Do You Know The Tale Of Lizzie Borden?

[nickmajor890]

Does ANYONE descriptivley know the charges of Lizzie Borden? What was her real name? What was she charged for?

[webbo3]

Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks, When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/

[jourdain2]

So far as I'm aware, the rhyme we all know is accurate (except, perhaps for the number of 'whacks'.

[douglas9401]

Aye, eighty one whacks would be tough going even for a trained lumberjack/jill.

[davebro]

Don't know if it was a contrivance but there was a recently re-screened "Hitchcock's Half Hour" where Lizzie was innocent (as was determined in fact) but was also covering up for her sister who was the actual murderer.

[wolf63]

Douglas, true - girls are all sweetness and joy.

Unless you seriously ssip one off.