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Key Figures
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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.
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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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