Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-06
LIZZIE BORDEN'SCASE
District Attorney Moody Opens for
the Government.
TELLING TEE STORY OF TEE CRIME
The Jury Visit the Borden Home
stead at Fall River.
THE TRIAL CONTINUED
The jury I'm the Borden Case Visit tss
Homestead.


The Jury I'm the Borden Case Visit tse
Homestead.
Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
New BEDFoRD, MASS, June 6.-This morn
ing at O'Clock the trial of Lizzie Borden he
gan in real earnest The jury selected yesaer-
day were impaneled as follows: Charles 1.
Richards, North Attleboro', foremsn,
George Potter, westport; William r.
Dean. Taunton; John Wilbur, Somerset;
Frederic C. Wilbur, Raynham; Lemuel Z. Wi
bur. Eaton; Vim. Westcott, Seekonk; Lewis B.
Hodges, Taunton; Augustus Swift, New Bed
ford; Frank q. Cole, Attleboro'; John G. Pipn,
Taunton; Allen H. wordell, Dartmouth
COMPOSITION OF THE JURY
Mr.. Richards is an assessor Of North Atsle-
boro' and is a man Of about sixty years
Mr.. Potter is apparently thirty-eight 10 forty
years Of age and might well pass for prosper
Gus country merchant. Mr.. Dean is an old man,
with hair mottled with gray. He is Q Taunton
farmer. John Wilbur Of Somerset is also Q
farmer, gray Of hair and has Q military
bearing. Frederic c. Wilbur is q carpenter
with dark beard and hair. and is apparently
about forty. Lemuel h Wilber looks as though
he led an out-of-door life and is man of
medium age. Mr.. westcott is. q man IN
the ffties, with q bald head. and aouilsne
nose and sharp eyes. Mr.. Hodges is molder
by occupation. and, like several others of the
jury. his hair is white. Augustus Swift rs pro-
prietor Of the Acushnet iron foundry, former
member Of the legislature and is substantial
business man. Mr.. Cole IL one of the Attle-
boro jewelry makers, about forty-eight or fftv
years OF age. Mr.. Finn is an ex-member Of fhe
Taunton common council, and q clerk in q
painting establishment Mr.. Wordeu ID .
farmer. some forty years of age.
There were los Of the $50 jurors drawn from
the box before the jury was chosen. The eev-
ernment used Is of its 22 peremptory chal-
lenges, and Lizzie Borden IL Of hers
1t is county jury. but looks like one made
up of cool-beaded men, of sober tudemeat
Ii is satisfactory to the parties.
THE OPENING ARGUMENT.
The feature Of the morning was the opening
argument by the district attorney. He pictured
in tine graphic style of which he is master sbe
crime and described the evidence which the
state has against the accused girl
1t was powerful speech and Lizzie Borden
could not have been human if she had not
betrayed tome perturbation under its scsthiag
sentences. Still her fortitude was remarkable.
Ii is not the denunciation of the opposing
counsel as much as the words Of sympsshy
from her own that move her.
VISITING THE BORDEN HOMESTEAD.
At the close Of the argument the court Cd
journed in order that the jury might yixit Fan
River and visit the Borden homestead, DE
scene Of the tragedy.
A special car left this city at l2:s5 O'Clock
with the jury and counsel for prosecutipn sad
defense on board.
SOMETHING ABOUT TIE PRISONER.
Now that the trial Of Lizzie Borden ID really
on, word about the actors in the great lesal
drama viii be Of interest. First the prisonsr,
the central figure in the great trial Mis- Lizsie
A. Borden, is a native Of Fall River, born in fbe
old homestead on Ferry street, which tbs
father decided to the girls in 1881. AZ
the age Of fourteen she was at fbe
Morgan grammar school. . stout, blooming
lass She had only one chum a girl now msr-
ried and living in Rhode Island She wss cred-
tied even then with the sharp. sarcsstie tongue
which at the inquest stirred the wrath of De-
trict Attorney Knowlton.
At sixteen she entered the High School. bot
left before she received her diploma While In
the High School she began taking piano lessons
and they were continued after leaving school
She was noted for her secretivsness. Her
favorite historical character was Queen Elss-
abeth. after whom the daughter Of the fsst
Richard Borden was named, and from whem
Lizzie gets her own name, abbreviated though
Il is.
Lizzie Borden, the woman, was like Lizzie
Borden. the girl, until she Joined the church In
1885. Ever after she was a central figure in
every department Of church activity.
In 1880 Miss Borden made a tour Of Europe
under the chsperonage of Miss Cox OF Taunton
Macs. Her favorite work OF art was Rsph asls
'Sistine Madonna," /" and she brought away ssv-
eral copies of il.
COUNSEL FOR THE pEFKSsS.
Mr.. A. J. Jennings, counsel for the defense,
is forty-eight. a graduate Of Brown University,
and later Of the Boston Law school He was .
state senator In 1882, and is considered one Of
the ablest corporation lawyers in the state.
Milan o. Adams is forty-two and graduated
at Dartmouth in 1871, third in a class Of bFil-
liant scholars. He is Acknowledged 10 be one
Of the brightest criminal lawyers in Boston.
Ex-Goy. Robinson is ffty-nine, q graduate Of
Harvard in the class of 1856. He was in TIE
1875 and 1877. He was elected governor in
1888, defeating Gen. Butler for Reelection, ssd
served three terms.
THE GOVERNMENT SIDE.
On the side of the state there is Hosea Kno~l-
ton, forty-six years old, born in Maine, Q
graduate Of Tufts College and Harvard Law
School. He has served with ability In both
branches of the state legislature. He has been
district attorney since 1879
District Attorney Moody of Essex county n
forty. graduate OF Harvard in 1876 end Of
the Harvard Law School He has made sress
reputation as district attorney and hes bssn
mentioned for attorney general
All the lawyers in the case are eollsGoID1
men and all are republicans.
THE JUDGES
The most learned Of the three. judges = not
Chief Justice Mason but Caleb Blodgett.. Judrs
Blodgett has refused appointments 10 the So
preme bench at the hands Of both republican
and democratic judges. He win chssgs -
jury.
Both he and Chief Justice Mason were Cd
pointed to the bench by eK-Gov. Long. yuass
Dewey was appointed in 1856. He comss frvm
the western part Of the state and n htsls
known about Boston. His reputation kO0s
in the hill countisA
THE TRIAL
Mr. Moody Opens the Case fer the osv~u,.