The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-13
A GRUES0ME DAY,
Scientific Horrors Rule in
the Borden Murder
Trial.
LIZZIE WEEPS MUCH.
The Murders Committed by a
Left-Handed Person Astride
the Bodies.
Fixing the Relative Time of Death
by the Progress of Digestion
and Blood Coagu-
lation.

NEW BEDFORD. Mass. June 13, lS95-ll
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,,
which the crier OF the court calls upon the
Almighty to save at the opening ana
closing of the session each dag. does not
present any stronger evidence as to why
Lizzie Borden should be convicted OF hav'
ing hastened her stepmother and fasner
to death, she will never be conVlcted OF
the awful crime of which she stanus
charged in the eiudictment. That fact has
become so apparent that some OF the law
yers Zone of them came all the way from
Georgia TO attend the triaD who have been
present from the .6rst have gone home
thoroughly convinced that the jury will
acouit the young woman now on trial toi
her life.
What the prosecution can have in re-
serve with which to conv ince the jury
of the guilt of Miss Borden. il it b as any
thing ut all, is q subject of speculation. I.
The evidence taken at the inquest, which
furni shed the prosecution with wedges
which could have been used to advantage
when she went on the stand, having
been excluded, the prosecution will have
to get along without 1t as best 1t may.
DR. DoLAN's EVIDENCE,
When the cass was resumed this morn
ing Dr. Dolau took the stand again, aud
Mr. Adams continued his cross-examina-
tiou: mauikin's head was set up on a
chair beside the Jury box AND the doctor
described how the blows fell upon the
head of Mr. Borden when he Was muir
dered.
The doctor told how high some of the
blood pots had appeared on the dining
1oom wall. Then he was asked ABOUT
~ n
troduced in evidence yesterday. Inc
doctor said he did not believe that the
slaln on the piece of wRinscoting was
blood He had been so informed, ne
said, by the experts who examined the
spots TO determine whether they were or
were not blood.
Have you an opinion as to where the
assallant Of Mr.. Borden stoodf"
Il have"
"W keref"
..At the head of the sofa and in front of
the sitting-rooK, door"
TIE MURDERER LEFT-HANDED.
The blows mad been struck fIom left to
right. a
Yes, by a left-handed person" was
the answer. =,
"Were they one or two handed blowsr
81 think the blows were struck by the
haichet held in one hand"
would not the blood spatter from the
halchet when swinging blow was
madef"
.It would"
"Ard the spattering would be abovei"
at would.o
The witness then placed the manikin's
head III tne same position as that OF Mrs.
Borden's when ne saw IL for the first
time, Mrs. Bor.len, DR.. Dulan said, had
the usual amount of nair for q woman or
her age.
Would NOT that hair serve as cushion
with which to break the force OF the
biowsr
.sYes, think it would"
"Aud WAS the hair cut clean and sharpT
s'lt was"
"As if 1t had been cut by a very sharp
instrument@
..Yes. The worst blow was on the
head at the thickest point of the skull"
"Were those blows from left to rightf"
The witness looked at the object be-
side him and answered slowly Yes"
"Now, was not considerable strength
required TO inflict the wounds found by
..No.n answered DR.. Dolan, '.the blows
could have beeh inflicted by person of
ordinary strength"
AsTRIDE THE BODY.
DR.. Dolan said that the assallant strucK
some of the blows on Mrs. Borden astride
the body.
MI. AQdm8 R0t b0 dskluk QuocoiouS
Sabout the pillow shams and bedspread,
aad made somet tof .tnemDers OF the
1nfy nervous. pe NJ when ne took
the pillow shaf% preau ana iaiu
1hen across the~ at ne OF the Jurors
while asking about, th They dld not
appear to be overfond having the ar
ficles spread out over then
The person who killed Mrs. Borden.
DR.. Dolan thought. must have stood fac
lug the east wall OF the room in which
the dead body was discovered.
During the course of the exa mination
Miss Borden betrayed some emotion. she
cried almost steadily for several minut
Occasionally sue removed the handker-
cp1ef from her eyes and gazed with some
degree of interest at a bunch OF flowers
wiich the Rev. Jubbs offered her when
he came into court this morning.
A JUROR FAINTs.
Juror A. B. Hodge OF Taunton fain ted
during the course of the morning pro-
ceedings. the court room had been very
ciose and uncomfortable, and it proved
RI he more than the juror, who is an old
man. could stand. He became deathiy
pale, and one of the deputy sheriffs
brought him some ice water. The pro-
ceedings were discontinued and the jury
was allowed TO have recess. MI Hodge
retired with the others, and. when he got
into the jury room. tainted. He came TO
again in a few minutes, aud then the jury
returned to the coufb routu. n cio tAeI
1uror fanned him vigorously.
- During the recess Miss Borden left the
court room and had a consultation with
ex-Goyerncr Robinson. When they re-
turned 70 the court room the cross
examinaMop was continued.
BLOOD ON HER SHOES.
Mr. Adams WAS curious to know II
there were any ather articles which he
had received from the Bordens Of which
he had not told asiyet.
"Yes," was the answer. There were
her shoes IN stocking"
.sWhaL sor; of shoes were they2"
.srhey were low cut shoes.''
sAud did you find any blood on any
part Of those articles?"
81 did,,
"Wheref"
ION the soles Of the shoes"
"Are you sure that was blood?p
Yes, human blood
Dr. Dolan was asked how long q time he
thought had elapsed between the murder
IF Mr. Borden aud that Of Mrs. Borden.
about an hour Or an hour aud half, !"
I6blied the witness.
The coagulatiun of blood was taken up.
VI poian said he thonght blood would
= in from eight or ten minutes. He