$1750 Buys You a Bit of History
Bibliopoly is offering these unique items for sale related to the Lizzie Borden case: Pearson, Edmund., Eight Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed on Lizzie Borden. 1926, Nineteen pages to a Mrs. Case, apparently a writer for the Hartford Courant and an afficionado of murder cases.These are long and very interesting letters in […]
Lizzie Lecture at the Boston Public Library
On December 13th of this year, historian Karen Elizabeth Cheney will present a lecture on Lizzie Borden. “Trial by Newspaper†Lizzie Borden and the Penny Press In 1892, the Borden murders became the latest “crime of the century.†Media portrayed Lizzie Borden as an unemotional woman who “did not behave in a manner that suited†[…]
Poison
From the Clovis, New Mexico, News Journal, Saturday, September 23, 2006: “Lessons can be learned from food scares” by Ryn Gargulinski. In an article about the recent E. coli outbreak in spinach reaching The Land of Enchantment, the author segues into a discussion about how much poison it takes to do someone in—and even manages […]