Lizzie Borden Research Paper

In August 4, 1892 at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts in the Borden house. Andrew Borden and Abby (Durfee Gray) Borden were murdered in their own house. Andrew was murder, while he was sleeping in the sofa. Police were searching in the house and led to discover the dead body of Abby in the upstairs bedroom. Both of them were a victim of a brutal hatchet attack.

The possible suspects would be Lizzie Borden, Bridget (the maid), Emma (Lizzie’s older sister), John Morse (guest), and other people (enemies). The maid, Bridget rested in her bed after having washed the outside windows. During that, the murder happen when the maid was in the house. It might be possible that she did it because she was in the house and might have kill

For example, Eli Bence, a clerk at S. R. Smith's drug store in Fall River, told police that Lizzie visited the store the day before the murder and attempted to purchase prussic acid, a deadly poison. Lizzie could use that thing and poison her father and stepmother. She couldn’t get the poison, so she kill (maybe) her father and stepmother with an axe. There was rumors that Lizzie and her stepmother never got along together

For 4 hours, Lizzie gave very confused and contradictory answers to the questions that she answer. After 2 days later, Police Chief Hilliard arrested Lizzie Borden. The next day, Lizzie entered a plea of "Not Guilty" to the charges of murder and was transported by railcar to the jail in Taunton. In August 22, Lizzie returned to a Fall River courtroom for her preliminary hearing, at the end of which Judge Josiah Blaisdell pronounced her "probably guilty" and ordered her to face a grand jury and possible charges for the murder of her parents. The trial of Lizzie Borden opened in June 5, 1893 in the New Bedford Courthouse before a panel of three judges. Before that jury of twelve men, Moody opened the state's case. The witnesses described the things that happen before and after the murder and stuff. After talking about the things that happen and the suspicious things that Lizzie did before or after the murder. The jury deliberated an hour and a half before returning with its verdict. The clerk asked the foreman of the jury, "What is your verdict?" "Not guilty," the foreman replied simply. Lizzie let out a yell, sank into her chair, rested her hands on a courtroom rail, put her face in her hands, and then let out a second cry of joy. After that Emma, her counsel, and courtroom spectators were rushing to congratulate