The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-06-08
LIZZIE BORDEN'S TRIAL
DR.. Bowen is Occupying the
Stand For the State.
THE TESTIMONY ALREADY TAKEN

ance as yesterday.
Yesterday Miss Borden entered looking
as unconcerned and fresh as any one could
under such circumstances, After she took
her seat, Mr. Jennings had five minutes
with her, and she appeared
very much interested and animated,
smile breaking out occasionally as the talk
proceeded
Thomas Herman, the civil engineer, who
was called Tuesday just before adjourn
ment, was recalled for cross. examination.
He pointed ont the line between the
Borden and Kelly houses, and said the
line struck twelve inches from the hinge
or east side of the door. The point Of
contact Of that line with the east side OF
Second street as TO being the point where
there is the best observation, was a ques-
tion which came up for discussion between
counsel and court.
James J. Walsh, photographer Of Fall
River, was next called.
He was called upon to testify as to the
accuracy Of the photographs taken by him
to be used in the trial. The views of the
premises were taken on Saturday last. He
took other photographs just after the trag-
edy. Pictures of the bodies OF both Mr..
and Mrs. Borden were taken at the same
time.
The name Of John V. Morse was next
called, and a big, raw boned man, bronzed
and wearing gray beard, stepped forward
and leaned up against the dock as he would
upon a fence rail He is an uncle Of the
prisoner, and brother of the first Mrs
Borden.
The first Mrs Borden died in 1861. the
witness told Mr.. Moody. Mr. Borden
.i.I 10
later
Morse said he visited the Borden house
on Aug. 3 He had seen Miss Lizzie prior
to that for about four months. Miss Bor-
den was not there when he called on the
Sd, as least he did not see her while there,
He left the house about 3 or 4 O'Clock
and returned in the evening at about $3.50.
He entered by the front door. Mrs. Bor-
den let him in. The door was shut after
he stepped into the hall. He could not say
II it was locked Mrs. Borden went to bed
drst that night. Before that he heard
some one enter the house and go into
Lizzie's room, He slept that night
In the guest chamber, the room in which
Mrs Borden was subsequently found dead.
AS he entered the guest chamber he no
ticed that the door Of Miss Lizzie's room
was closed
1t was the same when he went down
stairs the next morning
When he entered the sitting room on
Thursday morning the door between the
sitting room and the kitchen was closed
He breakfasted with Mr.. and Mrs. Borden
at about Z o'clock.
Mr.. Borden was in the sitting room most
of the time that Morse was there after
breakfast. Mrs Borden was dusting the
sitting room then. Morse left the house
that morning at about 7.5S. Mr. Borden
went out with him They left by the
screen door. He saw Bridget Sullivan
there. The screen door was fastened on
the inside with the ordinary hook and
screw eye.
When he returned to the house the dead
bodies had been discovered. He saw the
body Of Mrs. Borden first.
EX- Gov. Robinson commenced cross-ex-
amining Morse at 10;45. As bearing on
the possibility Of an outsider being in the
house, he brought out the fact that during
the evening before the murder, there was
no light in the sitting room, and that un-
less the front door was shut hard, the
spring lock would not catch and turning
the knob outside would open the door.
Morse, on cross examination, swore that
on reaching the Borden house after the
murder he saw no officers in the yard, that
the barn door was closed and he heard no
one inside. This coutradic,s the govern
ments claims that officers by Immediate
examinati tion of the barn asoertaiDed that
the prisoner could not have been there at
the time of the murder. The cross exam
ination lasted fifteen minutes.
Witnesses called after five minutes recess
fixed the time when Mr.. Borden was last
seen. Cross s-examination developed moth
ing but slight confusion ond uncertainty
as to the exact time.
Miss Borden yawned, and looked on
listlessly. A buzz of excitement went
around the room at 1890 when Mr. Moody
called 'Bridget Sullivan" She leaned to
the left side against the rail, looked
straight at Moody, and spoke so low tina t
he could not hear.
All the judges watched Bridget
Sullivan very carefully while she
testified to boiling the cellar door On
the inside two days before the m urder, to
hooking the screen door, to sickness Of the
Bordens Wednesday and to her own con
duct, and locked condition of the doors on
Wednesday night and Thursday morning
before the murder.
When she had described Mr. Bordens
conduct Thursday morning the court took
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tant witnesses examined were Mr. Morse
and Brid ct sullivan.
The first Vin,ss called in the afternoon
was Mrs Caroline Kelley, who stepped in
while Bridget rested She is the wife of
Dr. Kelley, and lives i'm the next house
south of the Borden house. She was at
home on August A. She was about at
tending TO her ordinary duties. She had
an engagement 10 90 10 the dentists that
morning, and consulted the kitchen clock
and then went direct out into Second
street; the clock showed twenty minutes of
eleven; the clock was an old fashioned one
and could not be depended upon.
Witness said she passed by the West
side, or the front door into the street and
turned north down the hill; in going down
the hill she passed the Borden house Saw
Mr. Borden in his yard coming around
from the back of the house TO the front
door, passing inside Of the fence; be
stopped down to put the key in the door;
in his hand was a white parcel. 81 do not
think he saw me, witness said. Then 1
went to the dentists
In cross examination witness said she
was near his front gate when she saw Mr.
Borden; he was walking at his usual gait,
with his eyes cast down; witness was so
close TO him that she could
have touched him had she tried; she
knew Of no reason why Mr.. Borden did
not speak <cept that he did not see hsr.
She said IN relation to the clock that she
did not know whether it was her grand
fathers clock or how long il mad run
She did not remember Of any carriage or
team passing her at that place although it
might have been so. The street is a mar
row one She did not notice any moving
thing on the street but Andrew j. Borden.
She knew Mrs Churchill quite well, but
saw nobody on those steps; she was an