Was Lizzie kept in jail from Aug 11 until her trial in June?

[Marg]

Hello all, I'm new here so forgive me if this info is somewhere else and I missed it.
I've been looking at newspaper articles regarding this case and there seems to be a blank
between Aug of 92 and May of 93! Where was Lizzie during this whole time of
preliminary hearings and Grand Jury meetings? Are there articles during this time posted
on line anywhere?
Thanks!

[Yooper]

This is a link to the legal chronology :

http://lizzieandrewborden.com/CrimeLibr ... yLegal.htm

Lizzie was in custody from August 11, 1892 until her acquittal June 20, 1893.

[Marg]

Thanks. I did have this chronology but there seems to be such a vacuum of news between those times, I was wondering if I was missing something!

[DJ]

Although she's not everyone's favorite Lizzie chronicler, Victoria Lincoln-- in "A Private Disgrace"-- relates that Lizzie was well kept by the jailer and his wife at Taunton, that she received her dinner from the local hotel and was allowed frequent walks about the prison yard. Apparently, she was pretty much allowed visitors as she pleased, too, including members of the press. It was far from a solitary confinement without privileges.

You can read Lincoln and check behind her-- look up names she drops, etc. It's a decent starting board for your Lizzie investigations.

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Lizzie was interviewed by more than a few reporters while in prison, thus becoming a cause celebre in the national press, and a symbol of the oppressed woman during the ever-strengthening national women's rights movement, which took significant shape at a convention in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848. By the time of the trial, there was a tide of national sympathy in her favor, particularly from women.

Others in the Forum have wondered how Lizzie would have fared if her trial had been expedited, on the heels of the Grand Jury indictment. Also, what if Alice Russell had come forward for the Inquest? Would Lizzie have cracked? Also, what was in the letter that Lizzie wrote to her friend Lizzie Johnston, that upset Miss Johnston so? Will we ever know? Word leaked out (maybe from one of the other vacationers in Marion, who happened to read/hear the letter) that Lizzie was going to join her vacationing friends, bringing a "sharp hatchet" for chopping wood.

Would the Alice Russell testimony plus the revelation that Lizzie was adept with a hatchet-- if these had been revealed at the Inquest-- would Lizzie's resolve have been broken?

Alice Russell's testimony was the most damning against Lizzie (aside from Lizzie's own ramblings)-- probable destruction of key evidence by the principal suspect in a double-homicide-- and Lizzie was fortunate that it wasn't given right away. Eli Bence's testimony ran a close second against Lizzie, although it was not admitted at the trial.

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Anyway, welcome Marg!

[Marg]

Thanks for all of this DJ, and thanks for the welcome, too:)