The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-01

this was the deed OF either maniac or OF
one with hatred in his heart as black as
hell itself [Sensation.1 Hacked and
hacked again and again, brutally disng-
ured, the bodies lay, and no sane man
could have inflicted them. Every blow
delivered here is distinct, and upon the
head Of this woman are eighteen exact
lines. -, an.
"Wbat does this show" "It shows
without doubt that the hand that struck
| those blows was an experienced hand and
a strong one. will venture to say that
not one person in hundred could strike
eighteen such blows as these were WIN
| i'm such a small space, and so accurately,
unless he were constantly used 10 using
a hatchet. -.
| selves They cannot be distorted, ana
| thev tell that the assailant could not
| have delivered them without being lit
| orally covered with blood. Expert tes-
| timony proves this beyond peradventure.
at Is the utmost importance that In
| this case the guilty person should be
| found. What is the case / conceive
| that by the whole trend Of the action OF
| the prosecution they had a theory
that the murder was committed py
| some one in the house. The whole line
| of evidence has been to show that no one
could have gotten out or in without
some one seeing them. Miss Kelly on
| the south, Mrs Churchill on the north,
| Miss Collet on the east, and the street on
the other. All this tends to show that no
| one was around there.
| "But we show by Mrs. Manly that q
| man was seen there at 10 minutes OF l0
| on Thursday morning The police have
| spent DAYS In ransacking the house ana
| vet here Is woman who saw n stranger
there and they did not know OF her.
"Whya Simply because they have Deen
hunting only for clues against Lizzie
Borden. They can find axes and hatchet
that can almost fit into the wounds. put
| which dou's, but they cannot lind the
strange man that DIR: Handy saw.
"Is It strange that he can't be found In
this whole sountGry GyynrcSiI Mis- Mps kellv nS
| must have seen any one, say the govern
ment. Why, your honor, Frank
! Nixon got over the fence, got down
| into the cross yard and accosted
| the workmen there before they saw him,
and before l2 o'clock. Miss Collitt didn't
| see him, the workmen didn't see him un-
| til he spoke to them, and yet these Wit
| nesses were all there. IL he can do such a
thing could not any one else do the same
| thing.
a. You know a burglary occurred less
than two years ago, and no one knew OF
| ir or the thief. The same Is true OF tne
barn burglary. Now we show that Two
| men were seen there that morning.
This we claim. breaks down the gov
| ernment theory that no one else was there
or could be there.
"But to return to the house. Only three
|. people were there. Bridget Sullivan, lilz-
| zie Borden and John Morse. Now get up
your theory The police have decided
| that two of them have accounted Tor
their action. Now, don't believe either
Bridget or Lizzie did this deed, but l
wish simply to refer to the theory: c.r,
van doingf She had taken hour to
wash her dishes and she did not explain
| why il was necessary to take half hour
to finish them. The officers never sub
iect.her to explain this fact. She began
to wash the sitting room:window at lo;2o
aud at 10:45 she had only washed the
upper half of one Of them
for that was the time when Mr.. Borden
returned. More than that she was less
than 10 minutes in finishing the other
three windows, but was n half hour IN
washing only half of n window:
"Why was she not questioned in regard
to every minute OF her time 7 Why was
everything that she did passed over and
taken for grant ed as correct only that
the government has been working up q
theory rather than all the clues open to It.
when you come TO opportunity,
Bridget Sullivan had just as much chance
to commit these murders as did Lizzie
Borden and just examination OF every
act OF hers is just as necessary as the ex-
animation of Lizzie.
"Now IL Mr. Borden was killed at
about $3.50. Mrs. Borden was home mt
| about that time. Hence Lizzie must have
killed her mother while he was absent.
She tells where she was at that time.
| Your honor heard it at the inquest. l
| want To submit that n story taken at such
| "a time and under such circumstance as
that is marvelously correct.
| II want To state that that inquest was
an outrage. They had all the evidence
before them before she. was questioned.
| But / want to state as my opinion, ana
that is all can say, that sue was put
upon the rack solely to find out IL she
could not be compelled to say something
that would corroborate their theory"
who could state all their acts cor
rectlyS Mrs. Churchill couldn't say
whether Bridget Sullivan went iutc the
room upstairs first. She didn't know
whether she left Bridget there or not.
No one could. IL Is not surprising. But
when Lizzie can't tell everything that she
does it is called evidence of guilt.
what does Lizzie do on that morningi
| She comes down stairs, eats a few cookies
perhaps, sits down to read an old maya
zine. gave her father letter to mail aud
''loafed" about the kitchen most OF the
time. She ironed few handkerchiefs
and tried to do so two or three times be
cause the fire was gone out.
Now IL is not at all improbable that
she loafed around the kitchen three-quar.
ters OF an hour. To think Of her stand
ing on the stairs aud laughing after sh'
| had committed the murder of her mother
No Que but crazy man could have don,
sol
"She was down stairs when her father
returned she says. She asked for he
mail, had noue, went out inte the yard
and wandered around there for some time
| IL doesn't make any difference what SHE
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