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Rufus B Hillard - City Marshal - 1886-1909 (top left)
John Fleet - City Marshal - 1909-1915 (bottom left)
(Change from City Marshal to Chief of Police)
William Medley - Chief of Police - 1915-1917 (center)
Martin Feeney - Chief of Police - 1917-1931 (top right)
Abel Violette - Chief of Police - 1931-1946 (bottom right)
source: http://www.frpd.org/history.htm
"My funeral to be strictly private with a short prayer at the grave.
At the house I wish read “The Crossing of the Bar”. Also the 14th
chapter of
Also sung the first and fourth verses of “My Ain Countrie”.
I wish to be laid at my father’s feet.
A small head stone to match the others of my family.
Lizbeth [underlined twice] to be cut on the stone.
Lizbeth Andrews with the date July 1860.
The minister of the Church of the Ascension is to conduct the services.
Grave to be bricked.
| HAME, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! When the flower is i' the bud and the leaf is on the tree, The larks shall sing me hame in my ain countree; Hame, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! The green leaf o' loyaltie 's beginning for to fa', The bonnie White Rose it is withering an' a'; But I'll water 't wi' the blude of usurping tyrannie, An' green it will graw in my ain countree. O, there 's nocht now frae ruin my country can save, But the keys o' kind heaven, to open the grave; That a' the noble martyrs wha died for loyaltie May rise again an' fight for their ain countree. The great now are gane, a' wha ventured to save, The new grass is springing on the tap o' their grave; But the sun through the mirk blinks blythe in my e'e, 'I'll shine on ye yet in your ain countree.' Hame, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— |
I am far frae my hame, an' I'm weary aften whiles,
for the langed for hamebring in', an' my Faither's welcome smiles;
An' I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see
The gowden gates o' heaven an' my ain countrie.
The earth is fleck'd wi flowers, monytinted, fresh an' gay;
The birdies warble blithely, for my Faither made them sae:
But these sights an' these soun's will as nae thing be to me,
When I hear the angels singin' in my ain countrie.
I've His gude word o' promise that some gladsome day, the King
To His ain royal palace His banished hame will bring;
Wi' een an' wi' hert rinnin' owre we shall see
The King in His beauty, in oor ain countrie.
My sins hae been mony, an' my sorrows hae been sair;
But there they'll never vex me, nor be remembered mair:
For His bluid has made me white, an' His han' shall dry my e'e,
When He brings me hame at last, to my ain countrie.
He is faithfu', that has promised, an' He'll surely come again,
He'll keep His tryst wi' me, at what oor I dinna ken,
But he bids me still to wait, an' ready aye to be,
To gang at ony moment to my ain countrie.
Sae I'm watchin aye, and singin' o' my hame, as I wait,
For the soun'in' o' His fitfa' this side the gowden gate:
God gie His grace to ilka ane wha' listens noo to me,
That we a' may gang in gladness to oor ain countrie.
"“MY AIN COUNTREE”
But there they’ll never vex me, nor be remembered mair;
For his bluid has made me white, ain’ His han’ shall dry my e’e,
When he brings me hame at last to my ain countrie.”
When he brings me home at last to my ain country (when I join him in heaven).
THE CROSSING OF THE BAR
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
John 14:1-4
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many mansions. Were it not so, I should have told you, because I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again, and I will take you to myself; that where I am, there you also may be. And where I go you know, and the way you know."
Note: I think it's interesting she said she wished "to be laid at my father's feet". Did that have any emotional or sentimental significance or was it purely a geographic placement directive on her part? Note she didn't say she wanted to be buried next to her sister (and we can assume she would think - in 1919 - that she would outlive her sister). –fm 1/18/02
So what can we conclude from all this? On the presumption that Lizzie was guilty, we can conclude that the unhappiness and depression described by Helen Leighton and Grace Hartley Howe (who, aside from her servants, perhaps knew her best and certainly were closest to her in her last decade) were born of her own internal demons, demons born of her guilty acts of August 4, 1892. But her Christian faith sustained her in the belief her sins would be forgiven and she would rest in peace in heaven.
