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LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AX VICTORIAN CRIME POSTER
Even though it was not yet noon, the day was stiflingly hot,
over one hundred degrees. An elderly man, still wearing his
heavy morning coat, reclines on a sofa for a little nap.
His wife is upstairs, lying on the floor of the guestroom, having been
dead for the past hour and a half. The killer enters the room
where he is sleeping, the impact awakens him from
the same weapon that killed his wife.
"Inspection of the victims discloses that Mrs. Borden had been
slain by the use of some sharp and terrible instrument, inflicting
upon her head eighteen blows, thirteen of them crushing through the
skull; and below stairs, lying upon the sofa, was Mr. Borden's dead and
mutilated body, with eleven strokes upon the head, four of them crushing
the skull." From the closing arguments for the defense of Lizzie Borden, made by her
principal attorney, George D. Robinson.
According to one Fall River legend, "When Andrew Borden was an undertaker,
he would cut the feet off the corpses in order to cram them into undersized
coffins that he got cheap."
The hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife,
Abby Borden have attracted much attention over
one hundred years because of the bloodiness of
the act which occured in a respectable late nineteenth century domestic
setting. What was even more shocking was that the accused was a
respectable church-going, sunday school teacher and the spinster daughter of
Andrew J. Borden. Lizzie Borden was charged with parricide,
the murder of both parents.
In the end, considering the unusual circumstances in an era of swift justice,
overwhelming newspaper coverage, a passionately divided public opinion regarding
her guilt or innocence, the incompetence of the prosectution,
and almost entirely circumstantial evidence, Lizzie Borden was found not guilty
for the brutal murders of
her parents.
Regardless of what one might know about Lizzie Borden, she will be
forever immortalized in the school-yard jump-rope song:
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.
This poster is 17 inches wide by 22 inches deep, generous black ink lushly
printed on a heavy parchment stock.
The image for this poster was created
with pen and ink on paper and offset printed. No computers were used in the
making of this poster, all drawn entirely by hand.
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