Lizzie Borden Case Study

Mary Surratt lied about knowing people . The reason I say this is because in source two it states ,” Before God sir , I do not know this man nor did I hire him to dig a ditch.” This shows that she lied about knowing people and hiring them. Hence proves that she had something to hide. Another reason that she should have been executed was in source two , it states ,”Mary Surratt lied about knowing Lewis Paine” . This shows and tells you that she lied to the federal government and police which means something is out of the normal.

Their daughter, Lizzie Borden was the suspect in these murders and mutilations. She was arrested 7 days after the murders on August 11th, 1892. However, a jury found her not guilty after she went to trial.

The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-

Because they thought she was burning it because there was blood on it. Later in her jail time she was let go. Because of this she had gone to trial with 12 men. During the trial she had shown no emotions to her parents death witch had concerned the 12 men. In the trial Lizzie never took stand for the 12 men. For this reason I think Lizzie did try to kill her parents with the poison but someone else killed them, that’s why she had shown no emotions. That someone who problem killed Abby and Andrew Borden could have been the person who Andrew was having trouble with. As saying that Andrews employers has rumors that a customer did not like him and that Andrew owed him something but never gave it to him. June 20th , 1893 Lizzie was found not guilty and acuanted. Lizzie commited the crime she had done to avoid the evidence. For this reason Lizzie was found not guilty on June 20th 1893. Lizzie and Emma inhareted their fathers estate. Thry had bought a house for themselves. Emma had died 10 days later from the flu then Lizzie died 3 days later. The case had then been set for a mystery formany years, and many people has many different opinions on who killed Abby and Andrew

Some feel as though it is Mary’s fault because she ended up accusing Proctor of witchcraft and getting herself out of trouble by siding with Abigail. By her telling the court that Proctor is “the Devil’s man” and saying that he forced her to “overthrow the court”, Mary manages to get Proctor arrested and taken to jail (118). While she did discredit John and cause him to be thrown in jail, she was not responsible for his death. Proctor set himself up for Mary betraying him because he physically forced her to talk to the court by grabbing her throat and throwing her on the ground. All she was doing was finding a way to get out of trouble and get away from Proctor. In addition to setting himself up for this situation, he set himself up for death by trying to be a hero. Attempting to show the court that the girls were just pretending may have opened eyes in terms of realizing how wrong the trials were, but Proctor ended up getting himself killed in the process. Marry Warren may have made Proctor look bad, but she is not responsible for his

Mary Surratt, a women who assisted in killing Abraham Lincoln , is guilty of conspiracy because she knew what the plans where to assassinate the 16th president of the United States. She gave John Wilkes Booth, the killer of the president, and their follow colleagues a places to sleep and live, the boarding place she provided is also the place they came up with the plans to murder the president. One of the people who were around during this was John M. Lloyd, he was an assistant to Mrs.Surratt . As he describes Mrs. Surratt in his testimony, he had do several things that had to be done to make sure that their plan carried thru, Like getting an buggy to pick up Booth to go to the theater. Also Mrs.Surratt and Booth often held private meetings

The double murder of Andrew and Abby Borden still remains unsolved. The police could have done a better job investigating and the evidence showing Lizzie being linked should have been enough to charge her but this is a period of time when forensics was at its infancy and if there was no weapon there was no crime. The money involved could have brought rise to Lizzie to plot the death for inheritance. We will never

Some people may say that it was right for Mary Surratt to have been hanged. However, even though she knew about the shooting irons, only one person new about the irons. That

Honesty in Salem was valued very high. Lying was almost as bad as committing a murder or adultery. If you were caught in a lie, you would be hanged for your sin. Elizabeth Proctor lied to the court about her not knowing about her husband, John Proctor, affair with Abigail Williams. Elizabeth was very ill at the time of the affair. Elizabeth is to be hanged for her sin. Her execution is postponed because she claims she is pregnant, which is another lie. Ezekiel Cheever and Herrick, ask Elizabeth if she has any dolls. Elizabeth tells them she does not have a doll since she was a little girl. Ezekiel Cheever and Herrick know that Elizabeth is lying. Mary had given Elizabeth a doll just before they got there. The doll had a needle in its side, just as Abigail did. When Elizabeth is called to the court, she does not know whether to lie to tell the truth. She ends up lying about her not knowing about the affair. John begs for the judge to change his mind and not hang her. Elizabeth is accused of

On August 4th, 1892, a horrific murder took place. On that day, a young woman named Lizzie Borden was accused for murder, but some think she is innocent. I believe Lizzie Borden is guilty. She did not have good relationship with her step-mother, there were no signs of anyone trying to break into the Borden home, and she was lying about where she was when the murder occurred, she said she was outside in the backyard but there were no footprints or anything to prove she was. Lizzie Borden is guilty and here are 3 reasons why.

Casey must be guilty because she had some motivation to kill her child and there is

You may think that the dress was burnt because of blood stains, not paint stains. There is no way to figure that out. One reason why I believe Lizzie Borden was innocent is because there was no physical evidence that Lizzie Borden was guilty. There are only assumptions and theories. In the article, “Lizzie Borden: Murderess or Media Sensation?,” it states, “There was no physical evidence linking her to the murders. A hatchet had been discovered in the basement of the Borden home, but its blade was clean and the handle had been broken off.” There are theories about the prussic acid, the burnt dress stained by paint stains, and how there were no footprints in the dirt by the barn, but there is could be an explanation for each of those. The prussic acid could have actually been for the sealskin coat, the dress could have actually been stained by paint, and the wind could have picked up dirt and swept the footprints away. People just took everything and made it seem like evidence, but nobody actually took a second to think; maybe Lizzie Borden was actually telling the truth about the stuff she did. One person made an assumption and all of a sudden, they had the entire world thinking the same thing.

jury ruled her not guilty, but I do not see how with all the evidence that they had. With the

Have you ever been so angry you thought about killing your parents with an axe? Well many people think Lizzie Borden did this exact thing. Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her step mother and father with a hatchet on August 4, 1892. While on trial, the jury found her innocent, but many other people think her to be guilty. I think that Lizzie Borden is innocent of the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden because she loved her father, didn’t have a problem with her stepmother, and there was no physical evidence found at the crime scene. Lizzie Borden was found innocent by law, so why should it be questioned?

This is case that faces Mary Barnett. The issue in this case is that On January 23, the litigant, Mary Barnett, left Chicago to visit her life partner in San Francisco having left her six-month-old little girl, Alison, unattended in the apartment. Mary Barnett returned home a week later to find that her child had died of dehydration. She called the police and at first, to let them know that she had left her kid with a baby sitter. She later expressed that she had left the child and she didn 't mean to return, and that she knew Alison would die in a day or two. She has been accused of wrongdoing of second-degree murder; purposeful homicide without intention. In the event that she is sentenced, she could face up to eighteen years in prison. This piece of writing tries to give the verdict of the case after critically examining both prosecution and defendant side.