Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-30
She Hears Evidence of Her Seeming
Guilt With Goodness.
EVERY AvENUEOF ESCAPE CLOSED.
Witnesses Who Swear That She Wanted to
j.. Buy PrusSic Acid.
SENSATIONS IN THE BORDEN CASE
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| saw anyone enter or leave the house abou
the time of the killing Of Mr.. Borden. Tn
State also produced witnesses who swor
positively that the cellar door was found t.
be locked immediately after the discover.
of the murder.
Three policemen testified to the fndins
of the hatchet with the alleged blood on 1t
and the two axes and smaller h9tchet
Witnesses related conversations held witt
Lizzie Borden after the murder and in man.
instances the statements of the accused, a
told by the witnesses, were directly con
Trajectory. Two drug clerks and medica
student swore that on the day before tn
murder Lizzie B orden tried to buy prussi
acid. The prosecution also went over tn
details Of the happenings in the house ate
the murder and the demeanor of the &C
cused, and the actions of the Investigation
themselves. There was difference anon,
the witnesses as to the demeanor of Lizzi,
Borden Immediately after the murder. Two
other witnesses testified positively tina
Lizzie was greatly agitated and distressed
but whatever of agitation there was abou
Lizzie Borden Immediately after the mur
der of her father, there was no trace O.
nervousness about her this morning wher
she entered the courtroom.
Witnesses Surrounded the House.
The courtroom was chilly and the pris.
oner wore heavy black jacket. Most OF
the time she sat with her face buried In the
folds of the coat collar. District Attorney
KDewlton called Mrs. Adelaide Churchill
to the stand.
Mrs Cburchill said: "T live near the
Bordens on the north side; that is, the side
that the Borden's side door is on. looked
out of one of the windows and saw Lizzie
Borden standing just inside the screen door.
oh! Mrs Churchill she said, do come
over, someone has killed father hurried
over. Lizzie sat on the second stair by the
doorway. She said to me: I was in the
barn and heard distressing noise. came
back and found the screen door open and
my father dead I asked her where her
mother was. Mother had note to 90 some
where to see sick person. wish some
one would look for her. Please 60 for a
doctor. 1 started out on the street, and
down the street met Thomas Bowes, whom
I sent for doctor
''Soon after Miss Russell came in Lizzie
said again: 60 find my mother Bridget
and went half way up the front stairs. I
could then see beyond me the spare room
and the dead body of Mrs. Borden. 1 ran
down stairs. Lizzie did not change per-
ceptibly. saw no one out of the house or
around the premises before left home to 60
to market, about II o'clock. Lizzie told me
she wanted to 60 to the cemetery herself to
attend to the arrangements for the funeral.
Bridget said that Mrs. Borden had got a
note and had hurried off without telling her
about it. Lizzie Borden told her that she
had gone to the barn to get piece of iron.
l asked her where her mother was, and she
told me she had gone out in response to a
note. put my hand on her arm and said:
Where is your mother?' TRY to find her.
said Lizzie, for think I heard her come
in"
There was NO Blood on Lizzie.
Miss Alice E Russell was the next wit
ness called. She is warm friend of Lizzie
Borden. She said: ''On the day of the
murder Bridget Sullivan called for me. 1
hurried to the house. got Lizzie to sit down.
I remember hearing her say that she had
come in from the barn and had found her
father dead. asked her what she went
out to the barn for. She said to get piece
of iron or wire to fix the screen on the
door," Miss Russell added to her testi.
mony that she had rubbed Lizzie's hands
and bathed her face. There was no blood
on her.
Lucy Collett, the next witness, was
called to show that no murderer could have
escaped over the back fence of the Borden
yard and through DR.. Chagnon's yard with
out her seeing him. Miss Collett was in
DR. Chagnon's house on the day of the
murder to attend to his telephone from 1850
o'clock until after IL o'clock.
On the resumption of the hearing in the
afternoon Miss Collett concluded her testi-
mony. The prosecution then took up the
poisoning theory and introduced witnesses
to prove that Lizzie Borden tried to pur-
chase poison on the morning before the
murder. The prosecution has positive proof
that Lizzie Borden actually did buy poison.
Ell Bence, drug clerk, testified: "Ths
lay before the murder. between 1920 and
IL o'clock in the morning, Miss Borden
asked me for 10 cents worth of prussic acid
It to put on sealskin sacque, she said. Il
,annot sell it without a prescription I
'aid. She asked again and again. L re-
used her."
He identified the prisoner as the woman
Who tried to purchase the acid. Lizzie
lever quailed; she sat silent and seemingly
inconcerned. The next witness, Frank ii.
Ailroy, who was in the drug store at the
ime, corroborated Bence, as did Frederick
B. Hart, the other clerk.
A Witness Who Sawed Wood,
Leaving the poisoning theory, the prose-
ution switched back to the line of evidence
hat was dropped with Miss Collects testi- |
nony. Miss Churchill had sworn that
While she was on the north side of the |
louse no one save Mr.. Borden had come or |
,one. Miss Collett closed UP the rear ave. |
Tue of escape. Mrs. Kelly had touched on |
he fact that the west side of the house was |
lear. the State then put forward Joseph |
)erosa to prove that the murderer did not |
scape past the south side of the house.
Derosa was saving wood in the back ward |
fJohn Grove, adjoining DR.. Chagnon on the
orth and commanding a view of the south
ide OF the Borden house and yard. Derosa
estified that he had sawed wood in the |
ack yard from o'clock in the morning
ntil noon on the day OF the murder. De-
osa swore positively that no man or woman
'as about the south side of the ward or
ouse of Mr.. Borden on that morning nm to |
80 o'clock.
Having surrounded the house, the prose.
ution turned its attention to rehearsinp in
etail all the happenings within the house
alter the murder. They also
rought out several contradictory inter,
Jews with Lizzie.
Detective Sergeant Patrick Doherty said:
I did not see Lizzie the first time I en-
.red the house. The second time I went
met Bridget and began a search. We
nded up In the cellar. am positive the
atside cellar door was locked. talked TO
lizzie the second time entered the house
tier the search. I said to her: sWb.ra
ere you when your father was killed p
was out In the barn. she said. Did any
ortuguese work for him?' No. sir.' she
I'D. Who does work for him p asked.
DIR. Eddy and Mr.. Johnson she said.
Are either of them in town now p asked..J
don't know she said, but neither of
lem would hurt my father, tDid Won