LIZZIE BORDEN - MYTH OR TRUE?

Lizzie Borden took an axe - or did she? 130 years after the Borden murders in Fall River, Massachusetts, there seem to be more myths than truth about the crime. Let’s dig into a few.

IMAGES PUBLIC DOMAIN UNLESS NOTED. 

 CINCINNATTI ENQUIRER 2-4-1893. LIZZIE AND SISTER DIVIDE PROPERTY.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-lizzie-borden-an/47285834/

FALL RIVER DAILY EVENING NEWS DAY OF MURDERS THU AUG 4 1892

https://www.newspapers.com/article/fall-river-daily-evening-news-same-day-c/56651080/

LEAVENWORTH TIMES WED JUNE 21 1893  LIZZIE AQUITTED

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leavenworth-times-lizzie-borden-acqu/47285856/

BOSTON DAILY GLOBE JUNE 2 1927 LIZZIE DIES

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-lizzie-borden-dies-at-h/22654045/

EAU CLAIRE LEADER TELEGRAM JAN 8 1896 FALL RIVER TRAGEDY

 https://www.newspapers.com/article/leader-telegram-summary-of-the-borden-ax/22653868/

BOSTON GLOBE AUG 18 1892  NEW LIGHT STATES MOTIVE

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-report-that-lizzie-bord/135604655/

 ALTOONA TRIBUNE 15 APR 1913 EMMA DEFENDS LIZZIE

https://www.newspapers.com/article/altoona-tribune-lizzie-bordens-sister/135605125/

 BOSTON GLOBE 4 AUG 1892 LATEST

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-breaking-local-news-of/22653250/

FISHERMAN & FARMER JUNE 16 1893 IMAGE 3 LOC

• Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.), 16 June 1893. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91068084/1893-06-16/ed-1/seq-3/>

 FREE FROM GUILT SAN FRANCISCO MORNING CALL JUNE 21 1893

• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1893-06-21/ed-1/seq-2/#words=Borden+Lizzie+guilty+trial     

• The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]), 21 June 1893. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1893-06-21/ed-1/seq-2/>

STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT JUNE 22 1893  SPECTATORS GO WILD

• The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio), 22 June 1893. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028490/1893-06-22/ed-1/seq-1/>

MAPLECROFT STEPS  CC BY NC ND 2.0  MBGRIGBY 2008.

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GUEST ROOM WHERE ABBY MURDERED. CC BY 2.0 G JIM MCINTOSH  5 AUG 2011.

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MAPLECROFT. SAME AS ABOVE. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimcintosh/6013445144/in/album-72157627366114172/

A J BORDEN MONUMENT. SAME AS A BOVE. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimcintosh/6013447042/in/album-72157627366114172/

LIZZIE EMMA GRAVES. SAME AS ABOVE. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimcintosh/6013448592/in/album-72157627366114172/

GRAVE MONUMENT CHILDREN NAMES. SAME AS ABOVE

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GUEST ROOM VIEW FROM STAIRS CC BY ND 2.0 G  1-15-2014 AMY MEREDITH

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BORDEN SKULLS AND HATCHET BEST PHOTO  CC BY NC ND 2.0. WBUR BOSTON. 7e80_k.jpg.  

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THE BORDEN RESIDENCE POSTCARD NO KNOWN RESTRICTIONS                    WWW.DIGITALCOMMONWEALTH.ORG/SEARCH/COMMONWEALTH:00000692z

GETTY MUSEUM.  ANDREW JACKSON BORDEN. PUBLIC DOMAIN. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/106J1F

FLICKR – FLAT EARTH THEATER PLAY “BLOOD RELATIONS” AUGUST 2009  ACTORS PORTRAY THE BORDEN FAMILY  CCA 2.0 G. https://www.flickr.com/photos/flat-earth/5382475768/in/album-72157625890911868

SAME AS ABOVE EMMA LEAVING. CCA 2.0 G. https://www.flickr.com/photos/flat-earth/5381879687/in/album-72157625890911868

SAME AS ABOVE ANDREW SPEAKING WITH MAN. CCA 2.0 G. https://www.flickr.com/photos/flat-earth/5459602796/in/album-72157625890911868

DAVENPORT SCHOOL FALL RIVER DATE UNKNOWN (BETWEEN 1880-1970) NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:00000c521

DAVIS SCHOOL FALL RIVER SAME AS ABOVE. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:00000c55v

FLICKR – 1920S WHEELCHAIR GIRL BY jackcast2015. CCA 2.0 G. https://www.flickr.com/photos/135431875@N04/28043387223

EMMA BORDEN SEPIA PHOTO. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/212865519864911706/

