DEATHS AND FUNERALS
-Fidelis Frank, infant son of Joseph B. and Mary ENGLERTH, died last Tuesday morning.
-Mrs. Anna McGUIRE DUFFY, wife of ? A. DUFFY, aged 48 years, died yesterday at the family residence, No. 87 Edinburgh street.
-Thomas McANDREW died yesterday morning at his home, No. 152 Saxton street, aged 43 years. He left a widow and one child. A sister, Mrs. GARRETY, also survives him.
-The funeral of Mrs. Gamaliel CASE took place at the Methodist Church in Sodus yesterday, Rev. J. B. FOOTE, officiating. Mrs. CASE'S six grandchildren, Howard CASE, Charles CASE, William B. MORSE, Jr., Charles MORSE, John MORSE, of Rochester, and James CASE, of Sodus, were the pall-bearers. The members of the Sodus Women's Christian Temperance Union, the oldest society in Wayne county, of which Mrs. CASE was one of the original members, attended in a body. Mrs. CASE was a lifelong resident of Sodus, a prominent member in the W. C. T. U., and a strong worker in the Methodist church. She leaves her aged husband, 81 years old, and two sons, one a resident of St. Louis, and Byron J. CASE, of Sodus; two daughters, Mrs. William B. MORSE, of Rochester, and Mrs. TEETOR, of Dundee, N. Y. She was the mother of the talented preacher, Rev. James CASE, who died a few years since in Elmira. The two sons of Rev. Mr. CASE now reside in Rochester.
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Purely Personal
-W. P. MADDICKS, of Champlain street, with his son, will sail from New York to-morrow for an extended visit to England and the Channel Islands.
-Thursday evening, June 1st, at the home of the bride's parents, Rev. Thomas ? HOLMES and Miss Lois G. MAXON were married by Rev. J. Ross LYNCH. Mr. HOLMES is, at present, pastor of the Plymouth Avenue Baptist Church, but he expects soon to go as a missionary to China,
-Miss Kittie WEISGERBER and Frederick W. STIEFEL were married Wednesday evening by Rev. W. L. HUNTON. John O'CONNELL was groomsman and Miss Emma ?HRISTMAS was bridesmaid.
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His Tramping Ended
Utica, N. Y., June 8 - Arthur LITTLE, a boy 11 years of age, ran away from his home in this city yesterday afternoon, because he did not want to go to school, or for some similar childish reason. He went as far as Little Falls, where he was intercepted by the police and locked in the chief's office over night. When the office was opened this morning the boy was found on the floor with a bullet hole in his neck. He had found a revolver in the chief's desk, and probably when playing with the firearm, it was accidentally discharged. He died about noon without regaining consciousness.
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MARRIED
CURTIS - MARX - In this city, Thursday, June 8, 1893, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. J. E. MARX, 21 Vick Park, Avenue B., by Rev. W. C. GANNETT, Charles William CURTIS, of Washington, D. C., and Stephanie MARX. -Washington papers please copy.
FARAGHER - WHITNEY - In this city, Thursday evening, June 1, 1893, at No. 67 Atkinson street, by Rev. J. Ross LYNCH, John Moore FARAGHER and Florence May WHITNEY, daughter of Jane A. and the late Richard L. WHITNEY.
HOLMES - MAXON - In this city, Thursday June 1, 1893, at the home of the bride's parents, by Rev. J. Ross LYNCH, Rev. Thomas D. HOLMES and Miss Lois G. MAXON.
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NO NEARER THE TRUTH
Yesterday's Proceedings in the Borden TrialNew Bedford, Mass., June 8 - It was a bad day for Lizzie BORDEN, a day full of suggestions of her guilt. As usual her physical condition seemed to forshadow what was to come. She was all but motionless most of the day. All of her stoicism seemed to have returned to her. It is the general belief that the government brought out its worst to- day, and reached the summit of its little hillock of circumstantial evidence against the unhappy woman. And yet, after all, the principal testimony was as to that burning of her dress, which had been foreshadowed by the government. That, and the facts connected with her singular actions, made up the measure of the injury done to her case.
