The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
She Was Acquitted by Aid
of Sister and Case Was
Never Solved.
THE AFFAIR IN BUFFALO
e. L. Burdick Slain, Suspect
Died With Wife When Mo-
tor Went Off Cliff.

n TEW JERSEYS battling picture
N puzzle, the Hall-NIins murder
case. has held the front pages
OF newspapers for moro than two
months. This fact, reflection of con-
tinued public interest in a crime both
revolving ard fascinating, constitutes
a record Yet there are old timers
who contend that, taking account of
al the ingredients and circumstances.
the Borden case was an even more
singular mystery. Others, lingering
the files OF memory, hold that the
Burdick case still ranks first among
murder stories TO which the word
"flnis" has never been appended.
Andrew ]. Borden and his wife were
killed in their Fall River home thirty
years ago. Their daughter Lizzie was
tried and acquitted. Edwin L. Burdick
was killed in his Buffalo home nine
teen years ago. A woman was sus-
pected, then man, but by curious
chance-or was 1t chance EVEN be-
fore there could be an inquest, the
man and his wife fell over precipice
In their automobile and were killed.
leaving an Interrogation point that
has never been erased. Borden and
Burdick-two big BIS among the I'M
solved riddles OF criminal annals. Let
us see If they have any points of re-
semblance with the Hall-Mills case
Andrew J. Borden was president of
the Union Savings Bank Of Fall River,
IN investor in city and country real
estate, an inflexible New Highlander, a
big figure in his native city, hard in
q bargain but just. By the time he
was 20 years old he had a fortune Of
about s25o.000, which for that day and
place was great. He and his second
wife, Abby. lived with his two daugh-
ters by the first marriage, Emma and
Lizzie, in an old fashioned, straight
lined house at 90 Second street The
street was half residential, half BUSH
ness. Some of the others who could
afford It had built mansions on the
Hill, but the Bordens stayed in the old
neighborhood. Lizzie Borden in that
year, 1892. was 80 years old, her sister
a few years older. There was a house.
hold servant. Bridget Sullivan, and
an uncle of the two young women.
John V. Morse. was visiting the family.
On August 4. 1892. Emma Borden
was in New Bedford. The uncle, John
Morse, left the Borden house early and
did not return until il was all over.
Mr.. and Mrs. Borden, Lizzie and the
servant were left. At about $3.50 in
the morning Mr.. Borden went TO the
bank. A few minutes later his wife
went upstairs, saying she would put
fresh pillow cases in the guest cham
Der. Mr.. Borden. after stopping at
the post Office. reached the bank be-
tween $3.50 and 10 o'clock. He had not
been feeling we'll, and he stayed only a
little while. He got home at about
1880. Bridget was washing windows.
She recalled later that not long before
his arrival she looked at the clock with
her mind on the dinner hour, and saw
that It was twenty minutes after 10.
The front door was kept locked be-
cause a burglar had entered the house
within the preceding year. From the
second floor Bridget went down and
let her employer In. He went into the
dining room, sat down a moment. took
the key TO his room and climbed the
back stairs. Very soon he returned,
laid the key on its shelf and sat down
IN the sitting room.