New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-11
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not need IT perhaps she is just we'll of With
out It. There women on the jury. but only
twelve hard headed serious looking men, who Will
probably want to be convinced that she has really
done something deserve II before they agree TO send
her to the gaows. II Is pretty safe to say that they
won't send her merely because she does not faint and
KEPT OUT OF THE BORDEN HOUSE.
Francis L. Edison. another OF the Fall River police
who had to do with the Borden murders. and who
was straghtwsy promoted in advance Of his giving
testimony here told OF an effort which I'M
succe ,sfu made by him yesterday to get into the Dor
den house. Presumably he intended to hunt for the
handle belonging tn the hachethead with which the
prosecution charges the murders committed
He SAYS the servant girl would not let him In. 1t
will be remembered that the two police officers,
Fleet and Mullaly. who testified yesterday hav-
ing been prevented from communicating with one
another fatty conradiced each others story TO the
existence OF this handle. Fleet said Mullaly was
with him when he found the hachethead but that
10 other part H the broken handle anywhere
TO he found except the little piece held I'm the eye
OF the blade Mualy said that all the handle. though
broken was there and that he Fleet take up
and examine both the Ratchet head and the detached
handle. He said Fleet put both back The discovery
of the handle either then now. may may not
be important. But It Is supremely important that
on such point as the hatchethead. the weapon which
the prosecution says Lizzie Borden used. washed
covered with ashes and dropped into that box. these
two officers squarely de,y one another.
Edison was the man who on August took the
two axes and the two hatchets which not In
suspicion OF the cellar and carried them to the
Central police station. Edison says that that
morning the day after the murders. he heard Lizzie
Borden ask Bridget Sullivan. Are you sure the
cellar door was fastened? ?" Bridget replied, dyes.
What this means did not appear but It is example
Of the scraps with which the State is loadirs down
the
On Monday. the sth day Of August. the witness.
together with Officers Desmond, Connors and Medley
and private detective named Ianscon. and Andrew
j. Jennings. one OF Miss Bordens lawyers In this
and for years recently her fathers regular
counsel. made a search OF the Borden house Captain
Desmond In charge OF the party. They first
went into the cellar and searched there. They saw
a lot OF boxes. heap Of ashes, barrel or two, and
the ordinary odds and ends of a household which
inevitably collect in cellar. They examined all
these things thoroughly They did not find anything
however and they went 10 the barn. They found
there state police officer named seaver and n
private detective named McHenry. This man Nc
Henry Is the person who supplied TO g. The Boston
Globe" series OF falsehoods about Lizzie Bordens
fife and character which it compelled 10 retrnct
and admit to be false. McIienry wns very Thick with
the Fall River polite while they were fcrretng ont
the Borden my stery, but they are now explaining that
they didn't know him well. and that he really mad
nothing 10 do With the case
Can,a,n Desmond searched the barn and the lumber
pile in the yard. They looked into the well, they
scaled a barbed wire fence and went-into the al
Joining yard. But they found nothing but rubbish
Thereupon they gave up the search and went back
to the police station
THE DRESS WORN on AUGUST T.
Officer Manoney next took the stand. He s nlSo a
Fall River policeman who doing better now than he
Tho Dnrdo afl
said that on the 3Oh Of May Of this year. acfng
under District-Attorney Knowon's instructions ne
received from Professor Wood. Of Harvard, dress
This Is the dress which Lizzie Borden says she wore
on the morning OF the murders, and which she sur
rendered to the state rs demand The prosecn
ton desires this jury to believe. however, that she
did not wear this dress but different one pr"Suma
bly the one which Miss Russell has testified she saw
Lizzie burn on Sunday, August :. three days after
the tragedy Mr.. Mahoney Identified the dress ne
had received from Professor Wood. He returned II
to Professor Wood and he says he had 1t IN ms
possession all the while between the date OF his re-
ceiving It from the professor ana the GATE OF HIS To-
turning 1t to him.
officer Medley now appeared TO give testimony. AZ
the present time Mr. Medley IS an Inspector OF the
Fall River police Last year and while he was
"ferretlng, he only patrolman. lie reached the
Borden house at twenty-five minutes past H. or al
about ten minutes after Lizzie called Bridget from
When he went into the house he saw there captain
Fleet Mrs Churchill, Miss Russell, one or two doc
tors and Lizzie Borden. lie had talk with Lizzie,
In which she said what she said to everybody eis''
that she had idea who had committed the crime
that she had been in the barn and Bridget IN the
attic Officer Medley, not pausing to search the
house. nor stopping to look under bed or In
a closet, but with sagacity that marks Fail
River policeman above all his fellows, went at once
to the barn. The Bordens did not keep horse
and used the barn only fop the purpose OF storage
Naturally It was, If not rarely visited certainly
not constantly. What Officer Medley saw and did
at the barn is here told in his own words
o-How did YOU find the barn door1 A.-Closed with
a hasp; fastened
Al went up stairs aud when part Of head was above
the / looked II anything had been disturbed
and didn't notice that had stopped TO see II there
was any impression 0 the floor and didn't see any.
tried hands. and then stepped four or
FIVE times on the floor and looked u see coul1 us
cover any steps and / couldn't
Odd you any other steps in the dust pu' muse
YOU madel Al did not
Odd you notice the temperature OF the loft when you
went up7 At very hot.
Odd you notice II the windows hay door were
open or closedl A.-Thcy were closed at that time
(Which OF the three door and two windows) were
closed? A.-They were all closed
THE SPOTS on THE RATCHET.
The following Monday Officer Medley was one OF
Captain Desm0nd's party searching In the cellar
and while there he came across the box containing
the Ratchet head which Officer Fleet had seen on the
day OF the murder, but had not considered OF sum
cient importance 10 take possession Of officer Medley
look the hatchet and gave II TO Captain Desmond
By Desmond's Instructions Medley carried 1t TO inc
Central station. lie says that the Ratchet wien ne
found IL was covered with dust. There were dark
spots that resembed blood the blade and 'he
,dge was comparatively bright The dust WIN
which the Ratchet head was covered coarse, ana
looked like the dust OF ashes. The break In The
handle was a fresh break Medleys testimony was
not much shaken the crOssexaminaiion. IL WAS
important testimony. 1t tended to prove that LIZZIE
had never been in barn and It brought the hatchet