Lizzie Borden
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From 'The Tragedy of
Miss Pudding, which is cut into pieces and eaten', Merryweather tries to
teach Cain some rhymes, and one of them is a jumping-rope-rhyme called
'Lizzie Borden'. On the date of 4 August, 1892, a rich man and his wife were found dead at their house in Fall River, Missachusetts, U.S.A. The couple were killed by the same weapon, a hatchet. Few days later, the Police arrested one of their daughters, Lizzie Borden and charged her as the murderer. Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860-1927), a spinster from a rich family. Together with her 2 sisters, she lived with her parents in Massachusetts. Her mother died when she was young and it seemed she didn't have a good relationship with her step-mother. It was said that Lizzie loved animals, theatre and arts very much. Before the date of the murder, someone saw Lizzie buying prussic acid (poison) at a drug store. She claimed that the poison was used for killing insects from her garden. After the arrest of Lizzie, the public were all focused on it and many articles were about the trial. A rhyme was published on a newspaper about Lizzie Borden. However, the rhyme is not totally true abou the murder! To arose public interest, the rhyme says the father got a 40 whacks and mother suffered a 41 hit. The truth was, the father got 19 blows and the mother got a 41 hit. The jury decided that Lizzie Borden was not guilty and the crime was never solved. Was she really the murderer of her parents? After the trial, Lizzie bought a Victorian style house and lived with her sister, she named herself as 'Lizbeth'. She died in 1927 after her gall bladder surgery. There are many
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