Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-11-10

as to satisfy her critics she has given
it up rs Il hopeless task. They found
no end OF fault with her as long as
She lived in the old house on Second
street. Fail River. where the murders
were committed, and now that she has
moved into another dwelling in bet
ter part of the city they say that she
has come into the money of her muir
dered parents and is making it fly
Among the sensational stuff that has
been published about her recently is
the news that she refuses to wear
mourning and goes tearing through
the streets in a buggy beside her sis
ter Emma IL Il very light dress, while
Emma dresses in deep mourning. Ac-
cording to the New York Sun, the fact
is that she has on two occasions hired
her own and only horse being busted
by the work on the farm, beyond the
city limits. She has, indeed. worn a
light goWn-one of her old ones that the
detectives pulled over as they hung
in the girls closet in the Old house
after the murder. But Emma has not
accompanied her in deep or any other
kind of mourning, for the simple rea-
son that neither of these original ana
interesting women believes in wearing
mourning.
They never have worn mourning
They did not go to the burial of the
elder BordenS in that attire They did
not wear mourning in court when
Lizzie was tried for the murders. Liz
z1e wore It crepe dress part of the time,
but had Il purple feather in her hat.
The rest of the time she wore her
black lace dress, with the same hat
but according to the rulings of fashion,
lace would not have been considered
mourning, even had the hat been differ
ut. Miss Emma Borden has recently
had Il new dress made, the first not
able purchase of the kind made by eth
cf OF the women since the MURDERS
Their neiGhborS watch them pretty
closely, and know all that they DO
This new gown is decidedly not mourn
ing. Feminine readers viii know what
sort of Il dress it is when they are told
that the name of it's stuff sounds like
''Shallee de lane 1t is black with a
green figure i'll it. The light gown that
Lizzie is criticised for wearing is Il
light drab with blue threads in it.
The neighbors-bOth the friendly and
the unfriendly-say that the testimony
ut the murder triad created false i'm
preston as to the way the Borden girls
dressed. They never made any show,
but always dressed very well indeed,
in clothes of good material and plenty
Of them. They had their own means,
in money and mill stocks, and they
made good use of them There is equal
misconception, not as to how they
lived, but as to the style of their home.
The parlor was newly and styliShly
furnished for the use Of the young
set with substantial but not new fur
niture. There will not be much to
call the stepmother to mind in the new
house, as Miss Emma gave all Mrs.
Borden'S things to that lady'S sister,
Mrs. Fish, Of Hartford. This is the
elder sister Mrs. Whitehead, the
younger one, VINO lives in Fall River,
is yet almost a girl and would have
found less use for them.
In the new house in the select resi-
dence part of the town the young WO-
men will live as they never were able
to live in their old home, because their
former home had practically none of
the modern improvements. The old
couple We're satisfied without them and
the girls were far more anxious to
leave that neighborhood of stores and
tenements than to have the old house
into their new home workmen took pos
session of their old home and began to
make it fit for rental.
1t would scarcely be thought that
any one would be found who would
wish to live in that house of horrors.
but the women have already had APP
plicantS for it and can easily keep it
rented. They will only rent it to per-
sons suitable to the neighborhOOd, that
is to say, satisfactory to their old
neighbors with whom they lived TWEEN
ty years. There is never a day that
sightseers do not linger around the old
house, staring at it as If, by watching,
they may be able to solve the mystery
it once enveloped. Usually they stare
at the right house, easily picking it out
because of the barn behind it, but once
in a while man or a woman will
ha1 CT vi
wrong house and the people who go in
and out of it. When Lizzie was dis
charged by the court and came back
there to live she seemed to bear no
grudges against those who had been
obliged to testify during the trial
With the exception of Miss Russell, her
old companion, all the old friends We're
taken up again. Miss Russell is the
girl who told about the burning of the
Bedford cord dress. She is much to
be pitied, for she was rudely dealt with
in the Massachusetts press at the time,
although she only told the truth. One
other incident in the old house was the
murders She called on the day that
the family servant at the time of the
Lizzie reached home. 1t was a short
call. and has never been repeated.
Very much that is utter nonsense has
been published about the fortunes
that the sisters have come into. The
fortune" of the stepmother consisted
of about $1,7OO in cash and half Of a
tenement of the value of, possibly,
$1,000. This property the Borden