The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-09
THE BORDEN TRIAL.


We respectfully suggest to the court
that an adj aurnment be made each day
at o'clock aud The jury be instructed to
spend the remainder OF the day In view
inz the bay and other points OF beauty
hereabouts New Bedford Journal
The minute WEAKNESS with which the
square.yard newspapers reproduce all
the no-account details OF the tr ial will
not enhancs the interest of hose who
have to wade through columns Of fne
print to fish out the important facts.-
Lowell Courier.
This is most extraordinary theory OF
crime when applied to a woman who
bore only the reputation for gentleness
and Christian charity. But IL is the
theory constructed by the state, and the
circumstances suggesting such theory,
that the prosecution know OF no one else
to suspect aud have heard of no one else
who might have committed the murder.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
We are strongly of the belief that the
law officers who are 80 free to direct the
cutting of OF the heads OF people who
have been murdered would no more
countenance or permit the mutilation
were the victim one OF their near kin
than our readers would suffer themselves
TO be thrown overheard TO see IL they
would sink.-Salem News.
If it were possible to hide a dress might
not IL have been possible for a man to
hide, aud might not this man have been
the murderer? Does the fact that a
woman has "A foreboding OF disaster indi-
cate that she Is thinking of committing
mu deri Does the fact that a hatchet
which fits the wounds was found in the
house prove that a woman used 1t or
thai it was used at all. especially when
nearly every family owns similar tool
This woman may be guilty. but there is
an impression prevailing that she has
been accused OF the crime because the
authorities failei TO get hold of the real
murderer-Brooklyn Eagle.
II is one of the strongest circumstan-
tial cases in the history OF crime. Hart
ford Post.
No sane woman not utterly depraved
would commit the crime with which
Lizzie Borden is charged without the
strongest possible motive. But in this
case no motive whatever is shown, and
the fact that none was claimed to exist
indicates " hat may prove the weakest
point in the entire case. - Springfield
Union.
Interest in the Borden trial is not con-
fined to New f gland. It's details oc-
cupy the first place in the newspapers all
over the country. 1t is real cause
celebre, ard its outcome il awaited with
wider anxiety than has marked he
progress Of any murder trial for quar-
ter of a c.ntury.-Boston Herald.
IL already begins to look as IL the pros
ecution in the Borden case might as we'll
supply the jury with files of last years
newspapers and rest the case for the
state. They could thus give an intelli
gent verdict on all the evidence without
the bother of listening to twice-told
tales. Boston Post.
Womanly curiosity in its worst form
is daily manifested at the trial in New
Bedford. Housewives whose home duties
engage nearly all OF their sttention are
puzzled 10 know how uhe morbidly curl
Gus who are wasting valuable hours in a
court room manage TO get the time in
which 10 do is.-Fiil River Herald.
A considerable h ,le was punched In the
governments case IN the Borden trial by
the testimony of the Sullivan girl that
the side door was uufastened during a
considerable period while she was wash
ing windows out of sight OF the door,
Lowell Courier.
The Telegraph does not say 1t believes
Miss Borden TO be personally guilty, but
1T does think. ii is pandering to taste
which should be suppressed, not culti-
waited, for the newspapers to devote so
much space to accounts Of her and her
ri, No. n Ill.
What in the name of creation prompted
the authorities to try he Borden ca'e at
New Bedford OF all the antiquated,
out-of the-way, semi-civilized places on
Gods footstool, "whdle city +" is in the
van. Ii any man carps at Taunton,
half hour at New Bedford will make him
feel that "Herrin town" must be tue
New Jerusalem alongside CrapotowD.-