The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-17
BORDEN CASE REVIEWED.
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| following the murder and had no din
| Guilty In getting I'm by the front door
| The latch did not work tlen.
| Lastly the screen door WAS open all the
incoming by the testimony o. the gov
ernment witness s, and there were three
ample close offering ample opportu tt
for cbpcealment IL AN assassin had
chosen tn secret himself in the house.
Was Exclusive Opportunity Proven?
But, says the prosecution. Lizzie was
upstairs with the dead body OF ner $ ep-
mother for an hour ami half. She stood
at the head of the stairs when her father
! returned iron down-Jown. Place her
upst,irs aud prove the priority of Mrs
Borden's desdh ana the guilt OF Lizzie is
certain. she must nave known That her
moi her was dead Sic must have seen
her body.
Mrs. Churchill and Bridget Sullivan
| b th saw Mrs. Borden's b dy from the
stairs. Thtn, too, iizzie told both OF
them hat she thou snt her mother had
lust come in. she thought she ha :
| beard her What made her think SO !?
.. niotner had not come in, recently,
| - hal been dead two hours.
| Bub experiments were made on these
| points Ihhe civil engineer. Mr.. kieran,
| made exact measurement ) and testlne
that only from ope point could BODY in
the position Of Mrs Borden be seen. That
point was Oh the stairs part way down.
| A person IN 9ht walk around in the hal
1 way for day aud the body would ne en-
tirrly invisib q. The room was darkened;
| the s,utterx we're drawn To. Mrs. Bridg-
hii.. aud Air. Morse also .made sonle ex-
| periments with the same results. Dr..
| Bowen went up stairs expressly TO fiud
] Mrs, Borden's body and he did not see Ia
until he got fully into Jhe room. Not
| O g Of the police officers or DIR. Dolan les
titled ta sesIng the body before they en-
tered the room.
| Did Lizzie See the Bodyf
Must Lizzie have known of the body
or notf Does the evidences prove it or
not 2 The state presented plenty Of
weapons. 1t laid no stress on any but
the handleless hatchet That hatchet
| could have been washed; IL exactly fitted
the wounds. Tnis was the only po,at
| proved for the defense by the expert tes.
/ timouy. This natchet was found Gov
| cred with ashes and dirt, in a suspicious
place, without handle, and bora evl-
dences Of having been placed In position
recently.
| But the expert testimony also showed
that this hatchet could not nave been
washed easily or quickly, especially u 1t
| had been used against Mrs. Borden. The
hatchet bad no blood on it or any sign OF
| blood. Moreover the time allowed for
its cleansing and concealment was not
| Sufficient. IL could not have been washed,
| the water thrown out, the Ratchet covered
with ashes aud dirt, the handle broken
/ of aud disposed OF in so short a time.
The multiplicity OF details is too great
Such Is the evidence on this point.
Was this the weapon or not?
| What Dress Did Lizzie wearf
| What of the dress she wore that mora
| ing? Mrs. Churchill testified that IL
| was light dress, blue or drab, with a
figure in it Her description was not
definite. She might have worn dress
over the light one. One dress was
8 III stated that she warned Lizzie not TO
burn IL, saying, :" would not let a3y one
| see me do that Lizz O."
But Emma Borden who was also pres
| ent heard no such remark. She had ad-
vised Lizzie to burn that dress q few
days before, and when Lizzie suggested
burning It that morning she said, Il
| would IL 1 were you" But the govern
| ment's sole claim is that the dress worn
was light one. IL so that dress could
| rot be protected by any other dress that
| Lizzie had because her dresses were all
'too snug" according to Epma's testi-
mony and that Of her dressmaker.
| All the experts testified that blood
spurted around the room and must ha We
| spattered over the assailant very con-
! siderably." II she wore the white dress
AS The 8, ate claims she must have been
| covered with blood. But ali the state s
| witnesses state that the was no blood Oh
| her dress that morning. Lizzie said
| there was paint on it. Gonna corrobo-
| ated that 81 siatement. So did the dress
| maker.
| Wore Dark Dress.
Mrs Bowen testifes that Lizzie wore a
dark dress. Her description Of 10 was
very accurate, more so than any other
| description Of dress worn on that day
| by anyone. There was no blood on the
| blue dress. There was no blooi ON LIZ
| zie's face, hair, hands or shoes All
| through the house search was made for
| blood-sta ned dresses. Marshall Hill ard
| avs the search was thorough. Every
| opportunity and all assistance was
| offered by the Inmates Of the house. DIR.
| ID Ian said the search was as thorough
as it could be unless the carpets were
taken from the floors and the paper from
the walls" The search revealed absolute
| ~ nothing.
Did She wear the light or dark blue
dress2 II SC, what has become Of the
blood on either.
| Lizzie said she was In the barn to get
| some lead The government doubts its
| ruth and speaks of the hot day. 1t in
trod aces the testimony OF Mr.. Medley to
siiow that thers were no tracks or foot
| prints in tie barn or in the loft.
substantiatos Lixzie's Claim.
Rubinsky testifies that he saw a
woman coming from the direction OF tn q
barn on the moraing OF the murder.
| His story is supported by Gardiner and
| Newball. There we're boxes Of lead i'm
the barn. IL was not very hot up there
| i'm the morning as the barn was shad "a
Eight people were In the barn aud six II
| hem In the loft before Mr.. Medley ar
rived on the Borden premises that morn
ing.
Was Lizzie I'm the barn or not?
The government introduced Mrs Rea-
| gan's story alleging quarrel between
l. zzie anu X una, To the tffscJ that
| Emma had given her AVA.
The defense offered testimony I'm re-
buttal. T. una Borden denied the stat e
ment in toto. Mrs. Holmes, Mr. Holrres.
| Mrs. Bridgh an, Mr.. Hickey. MIR. Man.
| ninu-- III Testified tnat Mrs Raauan 40 A