New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-14

bid curiosity. He is quick at catching clews and
at inventing theories. Science and speculation do
not often work in harmony. The real scientist
Is an investigator. He always wants TO know
what the true facts are. not what they may be.
When the scientific person AMI the criminal de-
tective combine, the result is an anomaly, II not
an abortion. DIR. Dolans testimony is the best
evidence Of what he is. 1t will be given below
with substantial completeness. Here it is only
needfu 70 say that his evidence in this trial. was
in almost all its important points, directly at vari
snce with the evidence lie had before given at the
CorOncr's inquest and i'll the police court eNani-
nation. Then he fitted his facts as 10 the chardc-
ter of the wounds the dead bodies TO TOUT
and-a-haltinch hatchet With a rectangular Giam
head N6w he is trying TO fit them 10 1 hnad
and-a-half-inch Ratchet with an octagonal heao.
His are not the kind Of facts on which To send
person to the gsllows.
AN EXPERT WITH BRAINS AND HONESTY
Professor Wood, the eminent chemist, brought
some brains with him, together with large
and wcll-formed bump Of honesty, when he took
the witness stand. The Professor is man, as
we'll as q professor. lie has all kinds OF sense
not merely that which enables man to see
well through microscope, ard read the story Oh
q changing litmus paper If the Professor was
caught in the neighborhood of the New-lork
Stock Exchange he would be taken for a broker
who had been having good time selling ~
dustrials short When the character Of nis
testimony is considered, people not familiar WIN VIII,
the history OF the Borden case Will wonder why
on earth the prosecution ever called him. they
had to; there WAS no possible way OF connecting
Lizzie Borden with those murders unless SOM,
thing could be found in the way OF DIooay
garment belonging to her, or unless the ihs.riu1,
ment with which the crime was committed conil
lie made out to belong in the house having
run across these hatchets, it was an obvious
dsty of the prosecution TO have them properly
examined. They. ought TO have done tins IN. ID,
stantly and probably would have but for the
fact that Dr. Doan and the police deceived them
the the" claw-headea Ratchet, the red mark on its
handle and the hair on its edge showed 'hal
it must have been the murderer's tool ,.,
They sent it with the axes and the long-handieu
Ratchet to Professor Wood, not, however, before
Dr. Dolan and the police had made Tools O ;nf
magistrate. Then they sent the hatchet-heal, anu
It is plain that if they had not s1mmonen me
to tell a wa Wo mT have gained
great advantage. SO they mace INC oeSl Vi an
awkward situation.
THE SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE
Following Professor Wood came the examinations
of Professor Draper and Professor Cheevcr' Inc
contrast between their evidence euriously Illus
trated the point already mentioned about the
mental attitude in which scientific man, VINO
also practses as a detective. approaches the con-
alteration of facts DR.. Draper is professor OF
medical jurisprudence at Harvard. He has uh-
ouestionably Keen scientific mind His per-
ceptive faculties are admirably developed his IN.
teilipcnce is of high order and beyond doupt
he is thoroughly conscientious. But he has also
been for the last fifteen years medical EXAMINES
OF the city of Boston. and in that time ne mas IN
ouired into more than $500 cases oil suSpec,eu
crime. The detective instinct is strong IN vi.
Draper. Some nav say, and perhaps MIN rt.
the experience which caused it, gives to III.
testimony a peculiar value. That may Re. Da,
the fact remains and was conspicuously SHOWN IN
the difference between his testimony and that OF
DR.. Cheever who is also very learned and en-
rericnced man, that the scientific detective was
ttstifying with Lizzie Borden in his mind as the
criminal, while the scientist, who was purely
scientist was talking with nobody as the par
tcular individual against WHOM ms observations
horo When DIR. Draper was asked the question
Would PRISON standing IN ,he p1sl of ho ovu
he exposed to squirting and SCATTERING OF bloou
he replied Undoubtedly and to the further
question ~ said On w tne 81 freI sIe
exposed costume TO a woman? There WIS a
tone or a flavor all through DR. Drapcrs testl-
mony which suggested that he thought the per-
son whose tlows he was describing was Lizzie
Borden. DR.. Cheever did not give SEX or identity
to the assaiant he had in mind.
LITTLE INFORMATION roE TIE JURY.
The day closed with no other fact assured to
the jury than tina; it was possible, though
unlikely for the hatchet now without
handle. if then it had one, to be the instrument
that had brought Mr.. and Mrs Borden to their
deaths, and that such bloNs as struck were
possible to woman of ordinary strength, pro-
vded she stood at certain times in certain posi-
tons That Is all Not the slightest s1t imPortance
of the spot of blood, the size of pinhead, on
Lizzie Bordcn's skirt 1t was the only spot of
blood he found on any part Of her costume
II is within the possibilities that the jury may
have the opportunity to spend Sunday at home.