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This new section will be a place for us to collect and display newspaper items on topics near to, and of, Lizzie and her family, relatives, town.

We hope to have each year start with a different topic title, like 1893, 1894, etc.

That should end up being a sort of time-line for easier reference- something to discuss, a reference for writers, an interesting section to peruse.

This item I am putting up for download is from the Pittsburg Dispatch of 31 December 1892. It is a sort of round-up of criminal history in the world, and bad news, as the year ended: 1892.

It's a pretty big file. If you have dial-up, be cautious!
It will open a PDF at about 34% but in Adobe you can increase the size to 125 % or 150% for easier viewing.
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This is a whole newspaper page, but within it there is an item about Lizzie supposedly talking to lawyers prior to the murders.

If it is too big a file for you'all, plz let me know and I will try to cut out the pertinent item and attach it here.

The page takes a little time to "build", but you can increase the text size as much as you want and still retain clarity when it's on your desktop.
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Took a look at the first one so far. It loaded fine for me and I could read it real well when I changed it to 100%. Very good find, Katt, and thank you for sharing. Not sure what the first section was called since it was cut off on my display, but it had disasters, trade/commerce, and of course the crimes all listed. Very good for a frame of reference.

First thing I saw as I started getting it adjusted was something about Hitler and the new socialist programme. Was that a sign. Hmmmm

Read the second one and if true could help constitute a motive, but also maybe just wanting to find out where she stood legally if there had been much ado about property transfers in the family.

Oops if this was strictly a thread just for news items please delete my post if I should not have posted here.
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Oh thank you patsy, yes any discussion or comments welcome here!

When I first saw the Dec 31 end-of the-year item I noticed Neil Cream sentenced to death, 21Oct1892.
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Lizzie and the new study of 'Bumps on the Head!'

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Supposedly Lizzie told Andrew Borden he would *come home a corpse.*
Sounds like something a 15 year old would say (if she said it), in a fit of teenage angst...



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Do ya'll know about Charles Peckham?
He is just barely mentioned in Rebello, from the New York Times of Aug. 19, 1892,
and in the Witness Statements, pg 43:

Fall River, August 19, 1892.

Investigation made of the Character of Charles B. Peckham, who came to the city yesterday, and gave himself up saying he killed A. J. Borden.

I found Mr. Peckham lived on a farm in South Westport about 8 and 1/2 miles from this city, on what is called the Sodam Road. From inquires among the neighbors, I found that be had been insane for years, but that he was considered perfectly harmless. His wife told me that he had been crazy by spells for the last eighteen years, and had been away once before, about six years ago. She said that he was taken sick July 13th last past, and had been confined to the house most of the time since. On the 4th of August, he was at home all day, and lay on the lounge most of the time. Also that he had never been to the city on Thursday, except yesterday, since they had lived on the farm. He had read of the Borden murders in the New Bedford Standard, and ever since that, he kept saying he was going to go to Fall River to give himself up, as he was the man who had killed them. When he left home be told his wife he was going to give himself up, but she thought no more of it, excepting he would only go to one of the neighbors and be home to dinner. I found him to be well known as a crank for several miles about there.
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Lizzie's alleged "come home a corpse" comment sounds pretty far fetched to me. Who might have been the source for that information? Either Bridget overheard it, or Andrew mentioned it to someone he spoke to the morning of the 4th. It could not have been Morse, he left before Andrew that morning. Nothing about it was mentioned by anyone in testimony at any time, so it sounds like pure speculation.

The comment about how Andrew "did not take much comfort at home" may come closer to the truth if we generalize it to more than just Lizzie as the reason. If Emma and Lizzie tended to avoid interacting with Andrew and Abby, it might well have been less than comfortable for Andrew. If Andrew was faced with a perpetual ultimatum, either favoring his wife or favoring his daughters, he couldn't win! If everything was made a contest, he had to alienate one side or the other, and to disfavor both sides alienates both. Emma and Lizzie seemed to confine themselves to their bedrooms and the guest room to entertain friends, and if they tended to avoid eating with the elder Bordens, it would seem like they were trying their best to live separately while under the same roof.
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