MORSE BLACK & WHITE PHOTO YOUNGER  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/565272190705211037/

JOHN V MORSE OBIT & IMG. FALL RIVER DAILY EVENING NEWS MARCH 1 1912. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fall-river-daily-evening-news-obituary-f/131504992/

LIZZIE BORDEN.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LizzieBorden.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lizzie_borden.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Andrew_Borden.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lizzie_Borden_1890.jpg

ABBY BORDEN

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AbbyBorden.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abby_Durfee_Gray_Borden_dead_body_1892.jpg

 ANDREW BORDEN

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AndrewBorden.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Borden_slain_body_1892.jpg

Schoolgirls around a maypole. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schoolgirls_Around_a_Maypole,_Toledo,_Ohio_(approximately_1890)_-_DPLA_-_edc08f639f11c4c8748acc86f8dfda33.jpg

Boston Cooking School Magazine 1905. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Boston_Cooking_School_magazine_of_culinary_science_and_domestic_economics_(1905)_(14586791948).jpg

Is it very far to heaven? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Is_it_very_far_to_Heaven%3F%22_Little_girl_in_sickbed;_man_by_her_side_LCCN2003655387.jpg

The good doctor and his little patient. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:..._Woman_in_girlhood,_wifehood,_motherhood;_her_responsibilities_and_her_duties_at_all_periods_of_life;_a_guide_in_the_maintenance_of_her_health_and_that_of_her_children_(1906)_(14771458034).jpg

Home and school reciter https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home_and_school_reciter;_readings,_declamations_and_plays,_original_compositions_and_choice_selections_of_the_best_literature_(1902)_(14577044590).jpg

B.S.N.S. Quarterly (1900). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B._S._N._S._quarterly_(1900)_(14745422166).jpg

A girl in bed clutching a knife  CCA 4.0 I WELLCOME. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_girl_in_bed_clutching_a_knife_as_she_anxiously_looks_towar_Wellcome_V0049516.jpg

The boss of little Arcady https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_boss_of_Little_Arcady_(1905)_(14784815755).jpg

 Louella Parsons and June Allyson. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louella_Parsons_and_June_Allyson,_1946.jpg

 Seattle street work. CCA 2.0 G Seattle Municipal Archives. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_Street_work,_circa_1900s_(51390518346).jpg

Two men with horse drawn wagons  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_men_with_horse_drawn_delivery_wagons_outside_of_Kristoferson%27s_Dairy,_Seattle,_ca_1914_(MOHAI_4371).jpg

Henry Igel – Butcher. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Igel_-_Butcher,_Minneapolis,_MN.jpg

Corn: growing, judging https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corn;_growing,_judging,_breeding,_feeding,_marketing;_for_the_farmer_and_student_of_agriculture,_a_text-book_for_agricultural_colleges_and_high_schools_(1908)_(14591178219).jpg

Catalogue of Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catalogue_of_Truman%27s_Pioneer_Stud_Farm_-_importers,_exporters_and_breeders_of_Shire,_Percheron,_Belgian,_Suffolk_and_Hackney_horses_(1903)_(14594292517).jpg

 Borden House 92 Second Street https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borden_House_92_Second_St_Fall_River_Massachusetts_1892.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LizzieBordenhouse.jpg

View of Bay, Fall River. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Bay,_Fall_River,_MA.jpg

North Main St Fall River. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Main_Street,_Fall_River,_MA.jpg

Fall River. CCA 4.0 I Ronpotvin. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fall_River_2.jpg

A J Borden Building CC0 1.0 UPDD Marcbella. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AJ_Borden_Building.jpg

Fall River Village  CCA 2.0 G. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fall_River_Village_;_Map_of_the_town_of_Fall_River,_Bristol_County,_Massachusetts_(14775362187).jpg

Main Street Fall River. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Street,_Fall_River,_MA.jpg

1800s kitchen CC0 1.0 UPDD Lisafern. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1800s_kitchen.jpg

Villisca kirves  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villisca_kirves.jpg 

Lizzie Borden by BW Clinedinst. CCA 3.0 U https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lizzie_Borden_by_B.W._Clinedinst.jpg

Nance O’Neil 

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Shadow_of_Rosalie_Byrnes_(1920)_-_1.jpg

The house of whispers  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_House_of_Whispers_(1920)_-_1.jpg

Oxford College women in formal dress. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_College_women_in_formal_dress_at_dinner_n.d._(3193552997).jpg

 Imaginative formal dinner party sketched by Marguerite Martyn 1920. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imaginative_formal_dinner_party_sketched_by_Marguerite_Martyn_in_1920.jpg

 Oak Grove Cemetery FR. PD Dedication Marcbela. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Grove_Cem_FR.jpg

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