Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-06
MISS B0RDEN'S TRIAL
A JURY OBTAINED WITH UNeXPECT.
ED OUickNssS.
Tho Prosecution to Open This Morxing.
Story of the Cr!mc-appenrance
OF the Prisoner.
[By telegraph TO tho Dispatch. ]


patiently the sitters and ISLANDERS
waited until the bell on the courthouse
tolled. signifying the opening Of court.
At precisely 1886 Miss Lizzie Borden,
| the prisoner. came slowly into the court
room and was shown 10 her scat in the
! dock. She was attircd IN a very be
| coming costume of black brocaded stuff
| and wore pretty shade hat, relieved by
| a touch here and there Of blue.
Every seat IN the room was occupied by
| talesmen and newspaper no out
| slders being admitted up 10 that time and
within the box enclosure were few Of
| the prominent men OF the county, who
| bad been accorded seats BY courtesy.
The Jury was completed at AS o'clock
| this afternoon. The quickness with which
II was cinpanneled was asurprlse 20 every
| body. even the counsel. and the latter
were somewhat unprepared. Tho hour
was so late that il was not known whether
II was best to 20 on with the opening for
| the prosecution or TO defer the matter
until morning. and q consultation took
place III regard 10 the matter between
counsel. It was decided that there should
| be no opening tonight, and the court was
adjourned until tomorrow morning az >
o'clock.
District ATTORNEY Knowlton Is of the
| required now - finish ~ the trial, pro-
weed there are no set backs.
Charles ]. Richards. Of North AttlebOrO',
| was appointed foreman Of the jury.
STORY or TIE CRIME.
Hr. Borden and his vito wore murdered on
| the morning ~ August 4. 1892, in thor ho1sc,
| No. a. second street. fan River. The Grim" was
committed, II 10 supposed. between haif-past 10
aud a quarier-past / / o'clock Thero we're that
morning IN the house. which IL IN tho hHnrt OF
! the city. five pers0ns--Mr Borden ami his vie,
Lizzio Borden. the servant, Bridget sullivan, ana
John Y. Morse LilZic's uncle.
Morse. who was n guest Of the Bordens, lcf
| the house early md did not return until after
| the murders we're discovered. Emma Borden,
lizzic's sister, was away On visit 70 New
| Bedford. Thus II Il known that NJ the time
| the murder was committed there were four per-
| sons In the house. Lizzie Borden and Bridget
| Sullivan are tho only survivors. the other two
having been Mr. Borden and his wife.
The movements Of Mr. Borden That day have
been learned from the testimony OF Bridget
Sullivan nnd others. Tho murdered man. who
was president Of the | mon Savings BenK' lett
the house 20 20 downtown at 10 o'clock on the
morning Of August 4th. lie wont TO the posi-
ONCE and his bank, and stayed but very few
minutes talking 20 tho cashier. From tho bank
he started back home. Bridget sullivan was
Washing windows when no reachcd the house.
BRIDGET sUILIyAS's TESTIMONY.
she said that few minutes before Mr.. Ior-
drns arrival eue looked Mt the clock 90 SEQ II II
time TO begin 10 prepare GlhDti' CRY p'Hi-
lively Bridget declared II was twenty minutes
after 10 when she looked at the clock. Mt.
B0rden was at the front door Few minutes after
that.
B)rdcn house had been ransacked IN broal Day
light within n year Bridget, when sho heard
Mr. Borden Pt the front door, wont down ana let
him IN. She calculated tbat was about ten MN
utes after she looked al the CLOCK.
M Borden. according 20 Bri1gets story, was
in tho house 1T half-past 10. iie went 10 tho
dtnuc-rOom, sat down. and took key an went
ur-,fgjrs bc the back way. lie returned IN n rev
minutes placed the Key on the shelf ana sat
down ~ the sttiug-room. Brilgct says she re-
naiuei DOWNSTAIRS until five minutes - II
o'clock when she went up-stnira 10 lie down.
bridget saw Lizzie Borden pass through tue
sittiug-roOm into the dininf-Toom, carrying an
ironing board a iew minutes after MI hoioeh
went into tho sitiinc-rOom. Bridget declares
that oil This tune she did not know where MIS-
BORDEN Was. Lizzie had toll her Mrs. Borden
had gone ont or wac preparing t. go ou'.
