Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-07-05
SHE SEEKS PRIVACY.
Lizzie Borden Worried by
The Inquisitive Public.
DAYS OF HAPPINESS GONE.
An Interesting Talk With Her Strong
Champion, Mrs. Livermore.

Boston, July 5-The tide OF sympathy
and fliendlincss toward Miss Lizzie Bor-
den IL now at It's height. The heroine Of
the terrible ordeal of the New Bedford
trial has now returned To quiet life and
the round Of household duties In her Fall
River home, and desires nothing SO
strongly than that she may be forgotten
by the newspapers and left In peace by the
curious.
The proposed visit to Mrs. Livermore at
Melrose some time during the summer
has caused the descent Of horde of inter
viewers upon Mrs. Livermore's doorstep
To discover the details Of the visit, Post
reporter among them.
II don't suppose" said Mrs Iivermore,
meditatively, that could smuggle Lizzie
Borden in here at midnight without the
reporters finding it out before the front
door was finally shut on her Sunday my
husband aud i went out riding with u
third person. People In carriages drove
by us rapidly and then slowed their horses
and
Peered Out Into Our Carriage
as we came by, as il they expected to see
Lizzie Borden Ia the back seat. You see
how impossible it would be to have her
here at present, or TO make any date for
her visit while this curiosity is 80 aggres-
sive.
''The poor girl feels herself under sur
veillance even now. She cannot look out
OF the window or step out of doors but
that she Is stared at, and about the Borden
house people peer over the fences ana from
every vantage ground to catch glimpse
OF her, till this curiosity becomes madden
ing, or would to me. Why, think in the
place OF Emma and Lizzie l should be
tempted to buy shot gun and take snap
shots at any peeping Toms that intruded
on the premises.
Under these circumstance, Miss Bor-
den's friends feel that the less said about
her in the newspapers and the less Of her
plans made public, the better for all con-
cerned. She is, however, grateful for all
the sympathy expressed.
For some reasons | am sorry that
have become so identified with the case,
for now that 1t is over IL seems but the BE-
ginning OF
Unending Calls on MY sympathy.
j have been receiving letter after letter
from men In the Charlestown and Con.
cord prisons asserting their Innocence and
praying for IN" to interest myself In their
behalf am very busy woman, and
cannot take time to inquire into them all,
and yet I cannot entirely disregard them.
There Is much injustice In our courts of
justice and some innocent men ia our
prisons. l believe have done great deal
of pris n preaching; indeed, / can say that
/ have considerable popularity among
those audiences, aud have come across
many sad CASES
"Then am still receiving letters about
the Borden case-some blaming me for my
interest in Miss Borden, some from people
evidently morbid from dwelling on the
horrors and mystery OF the crime, those
who have dreamed dreams and have theo-
ries, and many from people who have
believed all along in her innocence aud
rejoice In her acquittal
"Oh yes; Lizzie Borden Is not without
friends. She writes me that they have
been so assiduous in their attentions, so
kind and careful of her In every way that
she has had hardly time to herself for the
routine of daily work, and Is just now be-
ginning 10 take up the little household
duties. Her health is better aud she is be-
ginning to sleep naturally at night but as
she told ME with great deal of pathos: i
realize that can never be light-hearted
again.'"
The arrangements for the purchase Of a
new house i'm Fall River are not yet com
pleted. The Borden homestead has natur-
ally many painful associations for both
sisters, and they are anxious to be gone
from ID and from che hostile neigh bors and
peeping sightseers who find a morbid in
terest ia visiting the scene Of the world
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