The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-30
Lizzie 5 Evidence
AT The INQUEST.
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ESPECIAL TO THE NEws.i

silence In the courtroom as the stenogra-
pher proceeded with the reading of
Lizxie's evidence at the inquest was
breathless. The audience hung on every
word.
Her sister, Lizzie said, was at FairIHaven.
She usu ally went TO her room at night
without saying anything to anybody, so
did not speak to Mr. Morse that night.
Her door was fastened into the spare
room.
Thursday she found Mrs. Borden dust
Ing. Maggie was getting pail to wash
windows.
ga little before father said he was go
ing down town." II got an iron. ] ate
no breakfast save a banana" Breakfast
things were cleared away
She began to iron handkerchiefs, but
did not finish because the irons were not
hot. Was i'm kitchen when her father
returned reading au old Harpers. Went
up stairs. Stayed few minutes only to
sew on piece Of tape.
She thought Mrs. Borden was upstairs
when her father returned. Maggie went
60 the door and let him in. Her after re-
collection of the circumstances was that
she was down In the kitchen. At this
point the testimony become very con-
fused.
Lizzie claimed to be very confused and
did not know what she had said. She
did not know what Mrs. Borden was
doing
She went up stairs to prepare the spare
room, as she was to have company on
Monday.
Did not see her after that. She would
have seen her il she had come down back
stairs 10 go up into her own room over
the kitchen.
Did not know what she was doing up
stairs. She had no explanation of what
her mother might have been doing.
'She might have come down aud gone
out while was down cellar at the closet.
She supposed Mrs. Borden had gone out.
Supposed she was out when her father
was killed.
She did not leave the dining-room or
sitting-room after her father returned.
She was at the house all the time.
She did not go into the front hall after
ward. She was in the three rooms a large
portion of the time betw cen the time
when her father went out and returned.
returned Had been reading magazine.
Did notjron any more after father came
II went out to the barn about Is or 90
minutes after father came in.
left him lying on the lounge.
81 went up stairs In the barn to get
some lead to make sinker."
did not get any lead, none there"
Screen door was booked when she
went out. She did not know anything
about Maggie washing windows.
She did not know anything about it.
She wanted to get sinker to go to
Marion with on Monday.
Fish lines were at the farm. Had not
used them for five years.
She presumed there were sinkers on tho
farm. She did not think there were any
lines fit to use at the harm.
She thought there might be sinkers mt
the farm. Did not examine the lead which
was at the door at the foot of the stairs
She did not know why she had gone up
stairs except that she thought there was
lead there.
wanted TO find whether any sinkers were
I'm the barn and so would not have to buy
any.
She therefore began to prepare for her
fishing trip by hunting for sinkrers
There was some lead in the box in the
barn.
Her father had told her so; barn was
hot; she could give no reason for the
search taking her so long; she ate some
pears.
In the barn, though the barn was very
hot. She felt better than on the night be-
fore; felt about the same as In the morn
inR.
She was standing beside the front win
dow OF the barn up stairs.
She could not explain why she had
taken pears up into the hottest part of
the barn to eat there. She could see into
the street from the window.
She was probably twenty minutes haul
Ing over the lumber.
She then returned to the house, pushed
open sitting room door, rushed To the foot
of stairs and called Maggie. Didn't know
whether her mother was ia the house or
not. Thought she had gone out.
She could not explain where her mother
was after she saw her 20 up stairs.
She had spoken 10 her mother about
dinner and ner mother had said she re-
ceived note and was going out.
She said she had been up and made n
couple of beds.
IL told her to put on better dress, but
she said that one was good enough"
Lizzie did not know whether she had
worn an apron that morning or not.
She knew nothing abdifs an axe on the
cellar floor
She did not know that an axe had been
used for killing anything doNn there.
Her father had killed some pigeons in
June In the barn.
She did not know when her father came
back To the house nor just when she her
self went out to the barn.
She wanted to Wk him some questions
about the mail and had gone into the sit
ting room TO ask him.
She was certain IL was in the sitting
room. He said that he had no mail for
She asked him il Ae wanted the win
lie said, Yes: leave IL up. | am going
to try to Ret nap"
The 81 ory Of the trouble some years ago
was rehearsed.
Mrs. Borden's fathers house was for
sale, on Borden street.
Mr. Borden bought the interest Of Mrs.
Gray. who was the half sister of Mrs.
Borden, and gave IL TO Mrs. Borden.
Lizzie thought Mrs. Borden had per-
suaded him TO buy IL, aud was provoked
about IL.
She thought that her father ought
also TO give her and Emma something.
Her father gave them her prandfather's
home. That was the cause OF the trouble.
she afterward stopped calling Mrs Bor-
den,, mother" and called her "Mrs.
Borden"
The rest Of the evidence brought out
nothing new.
The prosecution rested.
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