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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Fall River, Massachusetts
The morning of August 4, 1892 between 9:00 am and 11:10 am
Abby and Andrew Borden were the victims of violent ax murders that are thought to have been perpetrated by Andrew’s 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Her stepmother, Abby, was hit 18 times, and Andrew was hit 11. This event later became the basis for a popular (yet inaccurate) school-yard rhyme, which goes:
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.
Fall River, Massachusetts
The morning of August 4, 1892 between 9:00 am and 11:10 am
Abby and Andrew Borden were the victims of violent ax murders that are thought to have been perpetrated by Andrew’s 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Her stepmother, Abby, was hit 18 times, and Andrew was hit 11. This event later became the basis for a popular (yet inaccurate) school-yard rhyme, which goes:
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.
