Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden died from pneumonia on June 1, 1927 in Fall River, Massachusetts.

I think it was like

'it's hot in here. Get me a ginger ale.'

she said her fancy last word and thought she's dead but she woke up and said that, and then she's dead.

Im not kidding, because this is what the book said..:)

Lizzie gave several different accounts of that day. Closest to the true would be: Lizzie her step-mother Abbey and the Borden's maid Bridget were by themselves in the house. Bridget was ill and after washing the outside windows she retired to the attic to lay down. Lizzie was everywhere and nowhere according to her testimony. She was ironing, in the basement, in the barn, in the back yard picking fruit. Hunting fishing sinkers in the barn loft.

But Abbey Borden was attacked and murdered with a hatchett. An 1 1/2 hr. later Andrew Borden was attacked and murdered while taking a nap in the parlor. Abbey's body was not found until after Andrew's.

Lizzie was arrested on August 11, 1892.

Gail Borden invented Condensed Milk.

Gail Borden was an important man to Houston because he mapped the Houston area using a grid system.

When was Lizzie Johnson's birthday?

Andrew Borden's first wife Sarah (mother to Emma and Lizzie) died in 1863. Andrew remarried 2 years later in 1865.

Lizzie Johnson, an American pioneer known for her contributions to the development of California, passed away on December 12, 1910. Her legacy includes her work as a cattle rancher and her involvement in the early days of the state’s agricultural industry.

a girl who wants me so bad

Lizzie is short for Elisabeth and means either "oath of God", or "God is satisfaction".

She didn"t really have a relation with her neighbors. She and her sister never married also. She was not not put in jail for the murder of her parents.

Lizzie Borden was accused and found guilty of killing her mother and father with an ax. After being released from she chose to live in the hose the deaths occurred until her death.

Since the Borden case is 120 years old this August the case has been re-evaluated using modern crime solving tools that were not available until recently. Using blood-detection chemicals such as Luminol, criminal profiling, opportunity and motive of the most likely suspects, what remains of the physical evidence were all re-considered with the same results that police arrived at in 1892. Lizzie Borden had the motive, personality, opportunity, and was in fact the only person that all the 'pieces' fit as to the person that most likely was the killer.

She kept changing her story, burned a dress with red 'paint' on it, was one of only two people at the scene of the crime, had ample motive and opportunity and had the personality traits that would have made such a crime a distinct possibility. She was a cleptomaniac and had a problem with telling the truth at times. Since all in the Borden house were ill after eating mutton stew after Lizzie was refused by the pharmacist the purchase of prussic acid (sodium of cyanide) just the day before the murders is certainly suspicious. No doubt she poisoned the stew with the prussic acid that was available at the Borden residence. When that didn't do the trick she tried unsuccessfully to buy more but was refused due to a lack of a doctor's prescription.

Since the 120 years when Lizzie 'discovered' her father hacked to death in the parlor of their home at 92 Second Street, Fall River MA, there have been numerous books, movies and speculation about the real killer of Andrew and Abbey Borden. The theory of a stranger is ridiculous. Abbey Borden was killed an hour and a half before her husband. No stranger would have been able to kill Abbey in the upstairs bedroom, hide within the house for all that time, kill Andrew Borden in the front parlor, and make his/her escape, all without detection by Lizzie or the Borden's maid Bridgette, both of whom had been walking from room to room doing daily chores.

The Borden's houseguest John Vinnicum Morse, had an aliby that was solid and proveable, Bridgette the maid had no reason to kill her employers. There was no homicidal maniac running loose in Fall River at that particular time, ect. All of the evidence still points to the most likely killer and that is Lizzie herself.

Lizzie Borden was only around 5'2" tall. Since I have seen serveral different heights listed I don't consider this exact but most likely pretty accurate.
Lizzy Borden is 5' 8".

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Antaeus was a monster and he killed the travellers who passed through his land and use their skulls to roof his father's temple, when the hero Heracles lifted him from the earth he lost his strength because while he connected with the earth he can't be bitten , because the earth his mother , so when Heracles lifted him he could kill him and crush his bones.

