Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-30
THE PAIL RIVER MYSTERY.
Tfncts Brought Out at Yesterdays Hearing
of the BORDEN Case.

of the Borden Case
After Tue STAR's report Of the Borden muir
der trial at Fall River yesterday closed Mr.. Jen-
n ngs subjected Mira Churchill the Bordens
p ighbor. 20 q severe crOss-examinatfon. dwell.
particularly on the excited condition o.
Lizzie when witness was first called 10 the
scene Mrs. Churchill said that when she gol
inside the house Lizzie was so much asitatet
that she famed her, fearing she would faint
and that when she went upstairs to look fd
Mrs. Borden they found the door of Mira
Borden's room open. After they saw tfe
body they left Bridget in the room and had 70
knowledge Of what she did there. il anything.
Mrs. Churchill could not remmeber that there
was the least sign of blood on Lizzie's dres,.
hands or fsce ct the time she frst saw her. Hsr
hair WAS ''done up, and appeared not to be
disarranged in the slightest. and there was no
indication OF anything in her appearance thst
any changes had been made since she arose.
Mrs Churchill also said she had testified at The
inquest and said that during the examination
there was no suspension for consultation.
Miss Alice VI. Russell. the next witness, SAN
she was a frequent visitor at the Borden houie
and always was received in the guest room.
Sometimes she would 60 two three times
week and sometimes two or three weeks would
elapse before she would go, but she never r.
membered seeing Mrs Borden In that room.
Nntr Lizzie WIS Otl tuc bIhHt sue rsu
her father must have an enemy When po-
liceman suggested that some of the farm hands
had done the deed Lizzie said it could not be
So for one man was sick and the other hadto
STAY the farm; furthermore. she would not
suspect either of them in connection with te
case. Witness she went upstairs BE-
fore Lizzie did. She remembered that Lizzie
answered all questions freely On Saturday,
the day of the funeral. witness recollected that
an extended search was made Of the house. She
could not recollect whether the first search Was
rs thorough ~ the Inst.
II wae evident that the evidence of Mss
Russell had made considerable OF an impress
sion @ the defense, and when she had
fnis he'd her direct examination LiZzie's COIN
sci put heir heads together and allowed tie
witness TO sit down for a moment. On cross
examination Miss Russell said she bstted
Lizzie's face after she went in and saw no
signs Of blood on it, nor did she any on
any Of her clothing. She persuaded Lizzie
to go in the dining room and lie down, Tut
she did not notice what kind of shoes she
had on. or know what kind she usually were
in the morning She could see no signs Of sny
undue exer,ion about Lizzie. nor was he
painting a. though exhausted. She was posi-
tive that Lizzie did not go upstairs before fhe
officers went, because she remembered tle
officers going mp to Lizzies room and finding
it locked. of their pulling the door open md
Of her requesting to be allowed to look in
first, because che did not know what con-
dition il was in; looked in and finding itall
right let them in.
MISS LIZZIE coLLErr's STATEMENT.
Miss Lizzie Collett testified that she vas
stopping at Dr. Chagnon's house ON the day of
the murders to take care OF the telephone.
She went at HIS and stayed until noon She
sat the piazza all the time, because the
could not get into the house. From where
she sat she said she could all Of the Bor-
dens' ward. but she saw no one passing in.
On cross-exAmination 1t took Just fifteen
minutes for witness and Mr.. Jennings to come
to an understanding as to where the fence vas
located between the Chagnon and Borden
houses. and then witness admitted that she
was where she could not see the whole Of the
Borden yard. but she was sure that IL any body
had entered the yard she would have heard
them.
PRUssIo ACID.
Eli Bence, drug clerk, testified that on the
day before the tragedy Lizzie was in his store
and asked him for 10 cents worth Of prusic
acid to put on a sealskin sack or cape but he
told her he could not sell it without plysi-
clans prescription. His attention was called to
the fact that she was in the store on Thursday
evening and soon after that again at about
o'clock. In his cross-examination he said mat
she had on a dark dress. but it was not blue.
Witness could not saw anything else about the
dress other than that il was a dark one He
thought he sold something to Lizzie about six
years ago and he knew her by sight quite we'll, |
because she had been pointed out to him several |
\ ines There were three other people in the |
| tore at the time she came in-Mr Kilroy, Mr. |
Tart and another. He had never said to INV !
BODY that he could not swear that ii Was Lizzie |
Borden: had never talked about it with George
Gray; had told three persons of her being there
In his redirect examination he said that he
never had a call for prussic acid before, and
mentioned 10 Dr. Dutra that Miss Borden had
to r-ra h.A l.