step for the crime. On the
morning Of their death both Mr.. and Mrs.
Borden arose from sleep feeling Ill. Ihey
had drank milk before gong 70 bed, and
il IS believed that # drugs were admins
Tered they were gwen then. 10 Is here
that the suspicion Of conspiracy comedies
with the presence OF the bIOthcr-ln-laN IN
the house.
After Medical Examiner Dolan. assisted
by other physicians, had completed an
autopsy on the bodies. the stomachs of
both were placed IN alcohol and sent TO
Boston for analysis, with view TO deter
mining if poisoning had been attempted.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
That the murder could have been COM
mitted by q stranger who escaped IS
doubtful. rs there were many persons
about who would have seen hum leaving
the place after the deed. Another sus-
pIciOus circumstance IS that the COM
mission Of the deed should have been
timed tor the exact period when the
servant-girl, Bridget Sullivan. was busy
cleaning the outside of the windows. and
was so out of the way. The girl heard no
CONJUNCTION or grOan, while Miss Borden
says that she heard NOISE While she was
in the barn and hurried In to find the
bodies of her dead parents.
remarkable thing IL that Miss Borden,
although, according TO the servants story.
she supposed that her mother was ont, did
not give the alarm when she found her
fathers body, but went to her mothers
room, ami II was her shrek from that
place which attracted the servant and a
nelghbOr to the scene.
An IMPORTANT CLUE.
The Ecning Gi0je says this evening that
amost important cluels IN possession OF the
police. From Clerk Eli Bence, at ID. Il.
Smiths drugstore, they learned last night
that Miss Borden had been IN the store
within three hours past aud had inquired
for a certain poison. The clerk was asked
to accompany the officers, and they closely
questioned him a to the facts relative 10
the time, the girls condition mentally,
the amount and quality OF the poison
she had bought or called for. The
officers then took the drug clerk 20 a resi-
dcnce on Second street, wnere Miss Lizzie
was stopping for the time being. The
young man was not well acquainted with
the young woman. but he had told them
that he could identity her at sight He did
identify her, and in the presence of the
officers informed them that she was IN his
place of business and made inquiries for Il
bottle of poison.
Miss Bordcu's reply 10 this accusation,
as we'll as the exact language which was
used al the time, is Known only 10 the pO-
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