About uncle John’s behaviours (part 8)

[Franz]

In the Preliminary Hearing (p. 332), the officer Doherty testified:

“I saw Mr. Morse in the (guest) room when I got back from the telephone, when I was looking at Mrs. Borden's body. He stood in the room with his hand on the foot of the bed.”

This is from Morse’s Preliminary Hearing testimony (pp.254-255):

Q (by Mr. Jennings): You went up the front stairs, did you go up into the (guest) room?
A: No Sir.
Q: How far did you go?
A: Probably two-thirds of the way up, so I could look under the bed.
Q: What do you mean by “look under the bed”?
A: When I got up high enough, I could look through the space under the bed, and saw Mrs. Borden lying there between the bed and the bureau.
…
Q: Did you see Lizzie after you came down?
A: when I came down stairs she was in the dining room sitting on the lounge.
…
Q: Then you went out of the doors?
A: Yes sir.
Q: What did you do out of doors?
A: I dont know as anything.

Always in his Preliminary Hearing testimony (p. 245), when questioned by Knowlton, Morse said:

Q: Did you have any talk with her (Lizzie) then?
A: A very little, just spoke to her, and that was all.
Q: What did you say to her?
A: I cannot tell. I might have said, for God’s sake, how did this happen? Or something like that.
Q: You do not remember of any reply she made?
A: No sir.

The Morse’s testimony was in contradiction with Doherty’s. I wonder, was Doherty’s testimony reliable? If so, why did Morse lie about his entering into the guest room and his observing Abby’s body at the foot of the bed?

Because what happened concerns Morse, should we judge more reliable the testimony of himself? If so, I wonder:

1. Morse went “Probably two-thirds of the way up” the front stairs, and from there he “could look through the space under the bed, and saw Mrs. Borden lying there between the bed and the bureau”. Certainly he could. But the guest room was pretty dark. It should be highly unlikely that Morse could see any detail about Abby’s wounds. Andrew and Abby were killed not only in two different rooms, but also in two different floors. How could Morse be certain in what manner Abby had been attacked? Didn’t he just care at all about Abby’s death cause?

2. Someone may speculate: Morse “cast one glance” of Andrew’s blooding head when he passed through the sitting room, so he could have guessed that Abby had been killed in the same manner, maybe by the same killer(s). Certainly this is possible, but for a so horrible murder, why didn’t Morse ask anyone (especially Lizzie) to confirm his guess? But he only spoke to Lizzie a very insignificant phrase and then went out in the yard, “out there three or four hours”. During all these hours, did he always keep his guess in his mind without asking a confirmation?

3. Or, did Morse know everything? Did he know everything without being informed? The location of the two bodies, how had Abby been killed… Did Morse know all these by…himself?