Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-20

tending 10 DO these things, but
were not allowed. They were going TO
prove that this young lady went out to buy
poison but il was not proved; il was not al
lowed and I shall expect the District AT
torney 70 get up and say so, or snail De
disappointed in him. They were going 10
show YOU the defendant had contradlcted
herself but the court said this was not pro-
per. Now YOU are not going 70 say II rather
think Nessrs KnowltOn and Moody you'd
NOT have offered this il they had not proof"
but this won't DO; decide this case from the
evidence on the witness stand and nothing
else So you will leave those things out;
no poison, no instrument prepared, no state
ment made under oath by her that you
know anything about, do not care what
vOu have read. My intention IS not TO dis
tort facts but 10 find out just how we stand.
Things that are not in dispute, l will not
touch, and trust I will not by single
letter step over the line Of proof or deal un-
Justly with the commonwealth so dear 70
US all
Governor Robinson then began chrome
logical description Of the events connected
with the crime as they appeared from the
evidence.
THERE Is no DIRRCT EVIDENCE
against Miss Bosden. No weapon what
bver and no knowledge Of the use OF one
has been shown. IL is not shown she ever
used an imDlement Of such a character.
The evidence shows she did not know
where they were kept Not spot on her
from her hair 70 her feet, on her dress or
anyw here. Think Of it. Yes, there was
one spot on her skirt as big as the point OF
a pin. That was not where you expected
IL 10 be. if she had done il. l don't know
LronH fnnrF n
TOD down, who believes that that fly speck
OF blood had anything TO do with the case.
There was a bundle Of burnt paper,
which Mr.. Phillip Harrington found.
Then there were mean assertions made
that DR. Bowen was doing something. We
thought they had the hatchet handle there,
wrapped up in a newspaper and that the
handle had been burnt up entirely, and
that the newspaper, which lives forever,
only remained What funny fire.
T hat handle is still flying through the
air somewhere. A poor orphan handle
without It's hatcheL For heavens sake
get the l25 policemen Of Fall River and
chase it. Let them catch IL and reunlte IL
70 its hatchet.
Speaking Of the visit to the barn, Gov.
Robinson said Lizzie had told Bridget that
she was In the barn, heard q groan, and
went into the house through the open
screen door. DR.. Bowen asked her where
had you beenn She said she
HAD BEEN OUT IN THE RARN
for iron. To Mrs. Churchill she said she
had gone 20 the barn for piece OF tin, or
iron, with which 70 fix her screen.
Mulally-yOu remember MulaLy-he is
one Of the knights OF the handle. he says
that on August 5, RuOenski told him OF
having seen a woman walking from the
barn 10 the house. Mulally comes here
and saws Rubeuski told him IL was 1880
O'Clock when be saw the woman in the
yard. IL you presume the defendant gull
". the suggestion Of the prosecution would
be that Miss Borden told Mrs. Churchill
and Bridget 70 90 up stairs by the front
way and ind Mrs. Borden. She thought
Mrs. Borden had come in. Perhaps II was
theslamming Of the door, perhaps the NOV
ing about Of some one in the house that
she heard. Now they say she showed no
feeling; that when her stepmother lay
dead in the spare-roOm she stood at the
head Of the stairs and laughed.
Well. il you are down stairs
in YOUR own house and some
one cracks q joke you laugh at it.
But suppose your son drops dead in a
room I'D stairs. Then you do not know be
is dead, are Won 8 hard hearted wretch be-
cause YOU laughed at the joke. Now what
sort Of combination are you trying 10 make
OF this woman. She kills her stepmOther
because she did not like her and killed her
father, whom she did ike, because she
wanted his money Miss Lizzie said Mrs.
Borden was her stepmother, and not her
mother The emphatic Policeman Fleet
told that She had said 70 Mrs. Clifford,
the dressmaker, that her stepmother was
mean old thing aud that they did not
have much 70 do with each other. But
Bridget Sullivan, who for two years had
been closer to the family than any one else,
had never heard quarrel between them.
agree with YOU that Lizzie A. Borden IS
not a saint, and venture the assertion
that the members Of the jury are not saints.
HERE Is AN OLD MAN,
he continued, who wore no ornament OF
any kind, except one; that was ring on
one OF his fingers. When h was buried IL
was put in the grave with him. A simple
old man, wearing that evidence OF affec-
tiou for his little girl
AS the speaker was running on thus
Miss Lizzie furnished evidences Of
emotion. She did not take the fan
from her face, bnt moved little so she
could place her handkerchief to her
eyes. She did that and held 1t there
for several minutes.
IfLizzie Borden killed her stepmother
At GAS, did she come down and greet her
father ia that blOOd-stained dress She
must have stood astride her stepmother
and smashed the hatchet into her head.
She must have walked into the sea OF
blood. scattered il all over herself. changed
her clothing, aOd changed il again after
the second glQuuhtnr
would not be surprised If they said she
did the slaughteriuR while nude. My
heart aches 70 think what may be the
theory OF the prosecution. She did not try
20 get Bridget out Of the house. Don't you
think she would have sent her out on some
errandl
The handleless hatchet was referred TO.
Exc Overnor Robinson maintained that
the blade Of that Ratchet could not cut its
way c,eanly through Mr.. Borden's eve
ball, nor could il have made a cut IN Mrs.
Borden's hair as If II had been made with
shears. The hair found on the claw
headed hatchet, which the government had
al first called dog hair, was COW hair.
II this Is not the implement with which
the murder was committed. where is It!
Fall River appears 10 be prolific In the
way oil hatchets.
During the latter portion Of the sum-
ming up 10 her favor. Miss Borden re-
moved her fan from Der face, leaned for
ward and looked
STEADILY AT THE JURY.
She held her head somewhat to the right
and waved her tan gently.
Our experience teaches US that woman
of 80 wears, brought up in one Of our homes,
serving God and mad, teaching the ignor-
ant and dOwn-troddeD, would not blaze out
as a human monster. suppose she had
been wicked and designing, and Bridget as
Innocent as she is now, would il not have
been easy for her 10 drive Bridget into the
tolls and save herself.
Ii was 3 o'clock when Ex-Governor