Found this article

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:58 pm

I was surfing the net and I found this article. It was off the website Lizzie Bordeb: Warps and Wefts. Title of the article was called "A Flaw in the Jury System", and it was written by Lucy Stone and it was in the Newport Mercury, June 1893. Here goes"

"James W. Clarke in the new Yourk Recorde, discussing the present jury system, makes the following sensible suggestion in behalf of a woman juror in casess where a woman is on trial. Another jury reform suggest itself in connection with the Borden jury. Here is a woman put upon trial for her life, accused of a crime the allege motive for which was a malicious enmity of long growth against her stemotherk, with the principal witness against her a woman -- the whole case from beginning to end enveloped a womanly atmoshpere, and attended by circumstances of a domestic nature, of which the jury, I know that the law as it stands does not permit the presence of a woman on juries; but why not change the law, and correct another anomaly-- to my thinking on of the greatest anomalies-- of trial by jury as it exists today? The old commmon lay theory of the jury was that everyt accused person had right to be tried by a jury of his peers or equals, drawn from the vicinity where the crime charged against him was committed. The centuries'old liberty has the right to have equal sex represtation on the jury that is to pass upon her guilt or innocence. Slowly, perhaps, but surely , th eidea is growing thta a jury ought to be composed of men and women, and that woman especially should have a jury of her peers, not her soverigns, as in the case of Lizzie Borden. LUCY STONE.

I have always thought she should had a woman on the jury, but the woman probably would have either sympathic to her or railed her over the coals. Whereas, a man back then, might have had a hard time believing a woman could have done such a thing.

And, it also made me realize how far we have come since the 1980's.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:47 am

Thank you for transcribing that, Snokkums, and for citing the source!
It's a bit misspelled, but I rely on Firefox to check my spelling so it's easy for me to say!

I think that site online is Shelley.

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:48 am

Yup, I never was a good speller, Kat LOL!. But, my printer was running out of ink and a bad print, so I wasn't doing to good trying to read it.

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:49 am

Oh, and should've proofread before I hit the submit button too!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:42 am

Well thanks again! I rarely go to blogs so that was interesting you brought that piece here.
What did you think about it?

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:51 am

I liked it. I was actually on that website because I was trying to find out some information on Andrew Borden's last day. There are some more articles and photos on that site too. Haven't finished reading thru it yet.

kssunflower · Post by **kssunflower** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:44 pm

Interesting article - it made me curious as to who Lucy Stone was. Apparently she passed away just a months after writing this.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:57 am

Here is a Google link to Lucy Stone, Feminist
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=359

She is in Rebello commenting on the case, page 259, along with a cite for Mary Livermore and another for Mrs. Fesseden.

Feminists Respond to the Verdict

"Mrs. Lucy Stone," New Bedford Evening Journal, Wednesday, June 21, 1893: 3.

Mrs. Stone was a firm believer in Miss Borden's innocence. "To my mind there is no point that has not been satisfactorily cleared away, although I have not much idea about the real perpetrator of the deed, for that is as dark a mystery as ever. It is certain, however, that every testimony brought against her by the government has been refuted; I hope that Lizzie will stay in Fall River, for the best thing she can do, of course, is to live it down; but that, too, is the hardest thing I know. Nevertheless, I should walk the earth as before, and should not allow this to disturb me, as far as that was concerned."

"Mrs. Mary A. Livermore sent the following telegram: 'Thank God, dear Lizzie, that you are acquitted. Everybody is rejoicing and the wires are freighted with the good news. I kiss you in my heart.' She also replied to reporters: 'I expected a verdict of acquittal ... Lizzie knows nothing at all about the murders ...' "