Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-05
news BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
TRAGEDY In FALL RIVER,
Double Murder in Broad
Daylight.
4 CHURCH WARDEN GOES WRONG.
John Morley for Secretary
of ireland.
CUBA WILL STRIKE FOR Freedom.
HighWaymen Blow Up an
Express Train.
MURDERED IN DAYLIGHT.

A Double Murder in Fall River
Hacked With an Axe-A Daughter
Suspected-No Traces OF the MUIR
dercr-NO Struggle Had Been Made
No Yaiuables Were Taken-An Old
and Respected Cittzen-Crowds of
People Surround the Residence-A
Man Named Morse Suspected An
Autopsy Made.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. -4.-Andrew J.
Borden and wife, two of the Oldest, wealth
lest and most highly respected persons in
the city, were murdered with an axe at II
o'clock this morning in their home in Sec
ond street, within minutes walk of the
city hall and the central business section.
The circumstances are most surprising and
shocking and up to this hour no trace of
the murder or his weapon can be found.
The Borden family consisted of the father,
mother, two daughters and a servant.
The eldest daughter has been in Fair Ha-
ven for some days. The rest of the family
have been i'll for three or four days and
DR.. Bowen, the attending physician, was
suspecting an attempt at poisoning. About8
o'clock this morning Mrs Borden received
note asking her to go and visit a friend
who was i'll. She left the house and short
ly after ward her husband followed and
walked down street to one of the banks.
He returned about 1890 O'Clock and sat
on the sofa. In answer to question from
the servant he said he was very we'll. The
servant, Bridget Sullivan, then went out
side the house. In the meantime Miss Liz
zie Borden, daughter, arose from bed
and walked down stairs, seeing and speak
ing to her father as she passed through
the room. She supposed her mother was
out. She went into the yard and stepped
into the barn. While there she heard
cry of distress coming apparently from
the house and she ran in. She went
directly to sitting room leading from the
main hallway in the house, and there saw
her father lying back on a sofa covered
with blood and lifeless. She ran out again
shrieking, and her cries attracted the
servant and neighbor. They made
hasty search for the mother, and found
her upstairs in spare bedroom lying
dead, face downward on the floor. The
woman ran down stairs, terrified, and
summoned DR.. Bowen, who lives opposite.
He found both victims beyond medical
assistance, and could do nothing but notify
the police He was about to do 30 when
the women folks in the house swooned.
Officer Allen arrived early, and became 40
excited that he ran at once with an
incoherent story to the central police
station. To day was the date for
the policemen's excursion and one-half of
the police force were at Rocky Point when
the murders occurred. A small posse of
police surrounded the house and in short
time they were buoy keeping back the
host of curiosity seekers, who thronged
Second street, attracted by the tragedy.
Medical Examiner Dolan was summoned
and was on the scene within half an hour.
He found Mr. Borden's head hacked to
pieces in a horrible manner, no less than
seven long gashes being on his face and
skull, some of them an inch and half
deep, through flesh and bone. When Mrs.
Borden was first seen her daughter and the
others supposed that she had died from
heart disease, to which she had been SUBJ
ject. A reporter first noticed blood In her
train, but when the bed near which she
was lying had been drawn away it was seen
that she too had been frightfully battered
about the face and skull. All sorts of the
cries concerning the murder are current.
Those most generally accepted are as fol-
lows: