New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-17

answers of truthful, honest heart. They did not
avail the State in its prosecution of Lizzie Borden,
because the facts do not avail il. There was
no motive for her TO commit the crime alleged
against her. If anything were lacking to prove
that before Emma took the stand it is not Lack
ing now
Il was the one" she said, ." who felt resentiul!y
toward Mrs. Borden 1t was not Lizzie. Iheir
relations Were always cordial until that matter OF
property came up. Six years ago Liza" dd not
feel nearly SO strongly about that as did, and the
last three years OF their lives together were the
plcasantest Of all. They were on terms of ahso-
Lutte and constant cor iality'
She turned to the jury she concluded that
statement, and said slowly and with solemnity
that dare not cmphazise lest l give some touch
of the afgcctation from which it was so perfectly
tree:
"What have said is just the truth
Every man in the box. Think believed her.
THE STORY OF THE BURNED DRESS.
Then she tod about the burned dress. She was
away, il will be remembered, visiting at Marion,
when the tragedy occurred. She was summoned
home by telegram. The women of the Borden
family kept their dresses in clothes-press in a
large acknowledged closet on the second floor of
the house Saturday morning THE murder oc-
closet to hang up her dresses, every hook oc-
cupicd, and she saw on ore of them Lizzic's old
Bedford-cOrd dress, which, since the preceding
May, had been all covered with paint. The paint,
Emma says, was all down its front and on many
places on each side and along the bottom of the
skirt. She says she told Lizzie that that old dress
in the way and ought to be destroyed and
that the burning of it the next morning was the
result of her suggestion. That dress, Miss Borden
on her oath declared, was in that closet in the
full Aarc of the open window, with the paint all
over it, and observable at glance. When the
police officers on Saturday afternoon searched the
house they went through that closet i'll squads
and platoons. She SAYS she saw it there. Officer
Fleet saws he handled every dress and did not see
it at all. Two three officers l forget their
names, told the sane story. None of them saw
it, Which shall De believed?
CONFIRMED BY THE DREssMAKEI's EVIDENCE.
Miss Borden is not alone in Ter statement that
the dress was thus covered with paint Mrs
Raymond, the dressmaker, who made it, says 1t
WAS, too. She was in the house making dreSSes
when Lizzie got the paint on it, and she re,nen'-
bers all about it. So as to the paint there Is
the evidence of the painter himself, who. acting
Under Lizzies instructions, painting the
house. lie does not know that she got any
paint on her clothes, but he knows that Che
stood around while the work going OIL. con-
stant,y giving instructions. There is tho t"s;i-
mony OF Mrs Raymond and Of Emma Borden,
and there is nothing against it but the evidence
of knot Of policemen who say they did not
see it.
Sho burned it in brood daylight. 1t was q
foolish thing to do, but why should she have
been thinking about what not to do lest she, the
dead mans own and loving daughter. be accused
Of numbering him?
MISS RUSSELL NTRADICTED.
Mis- Russell, in whose testimony for the
prosecution the dress incident was first brought
out. appears 10 he the sort of young woman Of
whom householders in Fall River may well
beware When she told the story she said that
as Lizzie entered the kitchen with the dress
on her arm, and started toward the stove, Emma
looked up and said
What are You going to do with that dress p
Emma says she didn't say It, Emma says she
knew just exactly what Lizzie was going to do
with the DRESS because she herself had suggested
the doing of it, Miss Russell testified that when
Lizzie, replying to Emmas alleged question, said
sim going to burn it il is all over paint, she
Miss RusselD quickly remarked y wouldn't
do that if ! were you, Lizzie, where anybody could
see me-" and that Lizzie thereupon stepped back
to-day that she was in the room all the time:
that she didn't hear anything Of that kind said
and she doesn't believe it was said The burning
was done as a matter of course, without thought Of
consequences. There were consequences in Miss
Russels mind, there is no doubt of that, and her
thoughts quickly took expression
Monday mornlng--ths is Emma's testimony
Miss Russell cane from the dining-room and said
that Mr.. Hanscom had asked her If all the dresses
were there that were there on the day Of the
tragedy, and she had told him yes, and that
she had told him D falschood. 1t was decided
by my sister and myself that she should 90 and
b tell him that dress had been burned.
Mr.. Hanscon was o private detective, the chief
of the Pinkerton bureau, employed by the Bor-
den sisters. Miss Russell went to him as agreed
and told him of her falsehOod. IL may have
been kindly, well-meant lie, but il was as little
appreciated by the Borden sisters as the appar
emily unlSind anG ill-meant truth she mas since
been telling.
No candid person can listen 10 the evidence
which the defence has produced to-day without
4 tremendous feeling Of Indignation. Ii is d-
rected chiefly against the Fall River police. but
the. Dstrct-Attorncy deserves share of it, AT
the close of yesterdays session il seemed clear
that at least three policemen had committed
perjury, and that the whole crowd of them had
been contrivins 10 convict Lizzie Borden cvi-
dence either entirely false or false in color That
is il seemed rs il they had taken number Of
little incidents ard added TO them, subtracted
from them, clearly producing the effect of srs-
picious circumstances. which, truthfully repro
scented, they were not. Let it be remembered that
it is on these little circumstances. of them
and all strung together and brought to bear on
the great fact that Lizzie was present in or
about the house when these murders were done,
and that she only there throughout that
time, so far cs is known-it is on these circum-
stances that the Commonwealth asks the forfeit
Of her life
MANY PEOPLE AT THE BARN.
One of these is her tale about being in the
barn from about IL o'clock until fifteen minutes
after that being the time when her father
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