Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-06
LIZZIE BORDEN'S CASE
CONTINUED from First Pdoe.)

Borden was two or three years of age
when her father married for the second fine
not long after the death Of his first wife. The
marriage was over tweui -AYe YEAR. ore me
time of their death and there was no issue.
Abby DurTee Borden a. t.r tl;ne of her
death was about sixty-four wears old. The
! house in which these homicides we're com.
mitted has been occupied by the family some
twenty years.
LIZZIE AND HER srRpMorHER.
There was, or came to be, between prisont =
and stepmother an unkindly feeling From,
the nature Of the case it will be impossible fe ,
us to get anything more than suggestive
glimpses of this feeling from outsiders
Tie daughters thought that something
should be done for them by way OF dividing
the property after they had learned that the
stepmother had been amply provided for Then
came a division and ill-feeiing, and the title
of mother" was dropped.
The prosecution would show that a cr,ss-
maker Of the family had spoken Of The step
mother as mother" when Lizzie chided her
and said Don't call her mother: we hate her;
she's a mean, spiteful thing
When an officer WAS teeking information
from the prisoner right in sight of the woman
vino had sunken under the assassin's blow and
asked. when did you last see your mother?''
the reply came from Lizzie. ''She is not my
mother; my mother died when I was an in
FAINT"
They would show that there was an impas-
sable barrier built up between the daughters
and the stepmother socially and by locks ard
bars.
Upon the day preceding the homicide John
v. Morse came to the Bordens to visit them.
lie came and slept there Wednesday night
Upon Tuesday night an illness occurred in the
household. Dir. and Mrs. Borden were taken
i'll with retching and vomiting and the prisoner
was taken tho same way. Bridget Sullivan,
the servant, was not physician was con-
suited.
Upon the day before the homicide the pris-
oner went to drug store and there asked the
clerk for 10 cents worth of prussic acid for
cleaning a cape. She was refused and after
some talk went away. The speaker said there
could be no doubt that the prisoner was the
person who went to tine store.
FELT THAT SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN.
On the evening of Wednesday the prisoner
made a call on Alice Russell, friend
OF hers. and it will appear that tho
prisoner had been intending to spend a
vacation at Marion, and the two FRIENDS
talked Of that trip. She told Miss Rus
sell that she had made up her mind to 20 there,
but she said Il can't help feeling depressed;
that something is going to happen; last night
we We're all sick but the girl; it may have been
the bakers bread
No. said Miss Russell: ''others would have
been sick if that were So"
'Then it might have been the milk
What time do yon get your milk"
"About O'Clock"
81 am afraid" LIZZIE continued "that the
house will be burned down some night Father
has bad so much trouble with his men The
other nigh. lie barn was broken into"
But that was only bows" said Miss Russell.
Lizzie continued, saving that she had seen
man about the place. VINO ran away when thew
caught sigh OF each other. and that her father
had bat recently had quarrel with a man who
came to see him. She vas fearful of trouble"
NJ. Moody then produced :he plans of the
house Of the Bordens. and the locality, and de-
scrlbed them plainly to the jury.
THE STORY OF THE MORNING.
Continuing. MIR. Moody said: "On the morn
ing of the tragedy Bridget Sullivan Was first up:
We may safely assume on the proof that the
only human beings in the house tha. night
were these We have mentioned. Bridget
got her fuel down stairs and built fire.
got the milk At the rear door and
locked 1t after she brought il IN. There was
screen door here and this it was which Bridget
locked, after she got the milk. Lizzie came
down. then Mrs. Borden ard then Mr.. Borden.
de did some chores in the barn and was seen
by Bridget. She saw Morse only at breakfast
with the others
"After breakfast the first one to depart was
Morse. a. As. and Mr.. Borden let him out and
locked the screen door behind him. Soon after
Morse went away the prisoner came down
and ate her breakfast. While she was
eating Mr.. Borden went upstairs and
SICK. When she came back Mr.. Borden had
evidently gone down town. Mrs. Borden and
Bridget had some talk aoout washing windows
and tie latter told to do the work
MRS. Borden disappeared then. and il will
appear that she told the prisoner she was going
$50
the spare room. You will be satisfied tina. this
was not far from $50 o'clock. and you will be
satisfied that she never left her room alive
again. for no living person saw her alive again,
except the assassin.
"When preparing to wash the windows Bridget
went TO the back door and saw the prisoner
there and asked her not to lock the door. as size
wanted 10 come IN and get her water. but she
said afterward that she might lock it if sine
wished and she would get her water from the
barn.
The door was left unlocked and the prisoner
went into the house In washing these windows,
there we're two sitting room windows, which
were washed first, then Bridget came to the
front of the house ana then to the norih
side and washed the parlor and dining
room windows. She saw neithe. Mrs
Borden nor the prisoner during all the time
she was washing these windows. When size
finished she came in. locked the door and be-
She had begun her work there when somebody
was heard at the from door.
let us find out wat time this somebody
came 20 the doo-. because it was Mr.. Borden.
Mr.. Moody finished his opening address at
1885.
OPENING THE TRIAL.
The government put on as its first
witness Thomas Kirnan, civil en-
gineer. VINO testified in regard to
the streets in the vicinity of the Bor-
den house. At the conclusion of his
examination the court granted permission
for the jury to go to Fall River and view the
Borden premises. Miss Borden declined to go
with them.
Mr.. Moody finished his opening address at
10 80 o'clock.
THE JURY DISMISSED.
The jury vas then dismissed to report for
duty tomorrow morning at O'Clock.
PUBLIC SCHOOL CLOSING.
When the Exercises of the High and Nor