Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-29
DID SHE STRIP TO STRIKE
One Presumption That Points to
Lizzie Eorden's Guilt.

Lizzie Eorden's Guilt.
She May Have Removed Her Clothing
and Thus Avoided All Suspicious Blood
stains While Perpetrating the Double
Crime.
A. Curtis Bond In y. Y. Herald.
The speculation among those who
have looked at the credible side of the
Borden mystery is not whether Lizzie
Borden is guilty, but how she COM
mitted the crime and how she did it SO
cleverly as to escape thus far absolute
detection.
Up to this time there has been no at
tempt to show how the murder was
done, but merely to demonstrate that
no one other than Lizzie Borden was in
u position TO do 1t, and yet the strongest
points that have thus far been made
against the girl are not strong at all
when dissectcd, and the plausible ex-
| PLANTATION has been overlooked alto
gether.
The Importance attached to the ut.
tempted purchase Of prussiC acid is
entirely misplaced, and If Of any value
whatsoever, has that value in clearing
rather than in condemning Lizzie The
district attorney claims that Lizzie's
I first idea was to destroy her father and
step-mother by poison, but when she
discovered on Wednesday afternoon the
impossibility Of procuring the poison,
She then changed her plans and resolved
to use an axe.
This is incredible and impossible.
Whoever did that murder arranged for
| II further ahead than from Wednesday
afternoon to Thursday morning. II Lizzie
did II, she had long before settled on the
means with which to do it, the DISPOSE
| ton to be made Of her blood-stained
| clothing and the weapon used, so as to
| battle the closest search of shrewd Otli-
GERS. This required much more time
| than from Wednesday afternoon till
Thursday morning at $50 o'clock to
| provide Tor.
| PRECEnENTs.
! The sentimental argument against a
! woman indnlging in such butchely Will
| not hpld-we are dealing with an extra
ordinary woman. And even with the
commonplace woman there are prece-
dents to prove the instability of this
sentiment Mrs. Druse was hanged in
New York state q few years ago for
numbering her husband in precisely this
same manner, Governor Hill declining
! to commute her sentence
How, then, did Lizzie Borden kill her
father and stepmother and what led to il?
That Mr.. Borden deserved some such
| summary removal may be no excuse for
4 the decd, but II furnishes reason. His
grinding parsimony and brutal selfish.
ness had ruined the life Of his two
daughters, had deprived them Of all op.
porunitics for pleasure and Ind iuter.
4 ferel forever with their chances ~ I'M.
Rare. Lizzie Borden in III nrnbabiiitv
| wished 20 cnioy lifr Sha b,d enn;,
Europe once; Sh1 realized what iiving i
| and what there was beyond tho conti1as
Of FAN River. But Mr. father VA In.
movable; he could find no rrnson whv
She should hovn ,nvtlintr a-n,,,,n,i.s
do anything, other than What snite[ M
narrow views. This unnecrssarv ~.
| straint finally SO affected 6er lar Mimi
became 50 fcyered over its mental III.
| prtsonmcnt, that She brcama irrnsnnnsi.
4 bluund sought reliaf III brcat IN AVN
the iron salfishness tbnf baIJ MINI, a.,
IN everyday prisoner would brnal; dnwn
I the stone walls tbat IDA I'M,
That was tie reason
An having the reason Lizzio n,,rroa
accordingly. '''S i''''''''N'
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thG night before in order to make the
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