Let's try again: Yes, Susan:
I mean, where does it stop, (personally I hope never) that is to say, the theories of who did the crime. The police and professional writers
never got it right, so I guess it's up to us.
Let us consider, as you say, there was a huge amount of trust between Lizzie and Bridget. How could this mis-match be possible?
Well, if you consider folklore, that Lizzie was Homosexual, this could be very possible. She is starved for affection and Bridget became the ready-access partner, at least a couple of times. The girl Bridget, not willing but submitting, would be in a shameful predicament.
(I was working on a novel 15 years ago where this came into play. Will probably take me another 15.)
I have known countless girls who have become very submissive, some sexually, to thier employers. I knew of two friends, one was single the other married, and both employers, married men. I found that these women were trapped in a vortex of secrecy, and did not know how to get out. One was a good friend to me.
Not to say that Bridget was willing, but became a victim of Lizzie's web,
who held a life and career destroying secret over Bridget's head, one that continued into a weird mis-guided relationship which lead to her helping Lizzie in some way, perhaps taking away the ax. (If you believe that Lizzie did it, where did the weapon go?)
Now laced with this shame, and without thinking, let us say she helped
Lizzie hide the ax. Wooooe, now she is really in a huge amount of trouble. Someone may find out she slept with another women, now that she had a hand in a killing. What could she do now?
She would not dare tell anything.
Now she was in a pickle. No way would she betray Lizzie, not because of any devotion to Lizzie, but out of fear of being caught up in helping her with the crime and sleeping with another women..., and Lizzie knew it.
But these stories are usually just folklore that the masses love to run with.
I never believed Mary Magdelene was a prostitute, where is the proof in the bible, though the average Christian accepts it. Where can we take it from there, shall we consider the Da Vinc Code?
I don't believe anything I just said, but would make a great book.
I mean, was someone under Lizzie's bed when Nance O'neil was at Maplecroft? Who is to say anything ever happened. Maybe they were no more than kissy-face friends who found it exciting to entice the public. It was believed that Nance loved that sort of thing and so did Lizzie.
Yes, Nance was known to have "Loved women." People develop these scenarios in their heads, writers run with it, enhance it, and the public, at times we our selves, choose to believe it.
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors unless it's Paris Hilton and someone has the DVD. When it comes to Lizzie it is exciting to talk about her sexual expolites, but really, where is the proof. I guess you can say we don't need proof........................it's fun.
Personally Susan, as you believe, I don't think Bridget had anything to do with it. I think she was scared out of her wits, being a "Irish imigrant," and being used as a scapegoat, onto whom the blame could be placed.
Make any sense?
