The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-08-26
AN ADJOURNMENT
TAKEN UNTIL THURSDAY IN THE
BORDEN MURDER CASE.

Expert Woods Testimony Considered
Important Enough to Grant the Delay.
Move by Miss Borden's Attorneys
Promptly Met by the Government.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 23-Two hun
dred eypectant residents of this city were
unable yesterday to crafty their desire to
see Lizzie A. Borden in court. The noted
| young woman was in a police station
apartment for over six hours, but she was
not compelled to appear before a curious
throng.
| The examination, which was set down
| to occur yesterday afternoon, did not take
place, although everybody, from the judge
down to the telegraph messenger boys,
were ready for it.
AS the last minute, when all the ar
rangements were completed, the attorneys
for the state and defense had long con-
fab, with the result that they requested
Judge Blaisdell to let the matter stand
until next Thursday forenoon at 10 o'clock,
when, if nothing in the meantime arises
to prevent, the hearing will go on. This
delay was because Professor Wood, the
expert who was called on to examine
clothing, hatchet and wood for blood,
Will Not Re Ready to Report
for two or three days yet, and, as things
are just now, he is Indispensable to the
progress of the case.
As yesterday was SO widely advertised
as the date of the hearing, there was
much surprise manifested in Fall River
at the unexpected stay in the proceed
ings Even old Judge Blaisdell, schooled
by experience against betraying surprise
at sudden moves of lawyers, lifted his
whitened eyebrows slightly when Dis
trict Attorney Knowlton announced to
him the decision that he and his "learned
friends" had arrived at, "if it is conven-
lent for your honor"
1t was convenient; so the state will not
commence to let the defense know its
evidence against the accused young
woman until next Thursday.
This move means that the fight of the
defense now aud henceforth is going
To BE An Interesting One.
x1e ecret of yesterdays move lies in
thgfaet that hedefense summoned Pro-
fessor Wood of Harvard college TO appear
on the stand with what goods and chattels
he holds in trust for the state while they
are undergoing examination.
1t is whispered that the government
didn't care mach whether this witness did
or did not appear at the hearing, and that
the attorneys for Miss Borden learned that
the blood stains were so far from being
completed that Professor Woods state
ment on the witness stand would at the
present time have little weight.
So Professor Wood received yesterday a
summons from the defense to appear
Il ;o 1ata ta11
what he found. His testimony is expected
to be most important. but the prosecu-
tion felt that it could get along without
it, SC long as the defense was prevented
from ascertaining it's nature.
So when District Attorney Knowlton
found what Lawyers Jennings and Adj
ans had done, he
Called a Halt
right away. The defense wouldn't go on
with the case unless Professor Wood was
ready to appear, and as he wasn't, post
ponement was necessary.
1t was the discussion of this matter
that took the lawyers fifty minutes in the
counsel anteroom and kept the court
'oom spectators wondering ami guessing
what was going on. Lizzie's lawyers
inally carried their point, so that now
Professor Wood is almost as necessary in
his examination as Is the accused her.
elf.
The governments plan was generally
a most shrewd one in not
weakening the states case by giving
'vidence to the defense, but that the |
cheme proved little weak is due TO the |
oresight of the attorneys who have been |
etained by Miss Borden.
Lizzie Borden was in the station near
he court house all the time the spec, ators
waited for the lawyers to talk. But she |
wasn't compelled to show herself, and
ute number who gathered at 10 o'clock
q the forenoon bemoaned the fact that
hat they had to pay for the sandwiches
nd pie they sent out for at noon in order