BORDENS IN BUSINESS: DUNN AND BRAD STREET RECORDS. The records of Dunn and Bradstreet survive in transcript form in the Baker Library of the Harvard Business School, Cambridge. The following information was collected by Andrew Repp in the Fall of 1972 for History 186. ANDREW JACKSON BORDEN There are no entries for AJB as a private individual in the D&B records. The following are the entries for Borden and Almy who dealt in furniture and feathers and were also undertakers. AJB's partner in this business was William M. Almy. Feb. 1, 1862 "Good for all engagements." Mar. 19, 1862 "Admitted as pr. (partner?) on March 1, T.D.W. Wood and continue under firm of Borden and Almy." July 23, 1862 "Firm doing well and older members' individual capital is ample." Jan. 28, 1863 "Safe and sound." Aug. 14, 1863 "Doing well and should pay promptly." Jan. 20, 1864 "Men of good character and standing have made money, attentive industrious, Business capital is ample Borden and Almy both own Real Estate." Aug. 26, 1864 through Aug. 21, 1865 "Same." April 23, 1866 "Perfectly good, energetic, enterprising men." Sept. 8, 1866 "Have just bought Real Estate for $4,030 in good location. Firm among the best." Feb. 26,1867 "Getting rich own 310,000 worth of real estate in the tees t parts of the city. Sound as a dollar. Doing good business worth $40,000-$50,000 good for wants." Aug. 3, 1867 "Worth at least $60,000." Jan. 1,1&68 "Worth at least 375,300 and making money." April 23, 1868 "Good enough they buy for cash." Oct., 22, 1868 "doing good business and gaining" MAr. 6, 1869 "Good enough worth 375,003 sure and in good credit." Sept. 10,1869 "Same." Mar. 3, 1870 "Good honest and reliable men doing sound business worth nearly $60,000-$70,000 own real estate worth about $50,000 are Good and s und." Sent. 14,1870 "Doing good business and are good for all wants." Mar. 8, 1871 "Are safe and reliable, coin a large business worth $75,000100,000 and gaining all the time. Perfectly sound." Mar. 18, 1872 "worth $100,000125,000 sound and substantial." Sept. 7,1872 "Means large doing well and in excellent standing and credit." March 19, 1873 "Making money all the time."

As far as I know she did not. But it is possible that her older sister Emma did live in Westport. Whether she bought a house there I could find no evidence.

It is virtually impossible to study the Borden case and not speculate on Emma Borden's complicity in the coverup of the crime. Although the older Borden sister had a rock-solid aliby, I believe there is evidence that Emma protected Lizzie after her arrest, roughly a week after the double murders.

A conversation between the sisters was overheard by a jail guard, the gist being Lizzie fearful that Emma had 'given' Lizzie up to police. Emma denied this was true. It is also true that Emma was present when Borden friend Alice Russell witnessed Lizzie burning a dress in the kitchen woodstove due to 'paint stains' which ruined the fabric.

These are but a couple examples put forth as proof that Emma Borden knew more about Lizzie's involvement in the death of Andrew and Abbey Borden. There have been many books written on the Borden case, many of those accuse Emma of the murders herself, others a willing partner in crime. Although at this late date it is almost impossible to prove, it is my guess that she felt or knew Lizzie was responsible yet protected her during her darkest moments after the murders clear through to Lizzie's aquittal in court in 1893.

Lizzie Borden wasn't a tale, but a real suspect in the gruesome murders of her father and stepmother. This particular case has little value as a moral lesson. Andrew and Abbey Borden were, if not the best parents, were certainly not the worst either. But it could be used as a cautionary tip for jurors. Women can and do kill, sometimes violently and guesomely, Lizzie was just such a woman.

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.

After her acquittal for the murders of her parents, Lizzie and Emma moved to a more fashionable neighborhood and a larger house called Maplecroft. Lizzie remained at this address until her death but Emma moved after a falling out with Lizzie.

The story of the Borden murders was so horrifying that it was, in its time, given the media equivalent of modern trials like the OJ Simpson case, and the Rosenberg spy trial. It has gone down in history thanks to the children's rhyme that was invented at the time of the case. Virtually every child has heard of Lizzie Borden and knows what she did - she murdered her mother and father by hitting them 40 and 41 times with an axe. But did she?

The Myth: Lizzie Did the Deed

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one. - Popular Rhyme

The short answer to the question posed in the introduction is "no" - Lizzie Borden did not kill her father (Andrew) and step-mother (Abby). Also untrue is the number of blows each received from the famous axe used to kill them. Her father was hit 11 times and her stepmother 18 or 19 times. Lizzie was seen minutes after the murders and had no blood on her at all. Furthermore, a month previous, a man had committed axe murders very similar in style to the Borden killings. He claimed to have been outside of the country when Andrew and Abby were killed but it seems too much a coincidence to make his story believable.

The Trial

Lizzie was put on trial for the murder but after only one hour of jury deliberations she was found innocent. No one else was ever tried for the murders and Lizzie went on to live a relatively peaceful life and died 35 years after the famous case. She left $30,000 to an animal welfare league and the remainder of her estate (which was quite large for the time) was left to a friend and cousin. You can stay in the house where the Bordens were killed as it is now a bed and breakfast and the home that Lizzie lived in after the murders until her death offers tours (by appointment only).

Some circumstantial evidence does seem to suggest that Lizzie may have killed her parents, but no evidence was ever given to prove it. While her clothing had no blood on it, she did burn a dress after the killings because she said it had paint on it. She also tried to purchase poison a week before the murders and the entire household became very sick the day before - this was put down to food poisoning. At the time, forensics were not as trusted as today and so the axe was not fingerprinted even though the technology to do so existed at the time and could have given proof that Lizzie was innocent (or guilty)

Interesting Fact: Lizzie Borden and actress Elizabeth Montgomery (of Bewitched fame), who coincidentally portrayed Lizzie in a television movie about the murders and trial, were sixth cousins once removed. Both women descended from 17th century Massachusetts resident John Luther. Rhonda McClure, the genealogist who documented the Montgomery-Borden connection, said, "I wonder how Elizabeth would have felt if she knew she was playing her own cousin."

by Jamie Frater