The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-19
TURNING NOW TO THE JURY.
r1osIy0 SPEECHES IN THE BORDEN
CASE 10 BEGIy TODAY.


The Reports of Dlscord \ among the Jutor-
S,v BEDFORD. Juno 1S The only news OF
Lizzie Borden that has been allowed to leak
49,, of the New bedford Jail for two days Is
,Lo, she has silent well and eaten well and
,.en visited by cx-Gow. Robinson OF her coun-
All She has been ten months In prison. and.
.,,g Kindly treated ever since she left the
unfticndly charge OF the Fall River police
.b, has grown perfectly accustomed to be-
Inc in Iall 1t is due to tho pompous High
shorir. who cuts such figure in the
,ourt here to say that he has been
almost brotherly In his treatment Of her
aver since she WAS handed over to him and
10 tooE her to iail at Taunton. Here the jailer
"a Josiah Hunt. and he. too. lie a gentle hearted
man. who makes Lizzie Borden feel her loss
~ liberty ms little as no knows how. She
.prics a room that Is larger than the majority
NJ the cells and now that people have taken
10 sendins flowers to her these ornaments
and her books serve to make the place moro
bomcke than II was Mt ilrst.
There Is great deal Of speculation hero
about what the prisoner will do If she is nc
ouitt,d az every one thinks she will lie. Some
say she will change her name and go to New
York or to Europe. where tho only rays o!
tcen pleasure that ever Eladdencd her life
shone upon her for three months two years
ago 1t is noticed that those who build up this
future for her and EXPECT to see her and her
sistcr finish their lives under an nlias are
mainly strangers, and are APT to be more sem
tp,enta than the hard headed folk who have
nut tho impress OF New England upon
our whole country. The natives scout tho
idea "What'l Lizzie do2' they ask why
she'll Just go ter home and settle down and
live plain and economical like and save money
and die snug Old maid. She's got sand. she
has. and there can't anybody frighten her
out Of doing what She wants to. She'll 20
back to Fall River and nick M the threads OF
her old lie Just where she dropped them. and
abe will never think nor care what nybody
SAYS about her Folks won't say much.
neither. When girl has got n coullc Of hun
dred thousand dollars she is sure to have
plenty OF friends and champions"
The Jury is Of more immediate interest. es-
recially because the townsfuk are ali repeat
ing n story that two or NOR" OF them almost
got into llsticuns while discussing the uues-
ton whether or not Miss Borden is guilty
Whether it is true or not that they were going
TO fight and their keepers had to interfere.
no one will know until after the verdict.
for no one may speak to them. and
their guards will not open their heads
about them. The strangers to Massachu-
sets customs who have been observing
the Jury have come to the conclusion that e.
inga Juror amounts to about the same thing
as being q prisoner in this State. The twelve
men who are in the Eox probably joined in the
general desire to get on the Jury because OF
the Importance Of the ease and the dull rou-
line of their lives. They knew that whoever
served on the jury wo"ld be a famous man in
his own little commnuitF as long as ho lived.
For that rea son hey are probably not sorry now
TINT they were accept cd. q nd yet TO New Yorker
theirs seems To- lie All uncnviar lie position. They
are all horlcd together ON The top story OF the
biggest hotcl-thc Parker Huuee-and only two
or three 81 their rooms are connected together.
They have no parpr assembling, room,
nothing to read. and nothing t"drnk or smoke.
They have cards and huckGammun and that
is all.
sIcuk t., Tor they are not allowed I" converse
with tn" deputies who w,,''ii over them. They
never move twenty feet except IN body.
q manner :" very like e"nyic,s that those VINO
they they w. Wou uIY i"it if DIZZY were unirr longer
sentence than they Their kecpcrs round
them then, S"wn t" GreaE'a asst Ih"y must all lnish
eating sim ultane"usiy and then hc herdeh III
abandon them and they lit together under
the stern ey,so' the THnrt sr,rr whose tex
Of their daily routine. which only ends
when they Al 90 to lea ns one ne man nan;
they must not Discus the merits ~ the b r;
den Ease nr form amy coniusi"nS about 1t until
tie Court tells them t" he:p thinking. as
soon as the lawyers on both sides have sum
"Tho hui thing nllus reminds me OF tho
way We used t" shanghai sailors when the
whaling business was AT its hcight. afore the
sad nn 1 .ads to used to et
them drunk and make them sign ar.
Ss w"s" they d lien not know se what TT
row them AT to schooner TINT laid on in the the
Whe nsed We to iii GIFI @s
rum and chuck them down in tho fo'cnste
and lock them in. v" kept guard over them.
and, Lat ana n han
fresh air We.stood oil all the small boats and
never allowed one Of en- 70 come a INV
ROD Jus Juice and loaded them on the wn.Hler.
selves when they WAS couple OF days out on
the ocean,
Robinson. the two champions who are to DO
pittad against ono another in summing up
10th in town and have Teen here since the
court adjourned. Most fthe other lawyers and
torpey home is here and it Il not known what
he has heen doing, except that ne appepred
day, but the ex-GoyernY9rr, has been working
like beaver, or. rather; like q lawyer. FOR law
yers work great deal harder than beavers:
they work. Dir. Eobinson has been going ali
over the testimony Of all the witnesses to make
and OF every blind alley into which the Govern
@. rod in ryns to find way +" the sfb o
S % and %H@ though he is
cause than either OF his associates no Is
thoroughly saturated with 1t. 1t is under
stood that he will occupy the morning session
with his speech. and Mr. knowlton will have
tho !ast word in the afternoon, The gossip OF
the court attendants Is that the District At
torney will argue that the girl was max ed
when she kil"d her stenmother and that when
she butchered her father sho had on
tho bedford cord dress which she
burned up afterward. 1t is said that
he Will argue that after she did the
deed she kept the bedford cord dress on
all the time that the police searched the house
ana wore other garments over it-now u pink
Wrapper. and at other times other dresses II
there Is any foundation Tor this. and he does
picture q neutrality-suspicious. New England girl
pare naked whlle Sh" commits the most fear
inl ot mutherouS crimes. he will succeed in
maKihg the case even more UNIQUE thnn
Il Is at present lie will undoubtedIy dwell |
nn. q Sna n. im no on 'he utter fail
Lizzie said her st"rmother got and That WAS
supposed to have callrd her out on tho morn
Ing OF the murder. lie VIII score the w nmUn "