The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-14
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LADIES' DAY IN COURT.
Their Interest the Keenest in the
Doctors Horrible Tale.
EXPERTS RE.ENACT THE TRAGEDY
AT FALL RIVER.

Figures Used to Represent the Victims of
the Borden Murders-The Lounge ON
Which the Old Man Died Adds to the
Effect-The Drama, However, Seems
About as Favorable to Lizzie as to the
State-A Jurors Illness.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June 13.--Miss
Lizzie Borden cams into the court room
some fifteen minutes before the ringing
OF the bell today. She wore the same
dress as yesterday, and carried a cluster
OF delicate pink and white rose peony
blossoms. In general appearance she
was much brighter than yesterday. 1t
being the second session in clinics. Miss
Borden sat with her face bowed into her
open fan, it's soft ruf1a covering her
eyes, and shutting out the grswseme.
uncanny looking little miniature busts
used to .impersonate her murdered
parents. The sofa on which Mr., Borden
was found lying dead was also in court.
Rev. Mr.. Jubb came up smiling, bring
lug with him bunch of gaily-varieeated
bachelors buttons and a folded note
which he passed with the flowers to Miss
Borden. Col. Adams opened his inter
rogatiod battery upon DR.. Dolan, the
Fall River medical examiner. The testi-
mony OF Dr.. Dolan that the blows were
probably delivered from the left goes to
snow tnat the murderer was probably
left-handed.
Adams pounced at once on the theory
that the assailant of the: old man stood
in the dining room behind the door.
jamb, and struck the fatal blow from his
or her hiding place. This has been
favorite theory at Fall River, and It has
been largely increased in probability bv
the fact that DR.. Dolan at the time Of the
inquest thought stringy spot on the
inner side of the door janb toward the
dining room was spot Of blood.
Today he had heard, and had reason to
believe, that this spot was not blood. al
though he thought at the time of the
inquest that it was. The theory of the
blow having been struck from the dining
room, a favorite yarn, falls therefore to
the ground and in place of it probably
the state will contend that the assailant
stood behind the head of the sofa and be-
tween. it and the parlor door.
The witness said: II have seen the
handleless hatchet before; it was before
the flrst hearing, and never referred to
1T in any way in my testimony. 1t was
with the others, and we (the Marshal and
y examined it. consider it, as it ap-
pears now, the same in appearance as it
was when I first saw it; the edge is
sharp now, and is not turned: it has a
clean. cutting edge; when T first saw it
there were white particles of ashes on it.
TO certain extent,I made state
ment as to the position Of the assassin
after having seen that spot on the jamb,
but now change that statement be-
cause am told the spot is not blood. In
my opinion the assailant stood between
the parlor door and the head of the
lounge. think one-handed blow
would have done the work. Hrd the ar
terry below the jaw been cut there would
have been heavy flow of blood; but
the assailant would not have been neces-
sarily covered with blood from the
spurts; the swinging of the hatchet
would have been likely to cause spatter-
ing Of blood on the assailant and on the
victim" sea- AZ
Witness here arranged the cast of Mrs.
Borden's head in the chair to show the
relative position of the body when
found and continuing he saids' As she
lay, all yhe outs on her head were seen;
the bruises were not. cannot tell you
what part Of her head had The thiekest
hair on it, but she had quite a full head
OF hair; the thickest would natn-
rally be over the back pertion Of the
head; when I..frst saw her the wounds
were open, gaping and distinct; the cuts
were clean and sharp and they were all
left to right blows; think that moderate
force only was used in all the blows,
Taking the spots and the position of the
body in my opinion the assailant was
astride the body, facing the east wall.
"On Saturday when was at the Bor-
den house was given a dress by Mr..
Jennings; I don't know where he got it.
When looked at pocket in the
dress there was spot on the pocket
which resembled blood. but as look at
it now don't think 1t was blood. had
the shoes AND stockings brought to me
that same day and thought There waa
blood ON the sole of one Of the shoes.
found none Oh the stockings; found Q
pin-head spot on the wkffe skirt. 1 do
not know what ! said at the time about
the time of death Of Mrs, Borden, az
compared with the time Of death Of Mr.,
Borden" Continuing, be said; II
don't know whether said she had died
! IL hours before saw her or before
Mr.. Borden did. (The minutes of the
first hearing showed that he had said
then she died from an hour to an hour
and half before he saw her.) have
mot the impression that said that, but I
now say the difference between the
deaths was from one to one and half
hours. II both died at the same time
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