Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-06-14
EXPERTS TESTIMONY
In the Borden Case in
Favor of the Defense.
LIZZIE'S MIND RELIEVED.
Women in Fall River and New Bedford
Planning a Vacation for the Prisoner.

| Borden WIS out of the room all YESTERDAY
| afternoon, a. one Of the skulls was con
| stantly before the jury. When she came
into court her eyes seemed rcd and her
face somewhat swollen. Size proved to be
more composed, however, aud rarely lifted
her fan to her eyes, although the plaster
casts and several of her garments were
thoroughly xamined. Much of the time
she chatted with Mr. Robinson.
Dr.. Dolan continued yesterday morning,
| md when he had finished Professor T.. S
| Wood of the Harvard medical school TO k
The stand and proved the most interesting
witness of the day. He testified in brief
that he had sui jected the stomachs of the
murdered couple 10 thorough chemical
tests in order to determine if traces of
poison were to be found, but
with Negative Results.
the same also being true Of the samples of
milk given him. He also tested for blood
certain stains on "A pair of shoes. skirts
and a waist belonging TO the prisoner, also
two axes and a hatchet taken from the
scene Of the tragedy all with equally un-
productive results. In addition he b I'd
sent him pair of hose worn by Miss Bor-
den, but as those bore no marks he could
obtain no basis for "A test He also exam
ined the hair of the murdered man and
woman and "A hair found on one of the
hatchets.
This last proved to be the hair OF an
ANIMAL presumably that Of cow
He then went into an extended consider
alton of the appearance of the handles of
the hatchets, one of which had come in
contact with some grayish white substance
as II it had been rubbed in ashes
Professor Woods cross examination was
shorter than expected.
DIR. +. w. Draper of Boston, Suffolk
county's medical examiner took the stand
at l245 o'clock and continued sfter the
noon recess until o'clock. He was an adj
mirable witness, but his testimony was
uninteresting, being confined wholly to
the
Cuts Upon the skulls.
DIR. Cheever of Boston, also of the Har-
ward medical school, followed, just finish
ing at the hour of adj urnmenl. His tes-
timony was along the same line as that Of
DIR. Draper. Upon being cross-ex mined
he said that, in his opinion, the assailant
was taller than Mrs. Borden. Both ad-
mitted that n woman of average strength h
could have committed b 9th murders with
hatchets such as those shown.
Professor Edw ard =. Wood,
the expert, is not "A man who would be
picked out us Il physiolo gical Che mist. He
has red face and might be taken for
policeman ii he did not wear white tie.
When he be ,an to talk his replies came
with admirable directuess Miss Borden
scarcely took her eyes from him, for she
l.I Ill.
suits had been. When he said that he
found no suspicion Of blood on any of her
wearing apparel with the exception of the
white skirt, IL was very easy TO see that
the prisoner ielt relieved A good idea of
the closeness of Professor Woods examin-
alton can be gained by the fact that he
cut about two-thirds of this blood spot out
of the skirt to test IL, leaving the other
third as evidence. The whole spot was
only the size of small headed pin, yet
the stain responded to the test rs unmis
takably as if il had been the size Of silver
dollar.
The most interesting part of Professor
Woods testimony was that concerning
the white film on the handleless hatchet
Mr.. Knowlton inquired if he thought it
resulted from white dust floating in the
air, but Mr.. Adams objected to the Ques-
tion. Then Mr.. Knowlton asked if il was
his opinion that the hatchet had been sub
mitted to a cleaning process to remove
traces of blood, which brought Mr. Adams
to his feet again, but Judge Mason decided
that Professor Wood might answer. The
reply was that assuming hatchet had
been used to inflict the wounds and after
ward cleaned il was reasonable and posi-
BILE to consider this Ratchet, which showed
no traces of blood, to have been the one.
Mr.. Knowlton has gained the point he
had been striving for. and his satisfaction
could not be concealed. Mr.. Adams got
back at him In the afternoon, however,
with a sarcastic foice that is characteristic
of him. Adams interposed objections on a
point and Knowlton unwittingly asked
his rival what he understood him (Knowl-
tom to say. Adams in a jffy wheeled
about and told the district attorney that
he did not propose to tell him what he had
understood, with a tone of voice that rang
out like the crack Of a whip.
Mr.. Knowlton stumbled again yester-
day, although he is a long way from being
| down in the mouth, as certain people
| would have it, As Mr. Moody and Mr.
| Robinson kept their mouths closed, and as
| Mr.. Adams found little opportunity for
sndTDntSS III COuAluCllDB lnt tIOSS-tAdni-
| nations, there was little to carry the
| semblance OF the dramatic.
Absent From the Courtroom.
II is doubtful IL the prisoner was in the
courtroom two hours all day Even the
| production of Andrew Borden's skull in
the afternoon failed 70 arouse the languor,
although It was placed on high pile Of
books In a way that would ordinarily have
caused women To shudder
A chief effort Of the defense was to have
the experts ring out the fact that the
| murderer must have been profusely spat-
| tered in committing the crime. especially
| the upper half Of the body, and in this
| they were partially successful. There not
being enough hatchets in stock, a new one
was brought into court, and the lawyers
enclosure would now pass for hardware
| store.
Anticipating uiss Borden's Acquittai.
| Several women at Fall River and few
| st New Bedford have figured out TO their
own entire satisfaction that the prisoner
is TO be acquitted and propose to celebrate
the event. They have decided that she
/ sball 90 10 the Worlds fair but at this