Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-20

be little worth preserving as the crier of this court asks every day if such . mistake l is made, and is to be followed by others equally as deplorable. She is not without sympathy. Gentlemen, take care of her as you have, and at the end let her go back to that blood d-stained and wrecked home
 where she passed so many years of her life" .->s.- [ It was 8 o'clock when Governor Robin
 son closed his plea, and five minutes later District Attorney Knowlton took up his
 work for the prosecution. He said the
 crime was an incredulous one, but for the
 cold. hard facts which crush the tncredu-
 Hty. It seemed an impossible crime and
 yet 1t was done. We are trying crime
 which We would have believed impossible,
 but 1t was possible, and are trying . woman
 whom we wonld never have believed would
 have been charged with the crime, but ahe
 was. Women are but human; they make
 up for lack of strength in cunning. Their
 hates are more undying, more unyielding
 and their passions stronger. The fore
 most of the murderers of the early ages were women, and they have come down to these times even.
 This Is the work of an assassin and 1t must be punished. It is not the question of the circumstantial but the question of the sutficieney of such evidence. There have been very few cases of assassination but were made up of circumstantial evil dence: men will not tell the truth always; circumstances will tell the truth; they never heard the city hall clock strike 10. At half-psst g the assassin met her and put an end to her life. That Is the story of the case; it was the malice against Mrs. Borden that inspired this murder. It was the act of person who spent the forenoon in that house, and this fact bears on the case from beginning to end.
 It Is useless to say there was peace and harmony in the family. We know better. There was woman who believed that that old woman stood between her father and herself. There was nothing in these blows but hatred and @ great strong man would have taken that hatchet and with one blow only>would have made an end of It. The arm that wielded that hatehet was strong only in hatred.
 The district attorney detailed the move. ments of the household on the morning of the murders, showing the opportunity open to the prisoner. Up to the time when the murder was done there was no room for the assassin to come in. When that 200 pound woman fell under the blows the fall must have been heard by whoever was in the house at the time. If Lizzie was down stairs she was in the of the assassin; if she was up stairs, she was on the same floor and could not have helped hearing 1t.
 No matter how craftily murder Is planned there is always some point where | the plans fail, and they failed here at | critical time. She was alone in the house with that murdered woman and she knew that by and by was coming a stern and |ust man who would have noticed the ab. 'ence of his wife and would have asked for Ter, and that queetion must be answered. She went to him when he came in and Iaid:
 "Mother has had note and has gone ,ut."
 There was no note and no sick woman, md the note story was originated by Lizzie | Borden.
 Adjourned at 5:06 o'clock.