Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-06-08
THE GREAT Trial UNDER WAY.
Lizzie Borden Views the Proceed
ings with indifference.
The Closet In the Room as a Place of
ConcoAineDt--Most of the Witnesses in
the Case Excluded From the Court

The Closet in the Room as n Place of
ConcoAiraeDt- of the Witnesses in
the Case Excluded From the Court
Room.
New BEDFORD. Mass, June The long
anticipated Borden murder trial has be-
gun. At an early hour this morning
every available shady spot on County
street near the court house was crowded,
and patiently the sitters and ISLANDERS
waited until the bell on the court house
was tolled, signifying the opening Of court.
At precisely l0,58 o'clock Miss Lizzie 4.
Borden, the prisoner, came slowly into the
court room and was shown to her seat in
the dock. She was attired in very be-
coming costume of black brocaded stuff.
and wore pretty shade hat relieved by
touch here and there of blue
Every seat in the room was occupied by
talesmen and newspaper men, no ont
siders being admitted up 10 that time, and
within the box enclosure were few of
the prominent men of the county, who
had been accorded seats by courtesy,
NEW BEDFORD, MASS, June b.-At $50
o'clock this morning Miss Borden and the
jury We're in their seats, and counsel were
on hand busily arranging their papers.
The doors were opened to spectators
about that time and ut least u third of
those present were females. The weather
opens very warm and another searching
day Is in prospect. The iary heard the
indictments against Miss Borden read as
soon as court Was formally opened, and
were charged as good men and true" to
stand together and hear your evidence"
District Attorney Moody of Essex. who
represents the attorney. general, opened
the case for the commonwealth. In his
address to the jury he recited the story of
the crime, aud laid particular stress upon
the fact that Mr. Borden had married d
second time, from which marriage there
was no issue, and that Lizzie and her sister
had quarrelcd with their parents regarding
q division of the property, that the girls
had ceased TO address their step mother rs
mother He instanced the scene when
an officer, seeking information from the
prisoner right in sight Of the woman who
had sunken under the asSasSins blow, had
asked when did you last see your
mnther? The reply came from Lizzie:
she is not my mother; INV mother died
when ! was Gn infant"
NEW BEDFORD, MASS June AT the
opening Of the third day of the Borden
murder trial, this morning, the morbid
curiosity OF the female portion Of the com
munity was catered to and nearly one-half
of the spectators were women. Their necks
We're craned one way AS Miss Borden
entered the room, looking as unconcerned
and fresh as any one possibly could under
such trying circumstances. After she took
her seat Mr., Jennings had a five minutes
conversation with her. and she appeared
very much interested and animated, a
smile breaking out occasionally as the talk
| proceeded,
Mr.. kiernan, the civil engineer who was
Oh Yesterday was recalled for the first wit
| ness. When the witness was making
measurements of the lower floor of the
Borden house, his attention was called to
| the closet in the front hall. He was asked
| if his attention was called to the fact that
one could go in there and be hidden with
! the door completely shut. He answered
/ by saying a man went in and he shut the
door on him. There was no difficulty in
| closing the door. While the man was in
| there the door was left ajar, and the man
| in the closet could not be seen by witness.
| Witness was eight or ten feet from the
| closet door al the time, and about the same
| distance from the front of the house.
| When witness was near the parlor door
| his attention was called to the man, but
before he had time to verify whether he
| could see him or not he moved to the door
| of the closet and then he did see him.
| Witness had nude experiments rs to
! what could be seen of objects on the floor
| of the guest room from the stairs. His
assistant had lain on the floor between
the bureau and the bed; then he (witnessJ
went down stairs and came up i'll the
ordinary way. Said witness: 81 saw the
man stretched on the floor from the stairs
and the point from which | first saw him
was the centre of one of the stairs, which
brought my eye just on the level with the
floor, a short distance above | could not
see him.
The surveyors and photographers evil
dence being concluded, at 1910 O'Clock
John V. Morse took the stand. At first the
prisoner watched him carefully with APP
parent anxiety, then she looked on with
the same Indifference as before.
At 1890 on motion of the defence, all
witnesses except Reporters Manning.
Stevens and Caldwell, Messrs. Buck, Jubh
and Holmes and those summoned for eN.
pert evidence, were ordered excluded from
the room,