Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden is well known to most Americans, base on the thyme about her.
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
Talk
about being tried in the media. Lizzie Borden did go to trial for the
murder of her father and stepmother. However she was acquitted.
However she remained guilty in the minds of millions of Americans. She
inherited a couple hundred thousand dollars from her father. She had
argued with her stepmother. However the judge, and the community, and
the jury, were convinced such a petite young woman, with such gracious
manners, could not have committed such a crime.
Taken from "The Good, the Bad and the Mad" by
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