Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-08

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the room, looking as unconcerened and
and fresh as possible under such trying
circumstances.
After she took her seat Mr.. Jen-
nings had a five-minutes' conversation
with her, and she appeared very much
interested and animated, 3 smile break
ing out occasionally as the talk pro-
ceeded.
Counsel changed locations this morn
ing so that the defense could be nearer
Miss Borden.
Mr.. Herman. the civil engineer who
was on yesterday, was recalled and
measurements of the Borden premises
and surroundings occupied the jury's
attention. The surveyors and photo
grapher's evidence being concluded,
John V. Morse took the stand. At first
the prisoner watched him carefully
with apparent anxiety, then looking on
with the same Indifference as hereto
fore. At 1920, on motion of defense,
all witnesses, except reporters and those
summoned for expert evidence, were or
dered excluded from the room.
Morse testified that he passed the
night in the guest hamber, where Mrs
Borden was subsequently found dead;
he breakfasted with the Bordens and
! loft the house by the screen door, Mr.
Borden going out with him. When he
returned to the house the dead bodies
had been discovered. He saw the body
/ Of Mrs. Borden first.
II went up stairs" he said, land un-
under the bed in which had been
sleeping, I found Mrs. Borden. There
was blood on her face. | saw Miss Liz
zie Borden when l returned" That
was the first time he had seen her since
! his arrival the day before.
CrosS-examined by Ex-Governor Rob
| inson, he said il was about 11:40 that
he returned to the Borden house on the
morning OF the murder. He approached
the house from the rear The street is
| a busy one. He saw no policemen in
the yard. The barn door was closed,
aud he heard no one inside. This con-
tradcts the commonwealth'S allega-
tion that the police, by immediate ex-
animation Of the barn, ascertained that
the prisoner could not have been In the
barn at the time of the murder. Morse
told how the police had searched the
house, and he had helped them. They
found some axes, bat he could not
identify them now.
At this point recess OF five minutes
was taken.
While the witness was testtying Miss
Borden regarded him with hardly a
casual interest. She chewed on the
ring on the end of her fan.
During the recess Miss Borden chat
ted with NJ. o. Adams, one of her coun-
! sell During the course OF her cOnver-
sation with him she laughed, and at
that time appeared to be In a cheerful
! frame of mind.
The young woman was telling her
counsel of mistake made by Morse in
his statement OF the time her mother
died. When that had been put straight
on the record Morse was excused.
Miss Borden also conversed earnestly
with Ex-Governor Robinson, while she
nervously fingered her smelling salts.
A buzz of excitement went around the
room when Mr.. Moody called Bridget
Sullivan" She was dressed fashionably,
and leaned to the left side of the rail,
looked straight at Moody, and spoke so
low that he had to tell her to speak
louder. All the Judges watched Brid-
get carefully while she testified to
bolting the cellar door on the inside two
DAYS before the murder, TO hooking the
screen door, to the sickness OF the Bor-
deds Wednesday and TO her own con-
duct, and to the locked condition OF the
doors on Wednesday night and Thurs
day morning before the murder.
Mr.. Moody asked the witness to de-
scribe the dress worn by Miss Borden on
the morning of the murder. She thought
it was of light blue material with dark
blue sprig on it.
"The dress maker who made II Is the
same one that made Miss Lizzie's dresses
ever since she had been in the house"
She was not sure about the color OF the
dress.
II heard an outcry," she said, COM
ing down to the tragedy itself. Il
came dowh stairs and found Miss Liz
zie standing by the screen door, which
was open. l did not notice her dress
then. She sent me for the doctor. She
asked il ] knew where Miss Russell
lived. / said did, and she told me TO
go and get her, as she could not stay
alone. could not find Miss Russell. l
went back to the house and
estered by the screen door.
Miss Churchill and DR.. Bow
en- were there. DR.. Bowen said
Mr.. Borden had been murdered. /
said, Lizzie, II knew that Mrs. Bor-
den was at Mrs. Whltehead's, / would
20 there and tell her that Mr.. Borden
was very sick She said 10 me: Mag
gle, l think l heard her come in aud 20
up stairs. Go up and see if she is there.
l said I would not go alone. Miss
Churchill and I went up stairs, and
there found Mrs. Borden dead"
How far did you go into the room?"
~ went far enough TO see the body,
anyhow" was the answer.
Before Lizzie had told her OF it, she
had not heard OF any sick person.
''Dld you ever see hatchet about
the house that had the handle broken
oT?"
''No. sir, did not. The wood was
cut by man. on the farm across the
river"
That concluded the direct e1amina-
tion.
When ex-Gov. Robinson began TO
cross-examine Bridget, he tried &c show
that the most pleasant relations existed
in the family. Bridget said that the