All day the government kept bringing out its most important and, as it thought, its most damaging points, and just as steadily ex-Governor ROBINSON, on behalf of Miss BORDEN, either riddled them or tried to do so. Ex- Governor ROBINSON is certainly without an equal in New York city as a cross-examiner. His ability is very like that of an actor. He changes his mood to suit his own purposes.
The government kept on weaving its web all day and the woman's counsel kept breaking through it at every vulnerable point, so that while the web was there at the close of the day, it was all tat??rs.
Lizzie BORDEN attracted the general attention all day, of course, but she did nothing to deserve it. She may be said to have done nothing at all but sit still, well back in her chair, and generally her chin on her hand, her right hand in the morning and her left one in the afternoon. Once she attracted adverse attention. It was when the first blood in this terrible bloody case was shown in the form of a saturated handkerchief, carried about like a British flag by District Attorney MOODY. She turned her head as she had never done before, so that her chin was over her shoulder and she cast her eyes down. And yet, any woman might have done the same thing. Most fair-minded persons here are of the opinion that there has been nothing yet brought forward that does not tend to prove the woman innocent quite as much as to suggest her guilty.
The commonwealth to-day concluded its effort to exactly fix the time of the murder of Mr. BORDEN. It has at least narrowed things down so that, if Lizzie BORDEN is the murderess, she can have had only from eight to thirteen minutes in which to conceal all traces of the murder of her father after she did the bloody deed. The first witness of the day was Seabury W. BOWEN, the family physician of the BORDENS, who was the first person summoned by Miss BORDEN after the murder.
Melvin O. ADAMS took Mr. ROBINSON'S place as cross-examiner of the witness. He had sufficient success to have satisfied even his brilliant colleague. He brought out from the doctor the fact that Miss BORDEN was under the influence of morphine for several days after the murder. On the day of the murder he gave her bromo-caffeine. For Friday and Saturday, he prescribed morphine. On Friday he gave her an eighth of a grain, and on Saturday double as much. She had it again on Sunday and Monday, and had it all the time she was at the police station.
"I suppose physicians understood that when morphine is given. It affects
the memory, changes the view of things and gives people hallucinations."
"Yes, sir."
Lizzie BORDEN has been accused of many contradictions in her stories; of
peculiar behavior after the murder in her house, and when under examination.
The defense can now ascribe to the morphine as much of this as it pleases.
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Yesterday's Evidence
New Bedford, June 8 - The first witness called in the BORDEN trial to-day
was Mrs. CHURCHILL, the previous call for Dr. BOWEN having been rescinded. Mrs.
CHURCHILL not being present, Dr. BOWEN was put on the stand. He said:
"I have lived at my present residence twenty-one
years, which is diagonally opposite the BORDEN house. I have been the family
physician nearly all that time. I recall the day of August 4, 1892. I saw Mr.
BORDEN the day before, about ? o'clock, going down the street. I testified at
the inquest, but do not recall that I then said that I saw him going up the
street on Wednesday. (The notes showed he did say so, but witness said it was
a mistake.) I think it was after 11 and before 11:30 o'clock that I returned
to my house on the morning of the Wednesday. When I returned Mrs. BORDEN spoke
to me, and in consequence of that I went to the BORDEN house. I saw Miss Lizzie
BORDEN and Mrs. CHURCHILL there; they were in the side hall, just at the end
of it, near the kitchen door. I said: ‘Lizzie, what's the matter?" She
said: ‘Father has been killed or stabbed.' I asked: "Where is your father?"
She said: ‘In the sitting room.' That was all that was said in that connection
at that time. In consequence of what she said, I went into the dining room and
then into the sitting room. I saw the form of Mr. BORDEN lying on the sofa at
the left of the sitting room door. I found upon inspection that his face was
badly cut, apparently with a sharp instrument; felt of his pulse and was satisfied
that he was dead.
"I glanced about the room and saw that nothing was disturbed. He was lying on his right side with his face toward the south. The face was hardly recognizable." (Photograph shown and identified) Witness continued: "I don't think the photograph shows the case of a person asleep; in this the form has sunk down from where I first saw it; by sinking I mean the general collapse." (During the showing of the picture Lizzie kept her eyes riveted on the floor, never once glancing up.)