| July 3, 1656 | General Court of Plymouth Colony grants land east of |
| July 5, 1801 | BeBe Wilmarth born. (Abraham's 2nd wife) |
| July 7, 1831 | Orin Fowler installed as third pastor of First Congregational Church. (Later wrote History on |
| July 5, 1833 | John Vinnicum Morse born in |
| Jan, 10, 1835 | George Dexter Robinson born (later becomes 3-time Governor and head of Lizzie’s defense tean). |
| July 20, 1840 | Dr. Seabury W. Bowen is born. |
| July 18, 1842 | Matthew C. Borden born. “MCD Borden”, brother of Col. Thomas J. Borden, operated American Print Works. |
| July 2, 1843 | “The Great Fire” in the |
| July 19, 1860 | Lizzie Andrew Borden born at |
| July 11, 1867 | Hetty Howland Robinson marries Edward Henry Green |
| July 19, 1867 | Lizzie’s 7th Birthday. |
| July 2, 1883 | BeBe Wilmarth Borden dies at age 81 (Andrew’s stepmother). Lizzie is 23. |
| July 14, 1891 | Borden house “robbed”; items missing from Abby Borden’s dresser. |
| July 13-18, 1891 | Augusta D. Tripp visits the Bordens, leaves day before Lizzie’s 31st birthday. (CI 48) |
| July 10, 1892 | Morse again visits Bordens. AJB asks Morse if he knows of man to run |
| July 11, 1892 | Union laborers in |
| July 18, 1892 | Emma and Lizzie deed back house on |
| July 19, 1892 | Lizzie’s 32nd Birthday. |
| July 20, 1892 | Grover |
| July 21, 1892 | Lizzie & Emma leave |
| July 21, 1892 | Lizzie travels to |
| July 25, 1892 | AJB writes letter to Morse to wait about getting a man to run his farm. |
| July 25, 1892 | Lizzie visits the girls at |
| July 25, 1892 | FR Daily News reports on ladies (including Lizzie) vacationing in |
| July 26, 1892 | Lizzie, Mrs. Poole & Mrs. Poole’s daughter ride to |
| July 26, 1892 | Lizzie takes train from |
| July 30, 1892 | Fall River Board of Health reports 90 deaths due to extreme heat, 65 are children under age 5. (VVII-331) |
| July 31, 1892 | Bridget prepares first serving of the infamous mutton. |
| July 1, 1893 | Joseph Tetrault (later Lizzie’s coachman) arrainged for adultery with Mary Soucie. |
| July 3, 1893 | Lizzie and Emma purchase house on |
| July 19, 1893 | Lizzie’s 33rd Birthday. |
| July 19, 1893 | FR Weekly News reports Lizzie won trip to |
| July 23, 1893 | Lizzie escorted to CC Church by Dr. Bowen & Mr. Holmes. (Chicago Daily Tribune 7/24/1893) |
| July 5, 1904 | 23,000 |
| July 3, 1908 | Hannah B. Nelson, Lizzie’s housekeeper (1903-1908) dies at |
| July 24, 1915 | Excursion steamer The Eastland sinks in |
| July 3, 1916 | Henrietta “Hetty” Howland Robinson Green dies at age 81 in a shabby Manhatten brownstone. |
| July 18, 1932 | New Fall River Post Office opened. |
| July 19, 1943 | William M. Emery writes article for New Bedford Sunday Times recalling the Trial reporting of 1893. |
| July 21, 1969 | U. S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes first human on the Moon. |
Left: from an old eBay offering purported to be Andrew Borden, as seen on the right.
"By Paul Edward Parker,
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case involving former White House aide Vincent W. Foster, who committed suicide in 1993. Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr has demanded to see notes of a conversation between Foster and his lawyer just days before the suicide. The high court will hear oral arguments in that case on June 8, with a decision expected in late June or early July. The court will decide whether attorney-client privilege, which protects the secrecy of the relationship between lawyers and their clients, continues after the client dies. It is the attorney-client privilege that has kept the Robinson papers out of the public eye for 105 years. Though Lizzie is long gone, her lawyer lives on, in the form of Robinson, Donovan, Madden & Barry, the law firm that succeeded Governor Robinson's firm.
