Lizzie Borden Trial According to the Fall River Herald News

Deborah Allard penned an interesting piece tonight on the goings on in Salem. I quote a small part here but you should read the entire piece in the online paper.

Salem’s Lizzie Borden museum allowed to use trademarked name before trial

By Deborah Allard with AP reports
GateHouse News Service
Posted Sep 25, 2008 @ 05:46 PM
Boston —
A legal tug of war between Fall River and Salem came no closer to delivering a verdict on who has the right to use the Lizzie Borden “museum” trademark.
. . . .
He [Donald Woods] said he and Leonard Pickel, owner of the Salem museum, were not in court Thursday. . . . Young ordered the two sides to prepare for trial and said he may rule later on Wood’s plea for a temporary injunction. He did not immediately set a trial date.
“A trial could be nothing more than meeting with the judge,” Woods said.
. . . Authors continue to pen their views of the murder and construct Lizzie’s life.

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