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 The Trial of Lizzie Borden

 1893
 

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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
  • by Douglas Linder (c) 2004
  • Lizzie Borden took an axe,
    And gave her mother forty whacks,
    When she saw what she had done,
    She gave her father forty-one.

    Actually,the Bordens received only 29 whacks, not the 81 suggested by the famous ditty, but the popularity of the above poem is a testament to the public's fascination with the 1893 murder trial of Lizzie Borden.  The source of that fascination might lie in the almost unimaginably brutal nature of the crime--given the sex, background, and age of the defendant--or in the jury's acquittal of Lizzie in the face of prosecution evidence that most historians today find compelling....[CONTINUED]
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