Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-31
LIzZIE'S OWN STORY.
Her Testimony Before the Secret In
quest Given at the Trial.
ONLY ONE SMALL DISCREPANCY.
Expert Testimony Upsets the Poison and
Blood stain Theories.
THE DEFENSE FOLLOWING A NEW cLEw

TALL RIVER, Aug. S0.-The feature OF
the Borden murder trial this forenoon was
expert testimony in favor of Lizzie, in
which Prof Wood did much toward up
setting the poison and blood-stain theories.
This afternoon was marked by the introduce
tion as evidence of the stenographic report
of the prisoners testimony at the secret in
quest.
Concerning the stomachs of Mr.. and Mrs
Borden, which he examined, Prot Edward
Wood said they appeared to be perfectly
natural The stomachs were tested for prus
sic acid, but with a negative result
On 10th of August he received from DR..
Dolan hatchet. two axes, blue dress
skirt, dress waist. white starched skirt,
lounge cover and three small envelopes, in
which were hair taken from Mr. and Mrs.
Borden and hair taken from the hatchet.
Only One Blood Spot Is Found.
On August 16 witness received pair of
black stockings. The hatchet contained a
number of suspicious looking spots, but
careful examination showed no traces of
blood. Every spot which looked like blood
/ was examined, but no traces of blood were
seen. A big spot on the blue skirt looked
/
| The white skirt had one spot which looked
! like blood and it was found to be one, and
| it was directly in front, about six inches
| from the bottom. The trarpet was blood
| stained (this was the sitting room carpet,
and there was blood. of course, on that.
There was no blood on the lounge cover.
The entry marked chair from A. j. Bor-
den," was simply white hair; Mrs Borden's
was dark. The hair on the hatchet was not
human hair. [Sensation in the court room.
1t was more like that taken from an ami
NAL. The spot on the right shoe was not
blood, and there was no blood on either
shoes or stockings.
There was nothing on the two axes Near
the edge of the hatchet were spots which
seemed to be blood, but we're found not to
be. There was a spatter on the blade, but
it was not blood, and ''there were spots on
the side of the head of the hatchet which
looked to me like blood and thought they
were, said witness, ''but they were not"
Prot Woods Testimony Is Unshaken.
Prof. Wood was then cross-examined at
length, but nothing was elected to weaken
HE testimony. He said the single blood
spot looked larger on. the outside of the
skirt than inside. The size of the spot was
about the size of pin head.
Question-This you say was human blood?
Al have not examined il.
In regard to the position of the murderer.
witness said it appeared to him that the
person stood in the dining room, where the
first blow was given; this because of the
spots on the frame of the dining room door.
Here the witness was allowed to look at
the stain on the door framaunder his glass,
and resuming the stand said it was not
blood. Witness said it would be 1mpossi-
10 for he nrdo
pie to escape receiving blood on his body in
some way, and that the stains on the sitting
room doors might have gone over the head
of the assailant as the instrument was
lifted The blood would hit the assailant
from the knees up. The blood on the as
saiiant in the case of Mrs. Borden would be
shown anywhere above the feet.
Miss Lizzir's Own Story Told.
The first witness in the afternoon was
Annie NJ White, official stenographeE Her
notes, as written out,s were, offered in evil
dence. The examination of Lizzie Borden
at the inquest was read. Lizzie stated SUBJ
stantially that she was 80 years oil, and
that her father had been married to her
stepmother about q years. She had heard
Mr.. Morse say several years ago that her
father had made will. Her father never
said anything about will She continued:
Father once, about two weeks ago, had
trouble with man whom did not know.
They had some talk, and heard the man
say: 81 thought man with reputation
for getting money like you would accept my
offer" My father said he had stage long
enough, and requested him to get out and
he went away saying he would consult with
his partner.
Lizzie had had some trouble with her
stepmother about five years ago, but it was
trivial. She made two statements about
her whereabouts on the day of the murders
when her tather came home. At fret she
said she was up stairs Then she said she
was in the kitchen, and to this last story
she stuck.
Mr. and Mrs. Borden's Movements.
Lizzie said she saw her stepmother down
stairs. and that the latter said she had the
guest chamber all ready except to put on
some shams, for she expected company
Monday and wanted everything all right
Lizzie could not state whether her mother
came down stairs again after she went up
stairs with the shams. She might have
come down when Lizzie was down cellar
for few moments but she could not have
come down without Lizzie seeing her, and
she had no recollection of It After her
father went out, Lizzie never went up
stairs, and, SO far as she knew, she was
alone in the lower part of the house for a
large part of the time whe N her father was
away. The front door was locked and
nobody could have got in there.
When her father came in she was in the
kitchen eating a pear. There was a little
ire il the stove, but not much, and she put
in a small piece of wood to start it up. She
did not see Maggie after her father came in.
Lizzie said she went to the barn to get lead
for sinker. She got it from box on a
work bench. She had not been in the barn
for three months before. She unlocked
the screen door to go to the barn after she
fixed her father on the lounge.
Rather Long Time in the Barn.
Several pages of the stenographer's copy
were devoted to tilt between the District
Attorney and Lizzie, caused BY his irving
to find out just what Lizzie was doing in the
barn to occupy 20 minutes She ate three
pears, and looked out of the window and
overhauled box for the lead
Lizzie said that Mrs Borden's homestead
was tor sale, and it was bought In by Mr.
Borden for her. Lizzie stated that she said |
that what she did for her he ought to do for |
them, meaning herself and Emma. Then, |
or about that time, she commenced to feel |
sorely towards her stepmother
Lizzie could not tell how the blood came |
to be on her skirt, unless it came from flea |
bite; if the blood came from the outside she |
could not tell where it came from. Lizzie |
said she never went into any drug store in
New Bedford at any time to inquire for
prussic acid.
This closed the government case. Mr..
Adams asked as a special ruling that the
court strike out all that portion of the evil
dence relating to prussic acid, but the
Court declined for the present to do so.
Tho Testimony OF Neighbor,
The first witness for the defense was DIR.
S. w. Bowen. On the day OF the tragedy
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