The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-06
TRYING LIZIIE BORDEN.
Her Trial for the Mysterious
Murder Has Begun.
THE STORY OF THE CRIME.
1t Promises to Be an Unusually Sem
SatiOnaI Cause.
The Evidence Against Her Is Purely Cir
cumstantial-Chief Justice Mason win
BE the Presiding Legal Authority
Miss Borden's Lawyers.

New BEDFORD, Mass. June g.
Especial. Perhaps the most sensational
trial New England has had in half a CEN
Jury or more is that which was begun to-
day, when Lizzie Borden was arraigned
Tor the murder OF her father and stem
mother. The case is full of mysteries and
the public has been made thoroughly IA
miliar with all the details of the terrible
tragedy. The story of the life OF the rich
mill owner, Borden, of his second mar
rage, Of the discord between wife and
daughter, have all been gone over. The
motive for the crime has been looked for
IN the TACT that the mill owner was to
leave all mis- wealth to his wife, leaving
Lizzie and her sister dependent upon the
step-mother.
The evidence is purely circumstantial-
on the day in question, 50 far as known.
the only persons in the house OF the old
couple were Lizzie and the maid servant.
Bridget Sullivan, who was outside most
OF the morning, washing windows.
Miss Borden was out most of the morn
ing, returning between 10 and IL O'Clock
and 1t was only short time afterwards
when Lizzie, after a short visit to the
| barn, called a servant to run for doctor
as her father had been murdered. Shortly
afterward Mrs. Borden was missed and
search revealed her body in an MINER
room, she having evidently been killed
some time before her husband. In both
cases death resulted from blows from
some heavy, sharp instrument, probably
an ak, but the instrument of death has
never been discovered.
certain discrepancy in Lizzie's stories
and some other suspicious circumstances
led TO her arrest some weeks after the
murder, and subsequent indictment.
! Special interest will attach itself to the
presiding Judge in the trial. Judpe
Albert Mason, of Brookline, Mass. Chief
Justice Albert Mason was the son Of Albert
L. and Arllna (Orcutt) Mason, and was
! born in Middleboro, November 7. 1895
In 1874 ne opened a law office in Boston
with Charles H. Drew, and later. in the
same year, formed a partnership with
Arthur Lord. subsequently Beniaman
K. Curtis, late judge of the munciDaI
court in Boston, was admitted to the firm
which had offices both in Plymouth and
IN Boston. In July, 1874, Mr.. Mason
removed his residence to BrookIine.
where be still lives. In December, 1874.
he was appointed on the state board Of
harbor commissioners, and he continued
on the succeeding boards, with various
changes OF title, till his selection by Gov
ernor Long in February, 1882, as an asso-
ciate justice OF the supreme court. From
that time until his promotion to the
chief justiceship by Governor Brackett in
September, 1890. he filed a place on the
bench with ever increasing influence and
fame, which have been augmented by the
manner in which he has performed the
duties of his higher office.
Accommodations for fifty newspaper
men have been prepared, and an extra
venIre OF jurymen has been drawn bv the
clerk of the court, whose name. singu-
larly enough, is Simeon Borden. ir.
He IS IN no way related to the defendant.
Ex-GOvern George d. Robinson. who
will act as senior counsel for Lizzie Bor-
den, comes from Chicopee; Melvin o.
Adams from Boston; Mr.. Jennings from
Fall River. Attorney General PilIsbury
has charge of the prosecution.
The gloomy old court house where Liz
zie Borden is to be put on trial for her Life
is situated little west from the center of
the city, fronting on Court street, one of
the principal residence streets, and sur
rounded by magnificent elm trees. Rum
ming alongside On the north is Court
street, on which, but square or two dis
tant, is the jail where Miss Borden will
be confined during her trial.