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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.”) The facts are that Abby Borden suffered something like 18 blows and Andrew...
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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 she had ...
Jun 20, 2017 · Lizzie Borden took an axe. And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done. She gave her father forty-one. The murder of Andrew Borden (Lizzie’s father) and Abby Borden (Lizzie’s stepmother) occurred on 4 August 1892, in the family home the two shared with Lizzie and her sister Emma.
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Aug 1, 1992 · The more popular question today, however, is why Lizzie, to paraphrase an old ditty, gave her stepmother 40 whacks and her father 41. Did Lizzie slaughter her parents for an...
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. Borden’s story has been...
Dec 19, 2017 · The basic facts are as follows: on 4 August 1892 Lizzie Borden alerted the family maid, Bridget Sullivan, to her father’s mutilated body. He had been hit 10 or 11 times with “a hatchet-like...
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.