Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-07
Resumption Of Testimony in the
Case.
HEAVY Loss OF KNIGHTS OF PTTHIAS.
Arkansas Bank Robbers Run Down
and Surrounded.
OTHER TELEGEAPHIC NEWS.
LIZZIE EEGA,Ss COMposURE.

She Has Rallied Wonderfully Since Yester-
days Painting Fit.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW BEDFORD, June THE state began to
put in its case in the Borden trial today with
the assurance that the jury, having visited the
scene OF the murder, would understand the
dTi;t of the testimony.
1t was just one minute Of 9 O. clock when
Lizzie Borden entered the court room. She
seems to have rallied wonderfully from the
effects of her partial collapse yesterday. In
deed. when she left the court room she looked
But that is no. the fact.
After her ordeal most women would have
gone straight to their rooms and cried or laid
down to recover their equipoise. She did
neither. but stopped half an hour in the warden's
inner Office and talked English literature with
him. She skinned over everything from
Shakespeare to the Victorian with him, and
showed how well q life such as hers was at Fall
River can develop mind IN one direction.
There was plenty of time to read and think in
the Borden family.
As Lizzie slowly entered the court room this
morning she was pale. with almost waxen COM
piesIon and but very slight color. She tightly
grasped her smelling salts in her left hand. and
held closed black fan in her right. The only
change in outward adornment was The substi-
tuition of the familiar old-fas,,oned chid's face,
well known at Fall River, for the pansy
flower worn Yesterday.
Lizzie leaned her head back against the rail
and. upon ihe opening of the coart became
absorbed III the presentation Of the evidence.
no words of which escaped her. her eyes being
steadily fixed on tine witness.
The first witness called was Civil Engineer
Kieran. He was questioned az to the position
Of Ms. Borden's body IN the chamber over the
parlo- on the second floor. From his testi-
mony IT appeared that if the body was under
or partially under the bed Lizzie might haTe
come from her room and gone down stairs
withoa. seeing it.
Photographer Walsh of Fall River then pro-
duced the gruesorne picture ofthe bodies. which
ne said were taken on the day of the homicide.
The photographer gave place 70 Uncle John
Vinnicum Morse. Crcle John had been very
rastive down stairs where the other witnesses
are. He wanted 10 get IN where mis- niece Liz
z;e was.
Tall. erect and sturdy. the old ranchman
walked steadily 20 the WE ness stand and with
perfect GOODNESS faced ms inquisition. He
showed much less nervoJsness than at Fall
River. 1t has become old story to Uncic
John. He stood at ease with elbow lightly
resting on the bar-and ha ads half clasped, the
thumbs crossed
he said he was brothe- OF Ms Borden. the
first. Lizzie WIS thirtv-th-Ne and Emma Boz
Cen forsy-one years old. On Wednesday. August
last he went to the Borden house. He had
been a visitor there sev,.ra: weeks before. The
last time be Lizzie before that visit he
could not place. He arrived at the Borden
house at 80 on Wednesday. the day before the
murders.
MIR. Morse testified That ne slept Wednesday
night at the Borden houses bat heard no pecu-
liar noises during the night. The much-abused
Borden breakfast i,npro sec under mis- testimony
and 1t wasn't SO bad aftsr all
Lizzie's door was clOed when he went to bed.
and when be arose III the morning he did not
see his niece before h. left the house the morn
ing of the crime. He heard Mrs. Borden tell
Bridget Sullivan to wash the windows that
morning. He did lot return until after the
n;:rdsr.
Mr. Morse is grTelnment witness. but as he
will be called by the defense he Cross
examined lightly b. ex-tiov. Robinson.
He said the blood spots near where Mr.. Bor-
den Law we've not washed on until Sunday. aad
that Lizzie and the callers were in the room a
good deal OF the tims.
The prisoner watched Morse closely and
listened most atteuI;yely to every answer ne
made Sne had cared 20 pay no attention to
anybody else. but her face frightened just per-
eepiibly a. the man VINO Is said to have looked
on her as mis- favo-i5e niece gave his testimony.
Mr.. Morse was followed just before the noon
adjournment BY Bridget Sullivan, the servant
in the Borden family.
she told the story of her movements during
the morning and what Lizzie said and did IS
far a she knew She will be on ali day and
possibly part OF tomorrow.
She is the main rels nee of the state and the
result OF her cross-exa-nination is awaited with
interest.
The only other witness of anything like equal
Importance is Miss Russell, the friend of Lizzie.
whose lapses of memory at the preliminary
hearing at Fall River were only eq,ialed by her
remarkable recolective powers before the
grand jury at Taunton.
She is about Lizzies age. a fellow church
member. tall and angular, and was q school
teacher for many years