1. "Factual Errors"
Posted by dave rehak on Jan-9th-02 at 10:48 PM
Hey guys, I came across this today and just
had to laugh . Very sloppy stuff. See if u can point out
the 7 factual errors in the paragraph below.
"As for the real Lizzie Borden, she never left New England. It was a fact that she was tried in June of 1892 in Fall River, Mass. for killing her well-to-do father, Andrew Jackson Borden, and her stepmother, the former Abby Durfee Gray. Lizzie had been seen taking an ax from a barn into the home on the day of the murders. Her father's skull was crushed and his wife's body was found upstairs on a bed, beaten to death. Lizzie was acquitted by an all-male jury in her June 1892 trial. She lived out her life in riches in New Hampshire.
--"Picture From The Past" by John Baggerly
2. "Re: Factual Errors"
Posted by dave rehak on Jan-9th-02 at 10:52 PM
In response to Message #1.
There are 8 errors, actually.
3. "Re: Factual Errors"
Posted by Stefani on Jan-10th-02 at 1:01 AM
In response to Message #2.
gosh, dave, where did you get that? It is awful! Thanks for sharing it. Do you have any more poorly researched statements up your sleeve? With all the research you have been doing for you book, I bet you have seen your share.
4. "Re: Factual Errors"
Posted by Kat on Jan-10th-02 at 1:02 AM
In response to Message #2.
There's 7 if you don't count "the June 1892" trial twice, as far as I can tell.
5. "Re: Factual Errors"
Posted by dave rehak on Jan-10th-02 at 1:24 AM
In response to Message #4.
Ya, pretty funny, eh Stef . U come across
stuff like that all the time. Thats why the source documents
are so much more important than any book or article on
Lizzie.
6. "Re: Factual Errors"
Posted by Stefani on Jan-10th-02 at 1:44 AM
In response to Message #5.
right on!
It always amazed me to read stuff like that, Dave. I once read a book written for young adults on the Salem Witch Trials that had about a hundred important errors, easily seen, in the text. I wrote a very long letter to the publisher and actually got a letter back. They said the book was no longer in print and thanked me for the time and effort to let them know the problems with the book. I think they should have fired the editor. And never hired that horrible writer again.
Terence is always finding errors in books. Didn't he wite Douglas after the Cases That Haunt Us book came out? I wonder if he ever heard back from him. He is one of my heros and I was saddened to hear he had done such a poor job with his Lizzie chapter. I haven't read it in some time so I can't say what the errors were. I was mainly disappointed that he didn't offer any new thoughts and insights to the case. He of all people should have been able to do that.
Now if only CSI would do it as a case. Then it might finally get solved.!
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