Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-01
MISS BORDEN'S CHANCES
Materially Improved by the
Testimony Yesterday.
ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL TO-DAY

Close of the Decentralization ON the
Governments Case--Medical Testimony
in Rebuttal of the Prosecutions Theor-
sies--Sympathy for the Accused Growing.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Sep. There il
no abatement in the size of the crowd
which has daily attended the hearing of
Lizzie Borden. The court room was
crowded as usual this morning long be-
fore the prosecution started to sum up
its case.
The defence in the case has shown its
line of argument, and there are a great
many people in this city who believe that
1t is based on fairly sound reasoning.
There are many more persons talking
about the weakness of the governments
case than have been heard for some
time
1t has been shown by reputable wit
| nesses, such as Mrs. Chagnon and her
daughter, that strange noise was heard
| in their yard at II o'clock the night pre-
ceding the day of the murder, that might
have been made by man climbing the
fence and moving about the buildings in
the rear of their house. They were
frightened by unusual sounds to such an
extent that Miss Martha, the daughter.
look out.
Other witnesses, among them DIR. Han
| dy, testified to having seen strange look
ing men in the neighborhood, while a
| man of sound common sense. like Alfred
Clarkson, the steam filter, says the hay
in the barn had been stepped in, and
looked as if it had been lain in.
Jerome G. Borden showed how easy it
was to enter the Borden house by the
| ho tact 0f Mrc
Brigham shows that it is possible to en-
ter the door provided one of the inmates
does not slip the bolt or turn the key,
| without depending on the spring lock
which does not spring.
Yesterdays record of the butchery as
given by DR.. Draper, has given rise to
grave doubts whether the terrible wounds
| could have been inflicted by woman,
more particularly by a woman who, since
and before the tragedy, has shown not
the slightest symptoms of insanity.
AS sympathy turns to the defendant
| there is heard more criticism of the way
she was treated at the inquest. 1t is
| charged that the report of the inquest
| shows to have been a direct examination,
followed by as severe cross-examination
as ever seen in a criminal trial, the whole
effort appearing to be to force Miss Liz
xie to convict herself, and that after the
| government was satisfied that she had
gone far enough to do this the arrest was
made.
| The inquest came to an abrupt ending,
and has never come to q formal end so
far as the public have been able to learn
| AS the evidence at the inquest has come
| to light these critics of the prosecution
do not see how the arrest was warran ted
by it. The general impression seems to
| be that Miss Lizzie should be kept on the
| rack there.
There is also commented upon that at
three different times she was called be-
fore the inquest, and each time was COM
PEELED to go unattended by counsel to
meet officials who were suspicious of her
guilt, and whose whole effort seemed to
! be to secure damaging testimony from
the witness against herself.
The first witness called was Marshal
| Rufus b. billiard, who said that his at
tention was called to the murder at II :15,
Aug. 4. He sent Officer George w. AL
len to the house, and did not go to the
house himself until 2:30 or 3 in the after
noon.
The next officer sent was Doharty, then
Mullaly, Medley, Gillon, Wilson and
| others he could not remember.
When witness went at o'clock he
went with some men to search the barn
and yards in that vicinity, but he knew
nothing about the matter except from
what he had been told by Medley and
Fleet, and, he thought, Reilly.
Reilly is not in town now, but has been
sent to look after evidence that Rev. Mr..
Buck placed in his hands, following out
some supposed clue in come ction with
this murder, but witness declined to state
what.
When he arrived there he went to the
back of the yard and made a thorough
search and then went into the house.
The other witnesses examined were Dr.
Frank Winthrop Draper, DR.. Benjamin
j. Handy, Mrs. Della Smalley, Mrs. D.
Chagnon, Miss Martha Chagnon, John
Donnelly, Arthur Garrison, John Morse
and Mrs. DR.. Bowen, and then the de-