Witness said, in explaining the picture to the jury: "The head is lower
than it was. The sofa has been moved; it was when I saw it even with the door;
with reference to the back of the sofa the head is substantially as when I saw
it."
The picture was marked "17" and put in evidence.
Witness continuing, said: "As I went to the sitting room, Lizzie followed
me part way and as I turned to go out after finding he was dead I asked her
if she had seen any one, and she said no, she said: ‘In the barn to get some
iron.' She sais she was afraid her father had had trouble with some of his tenants.
Then I asked her to get something to cover Mr. BORDEN, and Bridget brought me
a sheet. The sheet was brought from Mr. BORDEN'S room, and the key was taken
from the mantel, I believe, where it usually kept. After the sheet was used
Lizzie asked if I would telegraph to Emma, and, in consequence of that request,
I did so.
"Up to that time nothing had been said of Mrs. BORDEN, but just before I went to the telegraph office somebody asked me where Mrs. BORDEN was and Lizzie said she had received a note to visit a sick friend and had gone out. As I was going out I met officer ALLAN. I know it was he, but I can't tell how long it was after I went there that I met him. On my return from the telegraph office I met in the kitchen hallway Mrs. CHURCHILL, and she said they had found Mrs. BORDEN up stairs in the front room. She said I had better go up and see her. I went through the dining room and sitting room and up the front stairs, stopping a moment at the door of the guest chamber.
"At that point I looked over the bed and saw the prostrate form of Mrs. BORDEN. Then I was standing in the doorway. I went around at the foot of the bed and placed my hand on her head and found a wound in her head; then I felt her pulse and found she was dead. I never said to any one that she died of fright or in a faint; but I will say this: My first thought was that she had fainted. I went downstairs and told the people that Mrs. BORDEN was dead; that I thought she was killed by the same instrument with which Mr. BORDEN was killed, and that I considered it fortunate that Lizzie was out of the way."
Here photograph of Mrs. BORDEN was shown and witness said Mrs. BORDEN was
lying nearer the bed when he saw her. As this picture went the rounds and was
commented upon Lizzie covered her eyes but there were no tears.
Witness continued: "Her arms were a little lower
down at the time than in the photograph. In other respects the position is the
same. When I was in the house in the morning I saw Lizzie had changed her dress,
a pink wrapper, but did not notice the first dress worn as to color and material."
On cross-examination witness said: "I think Dr. DOLAN was at the house within ten minutes after I came down stairs from seeing Mrs. BORDEN, and when he went up stairs I went with him. We made nothing more than an observation of the body. I don't think the body had moved since I first saw it. I did not notice the arms, however. I was present at the autopsy and took some notes on the condition of Mrs. BORDEN. The other autopsy was made the same afternoon. When I went down stairs first Lizzie was in the kitchen. Lizzie, Mrs. CHURCHILL, Miss RUSSELL and my wife and Bridget were in the kitchen; they were fanning her and working over her.
Witness testified that he had attended Lizzie up to the time of her arrest, and given her several doses of morphine. There was no question about the effect of the morphine on the mind; it affects the mind by changing and altering views and gives hallucinations.
Bridget SULLIVAN was recalled and examined by Mr. ROBINSON. "I said
yesterday that I went in the cellar with some officers; three of them; they
were FLEET, DOHERTY and MEDLEY; I don't remember about any one else going down;
I did not show them anything; they found some axes in the closet alongside the
steam heater; I did not know the men then; I did show them where the axes were,
but I did not take them out, I am sure of that. I never had them in my hands
at all. I don't know what was done with them; I did not stay there all the afternoon
with the men; I do not know what time it was. I only know the axes were taken
up stairs."
Bridget was asked if she had heard Lizzie BORDEN
crying on the morning of the tragedy.
"I did not," she answered.
Ex-Governor ROBINSON took up a stenographic report of the inquest, and read
from that the statement by Bridget that she had seen Miss Lizzie crying.
"That must be wrong," she said, "I
never said that."
"Well," said the lawyer, sarcastically,
"your memory is better now than it was then, isn't it?"
"I don't care what my memory is," was the
rejoinder. "I know I didn't say that because I never saw her crying."
