Tried and Found Guilty by the Media: Just because your
read it, doesn't mean its true!
On This Day...in 1892, a prosperous banker and his wife were
hacked to death with a hatchet in their Fall River home. Suspicion immediately
focused on the man's unmarried 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden. Basing
their case entirely on circumstantial evidence, police indicted her for murder.
Newspapers all over the country carried sensationalized, sometimes completely
fabricated, stories. A rhyme was made up anonymously in order to sell newspapers.
Media and public opinion can be very cruel.
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
When she came to trial the following June, the nation was
mesmerized by the spectacle of a Sunday-School-teaching maiden lady charged
with committing such gruesome crimes. But the prosecution's case was badly
flawed, and after a two-week trial, the jury found Lizzie Borden not guilty.
She would never be free from suspicion, however, and lived the rest of her life
as a social outcast. Featured in the picture is the home of Lizzie Borden in
Fall River, Massachusetts.
If you are going to get exited over something and pass it along, make sure its true.
In the picture are Lizzie Borden and her home in Fall River,
Massachusetts. The home is now a bed and breakfast. Anybody interested?
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