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.Ten minutes later,Lizzie yelled, Bridget, come down quick! Father s dead! Somebody scome in and killed him! Sullivan rushed downstairs to the sitting roomon the first floor.When she entered the room she saw Andrew Bordenlying sprawled on the couch.He had been struck seven times and haddeep axe wounds on his face and head.Lizzie told Sullivan to run out and fetch family physician Dr.SeaburyBowen at his home.The housemaid crossed Second Street, but thedoctor was not at his house.She told Mrs.Bowen about the murderand returned home.Lizzie then sent her out again to summon AliceRussell, a family friend who lived several blocks away.Just at that time, 28 Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in Americaneighbor Adelaide Churchill returned home from grocery shopping.Shelooked out of her kitchen window and saw Lizzie leaning against herown door looking agitated.Lizzie announced that someone had killedMr.Borden.She asked Mrs.Churchill to come over.While Churchillwas crossing the street, she spotted news dealer John Cunningham infront of a house four doors down from the Bordens.She told him thatshe wanted a policeman.He phoned the city marshal and told him thatthere had been a stabbing or a fight at the Borden residence.Dr.Bowen stepped from his carriage moments later.Churchill andRussell were in the kitchen consoling Lizzie.Sullivan arrived home andasked where Abby was.Lizzie told her to go upstairs to check becauseshe was almost certain that she had heard her stepmother return home.A nervous Sullivan refused to go by herself.Churchill accompanied herup the stairs.When Sullivan had nearly reached the upper floor, she peered into theguest room.The bedroom door was wide open and Abby Borden sbody was lying on the floor.Sullivan ran into the room and stood atthe foot of the bed.Abby was lying facedown between the bed and thedresser, her arms folded across her chest and pinned beneath her body.It was 11:30 AM, and the last time Sullivan had seen her was at 9 AM.Churchill and the housemaid walked back downstairs and a sickenedSullivan ran outside to the yard to vomit.Dr.Bowen, who had made his way to the family s home, examined thebodies of Andrew and Abby.Blood was still dripping from Andrew swounds, but Abby was lying in a pool of thick, dark, and dry congealedblood.The Brussels carpet s canvas backing kept the blood at the top ofthe carpet when it dried instead of letting it seep through to the bottom.Abby had been attacked from behind and sustained more than a dozencuts in the head and neck.Neither of the Bordens showed signs of havingstruggled against their attacker; it appeared that both had died instantly.Lizzie asked Bowen to telegram Emma, who was staying with friends15 miles away in Fairhaven, to tell her that her father was very ill. Tellit to her as gently as you can, Lizzie asked.POLICE INVESTIGATIONFall River s police station was 400 yards from the Borden home.Policemen began arriving at the house shortly after both bodies werediscovered.The first officer to arrive on the scene 10 minutes earlierhad raced back to the station to tell City Marshal Rufus Hillliard that Bloody Murder: The Death of Abby and Andrew Borden (1892) 29there had been a murder.Deputy Sheriff Francis H.Wixon was in themarshal s office when he heard the news.Investigators asked Lizzie where she was when the slayings occurred.She explained that she woke up late, went downstairs, and spoke to herfather when he returned home.She assumed that her stepmother hadgone out to see a friend.Then she went to the barn behind the housefor 20 minutes to find a lead sinker for fishing.She returned after hear-ing a cry coming from the house.She entered the sitting room and sawher father on the sofa, bloody and lifeless.Robbery was not the motivefor the attack since Andrew s watch and money remained.Policebelieved that someone who stood to benefit from their deaths had killedthe couple.When Lizzie was questioned after the murders, she said thather father had quarreled with a man called Clegg about renting a shopfor activities of which the prohibitionist Andrew did not approve.Photos were taken of the bodies and the Borden property.Fall Rivermedical examiner Dr.William Dolan arrived and laid the bodies ofthe victims on the dining room table.He examined their heads andremoved the stomachs for further investigation.They were sent toProfessor E.S.Wood of Harvard Medical School for analysis, alongwith milk that the family had consumed just before becoming ill theday before
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