Thanks for the link. That's interesting!
(I looked at the "Brief" and it's dated December, 22, 2004, for those who don't want to read the whole thing.
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More signs of suffering for Lizzie:
"Unknown newspaper, June 6, 1893"
"LIZZIE BORDEN
FACES HER JUDGES.
To Be Tried for the Murder of Her
Father and Step-Mother.
TWELVE JURYMEN SELECTED.
People Mistook the Prisoner for Bridget
Sullivan, the Servant, So
Ordinary Was Her Appearance
and Carriage.
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Mistaken For Bridget Sullivan.
It was just 11 o'clock when a closed carriage drew up at the rear of the court house. A deputy sheriff stepped out of it and held out his hand to assist Lizzie Borden. The crowd which had increased to large numbers, pressed forward in a sort of frenzy to catch a glimpse of the woman, but she slipped quietly into the building before they were able to do so.
The woman who walked quietly to her place in the prisoner's dock, was not the woman in appearance that the pictures of her that have been printed from time to time would lead one to suppose. The impression has been general that Miss Borden presented an appearance of delicate refinement. How true to the facts that impression has been was illustrated this morning. Those in the court room who had never seen her before, thought when she came in that she was not Lizzie Borden, but Bridget Sullivan, the servant girl. Her face is strong rather than refined.
A Cheap Costume.
Miss Borden was attired in a costume of black. She wore a hat that came down over her forehead and was turned up behind. It was trimmed with black lace, old blue velvet and a few feathers. The whole costume was what a woman would have described as cheap. Under the hat was a face that had no features that would make it attractive; though some of the lines which appear there have undoubtedly been emphasized by the long confinement and the anxiety and tension of feeling which have naturally been Miss Borden's since the day the double murder was committed. If her eyes were brighter they would be called steel colored, but there is a dullness in them that suggests suffering.
There is a dullness too about her hair. It is of a peculiar shade of brown that is hard to describe, otherwise than as a muddy brown. It has that look on it too that gives it the appearance of sickness. Her complexion is poor. Her nose, which is not fine, tilts upward. Her upper lip protrudes over the lower. They are quite thick. Her mouth is large and runs down in straight lines toward the corners. Her cheeks bulge somewhat over her lower jaws. In figure she is short and stout. She challenged the second talesman, called in a voice that was firm, steady and of not unpleasant quality."
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--I had been reading the Crowell news items and this part jumped out at me and I had marked it, last month. I don't post it as my opinion, but for those who may not otherwise have access to this type of material.