Here is a potpourri of free Lizzie Borden items for your collection. I am always amazed by what I find when surfing the net, and my mission is to share it with you so you can enjoy it too!
1. Verdict in Dispute by Edgar Lustgarten (1949). The entire 264 page volume has been scanned for your reading pleasure. Includes chapters on Florence Maybrick, Steinie Morrison, Norman Thorne, Edith Thompson, William Herbert Wallace, and Lizzie Borden. Available as PDF, TXT, or FULL TEXT document.
2. A huge collection of audio files from radio shows, including:
CBS, Second Look at Murder, from 6.10.81
Crime Classics, The Bloody Bloody Banks of Fall River, from 9.30.53
Suspense, Fall River Tragedy, from 1.14.52
Suspense, Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden, from 10.4.55
Unsolved Mysteries: Lizzie Borden
3. Study Guide for Sharon Pollock’s play about Lizzie Borden, Blood Relations, published by the Joliet Drama Guild.
4. Free issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies, now beginning its 5th year of publication.
5. Police Witness Statements, given to police officers in the hours and days following the murder of Andrew J. Borden and his wife Abby. Witnesses include Lizzie Borden, Bridget Sullivan, Emma Borden, John Morse, Dr. Seabury Bowen, Mrs. Churchill, Alice Russell, and various other passersby and townsfolk. 46 pages of text, 3 page table of contents, and extensive 6 page index.
6. The testimony of Lizzie Andrew Borden presented at the Inquest into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Borden, held August 9-11, 1892.
7. The testimony of Volume II of the Inquest into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Borden, held August 9-11, 1892. The Witnesses include: Eli Bence, Emma Borden, Lizzie A. Borden, Dr. Seabury W. Bowen, Adelaide B. Churchill, Hannah H. Gifford, Hiram C. Harrington, Frederick B. Hart, Frank H. Kilroy, John V. Morse, Alice M. Russell, Charles S. Sawyer, Augusta D. Tripp and Sarah B. Whitehead. Lizzie Borden’s testimony is contained in Volume I and is reprinted from the New Bedford Evening Standard as both hers and Bridget Sullivan’s testimony is lost to us.
8. The Complete Trial Transcript of Lizzie A. Borden. Before the Superior Court for the County of Bristol. Presiding, C. J. Mason, J.J. Blodgett, and J. J. Dewey. Official stenographic report by Frank H. Burt (New Bedford, MA., 1893, 2 volumes). Created by Harry Widdows.
9. Lizzie Borden’s Last Will and Probate Records.
