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Oct 12, 2021 · (“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.”)
- Stacy Conradt
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. [1] No one else was charged in the murders, and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River.
Thanks to a grisly schoolyard poem — Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother 40 whacks… — her name remains far better known than the actual facts of what happened.
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Aug 1, 1992 · Aug. 1, 1992. Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother 40 whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41' . -- 1892 ditty PARA: By JILL RADSKEN. FALL RIVER, Mass. -- The...
Somewhere in the decade after Borden’s acquittal, the Borden rhyme surfaced, writes The Providence Journal: “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what...
Aug 4, 2015 · Lizzie Borden took an ax. And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
May 3, 2024 · Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
