The sun., 1893-06-15
1WIE BORDEN'S WORST DAY
-, eide OF THE CASE DAMAGED
ny SEVERAL THINGS.

AAg
a.. states Testimony Broken by sSk,iruI
cro..examinntion. but tho Defence
s.,med Eager to Keep somo Things from
a., Jury-The states Cass Nearly Ended.
r,r BrproRD Juno 14.-The girl whose life
.t,o stake the lawyers arc playing for was not
'.torho.t today. Her face looked swollen be-
s..,h ,he eyes. as Il shc had been crying. and
.hs uas again limp and without energy. There
,o,cnse enough In the horrors Of tho charnel
sorse nnrformauccs of yesterday for almost any
i.s,,s NJ moor health to-day. and it turned out
.,., shc had been SO racked tho day before that
,.th sets Of lawyers had agreed to allow her
"a leave the room as she did in the after
r,on. rndcrthc Massachusetts, law prisoner
must hear the testimony at his trial. and she
,,s seated In an anteroom behind tho witness
sand. where she could hear the witnesses but
.oph not SEQ the gaping. battered skull and
,bs bood.saturated paraphernalia of the Gov
eminent side of the case. To-day she again
had TO pass the sofa on which her father was
hutchercd. and the trunks and bags and boxes
n ghnstly and sckcning exhibits were again
before her on the floor when she took her seat.
torafew minutes there was ilutter of bloody
cloths and CARPETS that needed identification by
ons OF tho doctors. but that was all. Tho
,lauehtcr-house phase Of the proceedings had
rossed away. In place of it the subjects Of cold
noison and unnatural hatred kept the attention
othe court.
The prisoner brought in snow white carna-
toI in the morning. and its stanlessness con-
trasted strangely with the notion Of her char
tter which is possessed by those who denounce
her They were better satisfied with what
damatists call the unitics" Of the legal
drama when she came again in tho afternoon
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rether with few white ones. She sat very close
behind cx-Gov Robinson. who stands to her as
father. mother and sister. all in one. and shows
her all the kindness she gets As nothing that
vas shocking was brought out, and as he was
eheery with her. she did not have bad day Of it.
The Chief OF all tho opinionated police OF
Fall River and tho Mayor. who is his chief.
eld OF very Frenchy call tho Mayor made
rpon the girls after the murder to tell them
bow to behave. and both related how. when
the prisoner heard she was suspected. she
said she was ready to 60 anywhere" a re-
mark that the Government considers indica-
tive Of deep and damning guilt. The matrou
oithe central police station. tho only feminine
connection OF tho police who are heaped to-
gsther against Lizzie Bordens way out Of Jail.
also came along with n significant remark she
had heard the prisoner make. The prisoner
said. You gave me away" The full effect OF
this was marred by the remarkable efforts Of
Lizzie Gorden's lawyers to provo the matron
untruthful. and still moro by the matron's ut
ter inability to remember that she had more
than once pronounced her own testimony lie.
Finally. ut the end Of a long and hot and te-
dous day. there was waged an earnest battle
br and against the admission Of the evidence
hat Lizzie Borden tried to purchase prussic
tdd to clean q cape with on the day before
the murders. Ex-Gov. Robinson maintained
that buy prussic acid was not in itself a GRIM
nal thing. and that II it was criminal 1t must
benlative to some other crime than the one
with which Lizzie Borden stands accused He
held that trying to buy poison was no proof Of
the commission Of murder with an axe. The
Court took recess and came back with de-
sire to know for what intent the Commonwealth
wanted tho poison incident brought in. Dis
ttct Attorney Moody replied that it was solely
toproye dcliberation. preparation. and intent.
On that unde rstanding. the drug clerk and two
others VINO were present with hun will swear to
Lizzos peculiar errand.
Taken altogether. this was Lizzie Borden's
worst day: in fact. the only one that has cast
In any part Of the testimony that was Of great
weight for or against either side unless it be
the prussic acid incident. But the damage
was done before that came along. The Jurors
Of the Then eS eSt 70
And soon We're marched out again. each time
bearing and seeing enough to know that the
they had all read. and that Miss Bor-
gen sAwyers were extremely y anxious to keep
i%ny s% the Eeep pDS Snsy
matters, without succeeding. so that the
marked regularity OF the day may haye
friends wers re- iiimid, iii and M nervous. Wills the
Government was businesslike. without any
absence OF candor or show OF too great car
First, the prisoners lawyers sought to shut
Sbd ~ inc 10, family cloak maker Of the Bordens.
VINO was 10 testify that months before the muir
der Lizzie Borden called her strpmother "A
mean nGooi-tor,nothng thing" il Won hardly
would be seriously cons sidered by either side:
Ater all. when it was allowed to be heard. it
tS aid not prove to be even the frecrncker that
ne district Attorney had promised. for the
Illness failed to SAY that the prisoner used
aS G, expression. We hate her" as has been
The next protes. OF the defence was against
uemsa ,nS admission Of the. testimony OF young
snS wUnan who went 70 Europe with the prisoner
that Miss LtGSio Borien told told her her she s"v Was
;sGrry ;arry I" te going home after such pleasant
iury was put out of thu room before 1t had
hel heaId any more than that the witness was tho
oDe and eong hSeR SersG G%ns wns to
Ngament. and H." testimony was excluded |
Sthe Court, little time after this out went |
Twas S because H." Government brought for |
MO me drug clerk who proposed 10 swear |
MN Miss Borden had Attempted to buy prls- |
seacid 10 clear fur cape with on tho day be- |
tt"rtho murders in her homc. His story is to |
valet IN o-morrow
jttnese occurrences may not prove mDortant |
!hthcir effect on the jurors. but they hnye had |
Me result OF changing many OF Miss porden's |
Ml"nas from entauslasm to tliuurhtTuInnss
Vhiy last hlght thero WAS n .:rent deal of tnll, |
o. tne ancr tine prisoners lnwyCrs IoI'.n
Put IN no Testimony for the Irisuner Sim, |
letting q lo case Tor III" GoNernIncnt r., tm th1
Jury Just as the Government lett H. consiao aio |
trable fraction Of the community l"Dim,yisal
th4t the womhh's lawyers could safely adoni
That course 1t wnS even said thai ~ iI'tt
MNrr police had glTen upall hope that the III
would be convicted. lo-day's urncec6inHl
have not strengthened these conditions
seemed to many persons that tho sum of the
testimony that was objected to had very iittin
value except for the fact that it was objected
70 4 iul account OF the days work will show
now nearly the Commonwealth has ended its
case Io,day's contributions were ali tag
snos and loose pieces and to-morroW's will
enn the Iob-lot assortment.
pIhe first witness was tho chic! OF the Fall
tNer police, Marshal billiard. lie swore that
" ald not go to the house OF tho Bordens until
me Afternoon OF the day OF the murder, Then
IT, TO- looked around tho yard and the pile OF
lumber and the barn. He found the loft OF the
tna tnah where the prisoner says she was when
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