Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-10
BLooD-sTAINED GOWN.
1t Figured Largely in the Trial Of the
Borden Murder Mystery Yesterday.

the Superior Criminal court of New
Bedford, Mass, has the attendance of
curious spectators been anything like
so great or the attendant rush for
seats within the court room so deter
mined and resistless. For time the
police found themselves utterly unable
to check the mad rush of the horde of
curious women who forced themselves
forward to places of prominence just
in front of the prisoners stand. Indeed
the officers were swept bodily aside by
the irate females, but posse of depu-
ty sheriffs appeared and the fair Curl
osity seekers elected in large num-
bers.
Court adjourned Thursday with
Bridget Sullivan, the servant in the
Borden household at the time of the
tragedy, in the witness chair.
She was dressed fashionably and
leaned to the left side against the rail,
looked straight at Prosecutor Moody,
and spoke SO low that he had to tell
her to speak louder The prisoner re-
mained leaning back in the seat, but
changed posture SO as to see the wit
ness plainly and watched Bridget
steadily with large eyes wide open.
All the Judges watched Bridget
carefully while she testified to bolting
the cellar door on the inside two days
before the murder, to hooking the
screen door, to the sickness of the
! Bordens Wednesday and to her own
conduct, and to the locked condition
Of the doors on Wednesday night and
Thursday morning before the murder.
When ex-Gov. Robinson began to
cross-exam1ne he tried to show by the
witness that the most pleasant rela-
tions existed in the family. Bridget
said that the daughters did not come
to the table with their parents. When
Mrs. Borden spoke to them they spoke
to her.
She amended that in part subse-
quently by saying that the members
of the family conversed together very
often and that she had never heard
them quarreling.
"Now, did you say that Second
street was quiet street?"swas asked.
81 don't know" Bridget answered.
81 never heard any quarrehng there"
The questioner then came down to
the time after the murder.
"You did not see any blood on her,
did you" he asked, referring to Miss
Borden.
"No, sir"
"Was her hair rufled, or any of her
clothing dlsarranged~
"No, sir"
Bridget said she never heard cross
word in the house between Lizzie and
Mrs. Borden. Robinson got her to
admit she did not know whether she
hooked the screen door on the morn
ing Of the murder.
DR.. Bowen, the physician first called
after the murders, was the first wit
ness yesterday. He told about how
Lizzie met him and informed him of
the murders. He asked herif she had
seen any one about it, and she said she
had not.
When asked where she had been,
Lizzie told the witnesses she had been
in the barn for piece of iron. In ex-
planation of the murders she declared
she was afraid her father had had
trouble with some of the tenants.
Nothing up to that time had been
said about Mrs. Borden. The Doctor
suddenly asked the girl about her
mother, and she replied that she had
received note which had called her
from the house.
When he saw Lizzie that morning
she had on pink wrapper, cheap
one, but he wasn't prepared to des-
cribe it, except to say it was an ordi-
nary everyday dress.
On cross examination, the Doctor
said Miss Borden was very nervous
for several days after the tragedy, and
he prescribed morphine, which might
have affected her mind.
Bridget Sullivan was recalled, and
said the house had been robbed ayear
before the murder. This evidence
was stricken out. She denied that
she had said at the inquest that she
saw Lizzie crying after the murder.
Mrs. Adelaide Churchill, nelghbor
of the Bordens, swore that Lizzie de-
clared her mother had gone out in
response to note,
She afterwards said she heard her
mother go up stairs. The dress Liz
zie had on that morning was light
blue one.
Miss Alice Russell was the most i'm