The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17
lizzie BORDBN'S ORDEAL
The Case to Go to the Jury
Monday-Some Strange
Features.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June II, 1885,
By Monday evening the last words which
can be uttered, for or against Lizzie Bor-
den In court, will have been heard, aud
the matter, according to present arrange
ments, will then be in the hands Of the
jury. As to how much time they will
require to agree upon a verdict cannot be
told, of course. Judging from appear
ances only, the majority of the jurymen
are expected to vote for acquittai from
first to last. If more than one ballot ia
taken.
But it is said that there are men in
that jury who. if they have not baen en-
tirely satisfied as to the innocencs of the
accused. will hang to their opinions until
the crack of doom, il need be. They will
have the comforting reflection that their
labors are being paid for at the rate of 50
a day and found, for the county Is obliged
to furnish the members of the jury with
sleeping apartments II food until they
are discharged from duty by the Court.
WHY LIZZIE DID o TESTIFY.
Tha. Lizzie Borden did not go on the
stand was not a surprise to those who
had any conception of the possibilities for
the prosecution with the defen dant under
cross-examination.
1t was clear enough after the trial had
GOb u 4IoC1 Way AAO FidEu VI tA0
| matter is, her counsel did not dare permit
! her to go upon the stand. They say that
themselves.
One of them said last night the reason
| Miss Borden was not put or the stand
was because they were afraid OF the in
PRODUCTION of the evidence ttken at the
| secret inquest. 1t would have been q
| comparatively simple matter for District
Attorney Knowlton to have worked all
| of it In under the guise Of u cross .exami-
nation.
The defense was content to let well
enough alone and not attempt any expei-
iments. Her counsel, each of hon be-
| lieves her altogether innocent OF the
crime charged III the Indictment, want TO
get Miss Borden out OF her present posi-
| ton, with as little stigma as possible ut
tached to her name, but above all thing,
they to get her out.
PROSECUTIONS DEVELOPMENTS.
Miss Borden has had three mighty
| clever men handling her side of the case.
| She needed them, for IL all report be true,
District Attorney Kuowlten Is the most
| smooth and dangerous prosecutor iu the
State OF Massachusetts.
That, of course. makes it seem all the
more strange that his case should have
practically gone TO pieces In court, except
| that he did not anticipate an uufavorable
decision of the cour5 on the question of
admitting the evidence taken at the in-
quest. Then there Was the evidence
about the attempted purchase OF prussic
acid, which the prosecution felt sure
would be admitted, aud which was re-
lied upon to go far toward convincing the
jury of the murderous inclination of the
defendant.
One OF the things which came out in
the trial yesterday, and ABOUT which
neither the police of Fall River nor the
District Attorney appeared to have Il
previous knowledge. was that Miss Bor-
den was a teacher VI Chinese in the Sun
day school which she attended.
THE FALL RIVER POLICE.
That the police OF Fall River were not
aware of the fact that the defendant
was a teacher In Chinese Sunday school
Indicates how thorough must have been
their investigation into the relations of
the defendant with others. IL is on q par
with their searching of the beds in
the Borden house. They walked into the
bedrooms. oil except Miss Lizzie's. They
looked at the spreads. put one, sometimes
Two fingers on them for an instant,
looked under the bed and said:-"We
tave made u most thorough search Of
this room and have examined carefully
everything in It,"
There might have been double athe
amount of hard ware in each and every
bed In the house than was produced In
the court room, but such detectives as
tn Fall River force Is composed Of would
never have discovered II. Miss Lizzie's
room they never examined at all bs cause
she stated to them that her door
was Kept always locked, AND no one
could nave thrown any weapons In har
room. And for more than q day they
had suspected and had her unde- guard.
Such detective as that is liable to arrest
an Innocent person. and try TO build no a
case around MIN while the guilty Que is
making good his escape.