Lizzy Borden The Inquest

"...you're listening to a Touch of Madness based on the Trial of Lizzie Borden by Kate Lavender your full name is Lizzie Andrew Borden is it Lizzie or Elizabeth Lizzie you were so Chris I was so Christened what is your age please 32 your mother is not living no sir when did she die she died when I was two and a half years old you do not remember her then no sir what was your father's age he was 70 next month what was his whole name Andrew Jackson Borden and your stepmother what was her whole name Abby Durfee Borden how long has your father been married to your stepmother I think about 27 years how much of that time if they lived in the house on Second Street I think I'm not sure but I think about 20 years last may always occupy the whole house yes sir somebody told me it was once fitted up for to tenements when we audit it was 42 tenements and the man we bought it off of stayed there a few months until he finished his own house after he finished his own house and moved into it there was no one else moved in we always have the whole have you any idea how much your father was worth no sir have you ever heard him say no sir have you formed any opinion no sir do you know something about his real estate about what his real estate I know what real estate he owned part of it I don't know whether or not I know all of it or not don't tell me what you know of he owns two farms and swans see the place on Second Street and the AJ Borden building and corner and land on South Main Street where McManus has and then a short time ago he bought some real estate up further south that formally he said belonged to a mr. Bert did you ever deed him any property he gave us some years ago Grandfather Borden's house on Ferry Street he bought that back some weeks ago I don't just know how many as near as you can call well I should say in June but I..." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices