Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Please don't shoot me but I got excited while reading (Masterton's book) and haven't had a chance to look it up but please, I beg of you someone do!!

"Unfair means force my signature here admitting the act ( ) of August 4, 1892 as mine alone" (her signature appears afterward). It comes from the book "Lizzie Borden, the Untold Story," page 256.

IF you have the book, can you please check to see if that word is "act?" I can't really make it out.

Could it be that someone knew the truth and was forcing her to admit it? If that is the case, then she really was guilty.

Okay, I've made a fool of myself If I had continued to read before posting, I would have seen that the saying was discovered in 1950 and it was a hoax. "In particular, the signature was clearly a forgery; it had been traced from a copy of Lizzie's will." (William Masterton, page 135).

I was thinking before I read that why didn't she simply pay for the paintings? Well back to reading, so sorry y'all.

She was accused of stealing two sentimental Victorian paintings on porcelain from a high-class store (which still exists) but settled out of court. Embarrassingly for Lizzie, however, the whole episode seems to have leaked out into the public domain, smearing her reputation once more.

I do remember reading about that, too. I was thinking (before I continued to read) that perhaps she did do the murders and was being forced to confess but like I said- it was a hoax.