The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-01

Her and People Are Talking About the
Peculiar Method of Her Examination
at the Inquest-The Suspicious Man
Seen ON the Day of the Murder-A New
Clue.
FALL RIVER, Mass, August 31.-The
evidence is completed in the Borden case
and the arguments will be made tomor-
row.
ment today and great many people in
this CITY believe tonight that it is based
on fairl sound reasoning. 1t has been
shown BY reputable witnesses, such as
Mrs. Chagnon and her daughter that a
strange noise was neard in their yard at
II o'clock the night preceding the day of
the murder. 1t might have been made
man climbing the fence and moving
about the buildings in the rear of their
house. Other witnesses, among them
DR.. Handy, testified to having seen
strange looking men in the neighbor-
hood, while a man of sound common
sense says the hay in the barn has been
slept in, judging from appearances.
As sympathy turns to the defendant
there is heard more criticism of the way
she was treated at the inquest. 1t is
charged that the report of the inquest
shows it to have been a direct examina-
ton, followed by as severe a cross-exam-
ination as was ever seen in a criminal
trial, the whole effort appearing to be to
force Miss Lizzie to convict himself. Al
ter the government was satisfied she had
gone far enough to do this, the arrest
was made and the inquest came to an alb
rupt ending. 1t is the general impress
sion that Miss Lizzie was
Kept on the Rack
there. 1t is commented upon that at
three different times she was called be-
fore the inquest, and at each time COM
PEELED to go unattended by counsel to
meet officials who were suspicious of her
guilt, and who forced her in her confu-
sion to say things she did not mean on
which they could base theory of her
guilt.
The first witness for the defence this
morning was City Marshal Rufus B. Hill
lard. His first knowledge of the mur-
der was about II. Is a. m, August 1. He
sent Officer Allen to investigate. He sent
! but didn't go himself till 3 or O. clock in
the afternoon. II went with some men
to search the barn, yard and yards in the
vicinity" said the witness. Il didn't
know that the house and barn had been
searched before, except as / was told.
Officers Medley, Mr.. Fleet and Doherty
reported to me. Officer Medley is not in
Fall River I have sent him off to look
after something Rev. Mr.. Buck placed in
my hands. [Sensation.] tits something
| in connection with this murder. 1t is a
clue.''
| District Attorney Knowlton-"You
don't want him to tell you now Mr.. Jen-
nings will tell you, but not in court. "
Marshal Hilliard's examination was
| here suspended to allow DR.. William I.
Learned to testify.
| DR.. Learned testified that he is prac-
house at about quarter past three that
| afternoon.
Saw Mrs. Borden
lying on the floor. Her arms were under
| the body. could not see the forearm.
[ should say that the arms were crossed
across the breast, under the body. They
| were not over the head, or extended"
| 1.-THE witness thus corroborates DR..
Bowen and disputes Dr.. Dolan.
Marshal Hilliard resumed his testime-
nv. He examined Miss Lizzie's room,
| the room opening off it to the north
| Miss Fmma's room) and the guest cham
| ber. In Liezie's room he tore open the
bed and examined every part of it, to see
| if anything was concealed. He also
| looked behind the sofa. He did not
| cooroh 4ba h11poau RI in oil tho
| rooms. The witness described the thor
| ough manner in which the premises were
| searched, the garrets and cellars in par
| ticular being ransacked and one of the
| chimneys being torn open to make sure
| that nothing had been dropped into it.
'And these girls did all they could to
| aid and assist you?' asked Colonel Ad-
| ans.
eyes sir; Miss Emma I think it was,
stood in the kitchen and told us that she
| wanted us to make as full and thorough
an examination of the house as it was
possible for us to make. If there was
any box or any place or any trunk that
we could not get into she wanted us to
| let them know and she would open it for
us, There was trunk in one room that
one of the girls got us a key for and op-
| ened for u.s.
ssThat was Miss Lizzie, was it Not?"
'sWell, now, can't say; it was one of
the girls, that is all I could say.''
John Donnelly, the hackman, was the
| next witness He testified that he went
to the Borden house somewhere about 12
O'Clock; he wouldn't wish to make it
much later; he went up into the barn ten
or fifteen minutes; he did not see Officer
Medley at all the hay was on the north
side OF the barn; he saw a place. that
looked as though somebody had been ly-
ing on it, toward the window"
-examined-''What was there
| about the impress that attracted you?''
81 could not say whether it was made
| by a dog or man. 1t was rounding,
perhaps foot wide and five or six inches
deep. 1t was about half past eleven
when first went there. saw the round
hole in the hay; that was what gave me
the impression that somebody was asleep
in the hay"
DIR. Frank W. Draper, medical exam
iner, Suffolk county, testified to being
present at the autopsy on the bodies and
to his conclusions as to the nature OF the
wounds how inflicted etc, DIR. Draper