Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-17

tOcket, and copy or the he"Spdpol III
which il was published also" Here
lthe witness produced copy OF the Fall
River Herald. The article was founa
and vouched for by Mr.. Jennings.)
Witness was shown type written copy
az the same. He identified 1t aAd READ
In II was essentially q denial OF
the story. Witness said it was read to
Mrs. Reagan, and she said 1t was
true. and that she would sign 1t II the
marshal would allow her. Then Mr..
Buck and she went down to the mar
shsl's Office. Then they came back ana
went into the matron's room, ana 40
not know personally what happened
there. Down stairs after the marshal
refused to allow her to sign, heard
parG of the altercation which ensueo'
The day was one OF great deal OF e&-
element. was trying TO get denlal
| from( Mrs. Reagan OF the story over ner
own signature, and 1t had no bearing
upon 1.-The case then going to court; u
was simply to correct the newspaper
story, She never signed 1t.
Joha B. Colwell. reporter, New orK:
/ AZ re1orted the trial in Fall River; re-
call the date when Mrs. Reagan was
asked Ito sign the paper and saw 1t read
/ TO herA but was toe far of to hear Wnat
was said. Mrs. Reagan took the paper
to Marshal billiard and he said II she
signed IL it would be against his orders;
then she went out and ordered me out.
Mrs. MARY E. Brigham, Fall River;
~ know Lizzie Borden and have known
Der all my life; we were life long
friends. | visited her quite frequently.
! Mrs. Reagan told me one day after
court when we were in the matron's
room about quarrel between the Sis
ters.
IsAw Mr.. BUCK WITH A PAPER
in his hand, which he read to her. They
both wentout and she came back mao.
lShe said She was willing to sign the
paper, but that the marshal would not
let her; that she would rather leave her
place than to stay where she had been
lied about; that it was all a lie, ana
there had been no quarrel"
Emma l.. BORDEN, sister OF MISS Llz-
zie Borden; 1--WE have lived In the house
we now livetn twenty-one years last
May. At the time Of the murder Lizzie
was possessed OF property as follows;
S17O in the h. McDurfee Safe Deposit
, and Trust Co., $4,000 in the Massaolt
National Bank, $500 in the Union Saw
ings Bank, S1t1 in the Fall River Five
Cent Saving Bank; two shares OF the
Fall River National Bank stock, four
= shares Of the Merchants Manufacturing
Co. stock, five shares Of the same OF an
othdr date. My father wore a ring on
his tfnger. 1t was given him by Lizzie.
she had WON it herself before that,
= and he constantly wore 1t thereafter,
, aud ~ Vas buried With hiqPned. h 11" vas
C. vurrtI wuen In lives going on. >"
Witness was asked as to what Dr. Do
Ian sa lid in regard to thorough search.
THE Doctor eaid the search was as
thorough as it cotld be unless the paper
was TO rn from the walls or the carpets
taken up.
"Thk bedford cord dress was made
the first week In Ray at our home; 1t
was very cheap dress, 1215 or IS cents
a yard And about eight or nine yards In
it,, plainly trimmedt not more than two
days were occupied making the dress;
Lizzie AID I assisted as we always did.
THE painterS besan work after the
dress walls made. Lizzie got some paint
on this dress withintwo weeks after II
was made; she got the paint on the front
breadth and on the 4de; that dress was
hanging in the front closet on the day
came home. ! know because l went
in to hang up dress and found there
was no nail"
Ibid you say anything to Lizzie
about that dress because there was no
nail there?"
81 did. l said: You haven't de-
stroYed that old dress yet Why don't
you do SOP II was very dirty, badly
faded and l don't remember having
seen her use il for some time.
1t could not have been made over, be-
cause, besides being badly soiled, the
material and color was such as to rem
der il impossible. The next I saw OF
the bedford cord dress l was in the
kitchen, on Saturday, when heard my
sisters voice; looked around and saw
her with the dress on her arm. She
said, I'm going to burn this old dress,
and I said Il would or why don't
your and turned away. Miss Russell was
there at the time and she told Mr.. Han
scott falsehood and l asked her what
that was for. She said he as ked her if
all the dresses were in the house that
were there at the time o. the murder
and she had said yes. Then it was de-
cided between US all that she go and tell
Mr.. Hanscom she had told q falsehood.
Ny sister said at the time: why didn't
you tell him about il, why
did you let me do it? l
remember the story about the quarrel
between my sister and 1. 1 never had
any such conversation with my sister as
was reported. There was never any
trouble or quarrel in the matron's
room between US while she was there or
I anything that could be construed into
a quarrel. Lizzie never did puf up her
finger and say anything about giving
in"
Witness contended that the relations
tween Lizzie and Mrs. Borden were en-
tirely cordial. Witness said that the
the breach caused by the giving of the
property to her stepmother was never
healed so far as she was concerned, a.
though il was on Lizzie's part, She
knew OF no enemy her stepmother had
in the world.
The drsssmsker who made the IA
nous paint-stSined dress, next swore
that Lizzie could not have worn the
pink wrapper over il 10 conceal blood
spots, had there been any. saw the
dress after it was painted. The pbint
was on the front and back. She lad
an old wrapper which this was 70 take
the place Of. She cut some pieces out
OF the old wrapper while was there
and took IL down stairs.
Phoebe X. M. Bowen, wife Of Dr.
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