Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-06-08
THE BORDEN TRIAL.
Government Witnesses Tell
Stories on the Stand.
John v. Morse and Bridget Sullivan
Tell What They Know Of Murders.
Mss Borden listsas istsstly b Isstineay but
Rsmaias Cain and P,zeid.


as unconcerned and fresh as anyone posi-
bly, could under such trying circumstances
After she took her seat Lawyer Jenningl
had five-minute's conversation with her
and she appeared very much interested anS
talk proceeded.
Mr.. kiran, the civil engineer who was on
the stand Yesterday, was recalled for ths
first witness. He resumed his testimony a,
to the surrounding of the Borden premises
construction of house, measurements and
location of rooms, etc. He said the closel
in the front hall of the Borden house va.
large enough to allow easily man to enter
it. The door could be shut easily.
James A. Walsh of Fall River, photog.
rapher, was the next witness. He said he
had taken photographs of the Borden prem
ises at the request of the government. The
photographs were put in evidence and iden.
titled by the witness.
John V. Morse then took the stand. He
testified that he was 80 years of age, was a
brother of Mr.. Borden's first wife, and said
that Lizzie Borden is 80 and that Emma il
IL. The witness visited the Bordens
Wednesday, Aug. 5, went to Swansea in
the afternoon, returning at $50 T. NJ. OF
the same day.
He saw nobody but the family in the
house. He went to bed at 1890, and saw
or heard nobody during the night lie
arose at six the next morning and ate
breakfast with Mr.. and Mrs. Borden at 7
o'clock.
When Morse took the stand the prisoner
watched him carefully, With apparent anx-
iety, and then resumed her accustomed in
| difference as heretofore.
| At 1880, on the motion of the defense
all witnesses except Reporters Manning.
Stevens, and Caldwell, Messrs. Jubb, Buck
and Holmes, and those summoned for e1-
pert evidence, were ordered excluded from
the court room.
Morse said he left the house at $40 A.
NJ. He saw Bridget Sullivan in the
kitchen on his way out. He was in the city
| on business until about II 20 and then re-
turned to the Borden house, where he was
informed of the tragedy,
He saw the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Boz
Iden. The witness never saw Lizzie Bor-
den from the time he arrived, Wednesday
until he came back to the house, Thursday
morning.
The crosse xamination of the witness
was b<yun by Ex-Governor Robnaon at
1915.
As beAring on the possibility of an out
slider 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 unless the front door was
shut hard the spring lock would not catch,
and that tile door could be opened by turn
ing the knbb outside.
While the witness with Mr.. and Mrs.
Borden we're in the sitting room Wednesday
night somebody entered the front door and
went up toI Lizze's room, but he could not
see the person who thus came in.
The breakfast the next day was good,
nothing MEAN or scrimped about it. The
witness said that on reaching the Borden
house after the murder, about IL 40. he saw
no officers about the premises, thought the
barn door was closed and he hear. noise
inside.
This cdntradicts the governments claims
that an officer by immediate examination of
| the barn aseertained that the prisoner could
not have, been there at the time of the mur-
der.
| The witness first saw Lizzie sitting on
the lounge in the dining room, after he
came down stairs from his visit to the
rooms where the bodies lay. The witness
accompanied the officers part of the time
while the search was being made in the
house. They had free access everywhere
Several days after the murder the wit.
ness saw man sitting on the back steps
putting some axes or hatchets into bag
| 1t was not policeman. He hal not seer
the man since
| At Il 25 the court took five minutes re-
| cess, during which Miss Borden eonversed
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looked straight at Moody and spoke so low
that he had TO tell her TO speak louder.
The prisoner remained leaning back il
her seat but changed her position so as I,
see the witness placidly and watcbet
Bridget steadily with wide omen eyes.
Bridget Sullivan testified that she cam,
to work for the Boriens abou, two year,
before the time of the murder. On tb,
Monday preceding the day of the tragedy
the witness washed the clothes of thu
household in the cellar: after Washing sh,
locked the cellar door by bolt on the in
side, and from that time after abe had n,
occasion to use that door and never noticed
any change in the door from that time.
Continuing, the witness testified that Mr.
and Mrs. Borden were both sick Wednes
dav morning. She had seen Mr.. Morse a
the house on Wednesday, The witness wa
ou, Wednesday night aud got horne abou
10 Is. When she went out in the evening
the back door was locked.
TWAS the same way when she returned
A fter she went into the house she Iocket
this door with double locks and a bolt an,
then went directly to bed. She heard n,
noise during the night.
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