Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Lizzie borden

  • Lizzie Borden, a wealthy New England Sunday School teacher who was charged with using an ax to kill her father and stepmother in 1892, is back in the spotlight nearly 120 years later, thanks to the discovery of her lawyer's handwritten journals.
  • (comcast.net)
  • 120 years after the notorious Lizzie Borden murder case, newly-surfaced journals belonging to her lawyer, Andrew Jackson Jennings, could shed new light on the infamous 19th-century trial.
  • (The Inquisitr)
  • Though she was found innocent, history seems to remember Lizzie Borden as a disgruntled, cold-blooded killer who murdered her father and stepmother.
  • (Time)
  • The meticulously detailed notebooks of Lizzie Borden's murder trial lawyer may finally change the public's mind about the notorious woman long believed to have whacked her parents with an axe.
  • (Toronto Star)
  • The legend of Lizzie Borden has terrified generations of children who have heard tales of the librarian who was believed to have hacked her father and stepmother to death with an ax in 1892.
  • (Post Chronicle)
  • FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - A series of journals kept by a lawyer who represented Lizzie Borden in her 1893 double murder trial are shedding new light on the case.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • PlayhouseSquare and Baldwin-Wallace College collaborate for a fifth year to present the Midwest regional premiere ofLIZZIE BORDEN, a rock musical directed by Victoria Bussert, at PlayhouseSquare's 14th Street Theatre.
  • (Examiner)
  • Some have considered the one-time church of Lizzie Borden the most recognizable feature of the city skyline. Darlene Pavao, chairwoman of the Fall River Historic Commission, said last week, "There's no issue of demolition because the taxes haven't been paid.
  • (Herald News)
  • He lives in Swansea with his wife and two sons. His house, not coincidentally, is just down the street from Lizzie Bordens former summer home, which provided the inspiration for his debut novel, Dizzy Miss Lizzie.
  • (South Coast Today)

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