The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-08


to color aud material"
AT the Inquest he said be thought it
was drab dress which he SAW her wear
ing. lt was nard color for him 10 de-
scribe. Mr. Moody pressed the doctor
on the color of the dress. The doctor
was anxious to make his own explana-
tion and not answer the questions put To
J him.
/ 81 don't pretend to be able to describe
4 a woman's dress, and won'5 10 1t now.
1t WAS sort Of common. ordinary.
everyday dress--a cheap wrapper"
Mr.. Moody took up the blue dress tnag IS
one OF the exhibits in the case. Mr.
Moody tried TO ffud the waist of 1t, and
! made failure OF it. He turned 1t first
one way and then the other. He laid it
ON the floor and walked half way around
| it. The women in the audience began 10
litter. and few of the men snickered
| audibiy Mr.. Moody's face grew very
red. Then he handed the skirt to Dis
triet Attorney Knowlton, who Indicated
| the waist line in a manner that was
gravity itself Mr.. Knowlton Is married !.
Mr.. Moody is not.
The case proceeded. The Doctor
| grayely announced that the dress before
| him now was blue dress.
| On cross-examinatiou by Mr.. Adams
| the Doctor said that he had to pull the
hand of Mrs. Borden from under her body
| bsfore he could feel her pulse. 1t was
| twenty eight minutes to twelve he said,
when he sent the telegram TO Miss Emma.
He had ascertained that subsequent to
| the time he had sent the message.
| When he and DR.. Dolan went upstairs
| that was the second time DR.. Bowen
| had been upstairs-the body had not been
| disturbed.
THE AUTOPSY.
| He was present when DIR. Dolan per-
| formed the autopsy. He took notes OF It.
y. rf.,fy I 10 don,
| threw herself down on the lounge in the
dining room. Miss Russell had come TO
him on account of the condition of Miss
| Borden, He prescribed brumldes. Thac
| WAS ON Thursday.
On Friday night he prescribed NOR
phine in doses of one-eighth of a grain.
| The next day he doubled the amount of
morphine. He gave 1t TO her to quiet her
| nerves.
| "For several days, then, before that
secret inquest in Fall River" asked Mr.
Adams. ''sne had been taking double
doses of morphinesn
| "Yes."
"And suppose all physicians agree, y
| added the qaestioner, "that the contin ued
use of morphine to allay nervous irrita-
bility affects the mind-produces hallu-
| cinaJions. does it not?"
"Yes, 1t does"
..rhat's ALL" said Mr.. Adams, in sat
isfied way.
| The doctor said he had never had oc.
| casion to give her morphine before. She
took it until she went to Taunton. The
Gay before the ;ragady he had seen Miss.
/ Lizzie at six o'clock in the evening walk
| ing down the street.
BRIDGET SULLIVAN RECALLED.
| Bridget Sallivau was recalled when the
testimony of the doctor had been con.
cluded.
Bridget was questioned by Ex-Governor
| Robinson as to the discovery of the
| hatchets and the axes about the place
| after the finding Of the dead bodies. She
was asked what sort of dress Lizzie BOr-
| den wore on that day.
sit was blue" she answered, with a
white clover leaf figure in 1t. p
About a year before the murder
| Bridget said, in answer to Il question,
! s.the Borden house had been robbed by
| burglars
twas it in the daytime or the night?"
asked Mr.. Robinson.
| "It was in the daytime" answered the
witness. as District Attorney Knowlton
objected TO admitting the question or an
| swer.
The Court ruled that the evidence was
| not competent.
III it had happened later,n said Chief
| Justice Mason. ''it might have been of
vaIue. 1t is too far back to be considered
n this cas- E..
The same ruling was made in the case
of robbery committed in the barn about
five months ago.
One of the strongest points of the de.
fence had been swept away In that rul-
ing.
Lizzie Borden crying on the morntug of
the tragedy. 81 did not" she answered.
Ex-Governor Robinson took up srsno-
~ irr
from that the statement by Bridget that
she had seen Miss Lizzie crying.
THAT must be wrong," she said quick
ly; 81 never said that"
'.Well,n said the lawyer sarcastically,
''your memory is better now than ir was
then. isn't tt?"
II don't car what my memory isl was
the decided and quick rejolnder. II
know that didn't say that, because
never saw her crying"
"Will you swear TO thatY
"Yes, Pill swear to it..
Bridget was firm as rock on that
point. She was excused.
MRS. CHURCHILL'S STORY.
Then Mrs. Adelaide B. Churchill, q
widow and a neignbor of the Bordens.
was called. Mrs. Churchill had been out
shopping, and when she reached home
she looked out of her window and saw
Lizzie Borden leaning against the door
of the Borden house.
''She seemed agitated,' said the wit
ness. II opened the window and said to
her. Lizzie, what is the matterp Sne
answered: - 'Oh, Mrs. Churchill, come
over. Some one has killed papa
Mrs. Churchill said she went over to the
house then and took hold of Lizzie by the
arm. She spoke to her and Lizzie re-
plied:-
Father must have an enemy, for we
have all been sick. and we think the
milk has been poisoned"
Mrs Churchill continued:
II said. Where were you when it hap
pened? She said: / was out in the barn
after a piece of iron.'
81 then asked Where is your mother
L don't KNOW was the reply to that.
She received note from some body who
was sick.
Mrs. Churchill heard Lizzie ask Dr..
Bowen to send telegram to her sister.
She asked the doctor TO be careful about
the wording of the telegram, as there
was an old person in tho house with
Emma and the shock might fnjure her.
$ When Bridget spoke about Mrs. Bor-
den," Mrs. ChurcnilI continued, "L!zzie
said she thought she had heard Mrs. Bor-
den go up stairs. Mrs. Churchill aud
Bridget then went upstairs and found
the body"
Mr. Moody came down to the dress
worn by Lizzie that morning.
LIZzIE's COSTUME.
hid Won suroest anv channe in her