Lizzie Borden was an unmarried female that supposedly killed his very own dad and stepmother with an ax on the fourth august 1892, in Loss River, Massachusetts, U.S.A..
In subsequent tests for the murders Lizzie Borden was acquitted on all costs, was none various other ever before jailed for the murders, as well as she has been a well-known number in American folklore. Disagreement over the identity of the killer or killers continues still today. Lizzie before the murder of his papa attempted to purchase prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) in the neighborhood drug store. Shortly before the murders, the entire house violently ill. Since her father was not an incredibly popular guy in Fall River, stepmother feared that they were infected deliberately. The family physician stated that the cause of the diseases was gastrointestinal disorder.
Lizzie Borden was jailed and also jailed on 11 august 1892. Throughout the authorities investigation, an ax was found in the household's basement that was believed to be the murder weapon. No bloody garments were discovered feasible evidence. Lizzie Borden was acquitted on 20 June 1893. Borden passed away of pneumonia on 1 June 1927 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Much of the wide range her after her fatality was moved to her relative Grace H. Howe and also her best friend, Helen Leighton. Each of them got approximately $ 6,000 each in the middle of the Great Depression in 1933.
Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by Lizzie.
"I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in"
"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know"
"I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died"
"Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt"
"I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew"
"I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood"
"I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went"
"She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her"
"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that"
"I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better"
"I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room"
"When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet"
"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron"
"I never eat any breakfast"
"I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers"
"I can't do anything in a minute"
"I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in"
"I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs"
"I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night"
"Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father"
"She told me she had a note, somebody was sick"
"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter"
