The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29
NO BLOOD!..
Lizzie'S Face and Hands
Were Clean.
HER HAIR NEAT.
She Did Not Pant as il She Had
EXerted Herself.
FAVORING The DEFENCE
Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Russell on
the Stand.
NEIGHB0RS GIVE TESTIMONY.
Lizzie borden was Distressed and Called
to her Friend to Come to her for
"some One had Killed Father"-why
She Went to the Barn.
Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Russell on
the Stand.
NElGHBORS GIVE TESTIMONY.
ESPECIAL TO THE NEws.I

ESPECIAL TO THE NEWS.
FALL RIVER, Aug. 29-The testimony
of last week leaves the Borden case
in about the same condition as
before. The lawyers on both sides
profess to be content, Mr. Knowlton be-
cause he believes he knows whereof he
speaks, and Messrs. Adams and jennings
because thus far nothing has openly ap-
peared which eliminates their client.
This is literally and strictly true. But it
must not be forgotten in this preliminary
hearing that the prosecution will not al
low its witnesses TO go one hairs breadth
beyond what Is necessary to hold Lizzie.
IL is not intended to show her guilt nor
even to show her probable guilt very
a strong improbability that anyone else
could have committed the deed
the evidence, therefore, must not be
weighed In the scale OF prejudice, nor
must anything but the facts be consider
ed. With these before them the public
almost certain to hold Miss Borden until
the Grand Jury shall find bill against
her
But looked at from an outside stand
point, and without anv predisposition
toward the guilt or innocence of Miss
Borden. this is one OF the most marvel
Gus cases that has ever occurred in his
tory. 1t is weird. 1t is fiendish. II is,
so far as has been shown, without
motive, aud its perpetrator must
have had the cunning OF omnis-
cience, the form of ghost and the
good luck OF most fortunate star,
when two people were in the house, and
no clues To the theft have been found.
With these conditions it is not at all i'm.
probable that murder might have been
committed. leaving no more clues behind
the murderer than the thief did.
Sum up the evidence IL you will. The
prosecution has simply shown that it was
mitted the deed. They have shown that
there is note mentioned by Lizzie that
must be explained away That is the
substance OF the prosecution.
The defence has done scarcely more. IL
has shown that the front door did not
fasten readily. 1t has shown that, so far
rs anyone knowns, it was not fastened
that morning after Mr.. Borden entered.
1t has been shown that the cellar door
may have been open and probably was.
1t has shown that burgulary was COM
mitted in this house recently.
Those who believe in Lizzie's inno-
cence call attention to the uureliahdlity
of the evidence thus far given, and they
do well in doing so. Look, for instance,
at Dolan's evidence in regard to the
hatchets lie said they were found on
the cellar floor; that the floor was what
might be usually called damp. The blood
spots on them were dry and black, and
that they would have uried in an hour.
Does any one believe that blood would
dry in damp cellar in an hour? Is it
possible to believe that?
Bridget says, on tine contrary, that the
axes aud hatchet were in the furtherest
corner OF the cellar in little room in a
starch box, standing head downwards-a
most methodical way for murderer to
etve them IL is rather to be supposed
that that is just where the old mau him
self left them after he had used them last
Think OF the murderer having only Is
minutes Qor Bridget was called by Lizzie
in that time) TO commit the awful crime,
to have struck the twelve deathly blows,
to have taken the hatchet down cellar and
TO have scraped IL carefully, so carefully
as TO looked as though It might have been
washed, to have come up stairs and then
To have called Bridget Would not an
assassin more naturally have thrown 1t
on the cellar floor aud to have rushed to
escape as soon as possiblef
This Is very rapid work. IL is very
strange work but most of ali IL is very
clean work, scrupulously clean, at least
SO lar as evidence OF Lizzie's part In it Is
concerned. The murdorous blows upon
Mrs. Boruen spattered the blood agai .Ist
the bureau and the wall three feet away.
and even up on the pillow shams. But
IL an hour elapsed before Lizzie was seen
she had time To remove the st aims from
herself and her clio hing
@But the case of Mr.. Borden's death Is
not SO easily explained. The blood from
his wounds was thrown live or six feet:
Thrown through the dining room door
onto the easement In the dining room:
thrown on a picJure above his head:
thrown against the parlor door in forty
places, and made no less than eighty-six
spots on the sofa aud wall. The hatchet
was used so forciDly as TO almost coin
p1etely pound his face and one side of his
head into n shapeless mass-and Lizzie is
supposed 60 have done this.
Then she Is supposed TO have removed
every trace of blood which must have
spurted on her clothes, head. face and
hande and IN bave rlaanad tba r.. .I-.