Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
THE MILLIONAIRE MURDER MYSTERY
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Borden house and premises. There was no
well organized hunt for any traces of the
murderer or the instrument Friday passed
and the police made no effort to ex-
anime the house. Finally, on Saturday,
q search was made. The lawyer for the
Borden girls, Mr.. Jennings, accompanied
the police about the place. On this search
an axe was found in the cellar which, the
police to-day said, had stains on IL that
were probably blood stains This axe viii
be sent to experts to examine
1t was said on good authority that dress
belonging to Lizzie Borden was also found
with . drop of blood on it But even Sat-
urday's search was incomplete. The police
forgot to examine the brick work and fire.
places. So Captain Desmond and squad
of the police went to the house at 9 o'clock
this morning with q stonemason and
a bricklayer.
The stonemason cut away the stone and
brick, and Captain Desmond stuck his head
through the opening and looked up the
chimneys and poked around beneath the
freplaces The search revealed moth
ing. The bricklayer patched up
the holes and the police left.
Another thing commented on is the delay
either in sending for District Attorney
Knovlton at Marion, or his delay in an
swering summons if one was sent
Wondering why LIyzie Is Free.
People also ask why, If 1t Is true, Is the
police, say there is little or nothing In the
clews apart from those connecting Lizzie
Borden. she has not been arrested. The po-
lice answer back saving that she is prac-
tically under arrest. They are asked then
why q skilled and experienced detective II
allowed to see her, 10 advise her and to
speak to her.
Stories of quarrels with various persons,
of unknown enemies and secret plots have
readily been destroyed by application to
Mr. Borden's acquaintances. Mr., Borden
did not quarrel and it is inconceiysble that
he had any secret enemies. 1t might be
interesting to know the source of all these
imaginings which cloud more or less clear
view of what facts had been settled.
The case no doubt is pretty dark, and yet
/ think the most puzzling thing about 1t is
to 60 to the house and examine the premises
and then tell how the murders could have
been committed by an assassin who was
able to make his escape from such q place.
The old-fashioned frame house of the
Bordeus stands in the middle of block on
a street that Is half q residence and half q
business street, and in the midst Of almost
the busiest part OF Fall River.
Upon the Main Thoroughfare.
The front wall is only 10 feet from the
sidewalk, where at all hours Of the day peo-
pie are passing, for the street Is main
thoroughfare. The next house on the north
is only 20 feet away. The next house on
the south is "a feet away. Both have
many windows opening upon the Borden
house.
Supposing the murderer to have been
somebody who entered the house and then
escaped from 1t after his bloody deed, how
did he get away? Not out of the front
door, certainly, for then he would have been
seen by somebody in the passing
throngs The only other exit was
the back door. But that Is directly
opposite a window in the adjoining house,
and at that window sat during all this time
Mrs Buffen, the lady OF the house, and she
says nobody went in or out Of the door
! until the servant ran out on her way to DIR.
Bowen's
But supposing the murderer to have got
into the back yard unobserved by Mrs.
Buffen, he must then climb the high board
fence and get over the barbed wire without
being seen. And when he had done that be
would be in the yard of a neighbor, from
which the only way out was past the neigh
boris house and windows and very front
door upon a street almost as much travelled
as the one in front.