Show sensational SENSATION AI MURDER CASES the seasons may come and the bowns may go but our sensational murder trial we have alway the one at lincoln nebraska in which our townsman hon W H irvine is in the central fi figure guire to la about over at this writing and doubtless it will be followed in speedy succession by that of lizzle lizzie bordt borden n in massachusetts tor for the alleged burder of her bar father this Is ia a peculiar interesting case because it if guilty the girl la Is entitled to a place in history similar to that hold held by lucretia Luc retla borgia and it if not she is ie a victim to the most moat cruel combination of circumstances that ever hedged innocence around about A dispatch in the NEWS a few days ago announced the unearthing by the boston globe of a nest of evidence bearing so strongly in the direction of guilt that any other conclusion than that the defendant committed the murder would seem to be a forced and unreasonable one however shortly after omen a contradiction of the whole tory story and toll thin one circumstance reveals how great as well as am how desperate an interest la in taken in the pro ice edings the girl as aa she ebe to is called la Is thirty years of age an active church member fairly educated and with a past life whose record 0 so o far faras a known contains nothing disgraceful certainly nothing at all suggestive of a nature so BO fiendish bondish as aa the act with which she he la is now charged and ot of which she i is soon moon to be adjudged a las budged guilty or innocent she haa many friends who are interesting inter eating themselves theme elvea in her bar case and who will bar of nothing unfavorable to her altogether however it may stand and whatever maybe may be the outcome of the trial it constitutes a chapter of horrors almost without parallel it is ia said laid that min bordeo borden exhibits no BO signs of and thin does but add to the prevailing simpli cation if guilty it means callousness and a marvelous marve loui faculty of self nek con arol it if innocent it shows an ability to govern the feelings feell nga and a spirit of com oom in the presence of the moot moat cruel martyrdom such as ai are absolm tey tely mystifying what can it all mean |