Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-13
I'd EDITION.
THE BORDEN TRIAL.
The Illness of a Juror Causes a
Recess.
RUN ON The OMAHA BANKS.
Punishment of an italian Bank
Wrecker.
THE Walk RIES MISHAP.
RUN ON The OMAHA BANKS.
THE VALKYRIE'S MISHAP.
SCENES AT THE TRIAL.
Lizzie BOrden's Reserve Broken Down-D
Dolan's Ordeal.

Lizzie BOrden's Reserve Broken Down-Dr.
Dolan's Ordeal.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
NEW BEDFORD, MASS, June 13.-Pale and
almost i'll Lizzie Borden seemed as she entered
the court room this morning There has been
a reaction from yesterday, and its incidents, to-
gether with the sights and sounds of so many
days, are beginning to tell upon her. She will
rally, however, as the case wears on.
The day will be full Of important evidence,
but it can hardly hope TO equal the dramatic
effects Of yesterday.
Lizzie Borden in tears-that was the way she
received the news-that the inquest testimony
was to be excluded. In that expression Of
emotion her stern New England stoicism
vanished and she showed herself
woman. Indeed, the more closely
she is studied the more her woman
illness becomes apparent. Her face is like
marble most OF the time. but there is one thing
that always moves her; it is her sense Of the
ridiculous. 1t seems almost anomalous that
this mysterious, enigmatical woman, this
woman accused of murder, should have such
sensitive risibles. But the fact is that, while
she has went but once in the last ter days, she
has smiled many times.
The DRY humor Of the Yankee ex-governor
appeals irresistibly to quality OF like nature
in his Yankee client They understand each
other perfectly.
When Governor Robinson made Gays" Of the
Fall River police Lizzie forgot that she was
the accused prisoner, and only remembered
that it was such sort Of officials that the for
tunes Of her family were maintaining as public
guardians.
1t would take the pen Of Dickens to do justice
to what may be called the turning of the tide"
in the case the moment when the inquest testi-
tice Mason began to read his clear, forci-
Bile utterances could be heard in every
part of the court room. The first sentence ex-
pressing the opinion OF the court that the
ofexamining the prisoner at the iu-
quest was entirely distinct from the adj
made. conveyed feeling that the testimony
crowding the typewrittent olios under Attorney
Moody's thumb would be read to the jury. For a
moment even Mr.. Jennings thought that the
testimony would be accepted, but as the grave
speaker drew to his close the fact was recog-
nized that the superior court OF Massachusetts
bad. for the first time in legal ruling, sus-
tanned the long ago declared right Of every
freeman and woman to perfect liberty OF de-
cision to whether he or she should testify or
not in his or her own behalf when accused be-
fore a jury of their peers.
cluded," were uttered Messrs. Adams and Jen-
nIngs grasped each others hand and sank
back in their chairs. Mr.. George ID. Robin
son, with one Of his happiest smiles, grasped
again his busy pencil and took cOpio1s
notes, and when Lizzie Borden burst into
tears the eyes of many q lady in the spectators
seats glistened, too. in ready sympathy.
well-known Boston lawyer present said:
"We have lived to see the grandest reaffirmance
Of the sound old Massachusetts doctrine OF the
right Of every free man to pro-
lection against compulsion to force him to give
which may eliminate himself that
was ever known"
Today the court room is a veritable chamber
of horrors. Medical Examiner Dolan took the
stand at 9 o'clock and was cross-examined by
Melvin Adams for the defense. The
of experts Is Adams forte, and he
is making a'reputation.
He rejoices chiefly in Dolan, who ia former
subject of his dissection. Both men bad attacks Of
nervous prostration last year after the prelmi-
nary trial. but it promises this time to be
Dolsn alone who will succumb if Col Adams
does not ease up.
Adams method is the "bullyragging'' Sort
1t has not the subtlety of Robinson's. but it is
horribly aggravating. There is little of the
humorous in his manner; the fun comes in the
helpless replies he ELECTS.
Adams ''pounced" at once on the theory that
the assailant of the old man stood in the dining
blow from his or her hiding place.
This has been a favorite theory at Fall River
and it has been largely increased in probability
BY the fact that DIR. Dolan ut the time Of the
inquest thought q stringy strip on the inner
side Of the the door jamb toward the dining
room was spot Of blood.
Today he had heard, and had reason to
belle re, that this spot was not blood.
although he thought at the time of the inquest
that it was The theory Of the blow
having been struck from the dining room
falls therefore to the ground and in place of it
probably the state will contend that the assail-
ant stood behind the head Of the SOFA and be-
tween it and the parlor door.
Col. Adams called the examiners attention
to the fact that some Of the blows rained upon
Mrs. Borden were struck at the point where the
considerable hair to drive the Ratchet through
Still the young doctor chung to the main
point that it was not such a very hard job to
do this double murder, and he indicated
clearly enough that he thought a person of
Lizzie A. Borden's strength could have done
the deed.
In the gruesome collection that the experts
are working upon today are the blood-stained
handkerchief, two bloody bits of carpet, two
mop board" as he called 1t. another
piece of wood, casts Of Andrew Borden's
head. with editorial blue pencil marks upon it.
signlfying elbows from the weapon" a smaller
cast of Mrs. Borden's head, and finally the pris-
oner's now famous dark blue dress and a white
underskirt.
The spectators among the women were the
ones who craned their necks at papIer mache
stomachs and plaster Of paris skulls.
The men either went to sleep or watched the
prisoner.