Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-01
"a EDITION.
TALK OF THE CASE.
Argument Proceeding liz the Borden
Hearing.
LATEST POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
Fatal Wreck on the Hudson River
Road.
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DEFENDING COMBINES"
TALKING ABOUT THE BORDENs.

Argument in the Fall River Case Began
This Morning.
FALL RIVER. MAss. Sept. Court came in
today at 1890, and few minutes after Miss
Lizzie Borden entered the room and the pro-
ceedings began.
During the half hour preceding the entrance
of court Mrs. Churchill and Mrs DIR. Bowen,
Miss Holmes and another lady enjoyed them
selves apparently very much and laughter was
FREQUENT.
Mr.. Jennings opened for the defense. He
said among other things that the complaint al
leges that on the 4th day of August Andrew J.
borden was killed by his daughter He APP
preached the subject with feelings widely diff
ferent from any other case he had ever handled
MIR. Borden was not only his client. but his
friend. and had any body told him four weeks
ago that he should now be pleading for the
daughter of his old friend he should have said it
vas beyond the bounds of credibility. That
Andrew J. Borden WAS murdered there is no
doubt and that the time of the murder has
been established there is also no doubt.
The alarm was given ut 1l:i3 10 Ills and
know. SO far as we can know from the evidence
that the time between Mr.. Bordens last en-
trance TO the house and the alarm. from twenty
five minutes to half an honr. covers the time
fully What took place after he got there?
in the sitting room reading a paper. Within
half an hour Andrew J. Borden had to go into
the house. have his talk with Lizzie, il he had
one, go upstairs and downstairs and lie down
on the sofa unless he killed and placed on
the sofa afterward. The time must be reduced
to from ten to fifteen minutes for the commits
sion of the decd.
1t is found that after the alarm had been given
the bodies were where they had been so often
described as being. and any man of common
sense wonld have said at once on seeing them
that this was the work of an insane man or of
one whose heart was black as black could be.
Blow after blow, cutting through the hair into
the brain, were raincd on these persons, show
ing that the person who did the deed wanted to
make sure: there was an unneces-
sary brutality that suggests internal
hatred and revenge or insanity. Every
blow delivered shows its deep line OF demarka-
ton from the others. showing that the hand
that struck those blows powerful and thar
the hand had experience in handling
Ratchet This case is one Of cir
cumstances. and if there are those
which weigh against the defendant Won arc
bound to observe these which are for her
equally as well. These wounds speak for them
selves and don't rest upon the statement of
those who may have seen them.
1t becomes the duty of the commonwealth to
investigate crime of this nature with the mt
most care, that the guilty should be found. The
that the crime was committed by inmates of that
house. All their work seems to have been di-
rected by that one idea. 1t is claimed that
nobody could get ont of the house without
being seen because there were people all
around The government know the house
has been broken into in the daytime
within two years and the barn broken into
within two months and the facts not dis
puted; we show something the police ought to
have discovered, the stranger within the gate.
told by Mrs. Manley.
They have spent night and dav following up
clues to convict Lizzie Borden but know moth
ing about Mrs Msnley and the she saw.
Why? Because they arc not looking for anybody
outside. The extraordinary thing is that the
police cannot find the man DR.. Handy saw, but
they can find the axes Lizzie Borden
killed her father with.
There is the fact that strange men have been
there and have not been seen. those men
got there and the neiShbors did not see them.
and does not it follow that others might have
gone in, and yet not have been seen by the
neighbors?
Miss Collet did not zee Frank Wixon but he
went over the fence while she right there;
neither Groves mar nor the Frenchman saw
him until he got down into the yard. Lizzie
has told about seeing man dodging about the
house and it has not been contradicted. Is it
not entitled to some weight?
Mira Chagnon heard somebody making a
noise at the fence on the division line
the night before. We say that this goes
to break down the governments claim that
this deed was committed by somebody in
the house. So far as we know. Morse,
Lizzie and Bridget Sullivan were the only per-
sons in the house at the time with the muir
dered persons. Mr.. Morse having accounted
for his time leaves the others alone
the youngest daughter and the ser
want land right here counsel called atten-
ton to the words Youngest daughterl. She
is the pet of the family, the one whose fingers
were last clasped by the dead father, and the
one whose head last rested against his breast"
Lizzie here burst into tears and Mr.. Jennings
was himself almost in tears.) Continuing, he
said he did not believe that either Bridget Sui
Ivan or Lizzie committed the deed.