The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-11
LIZZIE BORDEN'S PERIL
A Terrible Chain of Circumstances
Against Her.
TWENTY-FIVE NEW WITNESSES,

It Is Alleged, Will Give Evidence
Pointing TO Her as the Murderess.
Tho Story Denounced as a Fabri-
cation by Her Lawyer.
Boston, Oct. 1.-THE Globe publishes
astory from Fall River setting forth in
detail new and startling evidence for the
prosecution in the Borden murder case,
which it says is in the hands of the DO
lice, and is to be given by twenty-five
new witnesses, who will testify for tho
state at the coming trial of Miss Lizzie
Borden. The evidence, The Globe states,
is forthcoming from persons who all
stand high in the communities where
they live, and who could have no motive
for speaking maliciously or untruthfully
of the defendant. Briefly stated, the
now evidence, according to The Globe,
is as follows:
John IL. Murphy, who resides in Bed
ford street, Fall River, will testify that
he was standing on the sidewalk close to
the Borden house when Mr.. Borden en-
tered his yard about 1910 o'clock on the
morning of August A, and he saw him
minute or two later ushured into the
lobby by Bridget Sullivan. Mr.. Murphy
will swear that while Mr.. Borden was
walking in the yard he saw window
blind of the room in which Mrs. Bor-
denis body was afterwards found eau
tiously opened by Lizzie A. Borden. The
window Mr.. Murphy designates as the
one in which he saw Miss Lizzie is SO
situated that she must have been stand
ing over the mutilated body of her
m at fhp fi,f,a fhat 60
was about to enter the house.
Heard Groan.
The next witness of importance is Mrs.
Gustave A. Ronald, of Pawtuxet, R. l.,
who was a guest at the Wilbur House.
About $40 on the morning of the mur-
der she was wheeling her baby carriage
near the Borden house, when she heard
a terrible cry or groan. She looked up
at the Borden house and saw through a
partly open window woman whose
head was in part covered by rubber
cap or hood, whose face she saw plainly,
as the distance was short. This window
she has designated is the same as the one
pointed out by Mr. Murphy. Other wit
nesses there are who will give similar
testimony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chase, of Fall River.
will testify as to quarrel between
Lizzie and her father the night before
the murder, and Bridget Sullivan will
corroborate it. The latter will testify
that on the afternoon of the day of the
murder Lizzie whispered to her: "Keep
Your tongue still and don't talk to these
officers and you can have all the money
you want"
McHenry, the detective, and his wife
will, it is said, give important evidence
which relates in part to the story of the
trouble between Lizzie and Emma Bor-
den in the matron's room, in which the
former accused the latter of having
given her away" This tale, it is said,
will be corroborated by the McHenrvs,
who overheard and saw the affair
through hole in the wall especially
provided by the authorities.
Denounced as u Fabrication.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Oct, 11.-Andrew
j. Jennings, counsel for the defendant
in the Borden murder case, made the
following statement 1.-The matter pub
lished in a Boston paper relating to the
murders of Andrew j. Borden and his
wife is a tissue of lies. The kernel of
the whole malicious story deals with a
condition which is absolutely disproved
by things found in the cellar by the
prosecution and admitted to be what
Lizzie claimed they were. Subsequent
events have confirmed her claim.
A member of the police force says that
the names used in the story indicated
are fictitious, but the matter is sub
stantially true.