Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-31

puruen- was SIMPLY white na1r; Mrs
Borden's was dark.
The hair on the Ratchet was not human
hair (sensation), more like that taken
from an animal. Tit. spot ON the right
shoe was not blood and there was no
blood on either shoes nor stockings.
There was nothing on the two axes
Near the edge of the Ratchet were spots
which seemed to be blood but were found
not to be.
There was a spatter on the blade, but it
was not blood and there were spots on
the side of the head of the Ratchet which
looked to be like blood and I thought they
were, said witness, but they were not
(Hatchet produced1
Lizzie examined it with as much inter-
est as did her counsel
One paper was produced by witness on
which was written chair" placed here at
(time mentioned) but no hair was there.
On cross-examination Prof. Wood said
the spot looked larger ON the outside of the
skirt than on the inside. The size of the
spot was about the size of a pinhead
Q-Th1s you say was human blood 2
Al don't know; 1 did not say so.
have not examined it.
Q-Could you tell in what direction
this blood came when it struck the skirt
Al could not
Witness said it was difficult to tell the
difference in blood, its sources, ETC., the
grade was not so great as before science
had progressed.
OFF one were struck by some sharp
instrument would there be any squirting
II bloodl
Ayes, if an artery was cuu
Q-And there was an artery cut9
A-There was one in the line.
ON what would tho blood
squirt.
Al don't think the cutting of an
artery would make any great difference.
An artery never spurts over three feet.
Witness said it would be impossible
for the assailant of the murdered ones to
escape getting blood on his body in some
way, and that the stains on the sitting
room door might have gone over the head
of the assailant as the instrument was
lifted. The blood would hit the assail-
ant from the knees up and the blood on
assailant in the case of Mrs. Borden would
be shown anywhere above the feet.
The examination of Lizzie Borden at
the inquest was then read. Lizzie stated
that she was 80 years old; that her father
had been married to her stepmother about
~ years; she had no idea of what her
father was WORTH and only knew about
part of her fathers real estate.
LlZZlO HUI SOulS ULOupl0 WlUh A0I
stepmother about five years ago, but it
was trivial. In some ways her relations
with her stepmother were not as between
mother and daughter; changed from call
ing her mother to "Mrs. Borden" when
There were some words over her stepsister,
now Mrs. George Whitehead. Emma had
stood as mother to Lizzie.
Lizzie made two statements about her
whereabouts on the day of the murder,
she said she was upstairs, then she said
: she was in the kitchen and to this last
story she stuck.
After her father went out, Lizzie never
went upstairs, and so far as she knew
| she was alone in the lower part of thu
| house for q large portion of the tim'
when her father was away. The from
| door was locked and nobody could hav'
| got in there. When he came in she wa
| in the kitchen eating a pear.
Lizzie said she went to the barn to ge
lead for a sinker; she got it from boz
on a work bench; had not been in thu
| barn for three months before.
| Several pages of the stenographer's cop,
| were devoted to tilt between the Dis
| trict- Attorney and Lizzie, caused by hi
| trying to find out just what Lizzie wa
| doing i'll the barn to occupy 20 minutes
she ate three pears and looked out of tn
| window, and overhauled box for tn
| lead; when she got back she discovers
the condition of her father, that is, h
was bleeding, but she could not tell tn
| nature of the wounds.
Knew of nothing to cause blood to b
| on a Ratchet. When she found her fathe
she ran at once to call her servant, neve
thinking of calling her stepmotLer be
cause she supposed she was out, and sh
said to Mrs. Churchill that she wishe
somebody would see if she was in TIN
house. She thought it was not more thai
| five minutes after her father came il
| when she went to the barn.
Lizzie could not tell how the bloc
came to be on her skirt unless it cam
| from Il flea bite. If the blood came fro1
| outside she could not tell where it cam
| from Lizzie said she never went int
| any drug store in New Bedford at an
| time to inquire for prussic acid; neve
| went into any drug store for any sue
thing.
This closed the States case. After th
| reading of the statement DIR. Dolan wa
, called for the defense, and said he ha
filed the record OF the Oak Grove autops
with the court. The records of the au
topsies on the two bodies were separate
Both were put in by the defense as ev
dence and were ordered put into the rec
ords.
Il The next witness for the defense, d.
S. w. Bowen, when he heard of the mul
der, went directly to the side door of tn
Borden house, where he met Miss Lizzie
who said: Gather has been killed-bee
p | stabbed"
Mrs. Borden had called on witness earl
Wednesday morning, and she said sh
was afraid she had been poisoned, an
that she was frightened. While she wa
| there she came near vomiting. She sal
p that Mr. Borden and herself had been j
| the night before, between and 10, an
/ that Miss Lizzie had been sick about mid
Aight.
Y This closed the investigation for tt
: day.