One of his eyeballs had been split cleanly in two, suggesting he had been asleep when attacked. His wife Abby was also killed. "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." (4 August 1892)
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Horfield Prison
Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.
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