Today is the centennial of the day when Lizzie Borden wondered what life was all about and decided to go axe her father and step-mom. Personally I think she totally did it, but I’ll let her off the hook (just as the jury did) on the basis that her dad and stepmom would have been dead by now anyway.
If you’ve got a few hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket, you can stay in the house where the murders took place as it’s now a B&B.
That thread title is whacked.
Ah, the OJ Simpson of the last century.
Ahhh! That link is evil!!! :eek:
Not as evil as the room rates.
Well, it includes neing assaulted with an axe by the wait staff. 
Boyo, I hope this link doesn’t put too much pressure on your surgeryed eyeballs. (And I hope your vision is as good as mine after my catrack surge last Monday-thanks for your updates).
Most folks forget that there was a witness, a passing junk dealer, who saw Lizzie, in clean clothes, the same clothes she was wearing when met by the first cop on the scene, between the time her father was killed & the time her Step-Mother was killed. She was in the yard at just the time she claimed she was, doing what she claimed she was doing.
In addition, the local Livery Store Owner & Blacksmith, whose business was horses & wagons, saw a strange horse & buggy parked in front of the Borden house. He knew every horse & buggy in the vicinity (he took care of them all), & knew they were strange to the neighborhood. This was seen at around the time Mr. Borden was killed.
Were these the same clothes she was later seen burning? Nevermind that there was strong evidence to the fact that she tried to poison her parents weeks before. Motive motive motive. Sorry, I’m not buying the epileptic maid did it argument.
August 4th, 2007 is the centennial of August 4th, 1892?
God! Why didn’t I just take your word for it???
Right on, John. There are about as many facts in the OP as brain cells in my dick.
That is the kind of Axe attack I would welcome. Thanks.
“The goggles – they do NOTHING!” – Ranier Wolfcastle
Of course she killed them with an axe.
Because you can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family…
Damn, I was sure that would be a pic of someone with a pickaxe buried in their chest.
Lizzie Borden took an axe…
Is there any truth to the theory that she had an affair with Nance O’Neill later on? Any Lizzie Borden scholars here? curious
I round downward.
There’s no way to prove whether it was consummated or not of course, but O’Neill was a frequent long-term guest at Maplecroft (the much larger nicer house Lizzie and Emma built with their inheritance) and Emma’s famous move-out came during one of her early visits, which threw fuel on the fire. O’Neill’s bisexuality was fairly well established, and Lizzie- well, she didn’t really get a lot of company of either sort.
Blood Relations (a play about the O’Neill/Borden relationship and with an odd flashback to the murders [in which O’Neill plays Borden]) is one of the most frequently performed on colleges, it seems.
Axe not what you can do for your daughter, axe what your daughter can do to you.
No, they weren’t.
Umm, no. Poison is not an axe, & the illness was just as likely food poisoning from 4 day old unrefridgerated mutton. Remember–there was no electricity in the Borden house, & Mr. Borden was insanely tight with a buck. So food was kept far longer than was prudent.
What motive? There has been a lot of 20th Century speculation, but no motive, bourne out by contemporary evidence.
Nobody said you should. Good evidence exists that a stranger was in the neighborhood, & besides–the Borden girls’ Uncle, from their late Mother’s side of the family was staying with them, on a visit. He was allegedly out for the day…alone.
A little obsession revealed, eh Bosda?
