The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-09
PORTLAND, MORNING JUNE 9 1898

over the bed and saw the Frustrated
form of Mrs. Borden; then was stand
ing in the doorway. went around at
the foot of the bed, placed my hand on
her head and founda wound in the
head; then I felt her pulse and found she
was dead. 1 never said to any one that
she had died of fright or in afaint; but
Twill say this: My first thought was
that she had tainted. II went down stairs
and told the people Mrs. Borden was
dead, that / thought she was killed by
the same instrument with
which Mr.. Borden was killed
and that l considered it fortu-
nate that Lizzie was out of the way.
tHere photograph of position was shown
Of Mrs. Borden, and witness said Mrs.
Borden was lying nearer the bed when
he saw her. This picture went the
rounds and was commented upon. Liz
zie covering her eyes, but there were no
tearsl.
Witness continued: ssHer arm was a
little lower down at the time than in the
photograph; in other respects the posi-
tion is the same. When I was in the
house in the morning I saw that Lizzie
had changed her dress, a pink wrapper,
but didn't notice the first dress worn as
to color and material" Witness said he
did recall saying that he noticed the col
or of the dress, that it was drab. but ad-
ded that it was an ordinary, unattractive
dress, as he thought now, but The did not
notice. Continuing he said: 81 don't
pretend to describe a woman's dress. and
I never did SO; l only gave my impress
sion as to its COLOR
Here Mr.. Moody convulsed the, court
and spectators by producing the dark
blue dress and trying his prettiest to
make it up in presentable form. Sue
ceeding, he asked the doctor if that ap-
peared to him to be a sort of an ordina-
ry, unattractive dress of drab? The an
swer was excluded. The witness said.
continuing: II don't know whether
this was the dress she had on that
morning or not. 7 cali this dark
blue"
On cross examination, DIR. Bowen said
that when he came to the Borden house
there was only one officer there. The
shutters in Mrs. Borden's room were
closed on the side nearest to Mrs..
ChurchilPs house. When witness came
down stairs after seeing Mrs. Borden's 8.
body, several women were working over
Lizzie in the kitchen tanning her. He
prescribed bromo- caffeine for her that
afternoon to allayl her nervousness. He
ordered morphine for her Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday. Friday the witness
gave Lizzie one-efghth Of grain of
morphine, doubled 1t Saturday and con-
tinued the treatment all the time up to
her arrest and while she was in the sta
tion. Morphine affects the mind by
changing and altering views and causes
hallucination.
Bridget Sullivan Recalled.
Bridget Sullivan was here recalled and
questioned by Mr.. Robinson. She said
that robbery had occurred in the Bor-
den house while she was working there,
about twelve months before the murder,
in the day. .time. The government OBJ
jected, and the Court asked why it was
material, occurring SO far back, and Gov
ernor Robinson explained that the rob-
berry occurred in the middle of the day.
Just when all the family were there.
Ruled out.
The witness in answer to questions
said: There was burglary in the
barn also, but it was in the night time, .
but the answer was excluded, exceptions
being noted in both cases. The plan of
the cellar was shown Bridget, to see if
she could tell in which room the axes
were found, but she could not say.
/ Resumipg, she said: when 1 came
down stairs and saw Lizzie standing be-
side the door, she appeared more excited
than l ever saw her, and she was not
CRYING; never said she was crying"
The testimony of the previous hearing
was read to her, in which she said Lizzie
was excited and was crying.
Bridget said: "This must be wrong,
because / never said it: I want to be
right, and swear that II did not see her
crying; / am sure that statement which
says said so is not correct
Mrs Adelaide Churchill.
Mrs. Adelaide Churchill was called
and said: s.That morning went out
and purchased something for dinner; re-
turning, walked southwark and up
ward toward my house; in going that
way would not pass the Borden house
first; when reached my house I saw
Bridget Sullivan going across the street
from DR.. Bowen's to her house; she was
white and going rapidly; I went in the
side door of my house and into the
kitchen; laying my bundles on long
table and looking out Of the window /
saw Lizzie inside of the screen door,
leaning AGAINST the east side of the door
casing. / Iopened the window and asked
Lizzie, What is the matter?' She said,
oh, Mrs. Churchill, come over; some
one has killed father
II went right out the front door over
to their house; when I stepped inside
the screen door she was sitting on the
second step; put my hand in her right
arm and said, 'Oh Lizzie, how did it
happen? She said, L don't know >
Where were you?' Il was in the
barn to get piece Of iron, and when I
came back found the screen door open.'
She said they must have some enemies,
and she thought they had all been
poisoned: as they wsrea all sick
in the night. offered to go for "a doc
tor, and when returned, after going to
where my brother worked and getting
him to telephone, DR.. Bowen was there,
and wanted me to go in and see the body
of Mr.. Borden, but I refused to 90 in;
he asked for a sheet and some one hand
ed Bridget key; she and 1 went up to
Mrs. ssBordens room, where Bridget
unlocked the door for us, we got a sheet
and brought it down. Lizzie asked DR..
Bowen to sendla telegram to Emma Then