Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-02
And Absence of ANY Hiding Place
for an Outside Assassin
CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESULT.
The Defense Lays Stress Upon the Man Seen
Lettering Nearby.
ALSO THE PALPABLE WANT OF MOTIVE


there was no doubt, and that the time of
murder has been established, there was no
doubt. The alarm was given at lib to
l115, and the time between Mr. Borden's
last entrance to the house and the alarm
was about % minutes.
What occurred after he got there? Brid-
get Sullivan told her story and she left him
in the sitting room reading paper. With
In half an hour Andrew j. Borden had to
go in the house, have his talk with Lizzie if
he had one, go upstairs and downstairs and
lie down on the sofa, unless he was killed
and placed on the sofa atterward. The time
must be reduced to from 10 to Is minutes
for the commission of the deed
The Defense Finds a Man..
1t is found that after the alarm had been
given the bodies were where they have been
so often described as being, and any man of
common sense would have said at once, on
seeing them, that this was either the work
OF an insane person or one whose heart was
hardened.
The theory of the Government seems to
have been that the crime was committed by
inmates of the house. All their work seems
to have been directed by that one idea 1t
is claimed that nobody could get out of the
house without being seen, because there
were persons all around The State knows
the house has been broken into in the day.
time within two years, and the barn broken
into within two months, and the facts are
not disputed
"We show something the police ought to
have discovered, said Mr.. Jennings ''the
stranger within the gate, as told by Mrs
Manley. They have spent night and day
following up clews to conYict Lizzie Bor-
den, but know nothing about Mrs Manley
and the man she saw. Why? Because
they are not looking for anybody outside.
The extraordinary thing is that the police
cannot find the man DR.. Handy saw, but
they can find the ak or axes Lizzie Borden
killed her father with
No Motive Found for the Crime.
Mr.. Jennings laid great stress on the ab-
sence of motive for the crime. The state
ment that Lizzie was on unfriendly terms
with her parents, he said, had not been
substantiated by the evidence. She was
not in need of money, S25 having recently
been paid her. The story OF her alleged
attempt to procure poison was secuted. He
pointed out that the girl had just Is min
utes in which to clear herself of all traces
of the crime
"What did she do with the hatchet?" he
asked. "What became of the spots of blood
that should have been on her clothes?"
The lawyer spoke of the youngest
daughter" and the servant as being in the
house at the time, and when he added,
"the one whose hands were last clasped by |
the dead fathers, and the one whose head
last rested against his breast" Lizzie burst
nd To-
deeply affected.
At 2 o'clock District Attorney Knowlton
proceeded to make the argument for the !
Government. Among other things, he |
said:
How was the hatchet which was used as an !
instrument used? By some one who was u |
ii not moral coward; by one who |
did not want any one to see who did it. The /
blows were struck from behind. We see in |
it a weak, irresolute, imperfect feminine |
hand that only knew the impulse to strike |
not with the strength of a man. Yet we |
don't know who did it. Those blows were |
not even evidence of malice. because they |
were all weak, irresolute blows.
No Place for a Man to Hide.
Tell me not about the appearance of the |
hay, that the barn was locked up by Borden |
at night and unlocked in the morning In |
the house, when they got in, where could |
they hide2 No possible hiding places. No
way to get anywhere. And that set US to
and who was there that could i'm
agine that everything could be clear for him
who calmly thought he could await in that
house tor an hour and q half. l can't con-
ceive of a villain who is also a fool.
L know no difference between reputable
and honest Lizzie Borden and reputable
and honest Bridget Sullivan. When Lizzie
she contradicted herself Where were Mrs.
Borden and Lizzie when Bridget came into
the house that morning after she had gone
into the yard? They were upstairs alone.
Before that Mrs. Borden had told her to
wash windows Mr. Borden had gone away,
and when Bridget came to the screen door
need not lock the door: that she would be in
the yard anu could see anybody going or
coming; that she would get her water in the
barn ii Lizzie said SO.
AL the house was clear but of Lizzie and
her stepmother, and when Mr.. Borden was
lown townand when Morse was away and
when Bridget was at work in the yard-then
,he deed was done i'll that upper room; and
when Mr.. Borden was let in by Bridget, Liz
lie and Abbie Borden were alone in the
guest chanber-one dead, the other alive;
md when Lizzie was at the head OF the
tairs, when Bridget was at the door, she
vas where woman was so killed that when
The fell, wish her mass OF flesh, to the floor,
he bruised her face and made such noise
must have been heard.
Not a Bit of Noise Was card.
Then she taxes out her things and begins
o iron. Bridget went up stairs, leaving
lizzie ironing at three minutes to IL, nearer
O her father than am to Your Honor in
i've minutes her father was dead. She could
lot have been down stairs, because she
would have heard the noise-not up stairs
because she was ironing. 1t is now more
ifiicult than it was to imagine the improb-
bility of the story she told about that barn. |
Where the man whom Lizzie thinks did the
Iced was all this time, we don't know
Speaking of the statement by Lizzie that
he had gone to the barn to get sinkers, he
aid:
And she stayed in that barn 20 minutes,
where no woman would have stayed five
minutes. I gave her all the chance in the
World, and asked her to account for that
ime, and she said she went upthere and ate
,ears-there OF all places in the world; and
he aid not feel well, and could not eat any
reakfast. In the hottest part OF the day, |
o the hottest place on the premises she had
one to get sinkers. / have seen all sorts of
Ibis, but this is the most labored one l
ver saw OF heard of.
The Commonwealth has never said that
hese people were not poisoned by prussic
cid, but it does not say that that was the
lrst proposition, because there was sug-
estion OF n motive in Lizzie ding to the
drugstore. Prussic acid could not be had.
'he laws are strictly against il and she gave
up. The demeanor OF the defendant is re-
narkable. We have not vet found the wrap
hat covered Lizzie Borden and took the
Hood from those bodies. We have not yet
ound the hatchet which did the work. This
hing was conceived in the head of q cool
eaded, deliberate woman.
The Prisoner Is He d for Trial.
Judge Blaisdell said that sympathy