The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-01
MISS BORDEN'S WITNESSES
Testify to Having Seen a Mysterious
Stranger Near the Family Home.
One Woman Says She Heard Noise In the
Back Yard That Sounded Like Some
body Jumping Over the Fence.

witness In the Borden case this morning q
was Marshal Rufus Hllliard, who said that
his attention was called to the murder at
Ills A. NJ. Aug. 4. He sent officer George
Woolen, and did not go to the house him
self until $50 or O'Clock in the afternoon.
He next sent officers Doherty, Mullaly.
Medly. Dillon, Wilson and others he could
not remember. When witness went. at 8
o'clock, it was with some men to search the
barn-y ard in that vicinity. He knew moth
ing about the murders, only from what he
had been told by Medley. Fleet and Reilly.
He searched the yard and barn. but found
nothing. When he went in the house he
saw Drs. Dolan. Coughlin, Peckham,
Dutra and Tourtellot. but was not positive
whether DR.. Bowen was there OF not They
were she.. in Che room where Mt. Borden
lay. and were in consultation. He spoke
to DR.. Dolan about the matter, looked at
the sofa, but could not say whether any
part of it was ctt. He could not tell
whether there were any blood spots on the
head of it. There were blood spots on the
parlor door, but he did notnOtice the chair.
Mr.. Borden's body was not removed from the
lounge. He passed into the front entry
with Dr. Dolan and into the front room.
where they said Mrs. Borden's body was
found, and saw some blood on pillow shams.
Hero witness was sent for the pillow
the bureau. The shams were produced
and identified. Witness said they
were given to him on Wednesday, the 10th.
He saw them on the bed, however, on the
9th of August. The bedspread of white was
examined and also the shams. The sham
with the blood lay next to the bureau.
Witness made no search of the house. but
when he sent men TO search the yard he
also sent men to search the cellar. He
knew the cellar was searched from what
was reported to him. The officers reported
through assistant Marshal Fleet Nothing
was delivered to witness as the result of
the search that afternoon. Marshal Hill
lard then described the search he had
made. The district attorney said he was
willing to admit that q most thorough
search was made in the house.
George +. Seaver, State detective, de-
tailed his part In the various searches of
the premises. John Donnelly, the next
witness, a hackman. said the hay in the
barn looked as though somebody had been
lying on the northwest part of 1t, towards
tne'window.
DIR. Benjamin Handy said he passed the
Borden house on the day of the murder at
8 o'clock, and again about 10 or 1870 A. NJ.
He was in q carriage, and saw opposite the
space betwe the house and DIR. Kelly's a
stranger. He was attracted to him because
he WAS pale very pale; young man. medi-
um height, dressed In light gray clothes.
He turned and looked at him O second
time he went by because there was
something, he could not tell what,
that attracted his attention, he
had seen the man before, he thought, few
days previous, on the same street. 1t was
not Thomas Bolles. He could not say on
what day he saw him before. Winess had
been called to identify meI. and thought
that the person might be found. He had
the impression that he had mustsche; had
full voice, very white forehead and full
face. Witness spoke TO his wife about hav-
ing seen the man after tn, tragedy.
Mrs. Della 5. Manley, who lives on Second
street, was next called. She was in the
vicinity of the house on the morning of the
murder. saw somebody standing near the
standing between the Borden and Churchill
house talking with a man who was In
carriage. The man witness saw was stand
ing in the gateway. He appeared to be
young man; 1t was not Mr.. Morse. and she
did not know Borden; il was younger
man than Morse. She never saw the
stranger before to her knowledge, and could
not saw positively about his clothes, but
thought they were not black.
Mary Ann Chagnon, wife of DR.. Chag-
non, said that on the night before the mur-
der. between l. and 1880 o'clock she heard
a noise as though somebody was jumping
the fence, the sound appeared to come
from the back of the house near the kitch
en-. where there is q fence between the Bor-
den and ChaRnon yards. Her daughter
heard II also: in fact her daughter heard IL
hrst and called her attention TO it, The
daughter was much frightened that
shortly afterwards she refused to go down
stairs TO the cellar. Witness told her 1t
was the dog. but the daughter pointed out
where the dog was then lying.
Martha ChaRnon. daughter of the pre-
ceding witness. testified In corroboration OF
her mother In regard to the noise at the
fence. This closed the evidence and tho
arguments will be begun at 1890 tomorrow.