Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-03-07

| taken their fathers estate, which is
commonly spoken of as of the value of
S400,0 1t is proba bly, less than that,
but it is of a nature to increase greatly
as time goes on. On Aug. Emma
Borden filed petition with the clerk
OF the probate court in Taunton and
qualified, with a bond of $50 600, to
act as administra trix of her fathers
estate. The bond filed with the court
! by Lawyer Wood, as administrator of
Mrs. BOrdens estate, was one of $500
only. Miss Emma Borden is now in
control of the estate for her own benefit
and that of her sister Lizzie She
| has not yet filed a schedule of the
| properties which compose her trust,
but must do so within a few weeks,
and must therefore report her opera
| tions as administrative once wear.
| The cruel and gratuitous insinuation
that there may have been a will. and
! that there was talk of forcing the
sister into court again in order to air
this supposition, had no basis. If Mr.
, Borden had made a will he would have
kept it where he kept all his papers, in
the vaults of the financial institutions
with which he was connected. 1t was
said that he was about to make his
first will at the time he was murdered,
| but that was not brought out on the
! trial.
The new home of the Borden girls
| on French street is not on the best
street in the town, but it is in a good
neighborhood and near the most fash
ionable avenue. French street is a
modern thOroughfare. set with pretty
villas, generally wooden, in open
grounds with showing of neat lawns,
| foxx ND Of
shade trees. The new Borden dwell
ling is a yellow and brown frame
house, with a little pointed tower on
one corner of the roof and a porch in
| front and partly on one side. The
| house might have cost S., 600 or 81, 600
to build. 1t is not as fine as several
neighboring cottages. 1t is said that
the sisters employ only one servant,
as they did in the old house down
town.
Few of the overcurious ever get
there to disturb the women with their
staring, and, so far as that goes, the
change is a delightful one for both of
them. But it will be a long while be-
fore either of the sisters will be al
lowed to resume the privacy that
others enjoy. Whenever they GO
shopping or to market they are stared
at, watched and followed Lizzie got
her first welcome respite from this
! constant. though unintentional. perse-
cution when she went to Newport in
the summer. There she stopped with
old friends in private house and re-
manned unidentified by the towns
people. She walked on the ia
nous cliff walk and about
the old town, and even went to church
| feeling such a sense of freedom as she
had begun to believe must only be
| known to the birds She had a less
| successful experience during visit to
| the town of Warren. One of the BoS-
ton newspapers put her in pother re-
Gently by establishing d most popular
candidate contest. in which she led for
/ a long time. Altogether she got some
thing like 90, 600 votes, and the editors,
if that is what contest managers are
called-nOtifed her that she was about
to win and would be entitled to free
ticket to the worlds fair. Her
very able counselor, A. S. Jen-
editors to give the prize to
the next person on the hst-but Just
then the friends of somebody else
made rush with their votes and the
prize went to their candidate. The
jurors who acquitted Lizzie next had
| their pictures taken in an impressive
group, and dispatched the New Bed
ford juror with a copy of it to Miss
Lizzie Borden with their compliments,
doubtless fancying that if she pos
sessed a copy it would complete her
happiness by enabling her to frame it
and hang it in her sitting room as
constant reminder of an episode in
her life which she might other
wise forget. Unfortunately she
was out and could not person
ally thank the jury for it's thoughtful
ness. She has had narrow escape
| from breaking her decision never to be
interviewed. She made the decision
as part of her plan to contribute moth
ing that would lengthen her notorietv
or increase it. But soon after her re
turn to Fall River a woman who had
been kind to her in her trouble sent
| an interviewer to her with a written
plea that he be given what he wanted.
| This was hard to refuse. but
she kept firmly to her decision.
Lizzie bears up extremely well after
her remarkable experience: indeed.
she appears to be as we'll as she ever
was, and stouter and better looking.
The case is different with the older
sister. The family affection, the hor-
! rOrS OF the murders, and the long
strain during Lizzie's trial were more
than her nerves could endure, and she
is nothing like the woman she was.
Her health is far from robust, and she
has to frequently give up, or rather,
to break down. Lizzie says she made
up her mind not to allow her troubles
| to get the better of her, and she has
had will enough to remain proof
against all that has happened. st the
trial the lawyers on both sides de-
clared her to be most remarkable
woman, and people generally are COM
! inc to the same conclusion