The servant says she uAd been lying down only
ten or fifteen minutes when LIZZIE called her'
iz2io's voice told her that something had nap
pened. SIZE spranc from tho ted and hurried
downstairs she says she found LINE leaning
win her back against the Dack-d)3r' Ih%Ae, &c
coriing T. Bridget, said her father Wa drhI'
There ~ considerable dispute as 20 Whether
Bridget meant mat Live hat said her father
WIS hurt anu not dead.
lives diag0unIly across tho street. Dr. bo"fn
was away from home, and when the irlghten 7u
servant camo back Lizzie sent her after a. rs
Russell. who lives on Borden street Mhtn
bridget came back with Mrs. Russell DR.. Bowen
anu Yrs. Churchill were In the house.
Mrs. Churchill and Bridget went upsiars 70
look for Mrs. Borden, who they believed hau
come ~ while they were DOWNSTAIRS. On the
floor Of the bedroom, between the bed ana IN"
bureau they found Mrs. BOrden's BODY iHey
rurhed downstairs, and Mrs. thu'chil toi4 Dr.
Bowen that Mrs. Borden had been murdered.
According To Bridgei's testimony. when she
went upstairs 10 lie down Mr.. Borden was IN
the sitting-rOOm alive and we'll from niteeh 10
twenty minutes later that Is at from I'VE MN
ntes before II 70 fifteen minutes alter l no
WAS lying dead with about dozen cuts maze ny
an axe or Ratchet on his head and face.
WHAT LIZZIE SAID.
Whom Lizzie Borden was called upon 10 testify
she said her father complained Of being I'll ana
Inv on the sofa. She adjusted the pillows for
him. She was preparing 80 DO some ironing.
and a. her n6iirOns were not bot enough rho
went into tho bHrn-yard 10 pass inc llne she
would have 90 wait before she could use them.
I'm the yard she picked mp some pears thht
had IA. len from the trees. Then she went into
tho harm for sinkers for her hsh-lino, "a sho in
tended 20 x 10 Marion the next day 10 h.h'
She knew there were sinkers IN little box mp
stairs In the barn and she went there 10 get
hem. Tint was tho first time In three months
ane had been IN the barn. upstairs IN 'hr Darh
she ate four pears. AMI after looking Tor the
sinkers returned e. the house. Nnen sle got
hero she found her father murdered and SUM
mOued Bridget.
The heads and faces Of Mr.. and Mrs. borien
were 70 chopped and hacked that they "ere
beaten almost out Of human resemblance. II
Lizzie Is guilty she must have killed her father
within twenty minutes and thon appeared be-
fore Aer HslghbOrs without spot OF DiOpl on
nor clothing and without any sign that sho had
hastily adjusted her dress. In that time also she
must have concealed so effectively that IL mas
never been found the boOd-coVered "etpoh
with watch tho decd was committed, and she
also disposed OF every scrap oi direct evidence
thai would connect her with the crlWe'
lIZzic Borden wore blue dress wheh INC
uetghbOrs entered the house and fOund her
father and her stepmOther murdered. she wore
Il blue dress about tho house IN the morning,
In two rooms blood from the murdered ones hhd
spattered and epurtcd over everything Tor many
feet around the dead bodies.
In tho minds OF the authorities there never
WIS doubt that the murderer OF Mr.. and Mrs
Borden was smeared and splashed win blood
VITO the exception OF single drop OF blood the
size u a pin-head on her white un1ersklrt NOT
spe,k OF blood was found on the clothing LIZZIE
wore before or after tho murder