New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-17
BRIGHT FOR LIZZIE BORDEN.
HER SISTER EMMA'SETIDENCH
PAINT on THE BURNED DRESS POSITIVELY
SWORN TO-
THE "YoU GAVE ME AWAY STORY CcNTRN
DICTED. AND LIzZIE's LOVE FOR HER
FATHER sHOwN-THE TEST.
MONY ALL IN

lFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRTBUYEl
New-Bedford Mass, June 16.-At the end OF
the eleventh day of the trial the case Of the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts against Lizzie An
drew Borden is closed. The evidence on both
sides is in. That part of the record is sealed, and
nothing now remains but the arguments Of coun-
sci, the charge Of the Ccurt, and the verdict Of
the jury Few people who have attended the
trial doubt what the verdict will be, and if it 10
what they look for there will still be score to
settle before Lizzie Borden and her extraordinary
ENHANCEMENT with the law may be permitted to
drop out of sight. The belief in the prisoners
guilt is now confined to that class of people who
are naturally suspicious, who have at least Q
tendency toward hard-heartedncss and who are
also so narrow and prejudiced in their views that,
having once obtained an impression, they can
never allow themselves TO part with it. AL
Others, if IA judgment he formed without
actually taking q full vote Of the courthouse
audience. believe that she is innocent, and Of
these a great majority are convinced that she has
been tho victim Of police conspiracy.
1t is certainly difficult to understand the testi-
mony in any other way. Every suspicious cir
cumstance brought forward by the prosecution
has been at least relieved of the necessity Of re-
eardEg it as suspicious, and on most of such cir
cum.tancos the defence have placed by trustworthy
"a
ton that is plainly innocent. With the police
the issue has been 81 uarely joined, and Governor
Rohinsons policy in treating them in his cross.
examination not only hostile but malignant
witnesses has been vindicated by the production
Of dsintcrested testimony which cannot be true
unless they are p,rjurers and which seems to be
true. The prosecutions evidence in rebuttal was
mostly confession Tie Commonwealth has been
in full retreat since the defence put its first wit
ness OH the stand and toward the last of to-daya
session the retreat became dsorderly and con.
fused flight.
MISS BORDEN NOT PUT on THE STAND
Lizzie Borden did not so on the stand Sons
persons will undoubtedly draw inference from
this fact 10 her disadvantage. This Is the natural,
almost the inevitable, thing TO do. Her best
friends here and her friends are now beginning to
multiply, to hold up their heads and to their
friendship. however dihdent they may be about
opposing their judgment to that Of her counsel,
cannot avoid feeling of regret that she was
thought to I've unable to stand the strain Of such
an ordeal Nevertheless. the claim OF her counsel
is quite true that they have proved substantially
everything the evidence of which she can supply.
TEcir case would be strengthened. only in moral
c,i.se by- the mere fact of her taking tho stand
and subiccting herself to the batteries of the
prosecution. On the other hand. it cannot 10
denied that there is danger Of her breaking down.
She is utterly tired, almost Ill. The pressure ard
excitement under which She has been during the
last two weeks, to say nothing OF the last ten
months. have left her nervous and IL a mental
condition anything but healthy. The awful lone
illness Of her position has weighed upon her, and 10
is not at all clear that conditions physical and
metaphysical, would not operate to render her,
though innocent, an easy victim to the stern,
mcrciless and artful methods of the District
Attorney Her counsel says she stands in mortal
terror of him, and she has good reason to do so.
She remembers how, after seven days of ex.
element following tho murders after being sub.
iecled to searches and questionn2s almost with.
ont number: after being examined by this police
man and then by that one, and By another and
another, until it really seemed "a IL the entire
force were set upon her in relays and reliefs:
after awful scenes Of blood: after the funerals
after being informed that she was under sus-
pcion: after being required TO give up her cloth.
ing: after actual illness and the constant me1ici.
nal application Of morphine, she was brought
he fore this District-AtoTney, her counsel barred
ont, and put under q two days examination in
which torture exquisite and brutal was applied to
her Cor hours at time. She remembers how
after questions were asked plainly conveying
his suspicion and his bulldog purpose to get some
father lying on the sofa? Did she realize that
he was dead? Did she see the blood squirting
from his wounds? Did she pools Of it on
the fooro Did she see the holes in his head?
Did she SEQ the wounds lying open? Did sho
see his cyebas hanging down? Then she buried
her face in her hands and begged for time to
think
EXPLANATIONS DUE FROM Mr.. KNowLToN
-. Ti,1ia Mr.
ton will have some rather ugly things to explain.
1t appears that there is not fact that haS
been told by the defendants witnesses Of which
he was not informed before the Grand Jury
indicted her He probably thinks she is guilty.
lie is just the kind of man to think so. His
figure is heavy and stout: his head is big;
his face is fat; he has light, sandy hair, and q
beard which, while growing all over his face, is
heaviest on his chin. lie has round, snub
nose absurdly little for so big head and 50
fat face. His eyes blue. uncomfortably
small and deeply set under his forehead. He has
harsh voice. with distinct snarl in it.
who is this District-Attorney Knowlton ?"
inquired stranger to-day, lca"ing over toward
the benches where the little group of New-YOrk
correspondents sit.
He is a gentleman" replied one of them, look.
ing up, who came here in 1852. and has lived
here ever since. He conducted the cases against
the Salem witches. achieving his first distinc-
ticn in that performance. He il probably with
out ali equal in that kind Of practice"
The remark little rough, perhaps, and
yet it was an illustrative answer. The methods
of the prosecution OF Lizzie Borden. until 10
reached this court, are not to be defended; and
here Mr.. Knowton has presented evidence
which, knowing the extent and character Of
the proof available to show its falsity, he should
have been most cautious in using That Is Q
safe proposition, whatever the jury's verdict
may be.
EMMA BORDEN'S EFFECTIVE TESTIMONY.
Emma Borden, Lizzies sister, was the main
witness to-day. She gave the strongest
possible testimony in favor Of the prisoner,
and cave il in the strongest possible way. She.
too, is plainly woman of education, character