The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-08
TRIAL OF LIZZIE BORDEN.
The Court Room Crowded With E1T-
bidly Curious Women.

Miss Borden Enters the Room Look
ing Fresh and Unconcsrned- Civil
Engineer Herman Gives Additional
Testimony as to His Measurements.
Bridget O'Sullivan Put on the Stand.
New Bedford, Mass, June 7,--At the
opening Of the third day of the Borden
murder trial this morning the morbid
curiosity of the female portion of the
community was catered to and nearly one
half of the spectators were women. Their
necks were craned ono way as Miss Bor-
den entered the room looking as uucon-
cerned and fresh as any one possibly
could under such trying circumstances.
After she took her seat Mr.. Jenuings had
q five minutes conversation with her and
she appeared very much interested and
animated a smile breaking out occasion
ally as the talk proceeded
Herman, the civil engineer who was on
the stand yesterday, was called as the
first witness. When the witness was
making measurements of the lower floor
of the Borden house his attention was
called to closet in the front hall. He
was asked if his attention was called to
the fact that one could go IN there and be
hidden with the door completely shut.
He decided it by saying that a man went
in and he shut the door on him. There
was no difficulty in closing the door.
While the man was in there the door was
left aiar and the man in the closet could
not be seen by the witness. The witness
was eight or ten feet from the closet door
at the time, and about the same
distance from the front of the house.
When the witness was near the parlOr
door his attention was called to the man,
but before he had time to verify whether
he could SEQ him or not he moved to the
door of the closet, and then he did see
him. The witness had made an expert
ment as to what could be soen of all OBJ
ject on the floor Of the guest room from
the stairs. His assistant had lain down
on the floor between the bureau and the
bed. Then the witness went downstairs
and came up in the ordinary way. Said
the witness: Il saw the man stretched
on the floor from the stairs, and the point
from which first saw him was the center
of one of the stairs which brought my eye
Just on a level with the floor. A short
distance above could not see him"
The evidence of the surveyors and pho
tOgraphers being concluded John V. Morse
took the stand. At first the prisoner
watched him carefully with apparent
anxiety, and then looked on with the
same indifference as heretofore. At 1920
o'clock, on motion of the defense, all the
witnesses except the reporters, Manning,
Stevens and Caldwell, Messrs. Buck,
Jubb and Holmes and those summoned
for expert evidence, were ordered ex-
cluded from the room.
THE CHANCE FOR AN OUTSIDER.
Morse testified that he was brother
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examined by ex-Gov. Robinson, as bear
ing on the possibility of an outsider being
in the house. The fact was brought out
that during the evening before the mur-
der there was no light in the sitting room,
and that unless the front door was
shut hard the springlock would not catch
and turning the knob outside would open
the door Morse swore that on reaching
the Borden house after the murder he
saw no officers in the yard that the barn
door was closed and that he heard no one
inside. This contradicts the states
claim that officers by immediate eKami-
nation of the barn ascertained that the
prisoner could not have been there at the
time of the murder.
Witnesses called after MOrse's examina-
tion fixed the time when MIR. Borden was
last seen. The oss-examination de
veloped nothing but slight confusion and
uncertainty as to the exact time. Miss
Borden yawned and looked on istlessly,
AN IMPORTANT WITNESS.
\ A buzz of excitement ran around the
room at 1890 o'clock when Mr.. Moody
called Bridget Sullivan She was
servant in the Borden family at the time
of the murder. She leaned to the left
side against the rail, looked straight at
Mr.. Moody and spoke so low that he had
to tell her to speak louder.
The prisoner remained leaning
back in her seat, but changed
posture so as to see the witness plainly
and watch Bridget steadily with ner
large eyes wide open. All the judges
watched Bridget carefully whilC she. tes-
titled to boiling the cellar door on the in
side two days before the murder, to hook
ing the screen door, to the sickness of the
Bordens Wednesday and to her own con-
duct, and the locked condition of the
doors on Wednesday night and Thursday
morning before the murder. She
detailed at length the movements
of the various members of the Borden
household during the morning of the
day of the crime and described again the
scenes when the murders were discov-
cred. As bearing upon the alleged i'll
feeling existing between Lizzie Borden
and her step-mother Bridget testified
upon cross-examination; i never had
any trouble in the family and liked the
place. Inever saw or heard anything
out of the way in the family relations,
and during my nearly three years of serv-
ice everything was pleasant. Lizzie and
her mother always spoke to each other. |
heard them all talking in the sitting room
that morning and Mrs. Borden asked Liz
zie some questions and she answered them
civilly and properly So far as l could
see they lived congenially and pleas
antly."