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  1. 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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  2. 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...

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  4. 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...

  5. 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 done,...

  6. May 9, 2020 · Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacksWhen she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one… Your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth and your shirt is damp with sweat.

  7. Signature. 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.

  8. 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.