Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-21
|AINs BY IELEGRlPH.
 From All Quarters. LIZZIE IS NOT GUILTY. The Jury Acquits Her of the
 Charge of Murder. SCENES OF ExclTEMEuF.Ia COURT, People Cheered and Waved
 Their Handkerchiefs. LoWl LANDER WON WITH GREAT EASE He Led the Field in the
 Suburban Race.
LoWLAnnER WON WITH GREAT EASE
SHE NOT GUILTY.

Suburban Race.
 I. SHE IS NOT GUILTY.
 The Jury in the Borden Trial FInS I That tho Accused Is Innocent of tn, l Murder of Her Father and Mother
 They Were Gut Only Forty MinuteI When the Verdict Was Announced
 the Spectators in the Court Room
 Went Wild With Joy and Cheered
 for Several MOments-LiZzIe Bowed
 Her Head and Cried for the Firs,
 Time Since Her TriaI-She Wal
 Taken To Fall River and She Saya
 That She Is the Happiest Woman iu
 the World:
 NEW BEDFORD, June 20.-The closing scene in the Borden trial was in direct con. trast to those which had preceded it. Heretofore all had been decorum and in keeping with the dignity of the most dig nifed court in the country, but when the verdict of 'fnot guilty" was returned a cheer went up which might have been heard half mile away through the open windows, and there was no attempt to check 1t. The stately justices looked straight ahead at the bare walls. Sheriff l Wright was powerless to wield the gavel l which lay ready for his use, and not once l during the tremendous excitement which lasted fully minute did he make the slight est sign of having heard it. He never saw l the people rising in their seats and waving their handkerchiefs in unison with their voices, because his eyes were full of tears and were blinded for the time.
 Miss Borden's head went down upon the rail in front of her and tears came where they had not come for many a long day, ss she heard the sweetest words ever poured into her willing ears, the words snot guilty"
 MT. Jennings was almost crying and his voice broke as he put his hand out to Mir. Adams, who sat next to him, and said: "Thank God" while MT. Adams returned the pressure of the hand and seemed in- capable of speech. Governor Robinson turned to the rapidly dissolving jury as they filed out of their seats and besmed on them with fatherly interest in his kindly eyes and stood up as Nr. Kuowlton and MT. Moody came over to shake hands with the counsel for the defense.
 As coon as possible the room was cleared, although 1t was 8 hard task, since every body wanted to shake hands with Miss Borden. Then she was taken to the room of the justices and allowed to recover her composure with only the eyes of friends upon her and the caresses of devoted ad nirers. At the expiration of an hour she was placed in @ carriage and driven to the station, W here she took the train for Fall Riyer-her home no longer, probably, but still the only objective point for the imme-, diate present.
 District Attorney Knowlton picked up the thread of his closing argument. He said that counsel for the defense had said that motive was 8 part of the government's case, but the speaker said this was not so, although the consideration of motive has weight in elucidating the facts in the case. Motives. however, were neither adequate nor even tolerable when considered in con- nection with 8 crime. The motives of mankind are as inscrutable as are the ways of Divine Providence, though 1t does af- ford satisfaction to our reasoning to have discovered that there were unfortunate conditions in that family from which we can suspect even the malice existing.
 He said that may be Lizzie Borden did not plan to kill her father. But 1t was not Lizzie Borden who came down the stairs, but murderess. He knew too much of the family relations for her to let him live. The second murder was not planned, but was done as a wicked and fearful neces- sity. Bridget was doing her work when the old man was taking the last walk of his Ho of n1o finally turned into the yard of the house where his wife lay dead. He went around to the side door and found 1t locked; went to the front door and tried to use his key, but couldn't, and was let in by Bridg- ct. He came into the house, sat down, and then came Lizzie from the very place that his wife lay dead and told him g false hood about where his wife was. Where was that stepmotherl She knew that but not for long. Then Bridget came into the dining room to wash the windows there, and the old man, after paying visit to his room, came into the sitting room again, and Lizzie, with the spirit of Judas kissing his master, suggested that he lie down to get rest. She tells Bridget that if she goes down town to lock up the door, as she might go out herself.
 l "Then Bridget goes upstairs to get her rest and Lizzie goes on ironing, alone with her victim. In less than twenty minutes she calls her servant down and tells her that her father is killed. She had good 1 fire to iron her clothes with, and have | the evidence to prove 1t, for Officer Har- ripgton tells us that at 12:30 there were living embers in the stove, and we know If there was fire there then there was better one earlier in the day. And when she was l ironing, why did she stopa There were only a few handkerchiefs to iron, but for all 1 the time she was at work there were but few Of them ready to lay away for use. ! T want to speak sbout 8 matter which necessitstes referring again to the note. MT. Morse saw Mrs. Borden disappear up- stairs, presumably to make the bed. Liz zie comes down and gets her breakfast. Lizzie finishes her breakfast; Lizzie goes upstairs again. Mrs. Borden comes down stairs again and gives Bridget instructions as to washing windows, and goes on dust ing Bridget gets her water, comes in the house to shut down the windows, and Mrs. Borden has gone again. She was upstairs and was dead then. Then Lizzie comes
 down stairs. Nobody has come to eithe,
 door but her father. Lizzie tells Bridget
 that Mrs. Borden has gone out and If she '. (BridgeD goes out she must lock the door
 becanse she Nizzie) may go out.
 | I06u Buo I6llS hUOus sAo Aot0, Due GQ6,
 note, If there was @ note, WAS not the nots
 of the assassin. She had just told Bridge,
 and her father that her step mother had gone out, but she suggested to Mrs
 Churchill, '.She had note to go out, but
 don't know but she Is killed too, for
 think heard her come in." The counse
 on the other side says the fall deceived her
 Great heavens, has he forgotten that tn,
 fall had occurred long before she toli Bridget she had gone out; and when hel fathers body was found she never though
 to call upon the step mother, one flight up
 but called to the servant, two flights up. : What's the defenoea Nothing, nothing
 say again, nothing. Some dust throwl in our faces. Some absurd stories sbou r drunken men of pale and irresolute mel , walking the street in broad daylight ans of fighting dogs. Our case h proven; VI can't measure facts, we can't put a yard
 stick to them, but do they lead us to tn , truth3 If they do they have done all VI
 can expect of them. Give the prisone every benefit, and ask yourselves are 70, satisfedi l submit all the facts in tn . case to you with tho confidence that yo1 : are men of sense; not to ask you to aveng
 these deaths or to work for the credit Q the commonwealth, but I put it on highe ground than this. Let mercy be take . care of; it is not strange in this common