The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-20
on 90 to your room. depart from th,. under

Jon go to your room. depart from this under
standing
You must leave out rumors. reports, state.
ments which you heard before the trial COM
menced and leave out every single thing which
Mr.. Moody said he was going 10 prove. unless he
did IL he has spoken for the Common wealth
aud the Commonwealth expects him 10 do just
what he said he was going to do. He said he
would claim and prove this defendant was pre-
pairing a dangerous weapon. lie has not proved
tt. has hel and many things offered In good faith
esuse they were not proper The Commonwealth
came here intending 10 do these things but were
not allowed They were going to prove that
this young lady went out to buy poison. but IL
not proved: it was not allowed, and
j shall expect the district attorney TO
get up and cay so shall be disappointed
IN him. They were going to snow the defendant
had cOutradicted herself. but the court said this
was not proper Now yon are not going to say,
rather think. Messrs. Knowlton and Moody
would not have offered this IL they had not
proof. but this won't do. Decide this case from
the evidence on the witness stand and nothing
else, so You will leave those things out. My in
tention is not 10 distort facts. but TO ind out
just how We stand. Things that are not In dis
pute will not touch aud trust will not by a
single letter step over the line of proof or deal
unjustly with the Commonwealth so dear To US
all.
Governor Robinson then began O chrome
logical description of the events connected
with the crime as they appeared from the
evidence. He said:
1. is for US TO sec il the defendant did IL. see
no reason TO connect a confederate with 1t.
There sits the defendant, accused or the foulest
and darkest OF crimes. Let us see where the
chain is TO be found which binds her TO these
terrible accounts. Why must the district attor-
ney show motive in this case. simply TO
plain the evidence. There il no direct evidence
against Miss Borden. No weapon whatever and
no knowledge or the use or one has been SHOWN
1t Is not shown she ever used an implement OF
such character. The evidence shows she did
not know where they were kept. Not a spot
or N feet
or anywhere. Think or It. Yes, there was one
spot on her skirt as big the point OF pin
mad done 1t, In an out or the way place don't
know even OF Fall River policeman, from the
top down, who believes that that fy-speck OF
blood had anything 10 do with the case
THE MISSING RATCHET HANDLE.
Then there was a bundle of burnt paper which
Dir. Phillip Harrington found. Then there were
mean assertions made that DR.. Bowen was doing
something. We thought they had the handle
there. wrapped up In the newspaper, and that
the handle had been burnt up entirely, and that
the newspaper, which lives forever, only re-
NAMED. What funny fire. That handle Is
still flying through the air somewhere. poor
orphan handle without its Ratchet For heavens
bake get the l25 policemen OF Fall River and
chase IL. Let them catch it and reunite 1t TO It's
Ratchet
Lizzie Borden was at home that day There
was nothing strange In that. IL better for
her TO be at home IN her room than out In the
morning and looked under the bed she might
have seen the body of her stepmother There
is no evidence to show that the door OF that
room was wide open. The prosecution assumes
that the door was wide open. The door may
have been only ajar IL may have been closed.
Mas Lizzie had no occasion TO 90 into that room.
She would not be likely 10 do so, judging from the
evidence introduced To the family relations
1t Is true that she went upstairs and saw her
stepmOther making the bed in the spare ROOM
1t makes no difference how many times she
went up and down stairs that day Grant that
soe did go upstairs at about . O'Clock Mrs Bor,
den was alive then. They say she stayed
up there without offering any evidence on that
point.
There Is the note Bridget says she saw the
stepmother get note from some who was
pick. and that she had gone out. Bridget says
"she did not tell me where she was going she
generally does She hurried otf" Lizzie did not
say anything about her hnrrying of. Now. both
Lizzie and Bridget tell about the note. and both
were told of IL by Mrs. Borden. Bridget said
Mrs. Borden was busting the sitting room just
before she went away. The district attorney
says Lizzie he'd about the note. Now. Bridget
tells the most complete story about the note.
The speaker drew the inference that it
wss Bridget who told Lizzie about the
note. He eontended that the burning OF
the note was the suggestion of Miss Rus
Sell and not statement made by Lizzie.
Contin aing. the Ex-Governor said: "a per-
son may say where is the noteF We can
not find II. The note may be part OF the
scheme of Mrs. Borden. There people
around here now who have not heard Of
was that il might have been written by
some one who did not know the trial was
going on, and If they knew 1t would come
forward and tell all they knew abontit. The
visit to the barn was next taken up. ME-.
Robinson said:
Lizzie had told Bridget that she was in the
barn. heard a groan and went into the
house through the open screen door. Dr.
Bowen asked her "where have YOU beenf' She
kaid she had been out in the barn for iron. To
Mrs. Churchill she said she had gone to the barn
screen. Mr.. Fleet asked her whether she had
been out in the barn twenty OF thirty minutes.
He had theory and was ferreting out a crime;
The said: II was out there twenty minutes"
He had not ordered her 10 silence then. she
eLlll breathed. although Mr.. Fleet was there.
Fleet said TO her: "well, call it twenty
You have heard about the picnic at Marion.
IL Is only natural that party of young folks
would want to catch something-fish. mean.
Now, did she 20 into tho barnl She says she did.
The icecream eddler came along. He had sold
Ice cream TO Bridget and had sold none to Lizzie
go he knew Bridget. He went by. looking into the
yard. He saw woman, not Bridget, whom he
knew. walking TO the house from the barn. II IL
was not Miss Borden there must have been q
stranger there. MnllalIy-you remember Null
lally-Ae is one of the knights of the handle. He
says that on Aug Rubinski told him of having
seen O woman walking from the barn 10 the
house. Mutually comes here and says Rubinski
told him 1t was 1880 when he saw the woman In
the yard.
Counsel drew attention to tho fact tbs
the stable-keeper where RubInski kept his
horse had corroborated him as TO the time.
and so had Newhall the man from Provi-
dence
NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS.
recess for i've minutes was taken at
this point. The summing q o of ex- Gov ernor
Robinson. so far as it had gone. was dis
eussed freely. Much disappointment was
expressed about it. The ex-Governor's
effort had not been so great as had been ex-
pected of him. The lawyers said the facts
In the case had not been handled AS they
had been led to believe they would. After
recess the Ex-Governor said:
Bridget, when she heard Dir. Borden was dead
laid she would go TO Mrs. Nhiteheads and tell
Mrs. Borden. il she there. That corrobO-
Rated the theory OF that note II you presume
that the defendant Is guilty the suggestion OF
The prosecution would be that Miss Borden told
birs. Churchill and Bridget TO go upstairs by the
front way and find Mrs. Borden. she Thought
slammiDg of the door, perhaps the moving about
OF some one in the house that she heard. Now
they say. she showed no feeling That whsn
her srepmother lay dead in the spare room
she stood at the head OF the stairs
aud laughed. Well, IL you are down
stairs In your own house and some one
cracks joke you laugh ut It. But suppose your
son drops dead In room upstairs then you,
who do not know he is dead. are hard hearted
way the Borden's lived, how the house was
furnished or what they had TO eat each day has
nothing to do with the case. The old fnshioped
dinner Ia just as good as the fancy things we get