Connecticut western news., 1893-06-22
MISS BORDEN'S FATE.
EVIDENCE IN THE FAMOUS TRIAL AL
 MOST ALL iN

MOST ALL IN. The Probability That Lizzie Borden wm Be Acquitted Growing stronger-Her Sister Denied the Quarrel, and Said the Burned Dress Was Covered With Paint. NEW BEDFORD. Mass, June 1.-The evidence on which the Borden jury is to form it's opinion of the prisoners guilt or innocence is practically all in. A verdict will be reached early next week, and the impression is gaining ground that an acquittal will result.
 The last days proceedings began when the court excluded the evidence offered by Brook, twelve days after the murder, of a strangely acting man, with A bloody shirt and hatchet. Charles F. Sawyer said he saw the prisoner in the Borden house just after the murders. People were flaming her and her clothes were not disarranged or bloody. John J. Manning and Thomas Hickey, reporters, testified that Matron Reagan told them there was nothing in the you gave me away story.
 Mary R. Holmes testified that defendant was member of the church and Christian Endeavor society, and engaged in various religious and charitable enterprises, and that she attended church with Mrs Borden
 Emma l.. Borden, defendants sister, tes- tffied that Lizzie gave her father ring which he constantly wore and which was the only ornament he wore. She then said there were IS dresses in the closet the day of the search, of which eight were blue dresses, belonging to defendant.
 The Bedford cord dress was very cheap, the sisters helped make it, paint got on the front and one side when the house was painted two weeks after it was made, and it was in the closet the day of the search. Sunday morning defendant, standing near the kitchen stove with the dress, said: 1T think I shall burn this old dress up" Wit ness assented, but did not see the burning Monday morning, upon the sisters deci- sion, Detective Hanscom was told about the burning.
 She denied the you gave me away'' story, too, and swore that no trouble or quarrel between the sisters took place in the matron's room.
 She was asked again about the story of a quarrel between her and,Lizzie She said there was absolutely nothing which would give rise to even an impression that any such thing occurred as had been told by Mrs. Reagan.
 The district attorney took up the burn ing of the dress.
 Do you remember that the first thing you said was, Lizzie. what are you going to dor" II did not say anything of the kind" she said.
 ssNNhaf makes you sure of fhaf2.
 Because my sister spoke to me first''
 Will you swear positively that you didn't say that2''
 .I will"
 Ibid your sister wear the paint stained dress after it was stained?'
 "A few times"
 And I understand you to say it was stained a couple of weeks after she got it2'' Yes"
 Did you see your sister burn the dress?n
 II did not"
 Emma said she had not heard Miss Rus sell say that if she was Lizzie she would not stand where everybody could see her. That was as she was about to burn the dress.
 Do you mean that it was not said, or do you mean that you don't remember its''
 T mean to say that l do not remember having heard it. I will not say that it was not said"
 The examination of Emma Borden closed with that. and Mary A. Raymond, who made the dress that was burned, was call ed. She then told of something that was peculiarly interesting. She said that when Miss Lizzie had the dress made she dis carded an old wrapper for it.
 What did she do with the old wrapperf''
 ''She cut some pieces out of it and said she would burn the dress. She went down stairs with it in her arms and came back without it."
 After little more unimportant testi- mony ex-Governor Robinson said: "The defense rests.
 Mir. Moody asked for 15 minutes in which to prepare the rebuttal, which the court granted.
 NEW BEDFORD. Mass, June 19.-Today marks the beginning of the end of the famous Borden murder trial. Today comes the legal battle of the counsel for the pros ecution and defense.
 The work of preparation among the counsel in the Borden case had been going on all the day before, despite the fact that it was Sunday. The work was considered one of the essentials of good work to come Consultations and deliberations and active efforts in the line of blocking out the argu- ments on an effective basis had been keep ing all parties in the city interested exceed. ingly busy, while the newspaper men have been interested lockers on from afar, sim ply because a nearer approach and an in sight into the actual work of the day and evening was an absolute impossibility.