Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-03-08
The HOME OF LIZZIE BORDEN
Memories Forgotten in a Change of 49,
Tn0SDhere.

Gnu OF Iault with her as low ~,
she llved IN the old house on $50 as
street, Fall River, where the mI,n .p al'1
moie committed, and now that ~
i moved INTO another DWELLING =, ~
octter part of the city, thew saT t - :.
sue mas come into the money ~ -.
murdered parents and is makino -
ny. Among the sensational stuff fha :.
lias peen published about her
recently is the news that sha
refuses TO wear mourning and ooas
tearing through the streets IN q
oussy pesloe her sister Emma in a
very light dress, while Emma dresses
IN deep mourning. According tn the
New York Sun, the fact is that she b b.,s
on two occasions hired a liverv te 49,, a,,s
ana gone out for ride, her own and
only horse being busted by the worl9
on the farm, beyond the CITY limits
one mas, indeed, worn a light gown
one OF her old ones that the detectives
Pulled over as they hung in the girls,
closet In the old house after the MIR
DER But Emma has not accompanied
ner IN deep or any other kind of
mourning, Tor the simple reason that
neither OF these original and interest
ing women believes in wearing mourn
ing.
They never have worn MOURNING
Ihey did not go to the burial of the
elder Bordens in that attire They
qua not wear mourning in court when
Lizzie was tried for the murders
Llzzle wore crepe dress part of the
time, but had purple feather in her
nat. The rest of the time she wore
her black lace dress, with the same
70
fashion, lace would not have been CON
sldered mourning, even had the hat
been different. Miss Emma Borden
has recently had new dress made, the
first notable purchase of the kind made
by either of the women since the muir
ders. Their neighbors watch them
pretty closely, and know all that they
do. This new gown is decidedly not
mourning. Feminine readers will
know what sort of a dress it is when
they are told that the name of it's stuff
sounds like ''shalle de lane" 1t is
black with green figure in it. The
light gown that Lizzie is criticised for
wearing is light drab with blue
The neigh pors-porh the friendly
and the unfriendly-say that the tes-
timony at the murder trial created
false impression as to the way the
Borden girls dressed. They, never
made any show, but always dressed
very well indeed, in clothes
of good material and plenty
of them. They had their
own means, in money and mill stocks,
and they made good use OF them.
There is equal misconceptions, not as
to how they lived but as to the style
of their home. The parlor was newly
and stylishly furnished for the use of
the young women, and the rest of the
house was set with substantial but
not new furniture. There will not be
much to call the stepmother to mind
in the new house, as Miss Emma gave
all Mrs. Borden's things to that lady's
sister, Mrs. Fish of Hartford. This is
the elder sister. Mrs. Whitehead, the
Younger one, who lives in Fall River,
is yet almost a girl and would have
found less use for them,
In the new house in the select resi-
dence part of the town the young
women will live as they never were
able to live in their old home, because
their former home had practically
none Of the modern improvements.
The old couple were satisfied without
them and the girls were far more
anxious to leave that neighborhood OF
stores and tenements than to have the
old house modernized. AS soon as
they moved into their new home work
men took possession OF their OLD nome
and began to make it fit for rental.
It would scarcely be thought that
anv one would be found who would
wish to live in that house of horrors,
al
plicants for it and can easily keep 1t
rented. They will only rent to per-
sons suitable to the neighborhood,
that is to say, satisfactory to their old
neighbors with whom they lived
twenty years. There is never day
that sightseers do not linger around
the old house, staring at it as if, by
watching. they may be able to solve
the mystery it once enveloped'
Usually they stare at the right house.
easily picking 1t out because OF the
barn behind it. but once in while a
man or woman will stand for half
dav studying the wrong house
and the people who go in and
o ont of, of Il. When Lizzie was
discharged by the court and came
back here TO live she seemed to pear
no urudoes against those who had
been obliged to testify during the
trial With the exception :, OF H. M n1d
Russell. her old companion, all the Ola
friends were taken up again. MISS
Russell is the girl who told oouO the
burning of the Bedford cord dress.
She is much to De pitiedI' Tor sne wts
press at the time, although she ohiS
foId the truth. One other lnclden0 III
the the old house was the visit Of Bridget
sullivan, who was the family i5s ss aal1s5
at the time of the murders, , sne taa,uu
on the dav that Lizzie reached nome lns,
u was vns a aI Snort call, and has never been
repeated. -. g rrrer nonsense
kat The the sisters have come into. IN
..fortune'' of the stepm,othedr Gohf
sisted of about ST. 700 in cash and ,,ass nav
of tenement of the value the R % girls
s,ooo f. t in's sisters of the stepmother
N.Y. Trs y Fish s and Mrs. Whitehead. IL