The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-06

NEW BEDFORD, MASS June O,--lo-uay
Lizzie Borden took her sect in the pris-
oner's dock of the superior court here
and battle royal between the most
eminent criminal lawyers in the state,
with a woman's life and honor at stake,
began.
On the fourth day OF August, 1892,
between $3.50 and II 80 a. m. Andrew
Jackson Borden and Abby Duriee Bor-
den were murdered at their home IN
Fall River. This much is known, and
the horrible brutality OF the affair has
excited national interest, but just when
and by whom these deeds were COM
mitted are questions which the court
and the Jury and eminent counsel will
try to solve and for which they will as
semble here to-day. Briefly put, the
case stands Us follows;
Lizzie Aberdeen, daughter OF Andrew
jackson Borden, woman about thirty
three years old; her stepmother,
Abby Durfee Borden, and Bridget Sulli-
van, q servant, were the only members
Of the family about the house when Mr..
Borden came homo at about l0:45 that
morning. Bridget let him in at the
front door and in few moments went
to her room up stairs. She had been
engaged good part OF the morning out
OF doors washing windows. In the alb.
sence Of proof to the contrary, LiSzie's
story must be accepted for the time
relative to the acts OF herself and her
father until she discovered his dead
body After he came in she assisted
him to get in comfortable position on
tho lounge in the sitting room, she says,
taking oil his boots and putting on his
slippers. "A photograph OF tho body \
taken after discovery shows this state-
ment to have been incorrect-the boota
were on the feet.) Then che went into
the yard, stopped few moments to
gather and eat some pears, passed on
into the barn and spent ten or fifteen
minutes hunting lead to make 6Hhing
line sinkers.
THE MURDER DISCOVERED.
Going into the house she found that
her father had been murdered, and
called the servant, sending her at once
for DR.. Bowen, who lived nearby, Then
she sat down on tho outside steps, and
was thus seen by Mrs. Addie Churchill,
a neighbor, and asked what the matter
was. She told Mrs.. Churchill Of the
murder OF her father. Mrs. Churchill
came to the house at once, and asked
for Mrs. Borden. Lizzie knew nothing
Of her whereabouts, but called TO mind
the fact that her stepmother bad told
her previously that she had received
note from q friend, and in response was
intending to call on that friend. How
ever, Bridget was requested to look for
mistress, but she objected to going
alone, and Mrs. Churchill went with
her. AS the two women approached
the top OF the stairs leading to the Sec
ond floor they saw on the floor of the
guest ChaSber the body Of Mrs. Borden.
1t was soon learned that she, too, had
been murdered in about the same man
ner that her husband had been, Wis
with heavy blows from sharp instru.
ment, probably an ak or h0tChet. 1t
was definitely determined at an autop-
sy subsequently held, that Mrs. Borden
had been killed before hor husband.
Sheriff Wright had made all tho
pTbpuIHblOuu uo SOulN W hlAlhA0 tAS
crowd, which he knew would get about
the court house and struggle to get in.
All tho available policemen and deputy
sherifls were pressed into service inslde
and outside the building.
During the present trial Chief JUS
tice Mason will proside. His associates
will be Justices Blodgett and Dewey.
1t wRs Just II o'clock when closed
carriage drow up at tho rear Of the court
house. A deputy sheriff stopped out Of
1t and held out his hand to assist Lizzie
Borden.
Tho court having been duly opened,
the task Of securing jury was begun,
the prisoner, as is the law OF MassaChu-
setts, challenging in person whenever
prompted by hor counsel. AT Asp.
IN. the jury was completed and the
court adjourned until morning.