Show THE N MYSTERY there have been crimes widell stirred the public more boroi deeply tile the mystery conn bonneted eted with tile murder of 0 andrew J borden and ids wire ire wealthy residents ol of fall ulver river mass contains elements of uio the un no usual which aich lift it far above other similar problems and make it a atit fit subject tor for a critical examination by tile most distinguished distinguish ed detectives tit fiction sleuths who are always fur far successful than those of real life andiew borden vas tas seventy years of t age lils ills wile wife was ab sixty aty four and although tiley they were afterwards found 40 to be worth some they lived modestly in a comparin com comparatively paria dively small house and emp employer loyid d only on lyone one servant bridget sullivan this maidhof allwork all all work and cordon borden mr bior denada dens daughter u eliter by his the ille first wife nife we were re only persons persona in the house at the HIP time lie murders were discovered and au suspicion aldon naturally attached ibbe itself I 1 f to th lie e stepdaughter as bridget had not th the e slightest motive for the crime after breakfast on the morning of august 4 1893 mr orden borden left the house bouse to attend to 1 an t errand lit in the neighborhood and A mrs I 1 in s cordon borden went vent upstairs to arrange the elie guest room in preparation for some visitors mrs jirs borden as was afterwards brought out a at t the trial left the first noor floor at find and it was vas the last time done that she was seen alive both lizzle lizzie and bridget sullivan were in the kitchen at ten when allen mr borden returned to thi the house and finding the fro front 11 t door doo r the only other entrance locked came lu in through tile the back ay and went up lip to its hla room which communicated only with tit the back part of the house and could not be readied reached from the front it was about fifteen minutes later that lizzle lizzie borden bent ont upstairs und at 11 moment later shrieked out that her father had been killed both the old man mail and ills his ilfe alte iad had been murdered practically choplo chopi chop ld d to pieces for there were nere no lest left than twenty nine line wounds on the bodies while the rooms in which amy were found wore were spattered with almost to tile tho ceiling investigation shon shovel 1 that mrs borden whose iise body was its ills covered in the guest room had beet struck doan while lizzle lizzie borden wa war talking to the servant on the fit floor only a short time before while mr cordon borden had had time only to reach ills room before being felled by a blow that severed ills his skull in spite of the lack of eviden e against her lizzle borden was tir dr rested and charged with the two warders but was acquitted on the first ballot of the jury as it was shown that it would have been impossible sible for her to have killed her stepmother step mother changed her blood spattered el clothes othes returned to the first floor where she talked to sullivan for half a an n hour and then to have gone upstairs killed her father and again c hange change her clothes before giving the alarm to say nothing of disposing of the weapon which she had used on the other hand as the prosecution pointed out there was nc nc other person vilio mho possessed both tin motive and the opportunity lizzle borderi had quarreled with her stop mother so some ille time before her fathers will left tile the major portion of hip hi property to his wife unless he be survived ved her in which case it was to go to ills daughter the front door and all the 11 in doxsOn on the first floor ila had been locked therefore no one could enter without passing through 11 the kitchen where both bridget sullivan and lizia horden dorden were nere at work finally lizzie borden had discovered the crimp which at once leil led to tile the suspicion suspicia on that sli she e had committed it it but e eveni the f counsel for the state had to admit that the blood spattered walls and the total lack of any blood blond stains on bordens clothing presented an insurmountable sol oh obstacle staCle so far as lier her g gulit guilt was concerned ner iler acquittal however not only added aided a another classic to the mys mysteries of crime but preen presented ted two questions apparently ardently impossible of solution hv bv any reasonable hypo hypothesis how 11 had the fhe murderer entered the house when ahen the only available entrance x was as through the kitchen where the two ilow how lind lie be wo women men working managed man aged to commit two crimes of hlll 3 nature and es escape enrie with clothing which I 1 was N a certain to have been thoroughly hl meorl ancl at dined without attracting the slightest notice |