Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-08

! Prosecutor Moody then stepped tC
the railing and opened for the State
He said, IN opening, that on August
4th, 1891, an old man and woman. with
out known enemy in the world
were struck down without a moments
warning, by an unknown assassin.
In the prisoners dock was a young
woman, daughter Of the aged couple
charged with the murder.
Mr.. Moody went at length into the
family history of the Bordens.
There was, he said, an unkindly
feeling between the prisoner and her
step-mother The daughters thought
something should be done for them
by way of dividing the property after
they learned that the step-mother had
been amply provided for
The title of mother was dropped.
The prosecution would show that
the family dressmaker had referred to
the step-mother as mother, and that
Lizzie had said:
Don't call her mother; we hate her
So She is mean, spiteful thing"
When an officer asked the prisoner
when she last saw her mother, she re.
Piled;
"She isn't my mother. My mother
died when | was an infant"
1t would be proven that upon the
day before the homicide the prisoner
went to drug store and asked the
clerk for 10 cents worth Of prussic
acid for cleaning a cape. She was re-
fused, and after some talk, went away.
There was absolutely no doubt as to
the identity of the applicant for the
deadly poison.
Upon Tuesday night Mr.. and Mrs.
Borden were taken i'll with retching
and vomiting, and the prisoner suffer-
ed the same way. Bridget Sullivan,
the servant, was not affected
On the evening of Wednesday, the
prisoner called upon Alice Russell, a
friend. She told Miss Russell she in
tended spending two weeks in Marion.
She added:
a can't help feeling depressed.
Something is going to happen. Last
night we were all sick but the girl
1t may have been caused by the
bakers bread"
She said she was afraid the house
would be burned down some night
as her father had had 50 much trouble
with his men. She had seen a man
about the place who went away when
he saw her.
MIR. MooDY's TRAGIC STORY.
Mr.. Moody produced the plans OF
the house where the murder was
committed, and described the locations
ofthe rooms, plainly showing how
difficult 1t would have been for q
stranger to have entered the place
that morning and hacked the two old
people to death without being seen
by the neighbors.
The movements of each member OF
the household that morning were
minutely described. Miss Borden
locked the front door that morning
after her father left, and when he
came back he had to open ii with the
latch key When he entered she lean
ed over the stairway up stairs and
made some explanation Of the unusual
locking of the door.
TO her father she said: "Mrs. Bor-
den has gone out; she had note from
somebody who was sick"
"At that very moment" shouted
Mr.. Moody, "the bloody corpse OF
Mrs. Borden lay in her room not a
dozen feet away from Miss Borden.
That was a lie intended to stine in-
quiry as to Mrs. Borden's where.
abouts. She told the same story to
Bridget Sullivan and to Mrs. Church.
linz
Mr. Moody laid great stress upon
the contradictory stories told by Liz.
zie Immediately after the murder az
to her whereabouts that morning
She told three different stories to as
many persons. 1t would be proved
that she didn't 60 to the barn-loft, as
she claimed, as ono witness was at
hand to swear that he went there In
the afternoon, and no footprints were
seen in the thick dust.
MISS BORDEN FAINTs AWAY.
During the address Of Mr. Moody