1893 - Crime

Crime

Lizzie Borden makes headlines in June when she goes on trial at Fall River, Massachusetts. Spinster Lizzie Andrew Borden, 32, is charged with having killed her stepmother and then her father on the morning of August 4 last year. The sensational trial boosts newspaper circulation figures to new heights, the jury finally rules to acquit, but street urchins chant, "Lizzie Borden took an axe/ And gave her mother forty whacks./ And when she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one."