The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-31

skirt looked like blood. but WAS found not
to be blood. The white skirt had one spos
rectly in front and about six inohss from
tho bottom. The carpet Was blood
stained tthis was the sittinR-room carpetl
and there was blood, OF course, on that
There was no blood on the lounge cover.
Borden" was simply white hair; Mrs. Bor-
den's was dark. The hair con the hatcbet
was not human hair sensationl; IL was
more like that taken from on animal The
spot on the right shoe was not blood, and
there was no blood on either shoe or srock-
inga There was nothing on the two axes.
Near the edge OF the hatchet were spots
which seemed to be blood, but were found
not TO be. There was q spatrer on the
blade, but 1t was not blood, and there
were spots on tho side Of the bed which
looked like blood, but they were not. The
hatchet was then produced and examined
with much interest One paper Was pro-
duced by witness on which was written
"bAir,o but the paper contained no hair.
On cross-examInaeion, Professor WOOD
said tho spot looked larger on tho outside
of the skirt than on the inside The spot
was about tho size of q pin-head. In reply
TO question whether 1T was human blood.
witness said he had not examined 1t In
regard to the position of tho murderer. the
witness said that it appeared to him that
the person stood in the dininR-roop when
the first blow was given: this becausc of
room door. Here the witness was allowed
to look at the stain on the door-frame
under hIa glass. Resuming the stand. he
said it was not blood. Witness said IL
would be impossible for the assailant of
the murdered folks TO escape getting blood
on bis body In some way. and that the
stains on the sittin groom door might have
gone ovor the head Of the assailant as tho
instrument was llftod. Tie blood would
hit tho assailant from tho knees ND. and
the blood on the assailant in the case OF
Mrs. Borden would be shown anywhere
above the feet
james WInward, undertaken. testified
he found s7s IN bills. q watch and chain,
keys and some loose change. At this point
recess was taken.
LIzZIE TESTIMONY.
Although the court came in promptly At
2 O'clock this afternoon, tho district at
torney did not The greatest crowd of the
trial was on hand an hour before the court
opened for the afternoon session. the cor
rIdors, aisles and every passagowsy being
filled. while back of the ssttees were dozsns
of people standing. The fret witness was
Annie NJ. White. Official stenosrapher.
Her notes. as written ont. were offered in
Borden at tho inquest was road. Lizzie
stated substantially that she was thirty-
two years old and that her father had boon
married to her step-mother about twenty
say several years ago that hor father
had made a will; her father never
said anything to her about
will. Father" she said. ''once, about
two weeks ago. had trouble with a
man whom did not know; they had some
talk and heard the man say: i thought
q man with q reputation for getting money
like you would accept my Offer My father
said he had stayed long enough and re-
quested him to get out, and be went away
saving be would consult his partner
Lizzie had had some trouble with her step
mother about five years ago. but il WAS
trivial. She made two statements about
her whereabouts on the day of the mur-
she said she was upstairs. then she said
she was in the kitchen and to this last
story she stuck. Lizzie said she saw
her step-mother down stairs and that the
latter said she had the guest chamber all
ready except to put on some shams for she
expected company on Monday, and wanted
every thing all right Lizzie could not
state whether her mother came
s0wn sssrs stairs 1.n after .nsg. wsas 81. sD
might have como down when Lizzie was
down cellar for q few moments, but she
could not have come down without Lizzie
seeing her, and she had no recollection of
it. After her father went out Lizzie never
went up stairs, and. 80 far as she knew. she
was alone in the lower part Of tho house
for large portion of tho time when her
father was away. The front door was
locked and nobody could have got in there.
Whom her father came in she was In the
kitchen eating pear. There was Q little
fire in the stove. but not much, and she put
in a small piece of wood to start 1t mp She
did not see Maggie after her father came
In. Lizzie said she went to the barn to get
lead for q slnker. She got it from q box on
q work bench. She had not been in the
barn for three months before. She un-
hooked the screen door to go to the barn
after she fixed her father on the lounge.
Several pages of the stenographers copy
were dew Oted to q tilt between the district
attorney and ILzZie, cauaed by his trying
to find out just what Lizzie was doing in
the barn to occupy twenty en minutes: % She
dow and overhauled box for the lead
Lizzie said that Mrs. Borden's homestead
was for sale, and it was bought in by Mr..
Borden for hor. Lizzie also stated that
she said that what be did for her ho ought
to do for them. meaning herself and Emma.
Then OF about that time she commenced to
feel sorely towards her stop mother. Liz
ze could not tell how tho blood came TO
be on her skirt. unless it came from flea
bite. As the blood came from the outside
she could not tell where ii came from.
She said she never went into any drug
store In New Bedford at any time to in
quire for prusslc acid. This CLOSED the
special ruling that the court strike out all
of that portion of tho evidence relating to
prussic acid, but the court declined for the
present to do so.
The first witness for the defense was DR..
3. w. Bowen. On the day of the tragedy
he was driving up to his house when he was
informed of the affair." Lizzie said. Father
has been killed; been stabbed" Mrs. Bor-
den called on witness early Wednesday
morning and said she was afraid she had
been uolaOned and that she wae frirh tene ed
and while she was there she cane near
vomiting She said that Mr.. Borden and
herself had been sick the night before. he
tween 9 and II O'Clock, and that Miss Lizzie
had been sick about midnight. This closed
the investigation for the day. and an ad-
jOurnment was taken until 10 o'clock TO-
morrow morning the defense desiring a
conference before going any further at