The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-31
LOOKS BAD FOR LIZZIE.
SHE WAS IN TaE ROOMS ABOUT
THE TIME OF TIE MURDERS.


No Blood Found on the Hatchst or
Axes Submitted for Expert Exsmi-
nation-The Hair Found on One OF
the Weapons Not Human Hair-The
Clothing Also Free From Blood.
FALL RIVER, MASS, Aug. 8o.-In the
Borden murder case to-day the first witness
was Prof. Ed ward s. Wood, a man for
whom everybody has been looking for days.
He testified as so the examination OF the
stomachs Of Mr.. and Mrs. Borden. He said
both stomachs appeared to be perfectly
natural. Mrs Bordens contained about
eleven ounces OF solid food partially digested
and showed wheat, starch and meat. The
stomach Of Mr.. Borden contained only six
ounces. chiefly water. On Aug. 10 he re-
ceived from DR.. Dolap, a hatohet, two axes,
blue dress skirt. dress waist, white starcheo
skirt, lounge cover and three small envel-
opes in which were hair taken from Mr..
and Mrs. Borde and hair taken from the
hatchet On Aug. Is the witness received
pair OF shoes and q pair of black stock
lngs. The hetchet contained a number OF
suspicious looking spots, but a careful
examination showed no trace OF blood.
Every spot which looked like blood was
examined, but no traces of blood were seen.
A big smutoh on the blue skirt looked like
blood, but was found not to be blood.
BLOOD ON THE SKIRT.
The white skirt had one spot which looked
like blood and was found to be blood, and il
was directly i'll front, about six inches from
the bottom. The oct was blood-stained
this was the sitting room carpet and there
was blood, OF course on that. There was
no blood on the lounge cover. An envelope
marked Hair from A J. Borden" was
simply white hair. Mr.. Borden's was dark.
The hair on the batchet was not human
hair. [Sensation.l 1t was more like that
taken from an animal. A spot on the right
shoe was not blood and there was no blood
on either the shoes nor stockings. There
was nothing on the two axes. Near the edge
OF the hatchet were spots which seemed to
be blood, but which were found not to be.
There was q splatter on the blade, but IL
was not blood, and there were spots on the
side Of the head OF the hatchet which looked
to me like blood, and thought they were,"
said the witness, but they were not. The
hatchet was produced and Lizzie examined
1t with as much interest as did her counsel.
BAD FOR LIZZIE.
Two things were demonstrated BY the
evidence In the morning, one that Lizzie
was in her stepmother's room at 9:3O O'clock,
and that was about the time OF the murder
and that she was 10 her fathers room about
the time of his death. 1t is understood that
while to the general public the
testimony Of Prof. Wood was favorable
to Lizzie because it appeared to demonstrate
there were no blood stains on the clothes or
hatchet, that it was really against her be-
cause of his evidence in regard to the time
of death.
LIZZIE HEARD NOTHING.
Officer Harrington testified that in one
room he found Miss Lizzie and Miss Alice
Russell Lizzie was cool and collected, but
would not or could not tell the witness any,
thing about the matter. she said she was
in the barn twenty minutes at the time the
crime was committed. The witness asked
her If 1t might not be half an hour, and
then fifteen minutes, but each time was toll
1t was twenty minutes. The witness asked
what IL anything, she heard, and Lizzie an
swered that she had heard nothing at all,
nor had she seen anybody around.
A GENEROUS FATHER.
The examination Of Lizzie Borden at the
coroner's inquest was put In evidence. Miss
Borden said her father gave the girls
house on Ferry street, and few weeks ago
her separately. Lizzie had heard Mr.
Morse say several years ago that her father
had made will Her father never said
anything about the will. Father once about
two weeks ago, had trouble with a man
whom she did not know; they had some
talk, and she heard the man say; "I thought
man with a reputation for getting money
like you would accept my offer" Father
said he had stayed long enough and re-
quested him to get out, and he went away,
saying he would consult With his partner
Lizzie had had some trouble with her step
mother about five years ego, but it was
trivial.
STRAINED RELATIONS.
In some way her relations with her step-
mother were not as between mother and
daughter. She changed from calling her
mother to 'Mrs. Borden when there was
some words over her step-sister. now Mrs
George Whitehead. Emma had stood as
mother to her. She made two statements
about her whereabouts on the dav of the
murders, when her father came home AT
first she 0aid she was upstairs; then
she said she was in the kitchen. and to this
last story she stuck. When she found her
father she ran at once to call her servant.
never thinking OF calling her step-mother,
because she supposed she was out, and she
said to Mrs. Churchill that she wished
somebody would see if she was in the house.
She thought IL was not more than five min
utes after her father came In when she went
TO the barn and was there twenty minutes
CAUSE OF HER JEALoUsY.
Lizzie said further that Mrs. Borden's
homestead was for sale and it was bought
in by MIR. Borden for her. Lizzie stated
that she said that what he did for her he
ought to do for them, meaning herself and
Emma. About that time she commenced
TO feel sorely toward her step-mother. She
said she never went into any drug store for
prussic acid. She said that about two
weeks before the tragedy she heard
or saw somebody run down the
steps and away; she saw something
similar about the house last winter. When
she first saw the form recently it was on
the back steps and ran toward the barn.
Last winter she saw person run away on
Sunday night when she was coming home
from church and told her father Of the oc-
ourrence, but said nothing to him about the
second affair. This closed the governments
case.
THE INCIDENTS SURPRISING.
There were many surprising Incidents IN
the Borden hearing to-day, not the least
among them being Prof. Woods
testimony. IL was the popular belief that
he would show some traces of poison In the
stomachs Of the murdered people, and would
produce a murderous looking ship oarpens
ter's az having a blade 90 7 inches
long On the contrary be pulled out an in
nocent looking hatched from a
medium-szed travelling vAlise and quickly
but firmly told she court be could NOT find
the slightest traos ~ blood on Il, nor was Il
all,0ad that euch an fnsfrurnanf &, ~.