The Portland daily press., 1893-06-15

return voyage Lizzie said to her
bosom friend that she regarded
the necessity Of returning home
because it was such an unhappy home.
Gov. Robinson said when this was taken
as against the other testimony from the
Commonwealth of the perfect peace and
harmony of the Borden family relations
down to the time OF the murder, and in
Guiding this period, this. evidence was
too remote and could not be competent
In the case of the Commonwealth v.
Abbott, which the court must. yery well
remember, similar testimony was ex-
cluded, and that when it was much
more radical, more threatening than in.
this instance, involving even a display of
force.
There was brief consultation and
then Chief Justice Mason said the court
was clearly of the opinion that the ex-
pressions counsel for the Commonwealth
expected to establish were SO ambiguous
that they were not competent. And then
Gov. Robinson scored point. The tes-
timony was excluded.
Miss Anna Borden stepped down and
out Lizzie Borden raised her flushed
foce from the recess of her opened fan.
and again there was a slight glistening of
the eyes. Neither of the two former
friends looked at each other once while
Miss Anna remained in the court room.
Lizzie's face sought refuge in the fan for
all that period.
They Couldn't See Enough.
Several witnesses, who were in yards
or houses adjoining the Borden premi-
ses on the moring of the murder, testi-
fed that they saw no one passing to or
from the Borden yard before the mur-
der was discovered. Their cross-exam-
ination tended to show that their posi-
ton or attitude was such that persons
might have passed without their seeing
them
The Quarrel Between the Sisters.
Mrs. Hannah Regan, the assistant ma
tron Of the Fall River police station,
brought out the 'syou gave me away,
Emma, did you not?'' story, which Gre
ated such excitement when Mrs. Reagan
said in the presence of many witnesses
that she would sign paper denying
that she had made such statement.
which denial was drawn up, and which
Marshal Hilliard positively forbade the
witness to sign. Mrs., Regan very
graphically rehearsed the story. She
spoke very quickly. Lizzie Borden was
lying on the lounge on her left side.
Miss Emma Borden who had come that
morning was bending over her, and Liz
zie said:
"You have given me away, Emma,
haven't you?"
Lizzie Borden leaned eagerly forward
over Gov. Robinson's shoulder and in
tently watched the witness.
Mrs. Regen told Mr.. Jennings that he
passed Miss Emma on the stairs and
| asked her ifIshe had told her all.
II did?'' asked the astonished attor-
ney. .s.a
'.Yes, sir" said the glib witness, who
displayed some suppressed excitement.
Mrs. Regan replied eyes, when asked
If the occurrence Sf the morning pre-
vented her from remembering anything
else that occurred that afternoon. She
began her story, :s'Twas on the 24th Of
August, at twenty minutes of nine.''
Mrs. Regan is a tall woman, with hair
gray almost to whiteness. She wore a
black brilliantine dress, trimmed with
| velvet bands. A pair of gold eyeglasses
were stuck in her bosom. Her features
are rather sharp, and she has Roman
| nose. Her manner is strained, nervous
and excitable; her tones very quick.
Lizzie not only burns dresses at most in
| opportune times within smell OF the po-
| lice, but she also unbosoms her soul un-
der the ears of a watchful police matron.
Mrs. Regan could not remember Mr..
Buck, Mr.. Holmes or anybody else being
present in the afternoon. She did re-
member betting dollar that Lizzie
| could not break an egg in the way that
she (Mrs. Regan) did. Lizzie did try and
couldn't break it. She said it was the first
thing she had attempted that she could
| not do. She did remember that she had
| spoken of the talk between the sisters as
quarrel. She did not know that the
story of the quarrel was published in the
paper next morning. She did remember
that Mr.. Buck told her that it was in the
paper. She denied point blank that she
had ever denied the truth of the story to
Mr.. Buck or two reporters. She did re-
member that paper was submitted to
her, but she didn't recollect one word
there was in it.
Mr.. Jennings read the now famous de-
NAL. Then she didn't remember word
of it. She denied that she agreed to sign
the paper. She swore she did not 90
down with it to the Marshal. and then
admitted that she did go with Mr.. Buck.
She swore the Marshal did not order her
not to sign, and then qualified it by saying
she did not remember.
She swore positively that neither Miss
Emma Borden, Mrs. Holmes nor Mrs.
Brigham were in the matron's room that
evening after she came back.
On redirect examination she admitted
that she told Mr.. Buck that he couldn't
believe all that was in the papers when
he told her that the quarrel between the
sisters was in the paper. She denied and
then didn't remember the interview be-
tween herself and Mr. j Jennings and the
Marshal. .E&s
The Prussic Acid Inciden2E
After recalling DR.. DoIan and Bridget
Sullivan for unimportant testimony, the
government offered to5sh0w by Elf.Bence
and another drug cierkthat the sprisoner
made two attempts to purchase sprussic
acid the day before, the murders. Twd
hnMrs were spent in arguing and deciding
the question of admissibility. Mr., Moody
argued that it was admissible on princf-
| pie and authority Us bearing on the spris-
oner's state of mind, showing premedita-
ton and deliberation. Mr.. Robinson OBJ
jected, maintaining that it had no con-
nection with. or tendency to establish.
the crime with which the defendant is
now charged, or to show any murderous
intent toward Mr.. and Mrs. Borden, and