The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-20
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particular stair. How was it the last day
you were at home? Do you remember
anything about it? i What time in the
morning didsyou come down? At what
stair did yon look at to see what you
could see? $. Right in your own house,
where nothing had happened.
Now, she told about the note, they say
and that is evidence Of guilt. She told
about
Mrs. Borden Having Note.
Now there is considerable interest in
that question, and I ask your attention
to it. You know that after the tragedies
when Miss Lizzie was asked about
where Mrs. Borden was, she told Bridget
so Bridget tell us, that Mrs. Borden had
note and had gone out. II said, who
is sick?' I don't know; she had
note this morning; it must be in town. "
Now that is what Bridget said. Then
Mrs. Churchill comes, and she says: Il
said," (meaning herself, II said where
is your mother?'' 'sShe said, I don't
who is. sick" Next question. listen to it
''What did Bridget tell you about Mrs.
Borden having 1oteps tsShe said Mrs.
Borden had a note to 90 and see some
one that was sick and she was busting in
the sitting room, and she hurried off and
said she didn't tell me where she was
going. She generally does.'
Now that is what Bridget told Mrs.
Churchill; you get the idea. Both
Bridget and Lizzie had learned from
Mrs. Borden that she had had note.
Mrs. Borden had told Lizzie. Mrs.
Borden had told Bridget. She had given
Bridget the work to do, washing the win
dows. She says to her: II have got a
note to 60 out and see some one that is
sick.' That was when she was busting
in the sitting room. That is when Bridg
ct says it was to Mrs. Churchill; that was
at the first, when there was no mistake
about it, And Bridget says: .'She
didn't tell me; she hurried off," Now
Lizzie didn't say anything about her
hurrying off. Nobody says that. BridgT
ct told it to Mrs. Churchill.
Taking the evidence that comes from
the living and that drops from the lips
Of the dead, you must find that Mrs.
Borden did have the note, and that she
told the two women about it, and hur-
ried off as they thought, and did not tell
Bridget nor either one OF them where
she was going. 1t was not of any great
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out and see woman and did not 60 out
as far as we learn to the contrary. 1t
was natural and ordinary thing, and
the note was thrown away and tossed
into the fire.
The note may have been part Of the
scheme in regard to Mrs. Borden. 1t
may have got there through foul means
and with criminal purpose; we don't
know anything about 1t. But that a,
note came there on this evidence you can
not question. That Lizzie lied about it
is wrongful expression, born out Of the
ignorance Of the facts as they were to be
developed, in this case, not with pur-
pose to wrong her, but misstating the
evidence as we all do when we do not
know quite what is coming really an
ticipating something that is not proven.
So say that it Is not true that Lizzie
told lie about it. If she did, Bridget
did the same, and would not say that
for minute.
There is nothing to connect Bridget
Sullivan with this transaction.
See how quickly you would suspect any
body because you get them under pres
sure. Now look at it. Suppose that
Bridget was suspected of this crime, and
Mrs. Churchill came forward and said
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read, how quick some people would be
to say, 'sOh, Bridget did it, and she did
it because she told a lie about that
note.' Do you see it? 1t is plain--it is
demonstration. Now dismiss it with
this remark, that nobody thinks that
Bridget Sullivan had anything to do
with this crime at all. Lizzie does not
think so, because she has said SO openly.
Now she told about
Her visit to the Barn
and they undertake to tell you that she
did not go out to the barn. Now let us
see about it. They say that is another
lie. We have got SO we know what the
small words in the English language
mean in the idea of the Commonwealth.
We can get rid of three letters pretty
quick, but you cannot dispose of the
facts. Now, let's see about that. Did
she 60 to the yard or the barn? She
told them she did, and they bring it In
here and they say she could not have
gone to the yard or the barn. Now let
us see whether she did Or not. If she
did 60 out to the yard or the barn, then
she was there, upon her own showing,
at the time when the murder of her
father was committed. You see that.
That will end the case if you see it.
Now, Bridget Sullivan said: II went
right over to DR.. Bowen's, and when /
came back asked her, Miss Lizzie,
where was you?' I, says, Didn't I
leave the screen door hooked?' She
says, I was out in the back yard and
heard groan and came in, and the
screen door was wide open
This was an August morning and it
appeared that before this time Lizzie
had been ironing, had been around the
kitchen trying to iron some handker-
chiefs. No doubt about that. She had
been in and out about her work She tells
us she had been out in the yard. That
was trues we will say, upon that state
ment Now DR.. Bowen said, "Where
have YOU been?" Her reply was, I'm the
barn looking for some irons or IRON"
Now, both can be reasonably true, can't
they? She could not get into the barn
unless she went into theyard, nat
urally, and that she should stop
there by the trees five or ten minutes lis
perfectly consistent. Does that look Tin
reasonable?
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