Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Has anyone read the article on this site "The Murderer who inadvertently helped Lizzie? Has anyone thought that may the Jose Correira in that article might have done the dirty deed to the Bordon's?
Or am I just pissing in the wind on this one to

Well, it certainly helped the jury find a reasonable doubt.

Yes, I've read it before. Sorry, Snokkums......

What the Borden jury did not know was that José Correira could not possibly have been the murderer of Abby and Andrew Borden because he was not in the United States when they were committed. He was in his native land, the Azores, the Portuguese-held islands that are almost midway between Europe and North America. Correira arrived in the US in April of 1893, a full eight months after the Borden slayings.

But, had he been in America at the time.......

Actually the jury did know Correira was not in the country when the Bordens were murdered. The information appeared in the local paper four days before the jury was sequestered. So it seems unlikely the Manchester murder influenced the jury's deliberations.

Correira "came to America from the Western Islands about two months ago..." (New Bedford Evening Standard, June 1, 1893)

Thanks for the information. I didn't know he was out of the country. Must not have read the article well. OPPS!!

Wow good job finding that Snokkums. Do you think that influenced the jury?

I think it might have influencedthem. Also they might have thought that a young lady wouldn't be able to do this kind of crime.

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snokkums @ Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:21 am wrote:I think it might have influencedthem. Also they might have thought that a young lady wouldn't be able to do this kind of crime.

By June 5th, when the trial started by picking jurors, the person responsible for the Manchester killing was in jail, Correiro. It was headlines in the Boston Globe. After the jury was selected in the Borden trial, they were given time to gather their things to be sequestered and I suppose set their families in order. I don't know if this was much more than a half hour or an hour, but the Borden jury had several chances to find out the solution to the Manchester case before sequestering.