Forum Title: LIZZIE BORDEN SOCIETY Topic Area: Stay to Tea Topic Name: Beats Lizzie by 5 years and 7 bodies  

1. "Beats Lizzie by 5 years and 7 bodies"
Posted by harry on Oct-4th-03 at 7:53 PM

Here is an article about Tom Woolfolk who was accused of using a short-handle axe to kill 9 members of his family on August 6, 1887.  Must have been something about August back then.  This crime is a new one to me.

http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/his19_georgias.html



(Message last edited Oct-4th-03  7:54 PM.)

2. "Re: Beats Lizzie by 5 years and 7 bodies"
Posted by Kat on Oct-4th-03 at 9:46 PM
In response to Message #1.

Wow!  Possum sandwiches!
I doubt a single man can slaughter 9 people with a hand-held weapon.
I think it would take a machine gun.
That guy had to have help!

BTW:  Notice the Georgia version of the ditty?

"Lizzie Borden took and ax and gave her mother forty whacks, and when the job was neatly done she gave her father forty-one." 

(Message last edited Oct-4th-03  10:02 PM.)

3. "Re: Beats Lizzie by 5 years and 7 bodies"
Posted by Susan on Oct-5th-03 at 12:29 AM
In response to Message #1.

Wow, thats a new one on me too!  I'll have to check around and see if I can find the book, sounds interesting.  I think I'll pass on those possum sandwiches though. 

4. "Re: Beats Lizzie by 5 years and 7 bodies"
Posted by rays on Oct-5th-03 at 3:42 PM
In response to Message #1.

Note that Georgia, until 1961, followed the old English common law. A defendant was not allowed to testify at all; only his accusers could. But remember "innocent until proven guilty". (You do believe this?)

PBS TV had a story a year or so ago about the Doctor who was hanged after a number of his friends died after the Doctor took out insurance on their lives ("Doctor Billy"?).

Who know what evil lurks in the hearts of man?

5. "Re: Beats Lizzie by 5 years and 7 bodies"
Posted by haulover on Oct-5th-03 at 8:40 PM
In response to Message #1.

that's news to me too. Tom Woolfolk.  all i know is Oconee Hill Cemetery in athens.  that is a very interesting cemetery!

i'll have to look into this one.  i'd like to examine the victims' wounds especially.