Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-14
Au UDlllUN.
THE BORDEN TRIAL.
City Marshal billiard and Mayor
Coughlin Testify.
THE PRISONER RECEIVERS Her SPIRITS,
Departure of the Infanta From
Chicago.
OTHER TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
he PRISONER RECEIVERS HER SPIRITS.
OTHER TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LIZZIE ENTERS SMILING.

The Prisoner Has Recovered From Yester-
days Indisposition.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW BEDFORD. MASS, June 14-Everybody
was interested this morning to see how Lizzie
Borden had borne the ordeal of yesterday I'M
der test of nerves such as no woman of culture
and social position was ever subjected to before.
Her friends we're treasured when she entered
the court room at o'clock. She smiled pleas
antly at both Messrs. Adams and Robinson as
she came in, wearing her lace dress with enor-
nous pulled sleeves and waist fitting closely the
lines Of her well-turned figure.
1t is remarkable how her face lights up when
a smile passes over it. 1t is not that the smile
is particularly winning; it is rather that her
face in repose is more than usually unex-
pressive for q woman's.
The court room continues to be q chamber OF
horrors. Never within the limits Of one small
room were SO many grewsome articles ex-
hibited or so many tragic tableaux seen.
Every ono Of the substantial bloody accessories
has been heaped on the tables and passed
from hand to hand.
The only objects not produced in the trial
have been the bodies Of the murdered couple,
and in place Of them plaster casts have been in
troduced and handled Familiarity as children
play with dolls.
Right before Lizzie's eyes sofa has been
improvised, and upon it the dummy OF the
aged man has been stretched. as if in sleep
or as in death, according to whether the
scene represented was before or after the
fathers murder while the old lady has been
represented face down, with her arms stretched
out before her and showing eighteen gaping
wounds on the back of her head.
To complete the picture the old mans coat
was rolled up and put on patched chair. with
his right cheek resting upon it. When this
stage setting was arranged the panorama went
on and the accused girl heard the doctor tell
how the murderer stood in doorway and deliv-
cred ten crushing blows on the old mans face
forehead and hair.
The only cruel spectacle that Lizzie has been
spared was the sight of her fathers battered
skull and the insertion Of the portion Of the
''handleless Ratchet" in the wounds.
1t was brought in just after she had retired
to an ante-room. She could not 60 out Of
hearing. however, and every detail. every word.
registered itself upon her overwrought sensi-
bilities.
The only persons who do not seem to feel
sympathy for the unfortunate girl are a GER
tain double row of women who call every day
to see and study her. They are most Of them
more refined looking than the prisoner, more
gentle in manner and sweeter of face, but when
spoken to about the case they exclaim, "Why,
hope they will hang her."
"Man's inhumanity to man. has passed to
proverb. but there was never better instance
of womans pitiless condemnation Of woman
than is manifested at this trial
1t is certain that the wo len who scorn Liz
zie Borden are here i'm sufficient numbers to al
most create an atmosphere Of hostility in this
connection.
THE STARS representative notes a marked
difference between the attendance of women
spectators at this and the Amy trial.
In that case there was man who admitted
that he killed utterly without provocation
pure and innocent girl whose only offense was
that her Yankee sense had pierced the mask of
the hired man and saw beneath it tho features
of the eA.,onvict
Today the doubt which must protect an ac-
cused prisoner until every shred Of it mas been
torn away by the evidence against her still
cIoaks Lizzie Borden. Her own sex among tho
spectators look beyond the evidence. and tear
ing aside the doubt, exclaim, behold the homi-
eide"
Marshal billiard, the biggest man physically
and officially on the Fall River police force.
followed the experts this morning. Hilliard is
not a fluent talker and would be set down a
man unlikely to think rapidly, though when he
has made up his mind with elaboration no.
body need think Of changing it. This is seen
from his face and manner.
He told how Mayor COughlin had notified
the prisoner that she suspected on the
Saturday after the murder and how she
piled, well, am ready to Co." quietly aud
calmly. without emotion.
His further testimony was largely given over
to telling about his custody Of various articles
submitted in evidence. 1t was probably very
valuable evidence but distinctly dull.
1t looked at first il Gov. Robinson might
not have very much fun with billiard, but
finally when the marshal, in detailing the 80
called Thorough search" of the house Satnr-
day evening, told Of that trunk in the attic
which either Lizzie or Emma opened for the
police officers, billiard thought it was Lizzie
who did it.
Here the government disclosed trunk No.
that the police could not open.
1T was a tough job" Hiliard said, land the
police battled quite a while with it."