The Green Forest tribune., 1893-06-15
THE BORDEN CASE.
Brief History of a Notorious Murder
Case Now Being Investigated.

and step-mother to death on August f.
1892, was begun at New Bedford, Mass,
on Monday of last week. Excepting
that of Carlyle w. Harris, this case
has probably excited deeper interest
throughout the country than any since
the famous Ward Mitchell case at
Memphis. The trial is progressing
slowly and much damaging evidence to
the defendent has been introduced.
Briefly put, the case stands as follows:
Lizzie A. Borden, daughter of Andrew
Jackson Borden, woman about SO
years old; her step-mother, Abby Dur
fee Borden, and Bridget Sullivan, SER
want, were the only member of the fam
lily about the house when Mr.. Borden
came home at 10:45 on the morning of
August 4, 1882, on which day Mr.. Bor-
den and his wife were murdered. Bridg-
ct let him in at the front door, and in
few moments went to her room up
stairs. She had been engaged in a
good part of the morning outdoors,
washing windows.
In the absence of proof to the contra
ry, Lizzie's story must be accepted for
the time, relative to acts of herself and
her father until she discovered his dead
body. After he came in she assisted
him to get in comfortable position on
the lounge in the sitting room, she
says taking off his boots and putting
on his slippers. CA photograph of the
body. taken after discovery, shows this
statement to have been incorrect. The
boots were on the feet.)
Then she went into the yard, stop
ped few minutes to gather and eat
some pears, passed on into the barn and
spent ten or fifteen minutes hunting
for lead to make fishing line sinkers.
Going into the house she found her
father had been murdered and called
the servant, sending her at once for
DR.. Bowen, who lived near by.
Then she sat down on the outside
steps and was thus seen by Mrs. Addie
Churchill, neighbor, and asked what
the matter was. She told Mrs. Church
i'll of the murder of her father. Mrs.
Churchill came to the house at once
and asked for Mrs. Borden. Lizzie
knew nothing of her Whereabouts, but
called to mind the fact that her step
mother had told her previously that she
had received note from friend and
in response was intending to call On
that friend.
However, Bridget was requested to
look for her mistress, but she objected
to going alone, and Mrs. Churchill went
with her. AS the two approached the
top of the stairs leading to the second
floor, they saw on the floor of the guest
chamber the body of Mrs. Borden. 1t
was soon learned that she, too, had
been murdered in about the same man
ner as her husband--viz: with several
blows from some heavy, sharp instru-
ment, probably an ak or hatchet. 1t
was definitely determined, at an autop-
sy subsequently held, that Mrs. Borden
had been killed some time before her
husband.
1t appears to have been shown that
there was no one about the house all
the morning but the members of the
family at intervals.
It is claimed that about the time Mrs.
Borden met her death in the guest
chamber, in the North side of the house,
the servant was washing windows out
doors on the South side of the house. 1t
has been demonstrated that the death
,of Mr.. Borden occurred within very
short time after he entered the house,
aud if Lizzie's story is correct, some one
did it while she was in the barn, while
Bridget was in the attic, and while Mrs.
Bordens S lifeless body was lying in the
room above her husband. Nobody was
seen to enter the house, Lo instrument
has been discovered which fits the case,
but the Government claims and will at
tempt to prove that circumstantial evil
dence points to Lizzie A. Borden, as
the murderess, and that the evidence
is sufficiently strong to convict.
Miss Borden was arrested two weeks
after the murder and has since been
/ held in Taunton jain, except few days
during the preliminary hearing before
Judge Blaisdell, at the close of which
she was held for the action Of the grand
jury.
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