New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-19


Of the two sisters lie else her ocr 10 sis"
n written denial of il was and of that offer I'VE
witnesses have testified She can take her choice
Her evidence is thoroughly disposed of, whenever
way she chooses As for officer Fleet. Ii" says
that he did not find the handle OF the broNeh
Ratchet, the implication Of his story beng ''i'
Lizzie destroyed it, thinking that nobody would
suspect her of having used q Ratchet without
handle lie also swore that Lizzie told him she
had advised her father TO lie down on the sofa
and take a nap, thus making il appear that Lizzie
confessed 10 having got her father wher" ne WIS
incapable Of resisting her attack ana flcci o'
clared on his oath that he had given this testi-
mony before the justices court. Now. th"n' VI
fcer Mulay comes forward and swears that
Fleet found the handle of the Ratchet in tn" same
box where he found the Ratchet itself: that ne
Nfullalyl saw the handle in Fleets hands. Miss
White, the stenographer who took the testimony
in the Justices court, gays that she has gone over
her notes OF his testimony there, and that there
is not word in it about Lizzie having said she
had advised her father to lie down.
This seems TO dispose Of Fleet. AS for Null
LAZY, he was the officer 10 whom Rnbnsky, IN"
pcddlcr who saw Lizzie Borden coming from IN"
barn at fifteen minutes past on tho morning
Of the murder. gave that information. Mullay
SdNS rnat HnDlnskN ulu ''Ii nun "''"' ~ ''''
named ha M-past 0 as the time when he saw her
Nevertheless, Mulaly didn't attempt to follow up
the story nor was Rubinsky produced before th'
Coroner, tho Justice or the Grand Jury. This
makes it bad for Muay. And so it goes on.
No point in the police testimony Is important but
that from two TO five witnesses come forward
with dcnials or with such another account OF the
matter as makes the police story impossible
proptC TALK NOTHING; Else.
Tonight the city is full OF strangers waiting
10 hear the last Of this Incompatible cas" There
is degree OF public excitement actually pain
ful The people talk OF nothing else. II il in
the air n has hold Of the public imagination
more strongly than any event. social or political,
within the memory Of the present generation
It has brought here over fifty newspaper CORE
spondents and artists, scores Of attorneys from a
distance. and busy group Of tclegraphrrs,
stenographcrs and typcwritcrs 1t is remark
able little beehive engaged in work OF some
kind connected with the fate Of this poor girl.
Never before has n causr involving human life
been so widely and fully written day by day.
Over 100000 words per day have been t"l"-
eraphed from New Bedford describing things con-
ncctcd with tho trial
As wonderful as anything else In connection
with il all. is the fact that during these two
weeks no day has passed without som' hHi" VI
unexpected and sensational dsclosurt- The mar
vcous, the incredible, the horrible and the ne
have chased one another across the
stag, whcrcon this drama is enacted in swift and
wierd succession Great az has been their effort,
the attempt of the correspondents 10 DO JUSTICE
n il has been insufficient. They have had the
faithful cooperation Of skilfu corps OF teIeg-
raphers as has at any time served the newspaper
nrcSs NJ This country Under numerous dlsad-
yantarcs six or eight extremely clever men are
scndnc nightly over the Western Union wires
from 20 900 TO $1,000 words, performance that
IL little les than miraculous. Nothing, however,
could more s,riknsly prove the marvellous pnohc
interest. extending from Cape Cod to the Golden
Gate. that is felt in tie fate Of LIZZIE borden
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