The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-06-07

Miss Borden has remarkable command of
herself during the ordeal attending the
opening of the court and selection of a jury.
During the early preliminaries she leaned
back easily in her chair and never moved
muscle, but as the prosecuting officer con.
cluded his opening address the prisoner
tainted. The spell lasted but moment.
When court convened yesterday the
Jury heard the indictments against Miss
Borden read as soon as Court was formally
opened, and were charged as "good men
and true, stand together and hearken to
your evidence"
Mr., Moody then stepped to the railing
and opened the governments case. He
said that on the fourth day of August last
an old man and an old woman, without
known enemy in the world, were stricken
down by an unknown assassin In the
prisoners dock was a young woman, a
daughter of the murdered people, young
woman Of good social standing. charged
with the crime of numbering these people.
1t was his purpose to put the story OF the
crime in the easiest manner possible.
Mr.. Moody got down to the early morn
ing of the day upon which the tragedy was
enacted. He told at what hours the differ
ent members of the household had arisen
and what had passed between them imme-
diateIy after that.
The speaker called attention to the dis
crepancies that existed in the stories told
by the prisoner In brief, they were that
she told one story, in which she said that
while in the barn she had heard noise in
the house, something in the nature of an
alarm
She rushed into the house and dscov-
cred the body of her father. The other
story was that she had been in the loft of
the barn and had discovered the body of
her father when she entered the house to
get her hat.
She had told, too that she had gone to
the barn for the purpose Of getting some
lead from which to make sinkers. Another
story was that she had gone there for
piece of iron with which to repair q screen.
Mr.. Moody unrolled bundle nd d is
closed the clothing Miss Borden had worn
on the morning her father and mother
were killed. He held them up for inspect
tlon by the jury. There was no trace of blood
on any of the garments on except the front
of the skirt where there was a minute
particle of blood.
Two axes and three hatchets were shown
to the jury.
''There was no evidence of a struggle
anywhere in the house." Mr.. Moody went
on, mot an article anywhere in the house
had been disturbed. The one who COM
mitted the murder was familiar with the
premises.
From the middle until the end of the
opening addr, IS Miss Borden leaned back
In her chair and never moved a muscle
She put the fan up over her face, and
holding her head forward, pressed it close
against her forehead and held it there
Her eyes were closed and she appeared
as If asleep. Not by any motion did she
betray that she was conscious of what was
going on about her.
just as Mr.. Moody had ceased to speak
and taken one step toward his seat, there
was noise where Miss Borden was sitting.
She had tainted.
The Rev. Mr.. Jubb hurried over to her
and placed a bottle Of smelling salts to her
nostrils. Deputy Sheriff Kirby and an
other officer hurried after some cracked
ice.
The woman's face grew white The off
GERS returned with ice in moment, and
couple of minutes later Miss Borden began
to recover.
The jury was allowed recess of about
five minutes and when 1t had returned to
the box she had recovered her usual man
ner and bearing.
When the jury returned the case was
opened by the Government putting on its
first witness in the person Of Thomas
Herman.
Mr. Knowlton then asked the court to
allow the jury to take a view of the Bor-
den premises. Gov. Robinson, who con
suited Miss Borden in regard to accom-
panying the jury to Fall River, announced |
that his client waived her rights In the |
matter and would not go with them
Messrs. Hodges, Brown, Nickerson and |
Arnold Of the Deputy Sheriffs were desig- |
mated by the Sheriff to look after the jury, |
and Messrs, Moody, for the commonwealth, |
and Mr. Jennings for the defense, were |
as representing counsel.