The Lizzie Borden B&B is once again holding an eBay auction for a stay in the Morse room (the room where Abby Borden was murdered) for August 4, 2008. The Fall River Herald recently ran a piece on the internet sale. The piece is by Deborah Allard.
Here is a link to the eBay sale. As of today, the highest bid was $275. With only four days to go.
Something had to mark the anniversary of Lizzie Borden’s death on June 1. She died at home at her Maplecroft mansion 81 years ago in 1927. She was 66.
The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast decided it would put a night in its John Morse room up for bid on eBay. And, it’s not just any night; it is the night, and there is never a vacancy. The lucky bidder will spend the night of the gruesome murders in the room where Abby Borden was found face down in a pool of blood on Aug. 4, 1892.
Andrew was found downstairs, dead on the parlor sofa. His blood had seeped down to the basement.
Who would want to spend such a night, or any night, in the Borden house?Let the bidding begin.
“It’s sitting at $275,†said Lee Ann Wilber, house manager.
Last year, the room went to Don Sykes of Pennsylvania, who bid just under $1,000. Sykes, a Borden buff visited the B&B again just two weeks ago.
“Everyone waited (to bid) until the last day last year,†Wilber said. “The last half-hour, it went up $500.â€
Wilber started the auction last year because she had so many calls from people wanting to book the room on the murder night, that she thought the fairest way of handling it was to give it to the highest bidder.
