Lizzie Borden Society Forum

So Jennings gives his copy of the Hannah Reagan paper to a reporter whom he has no idea of his name , or who he was?
Says he’s been trying to get it back….Sure you have!
This is a sign of clandestine operations.

Reagan embarrassed him in court, now he is obviously getting revenge.

Source?

Quick answer page 1515—trial

To get the jist , start at 1512, or 1508.
Knowlton does some of his best work leading up to 1515, and shows that Jennings has no idea who he gave the affidavit to, and confesses to it.
After all this, Judge Mason allows the witness
(Charles Holmes) to present a newspaper article as a secondary source for the affidavit.

Oh , how convenient that Charles has it in his pocket.

See also page 1522, Holmes says she never signed the affidavit.

Mary Brigham, Lizzie’s lifetime friend of coarse took the side of Jennings.
1527-1528 trial pages.
Jennings clearly wanted the affidavit known publicly by putting it in the papers, knowing it would spread, but wasn’t able to get it signed so he was forced to round up witnesses.

Mrs Reagan was detailed in her testimony, and sounded believable to me.
To Jennings credit, he did have quite a few that tried to support him, although some were better than others in their testimony, and position of observation.
I thought Mary’s comments were interesting, but I’m not 100% convinced they are fully accurate.