The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-25
Yesterdays Developments in the Case
Of Lizzie Borden.
BRIDGET SULLIVAN TELLS OF THE
FAMILY SKELETON.


FALL RIVER, Mass, August M.-Rev.
Mr.. Jubb, Lizzie Borden's pastor, strobe
| into the police station this morning and
without further ado assembled the stairs
leading to the matron's room. 1t was
| the first time he has called at the station
since she was arrested, and being COM
parative stranger to people in this city,
was not recognized by. the officers in the
guard room. A moment later the door
| of the matron's room, where Lizzie Bor-
den is confined under guard of Matron
Reagan, suddenly opened and Mr.. Jubb
walked in. The matron hastily jumped
up from her seat with an inquiripg look
"Don't you know me?' asked the new
conner.
mo, have you permission to come
hereY'
II am the Rev. Mr.. judd" said the
clergyman.
'Well. I don't know you. know my
orders, however, which are Ito prevent
anybody from coming into this room
without permit from headquarters,
replied Mrs. Reagan, as she guided him
through the open door into the hall, and
locking it, hurried down to the Marshars s.
Office to report the affair.
Mr.. Jubb didn't appear to relish the
situation. He finally started down the
stairs, and meeting the Rev. Mr.. Buck ons
his way to call on Miss Borden, expressed
his opinion of
This Sort of Business,
declaring that he was SO upset by the,
incident that he didn't think he WOULD
bother the City Marshal today for an
order to see the prisoner.
1t has come to the knowledge of the
public today that Bridget Sullivan, long
before the tragedy at the Borden homa,
confided to intimate friends certain facts
which leave little doubt that there had
been constant warfare going on in the
Second street house. Mrs. Borden and
her stepdaughters were on anything but
pleasant terms with each other. 1t is
supposed that at the inquest Bridget
Sullivan divulged a great deal of impor-
| tant information of this character, and
| furnished the government broad grounds
| on which to base the theory of m. tive.
| Another new feature of the case is a
| letter which Lizzie wrote to her sister
! Emma the Tuesday before the murder.
| The first knowledge of this letter came
out at Lizzie's examination at the inquest
in reply to the question. "Had you ever
noticed any
Suspicious Persons About
the house on the day of the tragedy" She
said she did not on that day, but had on
the Monday night before and had written
an account of the incident to her sister
Emma. Inquiry developes the fact that
on Wednesday Emma did get letter
from Lizzie, in which the latter refers to
her anxiety over something which hap
pened on Monday night. When she was
returning home from call she noticed a
man in the back yard just as she opened
the side gate. He disappeared around the
house on discovering her. After enter
ing the house, Lizzie wrote, she was so
disturbed over what she had seen that !,
she went to one of the windows in her
room commanding the back yard and
| watched She saw man who looked
like the one she had seen already NOV
ing about, but it was quite dark and she
could not give any description of him.
Emma Borden showed this letter to
friends in Fairhaven with whom she was
visiting when she received it and then
destroyed it, she says.
1t also turns out that the letter which
Lizzie Borden sent to her Marion friends
and which was received by them on the
day of the murder, was also destroyed,
because it contained reference to some
thing which in the opinion of the young
woman to whom it was sent might in the
light of subsequent events be miscon-
strued. Some of the specializing oaes
are now wondering if that something
was not this story of the suspicious man
whom Lizzie told her sister was about
the Borden house Monday night.