The 27 year old face gazing earnestly above the tightly buttoned , notched lapels has a beseeching look. Other than a few courtroom sketches, this portrait is how most people who study the Borden case recall Eli Bence.
Eli Bence, the clerk at Smith’s pharmacy on Columbia Street at the corner of South Main : a stubble of bristly hair, neat mustache, and a steady gaze. Other than Alice Russell and her damaging testimony about the dress that Lizzie Borden burned in the kitchen wood stove after breakfast on the day after her parents’ funeral, perhaps no other single individual possessed such potentially lethal information which, if it had been allowed, might have changed the course of events for Lizzie Borden.
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