Only Lizzie knows for sure why she used an axe as apposed to a knife or some other weapon. It is generally believed that when she failed to kill her parents by poison the axe was a spur of the moment adjustment in her murder plans.
Lizzie Borden Had an Axe - 2004 TV was released on: USA: 2004
I'm afraid that may be lost to the ages. The Borden murders and Lizzie's trial and aquittal generated so much publicity there is no way to distinguish when and where the axe rhyme originated.
The central point is Andrew and Abbey Borden were hacked to death with an axe right under the nose of Lizzie and she was aquitted of the crime.
Lizzie Andrew Borden was tried and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother which occurred on a sweltering August morning in 1892.
The poem, usually used in children's games, that is repeated about Lizzie Borden goes as follows:Lizzie Borden took an axeAnd gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty one.The author is unknown.
"Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41." *Footnote:Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Borden received that many blows with the axe.
Lizzie Borden's family was a distant relation to the Borden's of the Borden food company.
Lizzie Andrew Borden is 5' 4".
Lizzie Borden was born on July 19, 1860.
Lizzie Borden v. The State Of Massachusettes.
Lizzie Borden - opera - was created in 1965.
The Legend of Lizzie Borden was created in 1975.