Lizzie Borden Society Forum

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If so, what are your opinions on it?

Yes, I have it and, at 64 pages, it's more of a pamphlet. It contains a number of factual errors (but what doesn't!) and ends with speculations about sexual repressions and possibilities of incest. But, at $6.95 it's an inexpensive if not useful or illuminating work. But, you needn't buy it as it is available to read on the Yellow Tulip website.

I'd printed this off the Yellow Tulip website some years back -- so I dug it up and took a look at it today.

The first couple of pages regurgitated so many of the old rumors that I started just getting ticked off. There's Lizzie killing Abby's cat, Lizzie refusing to speak to Abby or eat with her, Abby never leaving the house, Lizzie buying Bridget a farm in Ireland if she'd keep quiet and promise never to come back, Andrew cutting off people's legs in order to cram them into cheap coffins, Lizzie buying up all the copies of Porter's book and suppressing it, etc., etc.

There's also something about Bridget testifying in court that she took Lizzie's side in family arguments??? And Andrew leaving the house before Morse did on Thursday morning?

Sams seems to have cribbed liberally from the all the wrong authors here.

I remember being quite intrigued by his psychological theorizing on keys and locked doors in the house when I initially read this -- but now I really have a lot of trouble buying into any theory based on such a platform of errors.

However, it is an inexpensive addition to a Borden case library -- and it could come in handy for tracing back some of those rumors because sources (with page numbers) are embedded right in the text.