Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-25


and power that the possession of
large amount of money cannot fail to
| give Lizzie Borden read the writing
on the wall. 1t was then she first be-
I gan to feel the pressure of public opin-
ion-that she first realized that former
cordial greetings were growing colder
and more cold-that friends who once
would stop for chat or drop in for
an informal visit passed her by with
ecant mods and averted eyes-that she
came to understand the tremendous
force OF unexpressed criticism-that
the conviction came home to her than
which no earthly situation is more
crushing or more annihilating-tha
she was being Stunned by every hui
man being, with an occasional rare
exception, who had formerly made up
her life and happiness. 1t was all the
more terrifying because 1t was so in
detinable. There was no tangible fin
ger of sccrn-no open declaration of
hostility-iust that insistent. madden
ing, universal aloofness.
Never Wore Mourning.
She was criticised because she did
not wear mourning for her parents.
Her every going in and coming out
was discussed, and all manner and
kind of construction placed upon every
ordinary, unimportant detail of her
mode of living and acting. Some
thought she drove her horses too rap
idly and recklessly down the main
Left hot Oh hoI
never shown the proper grief ever
her fathers death. Others insisted
that she was making altogether too
} sudden and too blatant display of the
money that had come to her with tho
murder of her father She could do
nothing right. II she tried to be happy
i and forget the awful shadow that had
, come into her life her critics called
her heartless. II she appeared on the
streets in a sober, subdued frame OF
: mind there we're all sorts of gossip
ings and predictions and clackings OF
J tongues-such an attitude could mean
} but one thing to their minds
So the years went on, one after an
/ other of her friends dropping away
from her, until today Lizzie. Borden
= looking for all the world like any
other stout, matronly woman you
/ might meet on the street, is without
J In New England.
Seems Without Emotion.
She is today Just what she was de
scribed as being when she faced tria
for her life twenty years ago-a stolid
. immobile, Unconditional appearing wcm
amber large, strong features ex
pressing the same determination tina
characterized her when she faced he
accusers on the charge of parrlcide
If this woman has even had an emo
!, ton it can honestly be said that sh,
u has invariably succeeded In conceal
= ing 1t from any human eye.
She goes about today just as sh
{ went her way. firm-mouthed, direct
. eyed and battling of understanding dur
= ing the days following the discover
It of the mutilated bodies of her fathe
and her stepmother, during the in
10 quest that resulted in her arrest, da
- after day during the preliminary tria
IL at the end of which Judge Blaisde
sr found her probably guilty-throughou
20 the grand jury hearing when twent
ID out of twenty-one grand jurymen vo
W ed to indict her-all during the eigt
lie months of her confinement in Taunto
Is Jail while she waited the sitting of tn
superior court and during the lon
hours Of her thirteen days trial b
er jury which ended in her acquittal an
A release.
70 Months Without a Visitor.
ed Not in fifteen years has Lizzie 30
in den attended the church where up
all her thirty-third year she was lead,
he working for charity-presiding
ce meetings of the Christian Endeavo
singing In the choir-active in 8
he church socials and gatherings. Not
Ter years has she entered any store
he shop in the city where she was boz
at and spent her girlhood and youl
ga womanhood as the younger daught
ng of one of the city's richest and mo
ad- respected business men. Not TO Il
ed knowledge of anyone has she engag
hit in any charity for the past ten yea
The Months pass by without a hum
AVS foot crossing her threshold other TIL
ner those of menials and tradespeople
re- visitor at the Borden door is such
ide rare and curious sight as to occasi
this comment throughout the neighb
yer hood.
or Not only the house of tragedy
,or- Second street, where she was be
and brought up and which is still
ury her possession, but also her prest