The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-09-03
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY
Given in Lizzie Eorden's Hearing at
Fall River.

Given in Lizzie Norden's Nearing at
Fall River.
FALL RIVER. Mass, Aug. 3o.-The Bor-
room again: to-day. Mrs. Adelaide B.
Churchill was the Fl st witness called. On
the day of the tragedy she saw Lizzie
standing against the side Of the door,
apparently distressed about something.
II opened my window and asked her what
was the matter. and she said: oh, Mrs.
Churchill, come over: somebody has killed
father Invent over and asked her where she
was when it happened. and she said she was In
the barn looking for some sinkers."
Lizzie told her that her father must have
had an enemy. for every n in the house
had been sick. Witness said that when she
got inside the house Lizzie was so much
agitated that she famed her, fearing she
would faint,
Miss Alice Russell, the next witness, said
she went to the hou Q and found Lizzie
leaning against the door, and she remem-
bered Lizzie telling her, in answer to q
question. that she went into the barn to get
q piece of iron or tin to fix q window with
(sensation). On cross-examination Miss
Russell said she bathed Lizzie's face after
she went in and saw no signs Of blood on
1t, nor did she see any on any of her CLOTH
ing. She could see no signs of any undue
exertion about Lizzie, nor was she painting
as though exhausted.
Miss Lucy Collet testified that she was
stopping at DR.. C%hagnon's house on the
day of the murder to take care of the tele-
phone; she went at 11:10 and stayed until
II o'clock'noon; she SAT on the piazza all
the time; she could not get into the house.
From where she sat she said she could see
all the yard OF the Bordens. During the
time she was there she saw no one passing
in The yard. On cross-examination it took
just fifteen minutes for witness and MI.
Jennings to come to An understanding as
to where the fence was located between the
Chagnon and Borden houses, and The
witness admitted that she was where she
could not see the whole of the Borden
yard, but she was sure that if anybody
had entered the yard she would have heard
them.
Eli Bence, drug clerk, testified that he re-
mem bersd the day Of the tragedy, and was
acquainted with Lizzie Borden. Witness
saw her in his store the day before, and she
asked him for ten cents worth Of prussic
acid to put on a sealskin sack or cape, but
he told her he could not sell it without q
physician's prescription. His attention
was called to the fact that she was in the
store on Thursday evening and soon after
that again at 6 o'clock.
. Frank H. Kilroy, medical student, testi-
fed. Knew Miss Borden; saw her tn t
morning. Witness was sitting in the shop
when she came in, and Mr.. Bence went be-
hind the ounter to wait ON her; heard her
say "prussic acid" and him say cant sell
it without a prescription, " and then heard
her say ''sealskin cape" Then she went
out.
Frederick B. Hart. an employee in the
drug store, corroborated the testimony Of
the previous witness in regard to the prus-
sic acid incident and then identified Miss
Borden as the person who had asked for
the stuff.
Joseph De Roches testified by the aid Of
an Interpreter. He was saving wood in
John Groves yard on the day Of the trag-
edy; saw no one &c over the fence that day,
The strongest point brought out by the
mornings testimony, the states officials
say, was Lizzie's remark, speaking of her
mother to Mrs. Churchill, according to that
lady's testimony, II don't know but she
has been killed too" Lizzie made this re-
mark while telling that she thought she
heard her mother come in. What reason,
ask the officials, did Lizzie have Tor believ-
ing that her mother had been killed, con-
sidering the circumstance already brought
out; viz: That Lizzie was up stairs when
her father came in, when Mrs. Borden had
been dead about an hour, and went down
stairs and told him that his vile was out,
but failed to say anything about thinking
she heard Mrs. Borden come. In.