Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-12
MURDERED IN THEIR HOME.
A Wealthy Resident of Fall River,
Mass, and His Wife Killed with an
Ak,

And the Murderer Has Not Been Arrest
ed---''re"t Mystery about the Crimc---
Daughter Under Suspicion.
Another atrocious and mysterious muir
der has attracted the attention of all New
England for week past Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew j. Borden were killed i'm their
home at Fall River, Mass, on THURSDAY.
The crime was committed in the day time
under very mysterious circumstances. Mr..
and Mrs Borden were two of the oldest.
wealthiest and most highly respected per
sons in the city, living ON Second street.
within minutes walk of city hall and the
central business section. The Borden fam
lily consisted of the father. mother. two
daughters and servant. The older
daughter has been in Fairhaven for some
days. The rest of the family have been i'll
for three or four days, and Dr. Bowen, the
attending physician, was suspecting an at
tempt at poisoning. About eight o'clock
Thursday morning Mrs. Borden received a
note asking her to go to visit a friend who
was Ill. She left the house and shortly
afterward her husband followed and walk
ed down street to one of the banks. He
returned about 1890 o'clock and sat on the
sofa. In answer to a question from the
servant he said he was very well. The
servant, Bridget Sullivan, then went out
side the house to wash windows.
In the mean time Miss Lizzie Borden. n
daughter, according to her own story.
arose from bed and walked down stairs.
seeing and speaking to her father as she
passed through the room. She supposed
her mother was out. She went into the
yard and stepped into the barn. While
no ri Of I;et
apparently from the house and ran in.
She went directly to sitting-room leading
from the main hallway in the house and
there saw her father lying back on a sofa
covered with blood and lifeess. She ran
out again, shrieking, and her cries attract
ed the servant and neghbor. They
made hasty search for the mother and
found her upstairs in spare bedroom,
lying dead, face downward on the floor
The women ran downstairs terrified and
summoned DIR. Bowen, who lives opposite.
who found both of the victims beyond
medical assistance and could do nothing
but notify the police. Mr. Borden's head
had been hacked to pieces, evidently with
an AK, and Mrs. BOrdens face and skull
were frightfully battered.
The crime has caused great excitement
in Fall River, and the members of the Bor-
den family, as well as a Mr.. Shaw. son
OF Mrs. Borden by her first marriage, have
been under the surveillance of officers
The morbid curiosity of the people has
been so great that force of police has
been stationed in front of the house to
keep the crowds from collecting. \ search
of the house revealed no definite clue
The instrument with which the murder
was committed cannot be found The
daughter, Miss Lizzie, is under suspicion,
and it is known that she attempted to buy
poison at a drug store three days before the
murder. The officers have not divulged
what they have learned.
Mr.. Borden was 20 years old and his wife
81. He amassed a fortune in the furniture
business, and his estate is valued at not
less than $500 The daughters have
offered 5000 for the apprehension of the
murderer Nobody was seen to leave the
house, or enter ii.
The parade of the Knights Templar at
Denver, Colo, on Tuesday was ali impress
sive pageant. Fifty thousand men were in
the parade, which was reviewed by Grand
Master Goblin, the governor of Colorado
and other officials.
Frederick Kayser, a Dayton, Ohio. mi
ser, worth 100000, hanged himself be-
cause his only daughter. a cultured girl
who returned recently after a five years
absence in Sweden, where she was STUDYING
music, urged him to stop gathering Stops
and rubbish.
Before Judge Eben Hutchinson of Chel-
sea, Mass, abscOnded he prepared and
left with his law partner, Col. T. W. Por-
ter, document virtually acknowledging
many of the most serious charges pre-
ferred against him. This document shows
that Judge Hutchinson used his hsgh DO
sition to defraud not only high class of
business men, but large number of peO-
pie in the humber walks of life. The to-
tai amount which he stole is $4,000.
w. b. Robins, attorney and convevancer.
Philadelphia, has disappeared, and ii is al
legged that the discrepancies in which he is
involved aggregate $4,000. In the latter
part of June it became known that Robins,
as accounting warden of St. Marks
church, was several thousand dollars short
in his accounts with the vestry. 1t is said
that the deficit was made good by an offer
of security. His family were left without
a penny for their support and are now be- |
ing cared for by relative.
a sudden flood at st. Paul, Mimi, on
Thursday night of last week caused the |
loss of three lives, and the wounding of |
many people. A gully on Page street
which had been the natural outlet for the |
the waters from the country above was
built over into small culvert The Gull /.
vert became damned, and the water set |
back, forming pond two acres in extent
and many feet deep. The earthwork sud |
denly gave way in the night and the water
swept down on the low land below. Men. |
women and children were fshed out of the |
debris for nearly mile.