Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-06-16
THE END IS At HAND.
The PruSSic Acid Theory
Has Been Ruled Out.
NEW WITNESS TURNS UP.
NE and Brownie" the Boy Wit
nesses. Add Their Testimony. aLa

NEW BEbFoRD, Mass, June l6.-WiIl
| Hymon Luiitsky prove Lizze Borden's
saviori High above all else submitted In
evidence yesterday looms this fact:
That the pri>ooer al the bar has found a
witness wLo saw her coming from the
barn across the Borden yard to the side
doorstep, Just as Lizzie said she did, at .
few minutes rast IL on that fatal morn
ing--the 4th Of August, 1904
II Is rs though the heavy storm clouds
were lifting. and the streak o: light along
tn; horiz z,n's edge, ever Frightening, be-
t'krned the coming Of fairer skies and
peace.
The End Drawing Near.
The end OF the great trial approaches.
The be.sinning OF the pleas today with
Governor Rob. nson's eloquent argument,
Is 10 he followed by Attorney Knowlton's
close tomorrow forenoon aud the charge is
expected to DO by Mr.. Justice Dewey.
Mr. jennings Is not as sanguine as
Colonel Adams, however. He looks for
one more day Of evidence for the defense,
and, il that be SO, then tho pleas are
hardly likely to be made tomo rrow,
The commonwealth is expected to work
all It's resources to secure rebutting testi-
mony. That Is it's last fighting chance
That the prosecution opened with great
strength and power the clue OF It's evi-
dence In tho way 1t did IL a great surprise
Whether the rulings Of tho court on the
three great premises-the exclusion of the
inquest report; Of the entire evidence of
Miss Anna Borden bearing upon the mo
tive, and of the prussc acid story Of Eli
Bence snd hts confreres, has pushed thcir
feet from nrd n item, certain It 10 that
the qu ry last night was, what has become
OF thu governments case.
The rulings and decisions gave the prose.
cution severe setback yet 1t is neverthe-
lfss true that each one of them was
founded upon good law and intrenched in
its principles.
The Defense Unprepared.
II was something that the defense was
entirely unprepared for-this resting on
the part of thc commonwealth at the point
at which IL was done
But the learned counsel had soon buckled
on their/s urs and made tn ir opening
with consummate skill-the prosecution
had literally nothing on which to pin their
efforts.
TIE first witnesses-the Chagnons--were
disappointing, because there was 20 little
that was positive In their testimony as to
tie stranger who jumped the Borden rear
fence at II o'clock the night before, but as
the great trio developed their evidence
they showed strong hand and shrewdly
manipulated their cards.
The greatest event of the day was the
square, straightforward testimony that
Lizzie was seen coming from the barn.
Lizzie Borden
was not In the house as the government
ks to show, and the screen door was
open
Simon Lubinsky's glance over his
shoulder may save Lizzie Borden's neck
from the gallows moose. His story was
very naturally told.
The BOY witnesses.
me aud Brownie" were the two most
clever and amusing little witnesses of the
afternoon. Brownie, youngster of some
ID summers wears the solemnly humor-
orous countenance of a second Sol Smith
Russell, aud, with his brand new big silk
bow and blue gray suit, spick and span
like, he looked for all the world like re-
| production in miniature OF his famo .
prototype. Cute little Yankee best ex.
presses it. He pleads guilty to the name
| OF Everett Brown and, with his chum, the
aforesaid Me-" was just knocking around
| at the time the murder occurred. They
started over to SecoId street soon after IL
and arrived In trout of the Borden house
time to see Officer Doherty go out Of the
gate and run across Spring street.
me-" whose cognomen is Thomas K
Barlow. IL a youngster with bangs and
Il IA tpaa hal
Tom suggested that they 90 into the barn,
and opened the door himself After they
got In one dared the other to see which go
upstairs first I'VE fist stood minute" I"
said Brownie. "Tom wouldn't 60 up first
COS somebody might drop an axe right
down on his head, so / went up and he
| followed He went over to the window
and looked under the hay" Master
Thomas K. Barlow, of 10 to II summers,
said: "Me and Brownie went over to the
barn. says, Let's go in He says, All
right and I pulled out the pin In the
| staple and opened the door"
Looking for burglars with the door
locked on the outsider" queried Attor iey
| Knowlton. Tom allowed he thought a
man might have got slowed away on the
loft. He astonished the attorney by de-
clarIng that he ate his dinner "reglar" at
| l0:4S. He and Brownie went down SEQ
ond street amusing themselves by push
Ing each other of the curbstones. At pres
ent Mr. Barlow sets up the balls and
sweeps In . downtown poolroom. He lives
with his grandmother.
The boys stayed at the Borden house till
o'clock, and came back In the evening,
hanging round till 12 o'clock on the night
after the murder. Jim Barlow considered
the barn loft, on the whole, cooler than IL
was out Of doors that ", In spite Of tie
fact Of its low roof and sloping sides.
Then Joe Lemay was called to tell his
startling story Of the
wild Stranger
| bis dog scented out In the woods west of
| the Wilson road on the Sunday after the
| nurder-the man with the axe who says
TOO bad, poor Miss Borden; too bad, poor
Miss Borden" Attorney Knowltop OBJ
iscted to the testimony.
| On such evidence as this Mr.. Jennings
argued that the Steep Brook could not be
| termed remote, with lines Of street cars
running out there every day. They wished
| 10 put the evidence Of this man precisely
~ they had that Of the others, a. bearing
on the question Of exclusive opportunity.
/ This man was not 20 remote from Fall
River that he could not return to the city
% any time be desired
| The court took the matter under advise
nsnt and viii render decision today.