New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-20
SINrNIIN; Up FOR THE PROSECUTION
III STRlCT.ATrOENI;Y KNOWLTON'> BlGlNNING
SHOWS THAT He HAS MADE THE MOST OF
ATERIAIS.

DIsTRlCTATrOENEY KNOwLI0N> BEjlNNING
SHOWS THAT HE HAS MADE THE MOST or
room MATERIALS.
New Bedford. Mass, June 1o.-Thc DlStrict-A'
torney had scarcely got into his speech when the
hour OF adjournment arrived and he was compelled
temporarily to close It, But he was making an able
argument and was doing the best that could BE- done
with the material in his possession 1t l. not g"0d
material and he knows it. Where there were weak
ness and tlmdlty IN hi, manner and voice they
proceeded from his knOvcdge Of ;hat fact. IL"
talked for hour before he mentioned the prisoner "
name and there was curioh' kind OF courtesy
In all his references to her. wholly out
Of keeping with her deserts II she i the lhl'rhai
creature he wishes the jury to declare her. lie did
not forbear To say word In his own defence. lie
explained that he not enjoying lis position ana
that he would much rather be- ont OF IT than In IT,
He admitted that the defendant had lived, until
August 4. 1902. apparently irreproachabe life.
she was young ard woman. but 1t was a matter
Of the history Of this Commonwealth that boy Of
tender years was the most brutal. the most cruel
the most hendi,h murderer that the Commonwealth
ever knew l. sex n protection against cline; i
II not A matter of common knowledge that, within III"
span OF the remembrance Of every man am taking
to. n woman has been found who murdered whole
CARLOAD OF persons Tor the sake Of obtaining m'cr
able plttancel"
Mr. KnowIton could rot find in age. sex or rank
immunity from NHpldllW H"I N'NHiNf mum -"
dreadful impulse that yields to II. II was hard to
believe that Il woman OF cultivation and Christian
association, could have committed that crime but he
.ald, while revere the gcntlor sex we must con
coivo that they human lie made the startling
proposition that women ar" no better than men ana
no worse. All human experience it may b. sld
parcn hetIcally denies this and asserts that they
are either much better much worse.
Mr. Knowion defended the police. lie Insisted
had Al sted their
conduct hlnmclcss. There no man among them
so base as 10 wish that Ills woman did the crime.
rh. conviction that she had done It forced upon
them. Tie circumstances In this case argued with
Irresistible force against tic prisoner. They were a.
clear I'm tho story they told was the cyidenc" OF
chips floating In the river as TO the direction
or the iIdc some few Of the clips
might got into cdd.s and be borne In one
direction or another, bu II In the ratio Of ten to
ono they moved In one direction any sensible man
observing them would know how the tide was ho"ins
Inc essential fact in tht> case anh the Key l" H.
va, that NrS Borden had died first, II was hrr
life that the murderer was after Mrs borueh
hadn't amy enemy in the world except ia" prisoner
At the bar II WAS useless TO say that there
we're pace and harmony In that family. We
lnow letter. The remark made to the dress
maker WAS not pciuancc; 1t VA, hatred. lac
laugh 81 TITS defendant when her mother dead D",N
was within ten feet Of her r'' rom wen 81 m" h
his feeling N hatred aud envy had IT. corporate
birth Wa 4 small Affair bn It wa, not merely tua'
their father had gwen @l.5Oo to iheir st"pother
.i,p sister that these girls resented II was thc ih't
tlmt In doing he Ina preferred her 10 them. II"r'
were nothing In the blows thlt Killed Mrs Borden
but hatred. ,, . ~, ,n.
" WInr sort of blows were theS Some on tn'
hcnd .ono On the neck, sOm" paitcrng % Inc Hcal
lu' not Going through. and some going through. y
.r.nt strong man would have taken In" hatcher
and lund. an end ~ The Job The Ia mat uNI
tll. vernon VI, not the ma rulinr hand al ,ltcn-in
II wa, the weak feminine hand-tn" hand ot haired
bnutd tn kill. Not "a man, blows. no lie "0nln
have. efna, h.d n in with on" hloW In any on" par
nf the skull. They wcr" weak. pn'i"rnS "lpWa o.
hatred mi directed AID nrrvdr>,."
Mr. KnoN Ilon aid that no was willing TO leave th'
,n-c for the PRESCRIPTION on the incident n Inc note
which Lizzie saii Mr. roid'n had received that morn
ing hi, lcainci a>,otair In opening had 'ald ihh'
Ii,zo', statement was lie. II" repeated that dc'aFt
lion now II wa, lic Every effort 10 brn- ih" writer
M that note into view had failed J. anybody ~
duu as 10 suppose that. n VIZ. lordcn hat fri'n
so rlos,. 10 her "a, that note telling al bis or hci
Illness and nsbing hor Ia come 10 the re-
liz, Of the writer had actually been writer,
me tyrrson who wrote II would not now come forward
and say the word that would remove all til" SuS-
piHon that hung over This prisoner -,
Mr. Knowlions address WAS Interrupted al tWS
pn,nt H.. Will close lls sporrll TO morrow II u
rors on rs 81 hns hegim Il VIII u" ~ i"rrhl' an
array ~ the discriminating circumstances ~ ne case
could possibly b" MADE" H. L. "