The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25
LIZZIE BORDEN TODAY
SHE is NOW LIVING IN A COST
LY NEW RESIDENCE.
low the Central Figure In the Famous
Fall River Trial Is Living 1t Down
From Homestead to "a Moro Fashion
able Quarter.

Outside Of the busy little manufac-
turing city of Fall River, Mass, there
are few people who know anything of
the recent life and present circum-
stances of Lizzie Borden, whose fa-
nous trial and subsequent acquittal,
on the charge of numbering her faith
ana mother, six years ago, will pot
soon be forgotten. So great, indeed,
was the interest aroused in the case
at the time. that probably few news
papers in the United States are not in
more or less frequent receipt of in
qulrles as to her present circum-
stances, and as to what steps the Fall
River authorities have since taken to-
ward clearing up the great murder
mystery.
A series of such inquiries, coupled
with a rumor that this Miss Borden
had gone to Europe and intended
opening a select boarding school for
young ladies next season, has led
reporter to Fall River, who COMMUNE
Gates the result of his visit as follows;
Lizzie Borden, he says, was not in
Europe, nor is it true that she intends
opening select boarding school for
young ladies next season" 1t is true
that she may have plans in view for
occupying her time teaching few
private pupils, but there is no ground
for saying that she is going to open a
boarding school. She is more likely
to found library or give the town an
observatory fitted out with good tel
escope Of modest dimensions, but
strong magnifying powers; or perhaps
she may give the County Gaol an ad-
equate reading room, thus enabling the
inmates to endure the maddening
monotony of prison life. l called on
Miss Borden and found her the same
quiet and exceedingly modest young
lady that she was during the unevent-
ful years preceding the fearful trag-
edy. She has grown little stouter in
figure, a little more reserved in man
her, little more uncommunicative
IN her associations with people, and
besides she now wears glasses, which
lend just a hint of exclusveness to
her demeanor but after all she is the
same, well-bred, pleasing appearing
young lady who was welcomed all her
life by the best families Of Fall River.
Those thrilling scenes of '92-3 are of
the past. All that remain of the fated
Borden family are the two ssters-Liz-
zie Borden, aged 81 years and Emma
l.. Borden. AZ years old. They are in
separable companions
Lizzie is much the younger in ap-
pearance and manner. She is a plump,
large statured young woman, with a
large head and fair, full face, with
heavy light brown hair, and a well
developed almost noble brow. She
now lives ION the HILL" in the fash
lonable part Of the city, overlooking
the bay and river. The neighborhood
was not congenial to Miss Borden,
many of whose young friends lived
on the Hill high above the dust and
roar of trucks and traffic.
After the trial Miss Borden who is
said to have inherited the business in
stincts Of her prudent father, took I'D
her home mile away to the north
where the imposing architecture of
handsome villas crowns the heights OF
the fashionable district Finding her
self possessed of her fathers fortune
Of $3.50, ,O0O-that is, she and her Sis
ter--it was easy to buy a comfortable
home amid quiet elegant surroundings.
Miss Borden declines to discuss any
feature Of her life or affairs except
with her attorney, banker and busi-
ness agent. But those who have been
Intimate with herself and family long
years speak in this strain:
Since she was tried for her life and
acquitted. she has lived very quietly,
and seen very few of her old friends
and acquaintances. One of the first
things she did was to buy house in
the aristocratic part Of the town. She
when living with her fam
|ly down In the manufacturing district
Of lack Of conveniences. She wanted
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