People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — FOR HER LIFE. [ARTICLE]

FOR HER LIFE.

Wp* Lizzie Borden Placed oa Trial I* Charged with the Border of Her Father and Stepmother. , New Bedford, Mass.. June 6.—T?J# trial of Mias Lizzie A. Borden, charged with the murder of her father and stepmother, August 4, 1892, was begun at Ua. m. Monday. After nine hours of rigid examination a jury was secured. The defendant was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. She manifested a coolness that approached indifference to the proceedings. [The double murder of Andrew A Borden and his wife took place in this city shortly before noon on August 4, 1892. The body of the old gentleman was found on a sofa in the parlor of the house and that of Mrs. Borden in a bed chamber on the second floor. Death in both cases had been caused by repeated blows of some heavy, sharp instrument on the face, neck and head. Although Mr. Borden was worth half a million dollars, there is no evidence to indicate that robbery had been the motive of the crime. No plate or money or any of the valuables of the mansion were messing, nor had a single thing been removed from the bodies.

There ware, so far as is yet known, bnt two persons besides Borden and his wife on the premises when the murder was committed. These were Bridget Sullivan, a domestic, and Liasie Eorden, the younger of Mr. Borden’s two daughters. The first alarm was given by Lizzie, who ran out into the yard and called for help. She was suspected chiefly because of certain discrepancies between her statements to the police as to the circumstances under which the bodies were found. A brother-in-law of Borden named Harrington also testified that for ten years there had been almost constant disputes between th* daughters and Mr. and Mrs. Borden. They had been allowed 1200 a year each, and had been given property worth in the aggregate about 16,000. They were dissatisfied with this, Harrington said, and thought they ought to have more. Miss Borden moved in the best society, and wanted money to “hold her end up,” as Harrington expressed it The theory of the prosecution is that it waa the purposo of Lizzie Borden, by killing Borden snd his wife, to inherit one-half of the estate. Bearing on this point information was furnished the police to the effect that Mr. Borden was about to make a will. The police consider the information reliable. No will has been found since his (tenth and he Is believed to have died inteswte. It Is said that Lizzie Borden knew he was about to make a wllL Befcrre the tragedy Lizzie Borden lived the humdrum life of a small plaoe. She once taught a Sunday school class'and was bright but sedate. She made an extended tour of Europe two or three years »«o-l .