New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-16
1 BEGINNING HER DEFENCE.
BORDEN PROSECUTION RESTS.
MIR. JENNINGS STATES TIE CASE FOR HIS
CLIENT


VISITING The BARN is TnuE-srRoNG EvI.
DENCE TO PROVE IT INTRODUCED
ANOTHER BLOW FOR THE STATE
AsrArY EsPoypExT OF THE TRBuSE.)
New-l}cdford, Mass, June 1j-The tenth day
of Lizzie Borden's trial has ended, and has prob
ably brought her close to the day of vindication
and liberty.
Tho prosecution rested this morning, and the
defence began promptly. Mr.. Jennings opened
with the startling statement that he intended to
prove that Lizzie Borden's story about going to
he barn was true: that her story about the dress
che burned having paint on II was true; and that
he intended 10 prove the falsty Of good deal
VI the evidence gwen in behalf of the Common
wealth by the police officers. Much of this
promise was redeemed before the session closed.
Mysterious AS is the whole affair." including the
prisoners behavior, it begins TO look as IL she not
only might be, but must be- innocent Ii cannot
b. said that Mr. Jcnnings's evidence was precisely
conclusive, but its tendency TO prove innocence
was strong. IL seemed trustworthy, and il stood
solid and upright against a cross-examination ad-
mirably adapted I, break it 10 pieces had it been
fimsy fraudulent.
MISS BORDEN MOVED TO TEARS.
Somehow other, thu prisoner at the bar has
not seemed greatly moved by the feeling OF hope
and almost confidence which the results OF the day
might we'll have inspired She yielded slowly to
the heavy strain to which the prosecutions story,
with its accom- anying theatrical properties, its
axes and hatccts its skulls and plaster casts, and
its long-drawn-out and dreadful details of blood
and horror subjected her. She revives as slowly
as she yielded. Many amusing situations de-
vclopcd during the day. but they did not amuse
the prisoner She sat through everything, eX-
ccpt the speech Of her counsel, stOlid and de-
pressed As hc talked and told of his intimate
relations witt her father and with her; as he
told of the ZONE she had lived in, and OF what
she had been 70 it ana in it; as he described her
love for her father, her care for him in his old
age the interest she took in his affairs, and the aid
she gave to him. and he drew the utterly sad
picture of the position she is placed in, she
buried her face in her handkerchief and cried
heartily.
During the recess of the court at noon, fof
the first time in these long and terrible ten
days, one of her own 70 speak to
her. II is difficult TO account for the hostile
attitude in which even yet the women who At
tend this trial stand toward the prisoner. II
there were an object entitled to pity and
commise RAJ ion, it is she. At time has her
guilt seemed inevitable at no time have tho
prcsimptions Of innocence proceeding from human
nature and from her history a, woman and
daughter been overcome. Her homcliness is BY
no means that which coarse or cruel nature
would be apt to impart.
So far as outward appearances tell any story
they show only poor wretched woman, borne
down with the weight of an accusation than
which in all the record of crime there is mono
more horrible They show n woman OF refine
ment, whose manner and bearing from the momens
she took her seat in the prisoners dock until
now have been most exemplary. There has not
been lock or a gesture, a word or an attitn'e
suggestive Of the qualities which she mlst
possess not vaguely or in small measure, but
developed in an abnormal and hdeous degree, II
she is the dcplorabSa creature charged ny tho
State Her very grief and unhappiness. keen
beyond comparison, and deep beyond sounding.
have been expressed only because nature could
not bear tho burden this trial has imposed Ihey
have been displayed despite a slpcrhuman ehort
10 hold them in subjrction
And Yet. with alb this in her favor, not woman
in New-Bedford has given SO much as kind look
to her Not one has offered to shake her hand or
10 speak in her ear a single word Of consolation
or hope Her isolation has been complete. The
feeling of her sex against her is so positive and
manifest that wolen in the courtroom actually
look disappointed when "a witness says anything
10 her advantage When Professor Wood concluded
the statement of his examination of each Of tho
objects sent 10 him be tested for blood with tho
declaration that no trace of blood was TO be found
anywhere upon them, the women In the audience
looked positively disgusted and angry. No doubt
the most of them came away believing that Pro-
fessor Wood was no such chemist as he has been
cracked mp TO be-
WELCOMING FALL. RIVER WOMEN.
To-day at noon three women came forward from
the audience and spoke to Miss Borden. Even
they were not strangers. moved by kind and
generous impulse They were friends who had
known her in Fall River. But they We're nightly
welcome She talked with them long, and seemed
70 draw keen enjoyment from their presence and
from the consolatory looks they gave to her On
Monday she came into the courtroom with little
bunch of white and red pnks. They were the
only flowers she has had since the trial began.
Everything was bright to-day around the hand.
some little building where the trial goes on. The
sun moved brilliantly through coudless sky.
Cool winds from the wafer blew over the town.
tompering the heat and giving vivacty and
brightness TO nature Of every kind. They were
cutting the grass on the courthouse lawn and a.
the mower made its way along the wind caught
I'D the little grass blades its knife had parted and
sent them whirling all around The sparrows
from the capitals Of the big Grecan columns that
give stately a front TO the courthouse building
came down and made little sheaves of grass, took
them up 10 their nests above the capitals and
made great sport with them there. Chasing one
another in light hearted frolic they flew into tho
arching elms, they dashed into the flower plots.
giving screams Of fun and defiance as they went
II docs not take many days of snch sights and
sounds have been encountered in this indc.
scrhable trial to give one Il feeling of fondness
for these little birds and flowers and leaves and
grasses.
PRUsSIC-ACID EVIDENCE RULED OUT
The Court decided. after all, that il would NOT
admit the evidence Of the drug clerk as 90 Iizzis
Eorden's attempt to buy some prussic acid on
the night before the tragedy. The Judges ex-
pressed Themselves as impressed with the claim AZ