Lizzie Borden Society Forum

I have often wondered why Bridget didn't go to work for Lizzie at Maplecroft after the trial. From everything I have ever read, they did get along; there was no ill blood between them. Or at least go to work for Emma.

The only explantation I can come up with is that maybe she just wanted to forget the whole situation.

I feel that Bridget knew more than what she said at the trial and feared Lizzie. Besides, no one in their right mind wants to be associated with an "ax murderess."

-1bigsteve (o:

I'd like to know how ANYONE would work for Lizzie after learning her history. I sure wouldn't want to be alone in the house with her at night even if she HAD been acquitted. No one knew for sure if she had done it and no one knew for sure what she might do in the future.

I think Bridget knew more than she let on. Either she heard or saw something she wasn't suppose to, and was afraid of Lizzie. I sure wouldn't want to stay & work for her after what happened in that house.

I never thought about it like that, but I think you are right, Nadzieja. She might have been afraid of Lizzie. And, and any rate, don't think she would want to be around her, probably just wanted to forget the whole lot of them.

I think Bridget had no doubts about who killed Abby and Andrew..she probably wanted to get as far away from Fall River as possible. I know I would....Lizzie could still have fingered Bridget as the killer.

It seems to me that Bridget was more dedicated to Abby than either Emma or Lizzie. I think Bridget put two and two together fairly early and knew who the killer was by the end of the day. It appears as though she wanted out of that house ASAP.

I wondered why Bridget didn't stay there as well, but then again she left the house soon after the murders occurred and never returned to the house.
I believe she was employed by the police for a while before the trial and maybe even during the trial. She also testified for the prosecution, but did not damage the defense with her testimony.
I'm still not sure she didn't have some kind of hand in the killing. I'm not saying swinging the murder weapon, but at least some knowledge of what happened in that house.
I read somewhere she was supposed to have said something to a friend in Montana about wanting to tell her something on her deathbed, but she died before she ever told her secret.

Don't you think that superstition might have kept Bridget away...the simple country girl from Ireland afraid of ghoulies, and ghosties, and things that go bump in the night?

Think how scary it would be to have the ghost of Andrew's mutilated corpse accost you.

That's a good point, Cynthia. In my new article on the bloody handkerchief, I had to try and place myself where Bridget stood looking at Mrs. Borden. Alone in the room with her. Staring.
I think Bridget might have gotten the heebie-jeebies right then and there, finally considering she had been alone in the house with a hatchet murderer and maybe just realizing it!

I don't blame Bridget. I would have gotten myself out of that house ASAP as well!

I remember when my father died..about 11 years ago...from cancer. His hospital bed was set up on the sun porch and after he died, Hospice came and cleared the room of equipment and set the furniture back up that day. I spent the night with my mother and opted to sit on the sun porch and watch tv, since the tv had been set up in there for him. My mother sedated herself and went to bed. I was totally creeped out sitting in that room, looking at the spot where his hospital bed had been and where he had died. I didn't sleep a wink and expected to see him walk in the room at any second!

I can totally understand how Bridget must have felt!

Good Irish girls don't kiss and tell,
But move their feet and run like Hell
Over the river and 'cross the Sea -
Back to auld Eire where they'll never find me!
In time, yet 'cross the Sea again,
But far from the waters of the Quequechan -
'mid kith and nigh kinsmen from old Allihies,
All part (but yet not) of a plan.
Good Irish girls don't kiss and tell,
But sometimes wish only to hide;
As it may have been with that Sullivan girl
Who became a Sullivan's bride!

That poem was brilliant Doug. I loved it.

Thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed it Steve.

Oooo, that was fantastic, Doug! Thanks for sharing! We have such talented people on this Forum, I love it.