New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-08

searching all over the premises ior an!'""s
and everything they could find to throw light on the
crime So far as he observed, there was nothhg
about Lizzie that indicated agitation. nor any marks
OF blood on her clothes or person. nor any eviuence
about her Of having figured In any violent scehe'
TRACING MR. BoRDEN's MOVEMENTS
This Is the story OF Morse II Is all be claims "
know. The State has made great endeavors 70 .'"oe
the movements OF Mr. Borden from the Time ''o''o
left him at q quarter before o until, having eone
downtown, ne returned to meet his dea'n' i"' -
done by MANY witnesses. Bridget sullivan tehs oi
linn when. shortly after Morse went OUT ne
started upstairs Just before this Lizzie had come
downstairs to get her breakfast While lhzne was
thus occupied Mrs. Borden was In the pario'' nus
ing. Earlier in the morning she had instructor
Bridget to wash the dining and sit'ng room ""o"s'
ard while Lizzie was still eating ana Mrs. horoeh
Elm ans,,ng ard Mt about fifteen minutes past o.
BRIDGET set nbout that business. She never saw
Mrs Rorden alive from that hour. She was occu'
MED cleaning the windows most OF the morning
She does not remember at Just what hour but along
toward noon she heard somebody trying 10 get m'o
the front door with a lntchkey As he seemed to oe
.,ns d,ncnltv she went into the house and through
tho hal, 10 the door, and found II not only caught
nv the deadlatch but locked and bolted. she unam
the fsstenngs and found that The person seeking
admlt,ance Mr. Borden. the prosecuuohs
theory Is that at that moment Mrs Borden was deao'
TINT Mr.. Borden having at fifteen minutes past
of the house. being gone two hours. Morse all 'his
while was also down town; Emma was out OF inc
house visiting Bridget was washing the windows
and Mrs. Borden and Lizzie were the only persoi'o
In the house. The prosecution urges that IL was
then that Mrs. BORDEN sashed and gashed 10
death, and that Lizzie was her murderer
QUEER HOUSEHOLD CU:ToM.
It Is commended by the State that the locking OF the
front door in this extraordinary is strong bit
IN
ment But It appears from Brdgets testimony as
well as Morses, that they always locked all their
doors that everybody In that queer househod parreu
himself BY all the bolts he could make use OIL ana al
all hours Of the day night from everybody eise'
The side door was kept locked, the back door
was always caught by hook. and when any MEMBER
Of the household went TO his bedroom. he locked him.
self in, as a queer kind Of matter OF course.
When Bridget let In Mr.. Borden she heard Lizzie
LAUGHING on the floor above that is on The moor
where the State thinks Mrs Borden lay PROSTATE In
death Lizzie came downstairs as her father entered
Tho bouse and asked him II he had any mail and told
him that Mrs. Borden had gone out having received
a note from somebody. Bridget says that Mr. Dor
dem having received that intelligence. went ino inc
Kitchen and took from the shelf there the Key Of
his and his wife bedroom, which, II seems was
duly locked half past IL In the morning ana w'h'
upstairs. II his wife then dead i'll tie guest
chamber, he did not discover It, lie soon came
downstairs and into the sittng-room, where he de-
posted himself In a rocking chair near the wioo"'
LIZZIE BoRDENs CONDUCT.
frfdget does not know where Lizzie was while her
father was upstairs, but she remembered that WIFI
he was still sitting in the rockingham IN tne
sitting room, Lizzie came from that room INTO 'he
dInin groom took an ironing board placed IL on the
diningroom table and began TO iron Very que'
occupation for a thirty -yearOd woman who had Just
hacked her stepmother to death with ha'che'' IL
that Is what she had been doing, having done IT, she
and nl-an
Then hearing her father come In, she laughs, taRs
TO him pleasantly, and while he moves around the
house and sits at the window, she irons
Mr. Bo1uens movements from the tine lie left
home at about half-p O'Clock until he returned
about of Of Which are he we an % he
talked with two or three business men; Imey az
and did. A woman who lives next door to the
sodsns tells Of seeing him return ,h to his s the
souma iA Of which Attracting brdge attention caused
to her sss wSn na a oS let nm a
an hour Of Mr. Morses return, is that Lizzie is iron
s Fl Re es e asG denns
washing the dinInsroom windows AccordfnE 70 tne
the door Of the room Just over that in which her
husband Is sitting.
BRIDGET suLLIvANs STORY
The rest Of the story. far as 1t goes Is told by
Bridget. She is an Irish girl twenty-six years Old
She is unmarried. She has been for seven years In
the Bordens when the tragedy occurred. She was
on good terms with all members of the family.
Aomely In appearance, she looked honest and sin
cere She seemed to be telling the truth. and to be
work on the dIIlng-rOom windows, Lizzie asked her
she intended aa 0%! that se n ms
IosS the s''u Door Mrs Borden g. LIZZIE said
WAS then The S visiting and sick d s ~" Sd
not know Mrs Borden had not ns said Then .Gr there
m hp
dows being done. and Bridget feeling somewhat III;
y s SsRn 5s i S her she a the s
sonss and %aeB ss wsna ns hs the
!, might have been ten or fifteen minutes after she
her from the bottom Of ff the stairs Bridget come
k fohsr is h r ,cs She "r ran :" downstairs SU
Lizzie told her to run and get Dr. Bowen. who lived
SG ,se the S street Se RON ss there but
Lizzie sent her of again, this tt. time to see Il Mrs
could be got hn msc6s w Ts' nc to two
Mrs. Borden she returned again.
DISCOVERY OF MRS. DoRDEN's BODY.
Mrs. Churchill. next-door neighbor and DR.. Bowen
we're at the house. Upon her reporting that she
had not found Mrs. Borden. Lizzie said She might be
at Mrs. whitehead's, but few minutes later Lizzie
said she had heard Mrs. Borden come In and 60 up
upstairs, but The door OF Mrs. B0rden's was
locked Bridget started for the guest chamber and
she approached she saw Mrs B0rden's body lying
under the bed.
GUILT BROUGHT CLOSE TO LIZZIE BORDEN.
This Is the story OF Bridget Sullivan. That It
brings guilt close 10 Lizzie Borden one can doubt
But It Is guilt so black unrclic>ed, that 1t
Is scarcely possible to look Mt her plain and not
unwomanly face without belief that there must be
some explanation Of It all consistent with her In
nocence. II guilty, havine killed her stcpmOher, by
Z process clumsy and brutal In the extreme, she
throws of her hoOdstancd garments. takes a bath,
har sylT
about the task Of ironing without the
smallest trace OF aHtalo Then, the servant
having gone upstairs sh" resumes the garb In which
another murder must be done, gashes out the Me OF
her own father again changes her dress anu washes
from her person all trace OF violence, and calls
down bridget from the attic In fifteen minutes she
has changed her costume twice. completed the muir
derous attack upon her father and called her friends
and neighbors
II seem incredible. has the state yet supplied
motive for IL. Its most effective witness, ana