The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-30
THE BORDEN TRTAL.
= Number OF Witnesses on the stand Yes
terdaY.

Fan River. Mass, August D.-The
bearing in the Borden case was CON
tinued to-day. Mrs A. b. Churchill was
the first witness. She remembered wen
tie day of the tragedy, her attention
bsing called 10 the affair when she saw
Bridget going for DR.. Bowen. About
tie same time she saw Lizzie standing
against the side of the door apparently
stressed about something.
u opened the window and asked her
what was the matter, and she said. oh,
h.rs. Churchill do come over; somebody
hs killed father / went over and asked
her where her father was and She replied.
I'm the sitting room Asked her where
Size was when il happened and she said
She was in the barn looking for something
for sinkers."
Miss Alice NJ. Russell, next witness,
sgiA on the day Of the murder She went
o. the house and found Lizzie leaning
aaciust the door. Lizzie told her in an
swer 10 a question that she went into the
barn 10 get piece of iron or tin % hX
% window with. This testimony caused
"a sensation, rs it fatty contradicted
ST tements made by Lizzie Borden that
Sic had gone 10 the barn for sinkers.
lli Bence. drug clerk. testified that he
before the tragedy. and she asked him
fr ten cents worth of prussic acid TO
PIT on a sealskin sack or cape, but he
told her he could not sell it without
PHYSICIANS prescription.
Frederick Z. Hart. employed IN the
drug store, cOrrobOrated the testimony IN
regard 20 the prussic acid incident and
identified Miss Borden as the person who
bad asked for it.
patrick H. Dougherty, police officer,
testified that he went TO the Borden resi-
donce and examined the bodies. The
honse was searched throughout. W hen
they got down i'm the cellar the cellar
door was unlocked. Miss Borden was
asked by witness where she was when
th. murder took place. and she said: IN
the barn" She said she heard some Kind
of peculiar noise while she was there.
A Kind Of scraping noise. He and QIhcer
Mmnlly found several hatchets IN the
cellar. but there was nothing remarkable
about them. except one axe had very
short handle 10 it,
Michael Mutually. police officer, testified
thar Lizzie had told him that she had
sen 20 man about the yard that morning,
and that he was dressed i'm dark clothes.
lie slid he gave the axe 10 DIR. Dollar, but
he could see no blood on it or any OF the
others.
john Ilct assistant city marshal, told
th4 story Of going 20 the house. finding
the bodies and the talk with Lizzie about
the death of her parents. Lizzie had had
no lea how the deed was done, or by
whom. but she had heard a man at the
door about 9 o'clock that morning talking
with her father. The man talked Ike
au Englishman, but she had not sen IN
and did not know who II was. About
two weeks before that a man had some
words with her father relative 20 store
which he wanted 10 hire.
She told witness that she had been in
the 0lrn for some time-half IN hour
and came back 90 find the murdera had
bcan committed. Witness asked Lizzie
Iater if she was 10 the barn for half am
hour and she qualified her statements 10y
saving that she was in the barn from
twenty minutes go half an hour At uo
time. witness said. was Lizzie in tears
Wines said there was one hatchet
whcd he considered had suspicious
! Joot3iad the appearance OF heNpg beer
wushtd and wiped. and he put It between
the boxes ont OF the way. NeXt morHiue
Officer Edison went up and took the
hatchct down TO the station. witness
could see no signs of any hair on it