Bridget Sullivan

of malice, in the sense of actual intent, to harm or gross negligence and recklessness (Cornell.edu). Under the first amendments, no one can be proved guilty unless it is considered actual malice whether or not it is true or false (Cornell.edu). Sullivan made no real effort to prove that he had suffered any real harm, therefore, the vote was unanimous and the court held that the First Amendment protects the publication of all statements, even false ones, unless actual malice is proved…

This murder trial took place in the Borden’s house on 4th of August, 1892 in the city called Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden’s house incorporated Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, his two daughters Lizzie and Emma, and a housemaid Bridget Sullivan. However, the main suspect was revealed to be Lizzie Borden in the trial; therefore, she was arrested for her father’s and stepmother’s murder. A look at the evidence of the murder case proves that Lizzie Borden was guilty of her father…

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one.” This song is the song made for Lizzie Borden for a pretty special reason. Lizzie Borden was a wealthy Woman who was accused of murdering her father, Andrew Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden, with an axe or hatchet on August 4, 1892. At the end of her trial for the murders, she was found innocent, but some say she was still guilty. Many people thought Lizzie Borden was…

she gave her father 41. This essay will present all the facts and theories of the infamous Lizzie Borden Case. The main suspect is of course, Lizzie Borden, but this essay will also present the maid, Bridget Sullivan, as a suspect, Uncle John V. Morse and it will also introduce the possibility of Bridget and Lizzie working in cahoots. What happened? Many people are in the dark about this case, or haven’t even heard of it. On August 4th 1892 Andrew Borden and his wife Abbie Borden were…

still didn’t want to come near her”. Lucy also becomes ostracised from the local community as she is not part of the easy-going banter and spontaneous warmth that everybody else is. Lucy’s acute sense of guilt convinces her that neither Aloysius Sullivan, the family lawyer, nor Mrs. McBride, the local shopkeeper, like her. Likewise, Juno MacGuff is the epitome of social exclusion. When she goes to buy her pregnancy test, she is greeted with the anti-thesis of sympathy. The shopkeeper cruelly…

weapon was nowhere to be found (Robertson, 1996). After investigating suspects outside of the immediate family, the attention had shifted to Lizzie Borden, the daughter of Andrew Borden, and Bridget Sullivan, the family’s domestic. However, attention soon shifted to Lizzie after she gave an alibi for Bridget. Although there is speculation about whether or not Lizzie Borden is the one who committed the murder, a possible motivation/psychological idea is nature vs. nurture. Nature vs. nurture is…

However, as discovered in the court by Bridget Sullivan, the maid of the Bordens, there had never been an unkind word between her and her stepmother. No blood was found on Lizzie's dress. When Maggie was called downstairs, she recalls that there was no blood on her dress. In the rooms where her parents…

seems; Lizzie Borden stated in a police interview that she and her sister addressed their stepmother as “Mrs. Borden,” and Lizzy believed that Abby Borden was after her father’s considerable wealth. The Crime On august 4, 1892, Borden house maid Bridget Sullivan heard a cry from Lizzy, the younger of the Borden sisters, alerting her to the fact of Mr. Borden’s death. It became apparent that, while sleeping on the sofa, Mr. Borden had been attacked with a hatchet and killed. Half an hour later,…

The Cryptic Murder of The Bordens Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she had saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. In the children´s song that is quite dark and morbid, there is an actual story behind it. In the 1800´s, the Borden family was known as one of the families of the town to be of higher class with lots of land and money. Well, that name soon turned from a name that was respected, to one that was feared and full of questions. The mystery…

had suspicions the Lizzie to be the killer of her parents, after she had tried to purchase poison on august 3. even more suspicion fell on her when the found that Lizzie had burnt her dress in the stove in the home. Yes they did also suspect Bridget Sullivan and Lizzie's uncle John. Lizzie was arrested and tried for the murders but was acquitted due to circumstantial evidence in June of 1893. “Lizzie went with some friends to a beach house on Buzzards Bay on the Massachusetts coast. While there,…