Topic Area: Lizzie Andrew Borden Topic Name: Obit  

1. "Obit"
Posted by Kashesan on May-23rd-03 at 11:03 AM

http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/obituaries/corrigan05232003.htm


2. "Re: Obit"
Posted by stefani on May-23rd-03 at 11:19 AM
In response to Message #1.

He was the author of:

Corrigan, John C., Jr. "Did the Borden Trial Serve Justice?" Lizzie Borden Quarterly I.2 (April 1993): 1.
Corrigan, Governor of the Mass. Academy of Trial Attorneys and chair of the Legal and Forensics section of the Bristol Community College Centennial Conference, evaluates the trial of Lizzie Borden from a legal standpoint.



3. "Re: Obit"
Posted by Kat on May-23rd-03 at 10:48 PM
In response to Message #1.

Thanks Kash.
And Stef for the extra info.
He's the man on all the video's!


4. "Re: Obit"
Posted by stefani on May-23rd-03 at 10:54 PM
In response to Message #3.

I remember him. At first I got him confused with another Corrigan who is a Miller scholar, but after reading the obit, I see it is the lawyer Corrigan, not the professor Corrigan. It is a nice name. Irish?


5. "Re: Obit"
Posted by rays on May-24th-03 at 11:17 AM
In response to Message #2.

Can this article be summarized here? Back issues on-line?
Yes, I would say it served "justice".
Justinian defined justice as "giving to each man what is due to him". As slippery as from any lawyer?


6. "Re: Obit"
Posted by Edisto on May-24th-03 at 2:12 PM
In response to Message #4.

Didn't one of the early accounts of the Borden murders say the Bordens employed a servant named "Lizzie Corrigan"?  (Yes, it does sound like a good Irish name.)


7. "Re: Obit"
Posted by augusta on May-25th-03 at 1:55 PM
In response to Message #6.

Thanks for the great post, Kash.  I'd think "Corrigan" is Irish.  I can't place the name "Lizzie Corrigan".  It'd be interesting if we found it.


8. "Re: Obit"
Posted by harry on May-25th-03 at 2:09 PM
In response to Message #7.

C, O, double R, I, G, A, N spells Corrigan. Corrigan that's me!

Sorry I couldn't resist. The above paraphrase from the George M. Cohan, song "Harrigan"

Corrigan sounds like it has more than a wee bit of Irish in it.


9. "Re: Obit"
Posted by augusta on May-25th-03 at 2:16 PM
In response to Message #8.

Harry, you are cute.  


10. "Re: Obit"
Posted by harry on May-25th-03 at 2:36 PM
In response to Message #9.

Thanks Augusta, but I should have resisted. Now I'll be humming that damn tune to myself the rest of the day! 


11. "Re: Obit"
Posted by stefani on May-26th-03 at 9:57 PM
In response to Message #10.

Just think Baseball.

Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd, buy me some peanuts and craker jacks, I don't care if I never get back, let me root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win it's a shame. Cuz it's one, two, three, strikes you're out at the old ball game!

A new tune to replace the cohen one you infected yourself with earlier!


12. "Re: Obit"
Posted by Kat on May-26th-03 at 10:20 PM
In response to Message #8.

There used to be a T.V. series called Harrigon, with that song and I used to sing it on the way to school.
Is that the right name?


13. "Re: Obit"
Posted by kashesan on May-27th-03 at 10:24 AM
In response to Message #12.

We always tormented unfortunates in junior high with (after playing a practical joke of some unmentionable sort): G-U-Double L-I-B-L-E spells Gullible


14. "Re: Obit"
Posted by rays on May-27th-03 at 6:56 PM
In response to Message #1.

I think that Edward Pearson and Robert Sullivan died soon after their books named Lizzie guilty; some kind of curse?


15. "Re: Obit"
Posted by Jim on May-27th-03 at 10:06 PM
In response to Message #12.

Kat,

Does the song you remember go something like this?

H-A-double R-I, G-A-N you see,
It's a name that no shame has ever been connected with,
Harrigan, That's me!


16. "Re: Obit"
Posted by Kat on May-28th-03 at 12:08 AM
In response to Message #15.

That's IT!!!
Oh we have an interesting crew here with all kinds of useful knowledge!
Thanks!