"Will you swear to that?"
"Yes, I'll swear to it." Bridget was firm
as a rock on that point. She was excused.
Mrs. Adelaide B. CHURCHILL, a widow and a neighbor of the BORDENS, was called
Mrs. CHURCHILL had been out shopping and when she reached home she looked out
of her window and saw Lizzie BORDEN leaning against the door of the BORDEN house.
"She seemed agitated," said witness.
"I opened the window and said to her:
‘Lizzie, what is the matter.'" she answered, "Oh, Mrs. CHURCHILL,
come over. Someone has killed papa."
"When Bridget spoke about Mrs. BORDEN,"
Mrs. CHURCHILL continued, "Lizzie said she thought she had heard Mrs. BORDEN
go up stairs. Mrs. CHURCHILL and Bridget then went up stairs and found the body.
Mr. MOODY then asked several questions regarding the dress worn by Lizzie
on the morning of the murder. Continuing Mrs. CHURCHILL sais when she first
saw Miss BORDEN her appearance was very unusual.
"Miss Lizzie looked," she said, "as
if some one in the house was sick.
"Her appearance was startling?"
"Yes, it was. Bridget was then trying to get
Dr. BOWEN. Lizzie did not go up stairs while I was there. Miss BORDEN was very
excited when she lay on the lounge. I bathed her temples and face. There was
no blood on her face. Earlier in the morning, when I had first gone into the
house, after Lizzie told me of the note to her stepmother, Bridget said to me,
‘Mrs. BORDEN received a note from somebody who was sick. She was dusting the
sitting room at the time. She hurried off. She did not tell me where she was
going. She generally does.'"
Miss RUSSELL told of all the conversation they had that night, and in it was something about the illness in the BORDEN house. "Lizzie," she said, "told me that her folks had been sick. ‘All of us were sick, except Maggie,' meaning Bridget. ‘I was not so sick as the others. I heard them vomiting in the night and I went and asked them if I could do anything for them. They said I could not.' Another thing she said was: ‘I feel as if I wanted to sleep with one eye open about half the time. I am afraid that something will happen.' She spoke, too, of angry words her father had with a man, and told of the breaking into the barn."
Miss RUSSELL told how she was summoned the next morning and went right around
to Miss BORDEN. Lizzie told her what had happened and said, among other things,
that she had gone to the barn to get a piece of tin or iron with which to fix
her screen. While Miss RUSSELL stayed there Lizzie went up to her room twice.
Each time she had to unlock her door, as she did not leave it open either time.
Mr. MOODY wanted to know when she had gone up stairs, that
is to bed.
Witness said she did not know in a manner that was peculiar. She manifested the same peculiarity of voice and manner during all the time she was testifying as to where she had slept while in the BORDEN house and as to how often she had seen Lizzie that night. Then she came down to the burning of the dress.
"I went into the kitchen. Miss Emma was there. Lizzie was standing by
the stove with a skirt in her hand. Emma asked her what she was going to do
with it. Lizzie said it was all covered with paint and that she was going to
burn it up. She put it in the stove. I said to her: ‘Lizzie, I would not have
done that. I've been asked about those dresses.' Lizzie said to me ‘Oh, why
did you let me do it? I would not have done it.'
"Now, Miss Russell," said Mr. MOODY, "you
were a witness at all three of the proceedings that were had in this case before
the trial here, were you not?"
"Yes."
"And did you say anything about the burning of the
dress before this?"
"No."
The defense objected, and so Mr. MOODY said he would not press the question.
Miss RUSSELL was then asked about the note. She said:
"Dr. BOWEN came to the BORDEN house and asked
Miss BORDEN if she had found the note which she said had been received by her
step-mother. Lizzie said she thought she had seen the note in the waste basket
and had put it in the fire."
"What kind of a dress was it that you saw Miss
BORDEN put into the stove?"
"It was a light blue dress with a dark blue figure
in it."
She said she occupied the room in which Mr. and Mrs. BORDEN had slept on Thursday and Friday nights. On Saturday and Sunday nights she slept in Emma BORDEN'S room. She said that she did not sleep at all on Thursday night.
