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1. "Bridget & Lizzie & A Note"
Posted by Kat on Feb-14th-02 at 10:47 PM

Mary Livermore said she received a letter from Lizzie where she says there were "Hands stretched out against her in her own home that she had done favors for in the past."

Then, in the Privy, in the (not completed) transcription of the Trickey/McHenry news article it spuriously states, "I investigated her (Bridget) career from the time she landed in America to the time of the DEATH of her INTENDED HUSBAND a MONTH before the murder."

Now, we also have that Thursday morning *Note* to maybe account for---I can't see Lizzie making up something out of whole cloth.  There might be a *germ* of truth in any/or all of these things...

Maybe a note DID arrive Thursday morning, FOR BRIDGET.  Maybe Lizzie had kept quiet about assignations of Bridget with a beau all along. 

Bridget's non-help at the hearing and trial, may have seemed like back-stabbing to Lizzie after helping Bridget deceieve the old folks and fostering love-in-bloom...These could be the *hands stretched out against her*, with Bridget at least NOT being a DEFENSE witness, but rather for the prosecution...

An interesting speculation, but no objective facts for that opinion.
Maybe the simplest explanation is the truth: a note was sent to get Abby away from the house when "somebody" would meet with Andy.

Oh ya, the imaginary boy messenger sent by Sarah Whitehead who wasnt sick

Your explanation is hardly simple.

(Message last edited Feb-18th-02  3:26 PM.)

This has nothing to do with the note, but Bridget Sullivan had a morbid fear of staying in the Borden house after the murders. She spent only one (possibly two) nights there before leaving forever. At first she stayed with friends and relatvies in Fall River, later she took a job at the New Bedford jail. In l897 Bridget moved west to Anaconda, MT, where she married a man who was also named Sullivan. She lived there for forty five years. Bridget died on March 25, 1948 in Butte, MT.

Any clue who this supposed husband of Bridget's was?  Or ws this another Tricky made-up fact.

Previously All Surmise...BUT:

Prelim., p.9, Bridget:
"I was sick to my stomach......(Thurs. morn.)

Cross, by Adams, defence-pg. 51-52:
Q: Did anybody come home with you that night? ( Wed.)
A: No Sir
Q: Did anybody come to the gate with you?
A: No Sir
Q: Did you meet anybody particular in the street?
A: No Sir
Q: Did you have any visitors?
A: Sometimes
Q: Did you have any men call on you?
A: No Sir
Q: Ever since you have been at this house?
A: Not anybody from Fall River
Q: I did not ask you where they were from.  When did you have anybody call on you, not from Fall River?
A: About two or three months before that I guess
Q: That is the last time any man has called on you at the house?
A: Yes Sir
Q: Has any man walked home with you?
A: No Sir
Q: Has any man seen you in the back yard?
A: No Sir
Q: Have you met anybody in the back yard for the last two or three months?
A: No Sir
...A: I have sat down with girls on the back stairs and in the kitchen...

--he's not asking any question he already doesn't know the answer to...but where his information comes from we can only guess...Lizzie, or his own investigators..& what's he *getting at*, anyway?


(Message last edited Feb-18th-02  10:59 PM.)