The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-21
KNowLroN,s ARGUMENT.

The District Attorneys Appeal to the Jury
for Conviction of Miss Borden.
Miss Lizzie Borden entered the court
room ct S:55 o'clock this morning. She con-
versed with Ex-Governor Robinson. her
chief attorney. for five minutes. When
court was declared open tho jury was
polled. Then DISTRICT attorney Knowlton
resumed his arguments for the prosecution.
approach of the end and then said:
The counsel who opened the case for the de-
fense said motive was part OF the govern
ments case, but this is not so. Motives are
neither adequate nor even tolerable when con-
siderod In connection with crime. The motives
of mankind are as inscrutable as ar6 the ways OF
divine providence. 1t does not afford satisfac-
tion to our reasoning TO have discovered that
family from which we can suspect even the
malice existing. have called your attention to
roof. 1t impresses me deeply: as / am sure it
did you. The malice was all before the fact
sopS ON nnder that roef for manv manu
months. Because the lips Of those who
know are sealed in death, we
phase has come up in the family life adding
to the feeling OF malice and jealousy existing in
this woman. There may be that In this case
plan TO kill her father and hope so. Butitwas
not Lizzie Andrew Borden who came down those
u
formed from the ties OF affection to the most
consummate cruelty ever known. She came
down To meet that stern old man who loved his
daughter, but who also loved his wife, and the
one man above all who would know who had
killed his wife, and when she came down stairs
she came down to meet Nemesis. He knew too
much of the family relations, and she did not
dare to let him live. When she came down stairs
it was her father she met, but it was also the
husband OF the stepm0ther whom she hated.
There was no escape from the crime but to com
plete the bloody work. This second murder was
not planned, but was done as wicked and fear
ful necessity. And say this to relieve my mind
of the dreadful feeling that there is q deliberate
parriclde In tue world
LIZZIE AND HER FATHER.
Bridget was doing her work at the house ana
the old man was taking the last walk of his life.
We found him moving slowly about the city,
stopping In various places of business. and final
ly he turned into the yard of the house where his
wife lay dead. He went around 10 tho side door
and found it locked; went to the front door and
tried to use his key but could not and was let in
by Bridget He came into the house. sat down.
and then came Lizzie from the very place where
his wife lay dead, and told him falsehood about
where tho wife was. Where was that stepmoth-
erl She knew. Tn at would keep the old man
silent tor time, but not for long. Then Bridget
came into the dining rooR TO wash the windows
there. aud the old man. after paying visit TO
his room, came into the sitting room again,
and Lizzie, LIZ; with the spirit Of Judas kiss.
Bridget that ei she goes goes down towns ss
to lock up the door, as she might go
out herself. Then Bridget goes upstairs
to get her rest and Lizzie goes on iron
ing. alone with her victim In less than twenty
minutes she calls the servant down and tells her
that her father Ia killed There was nobody who
came TO that house after the tragedy but asked
this woman where she was when Ii happened; it
began with Bridget and ran through all her
friends. Her story was not consistent with the
fecrs- But they come here with the cowardly
suggestion that this woman could not tell the
truth because she had been drugged. We must
judge all facts and circumstances as they appear
10 our common sense and, tried by that standard,
j assert that that story is simply absurd and not
within the bounds OF reasonable possibilities.
1t was one of the very hottest days III the hot
test summer we have ever known, and you are
asked TO believe that she left her work at the
| ironing board and went up into that hot barn.
| You were there III that barn, and you know what
| it is even on cool June day. she told officer
| Harrington that she could not hear anything
| any n0ise-because she was up in the loft This
was the only place, the hottest about. where she
could get and not hear anything. In all your
| observations have you ever heard OF an attempt
TO create alibi which more strange than
the circumstances OF. this onef That barn alibi
| will not stand. We come back and find her
father dead and story on her lips which has no
yestige OF truth In it,
| THE BURNED DRESS
Mr.. Kn owlton then commented on the old
and dusty condition OF the barn aud the
fact that keen-eyed people found NO tracks
there. He also dismissed the statement OF
] two bcys who went to the harm to eat theiI