The Supreme Court's pending ruling opens a tantalizing possibility to historians and Borden buffs. "Would we like to look at Robinson's papers? Absolutely, of course," said George E. Quigley, president of The International Lizzie Borden Association.
Said Michael Martins, curator of the Fall River Historical Society: "Any documents that pertain to a case as notorious as the Borden case, a great unsolved murder mystery, would be of tremendous interest to researchers and scholars." The historical society is home to the largest collection of Borden material, including the papers of prosecutor Hosea M. Knowlton and City Marshal Rufus B. Hilliard,
Bruce Lyon, administrator at the Robinson firm, said the collection includes newspaper clippings and other materials that were publicly available. It also includes a lot more material, he said, all of which is privileged.
Around the time of the 100th anniversary of the murders, in 1992, the firm consulted with the Board of Bar Overseers, the agency that oversees the conduct of lawyers. The board informally advised that not only does the attorney-client privilege bar the firm from releasing the papers, it prevents the firm from disclosing the nature of what it holds.
Speculation is that the files might contain letters between Lizzie and Robinson; letters between Robinson and other lawyers involved in the case; Robinson's notes, both strategic preparations and documenting how the trial progressed; and other documents relating to testimony at the trial and preliminary proceedings.
Few expect to find anything directly incriminating Lizzie, such as a signed confession. But the papers may hold bits of information that may have seemed inconsequential at the time that, viewed with a modern understanding of the case, might bolster one or more theories of the crime.
"Some things in there might be historical," Quigley said. "There might be statements in there that might be damning or might be helpful to her. There would be notes that Robinson wrote about the case that would be telling. Who knows."
The Supreme Court's ruling will probably only deal with whether lawyers can be ordered to divulge material relating to dead clients. A ruling paving the way for release of the papers would only be the first step to their becoming public. If the Robinson papers became publicly available and the law firm wanted to lend or donate them to the historical society, Martins would be happy to accept them, but added, "we wouldn't go after them."
Martins said the society, in such a case, would probably seek to publish the papers, a painstaking process involving years of transcribing handwritten notes. The society published prosecutor Knowlton's papers in 1994, and has been preparing the roughly 600 documents in Hilliard's papers, which are still several years from publication. Despite the keen historical interest in the material, even Martins and Quigley are hesitant to advocate that the Supreme Court extinguish the attorney-client privilege upon a client's death.
Quigley noted that Foster has living relatives, who could be hurt by the release of confidential material. "Lizzie, it doesn't matter," he said. "She's dead. She's dead a long time."
Martins thinks the privilege should be extended even to the long-dead accused ax murderess. "Personally, I think Lizzie Borden bought and paid for her defense," he said. "Isn't it important that they protect the documents of their former clients? I think it's important that they do that."
The Supreme Court, using the case of Vincent Foster, ruled that lawyers must still maintain the attorney-client privilege, even when the client is dead. Personally, I can see the merits of this with regards to private correspondence. But the firm most likely has what remains the only surviving copy of Bridget Sullivan’s Inquest Testimony. Testimony from all others called by District Attorney Knowlton has long since been made public via the “
As Lizzie walked in, Abby turned toward her stepdaughter and immediately got the first whack of the day. It was upside the head and if it didn't knock her out (or worse), it at least knocked her down. From the posture of the body, we can guess she may still have been conscious and instinctively turned face down for protection. If so, that was fine with Lizzie, who standing astride her stepmother, began to flail away at the back of her head. Eighteen more chops and she figured the job well done. She was correct.
There are, though, problems with this scenario although it remains the most probable one. Certainly, the required technical finesse raises some questions. Although there were nearly a hundred splats of blood in the room - on the wall, on the dresser, and on the bed - Lizzie was clean. The question, then and now, was whether she could have had time to hose down both herself and the hatchet so thoroughly that the best forensic tests of the day couldn't detect any blood.
