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August 06, 1892
DAILY TIMES, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1892
* Lizzie Borden ax murders
* Fall River MA Massachusetts
* Lizzie becoming a suspect
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 2: "FALL RIVER'S MYSTERY" "Police Believe They Have an Important Clue" "One Of The Girls Bought Poison" "Lizzie, the Younger Daughter, Identified by the Drug Clerk...."
Interesting report as poison was the main focus in the case early on. Tells of the famous Lizzie Borden ax murders shortly after the event when they were at the beginning of their investigation.
Other news of the day with several interesting advertisements throughout.
This is a large size newspaper that measures 26 x 22 inches. Light browning and slightly pulpish, otherwise good. Should be handled with care especially considering their large size.
wikipedia notes: On the morning of August 4, 1892, Borden's father, Andrew Jackson Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Durfee Borden, were murdered in the family home. The only other people present at the residence at the time were Lizzie and the family maid, Bridget Sullivan. Emma Borden, Lizzie's sister, was away from home.[2] The Borden sisters' uncle, John Vinnicum Morse, brother of Andrew Borden's first wife, was visiting at the time, but was also away from the house during the time of the murders.[2]
That day, Andrew Borden had gone into town to do his usual rounds at the bank and post office. He returned home at about 10:45 a.m. About a half-hour later, Lizzie Borden found his body. According to Sullivan's testimony, she was lying down in her room on the third floor of the house shortly after 11:00 a.m. when she heard Lizzie call to her, saying someone had killed her father, whose body was found slumped on a couch in the downstairs sitting room. Andrew Borden's face was turned to the right hand side, apparently at ease as if he were asleep.[3]
Shortly thereafter, while Lizzie Borden was being tended by neighbors and the family doctor, Sullivan discovered the body of Mrs. Borden upstairs in the guest bedroom. Mr. and Mrs. Borden had both been killed by blows from a hatchet, which in the case of Andrew Borden, not only crushed his skull but cleanly split his left eyeball.
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