On cross-examination, Miss RUSSELL said that when Miss Lizzie had the skirt of the dress she burned over her arm, the waist was on a covered shelf in the kitchen.Officer George W. ALLEN, of the Fall River police force, said he was sent to the BORDEN house at 11:15 o'clock on the morning of August 4th. He described the manner in which he went, and about enlisting Mr. SAWYER for an outside guard. He saw Lizzie at the table in the kitchen, and he also saw the body of Mr. BORDEN. He saw that the front door was locked with a night lock and a bolt. Witness saw a clothes press in the kitchen and looked into it. When he went to the station and reported to the marshal, he had not heard of Mrs. BORDEN's death. He detailed his coming again and his scratches through the house, and his finding the cellar door locked on the inside, or bolted. Witness said that when he saw the body of Mrs. BORDEN there was a small stand upon which were two books and a small oil lamp, about three feet away, but there were no marks of blood on the books or the stand. He noticed a bloody handkerchief on the guest chamber floor, lying about midway between the body and the wall. Cross examination failed to bring out anything of importance.
Francis H. WIXOM, deputy sheriff, next testified, but his evidence was not important. "Was anything said about her room?" asked Mr.
MOODY.
"Yes."
"What was it?"
"She said there was no use searching her room, as
no one could get in or through anything, as she kept it locked always when she
went down stairs."
FLEET told of the finding of the axes and hatchets. The broken hatchet was found in the cellar. When found it was covered with either dust or ashes, he could not tell which. The break in the handle was new. The manner in which the ashes or dust appeared in the cut indicated that an effort had been made to have the break appear like an old one. The hatchet was in a box in the cellar. FLEET went to the barn, he said, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It was very hot there. There was a lot of hay that covered nearly all the north side of the barn. He remained in the barn long enough to search through the hay in order to make sure that no one was hidden in it.
"Did you notice anything particular about the hay
when you went up there the first time?"
"No."
"Did you see anything of a basket or a box of lead?"
"I saw the basket on the south side of the barn, up
stairs. There were pieces of iron and the like in it."
Cross-examined by ex-Governor ROBINSON, FLEET said:
I have testified before in this case; I think I have testified the same as
before.
"Haven't you told more than before?"
"I don't think so; I may have."
"Why do you hesitate?"
"I don't think I do."
"Have you added to your testimony this time?"
"I don't know."
"Really?"
"That's what I say."
"Do you mean it?"
"I do. I think I gave you more names this time than
I did at the first hearing."
"Because I didn't think it necessary and I wasn't
asked. It was when Lizzie was in her room that she said she didn't believe Mr.
MORSE or Maggie had anything to do with it. I went down in the cellar when I
came down from the attic. I had been in the room on the second floor the hook
on the door in Lizzie's room was not pulled off. When I got there the door was
hooked; locked on both sides. That day I searched Lizzie's and Emma's rooms;
two officers were with me; Dr. BOWEN, Mrs. HOLMES and Lizzie BORDEN were there
too; we looked in the drawers, around and under the bed, but did not look as
closely as we might have done, and ought to have done. We were looking for the
instrument or anything else of interest in connection with the matter. We didn't
expect to find the murderer." (Here witness and counsel had a little brush
over the witness's characterizing Dr. BOWEN'S actions at Lizzie's door as "holding
the fort," but the witness said that was about as it was)
Witness continued: "I found in that big closet dresses hung on one side
of the room, and boxes on the floor. The dresses were exposed I think, as they
hung on the hooks; my impression was there was a cover over them, but since
then I have been thinking that the dresses being hung outside, or turned, that
there was a cloth, and I testified at the former hearing that there was a sheet
there, hung from end to end of the room, and that I lifted it up and it didn't
come down. I have not been in the house since the other hearing. My search was
not a thorough one; we were not looking for dresses then; I did say at the other
hearing that I took each dress and looked at it closely, and I said then we
were looking for bloody garments; this was Thursday."
"Were you looking for paint?"
"No."
"Were you looking for blood?"
"Yes."
"If there had been any blood there do you think you
could see it?"
"I think I could. If there had been any paint there
don't think I could have seen it unless I looked closely."
The court adjourned until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
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