The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-06-07
MISS BORDEN'S ORDEAL.
The Governments Side Of the Sem
sational Murder Trial.
THE ACCUSED woMANs HATRED.

Remarkable Chain of Events Which Point
to a Cultured Young Woman as the
Author of a Monstrous Crime-DIiss
Borden Faints I'm the Prisoners Dock.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June 7.-The
court room was again crowded when Mr..
Moody opened the case for the government
IN the Lizzie Borden trial, and Mt least
third OF those present were women.
Mr.. Moody said, among other things,
that on the 4th day of August last an old
man and an old woman, without known
enemy in the world, were stricken down
by an unknown assassin. In the prisoners
dock Is n young woman, n daughter of the
murdered people, a young woman of good
social standing, charged with the crime Of
numbering these people 1t was his pur
pose, he said, to put the story of the Grim,
In the easiest manner possible.
MIR. Borden was man of considerable
property and of quiet, retiring ways, whr
had saved his money as he made it, anG
had maintained his family on what might
be termed a narrow scale. Lizzie A. Bor
Den was or years of age when her fathpi
married for the second time, not long aftc
the death of his first wife. The marriage
was over twenty-five years before the time
Of their death, and there was no issue.
committed has been occupied by the fam
fly some twenty years. There was or cam,
10 be known TO the prisoner and step
mother an unkindly. feeling. From thu
nature OF the case it will ! e impossible for
us to get anything more than suggestive
giimpses Of this feeling from outsiders
The daughters thought that something
should be done for them by way of dvid
Ing the property after they had learned
That the stepmother had been amply pro
vided for Then came a division and Ill
feeling, and the title of mother was
dropped.
The prosecution would show that a
dfessmaker of the family had spoken of
the stopmother as mother" when Lizzie
caided her and said: Don't call her
mother, we hate her; she's mean, spite
fal thing" When an officer who was
seeking information asked: when did
you last see yonr mothe,:" the reply came
from Lizzie; '.She is not my mother: my
mother died when | was an infant"
Mr.. Moody then went OH to speak of the
parents having been taken ill under sus-
pGious circumstances, aud Droadly init
mated that Lizzie had poisoned the couple
fos the purpose OF arousing suspicion
against the hired girl, Bridget Sullivan
sfter the completion of her murderous
task.
After detailing alleged suspicious CON
vezsations with Miss Alice Russell, to show
that Lizzie had murder in her heart, Mr.
Moody then produced the plans of the
house of the Bordens and the locality, and
described them plainly to the Jury. Con
tinuing he said: "On the morning of the
tragedy Bridget Sullivan was first up; we
may safely assume on the proof that the
cnsy human beings in the house that night
were those we have mentioned Bridget
gos her fuel down stairs and built fire
gos the milk 40 Tue rear door and locked it
nfier she brought it in. There was hscreen
dor here, and this it was which Bridget
locked after she got the milk. Lizzie came
down, then Mrs. Borden and then Mr.
Bnsden. lie did some chores in the barn
aHa was seen by Bridget.
After breakfast the first one to depar;
was John " Morse, visitor, and Mr.
Burdon let him out and locked the screen
door behind him. Soon after Morse went
away the prisoner came down and ate her
breakfast. While she was eating Mrs
Borden went up stairs and Bridget went
ous in the lrl, because she was sick.
When she came back Mr.. Borden had evil
dently gone down town. Mrs. Borden and
Bridget had some talk about washing
windows, and the latter Was told to do the
work. Mrs. 1rden disappeared then, aud
Il Elll appear that she told the prisoner
shr was going up stairs TO put some pillow
cases on the bed in the spare room. You
will be satisfied that this was not far from
o.9 O'clock, and you will lie satisfied that
she never left her room alive again. for no
living person saw her alive again except
the assassin.
nv. Moody, continuing, said that evi.
deace would be given showing that when
Mr. Borden returned home the front door
YVES bolted, contrary 10 the custom of the
hBase; that Mrs. Bordens body lay above,
dead probably more than an hour; tha,
Lizzie told her father that Mrs. Borden
had received a note and went to answer it,
That was n lie, MIR Moody added, to stille
Enquiry. 1t would be shown that Lizzie
barned dress, which evidently had been
Bpattcred with blood Mr. Moody pro
dnced hatchet and the skulls of the mur.
dcged persons, and showed that the blade
fitted the wounds of Mr.. Borden. This
hatchet was found ON the Borden prem
fses. The government will prove that not
Rihing in the house had been disturbed
There is no evidence of a struggle. The
aksailant approached the victims and,
without murmur, laid them low. There
WAS an unkindly feeling between the pris.
oper aud her stepmother. The prisoner
was dwelling OH murder and predicting
disasters. From the time when Mrs Bor.
dfn went up stairs to the time when the
prisoner came down, an hour later, there
was no other human being there but the
prisoner.
When Mr.. Moody finished his address
the Jury was given n brief recess. At the
close of the address Miss Borden had fallen
back in her sent, completely exhausted,
and her counsel Mr.. Jennings, and one of
the clerical friends administered relief in
the form Of smelling salts and cold water
When the jury returned the government,
Introduced its first witness, Thomas Kir
man. a civil engineer, who testified in re-
gard to the streets in the vicinity of the
Borden home. After this testimony the
court adjourned in order to enHhlc the
Jury to visit the Borden house at Fall
River
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