Axe Found
From the New York Times, April 7, 1929:
Occupied Again
From the New York Times, October 18, 1893:
Lizzie’s To-Do List
From Jonathan Katz’ To-Do Lists of the Dead, 2000:
Turns out Tenant
From the New York Times, June 5, 1894:
Charles Manson and Lizzie Borden
In the vol. 174, 2002 of Military Law Review, posted on jagcnet.army.mil website, is a curious reference to Lizzie Borden. Or should I say “Lizzy” Borden. In what appears to be the text of a speech presented on November 21, 2002, on “Constitutional Dignity and the Criminal Law,” Judge James E. Baker, from the United […]
Lethal Imagination
According to the Emery University Violence Studies Newsletter, Fall 1999, a then new book was announced that appears to include an essay on Lizzie Borden. Says the newsletter: While helping to organize the Violence Studies Program two years ago, Professor Michael Bellesiles discovered that there was no general history of American violence. Encouraged by New […]
Lizzie Taught
The Camden County College, in New Jersey, is offering a large selection of tuition-free Professional Development workshops for teachers and community members. Of note is the offering for the Blackwood Campus: “Murders That Changed the Course of History.” MURDERS THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY This workshop will exam infamous acts of violence and the […]
Death Notice: Knowlton
From the New York Times, December 19, 1902:
Lipstick Lizzie
Back in June, I blogged about a not too pretty Lizzie newspaper illustration that seemed to age her for us, making her, well, rather unattractive. I have since found a magazine illustration from PIC Magazine from 1938 that attempts to do the opposite: make Lizzie sexy. They added makeup, I guess, a little lipstick, and […]
A Plagiarizing Parable
Thanks to Auds for this link—it is a good one. And it is directly related to Lizzie Borden. In fact, our fair lady of Fall River figures prominently in the story. I suggest you scurry on over there and read it. Now, please. You’ll thank me, and Auds, later. Fake Lizzie photo by Harry Widdows.
Witnesses
From the New York Times, November 15, 1892:
Let Crime Spider spin for you
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Discharged to-day
From the New York Times, October 21, 1892:
Charles Henry Wells
The Fall River Historical Society website is prettier than ever and has some juicy tidbits hidden away for you to find in your explorations. Besides a very complete gift shop, there are some archives of past publications worth looking at. Here is a PDF copy of their Fall River Historical Society Report from Fall 2002 […]
Case of Lizzie Borden
From the New York Times, October 22, 1892:
Troubled with Nausea
From the New York Times, August 16, 1892:
Lizzie and Patriarchy
In “Either Way it Goes Down . . . America’s 54 Women on Death Row in the Context of Patriarchy,” DeAnna M. Horne examines “the experience of women in the criminal justice system” and concludes that “sex-role stereotyping prevails over context-specific reasoning” and that “the application of justice for women is skewed.” She uses the […]
Lizzie’s Turncoat Friend
The Fall River Historical Society has placed on its web site the Summer 2002 issue of The Fall River Historical Society Report. This one is a keeper, so download it now. It has the new image, just revealed in this issue, of Alice Russell as an old woman. You will love the candid of her […]