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.Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris,the First U.S.Expedition to the North Pole.New York: Signet, 2001.Kind, Stuart, and Michael Overman.Science Against Crime.New York:Doubleday & Co., 1972.Loomis, Chauncey.Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles FrancisHall, Explorer.New York: Knopf, 1971.Parry, Richard.Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the1871 Polaris Expedition.New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother.Chaiba Media.Bloody Murder: TheDeath of Abby andAndrew Borden (1892)26 Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in AmericaLizzie Borden took an axeAnd gave her mother forty whacks.And when she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one. Schoolyard rhymeThe trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father andstepmother was widely covered by newspapers of the day.Thecase s notoriety sparked a schoolyard rhyme, countless books andplays.Although Borden was acquitted, she never escaped thestigma of the accusations against her.Abby and Andrew Borden sat down for breakfast on the hot morning ofAugust 4, 1892, with their guest John Vinnicum Morse.Andrew, 70, wasone of the wealthiest men in Fall River, Massachusetts.He had beeninvolved in the furniture business for 33 years and had accumulated alot of real estate, including two farms in Swansea.His assets were worthan estimated $350,000.He was also president of the Union Savings Bankand sat on the board of directors of several other companies.Despite his wealth, Andrew was known as a miser.He lived in a plain,unpretentious, one-and-a-half story house at 92 Second Street with hissecond wife, Abby, 64, and two unmarried daughters from his firstmarriage, Emma, 41, and Lizzie, 32.His first wife, Sarah, had died whenLizzie was two years old.Morse, 59, was Lizzie and Emma s maternaluncle.He had arrived for a visit the day before from New Bedford andstayed overnight.It was the same day that Andrew and Lizzie had beenviolently ill.The trio wondered if there was poison in the bread they ateor the milk they drank.Lizzie had stayed in her room all morning priorto Morse s arrival.A day later, the family was feeling well again.After Abby, Andrew, and Morse had finished breakfast that Augustmorning, housemaid Bridget Sullivan, 25, washed the breakfast disheswhile Abby dusted.Morse and Andrew Borden went to the sitting roomto relax.They read the newspapers and chatted until about 8:45 AM.Then Morse prepared to leave so that he could run errands.As Andrewlet Morse out the back door, he reminded him to return for lunch.Morse went to the post office to mail a postcard before going to visitDaniel Emery to see his niece and nephew.Andrew left the house soon afterwards for business appointments atthe Union Savings Bank, of which he was president, the National UnionBank, and the First National Bank.He then went to see Johnathon Clegg,Bloody Murder: The Death of Abby and Andrew Borden (1892) 27a furniture dealer who wanted to lease a store from him.Meanwhile,inside the Borden household Lizzie came downstairs and decided tohave coffee and cookies for breakfast.She sat down at the kitchen tableand read old magazines from the closet as she ate.Abby told Sullivan towash the windows on the ground floor.Then she went upstairs to theguest room to make the bed.The housemaid began washing the outsideof the three parlor windows at the front of the house.There were alsotwo in the dining room and two in the sitting room.One door wasunlocked, but she didn t see anyone enter or leave the house as she per-formed her task.She also did not hear Lizzie or Abby moving aboutinside the house.Sullivan was washing windows from the inside of the house when sheheard a key turn in the front door at about 10:40 AM.She opened thedoor and let Andrew inside.He had returned home with a parcel in hishand.He took off his coat and sat in a chair in the dining room.Lizziecame downstairs about five minutes later and asked her father if he hadany mail.She told him that Abby had received a note and had gone outto visit a friend.Andrew then took the key to his bedroom from the mantel and walkedup the back stairs to get a sweater.He came back down soon after andsat down in a rocking chair in the sitting room.Then he stretched outon the couch.As Sullivan washed the dining room windows, Lizzie tooka small ironing board from the kitchen, laid it on the dining room table,and began to iron her handkerchiefs.FINDING THE BODIESAfter Sullivan had finished washing the windows, she went upstairsto her bedroom in the attic just before 11 AM [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]