Courthouse Protests?
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Courthouse Protests?
Has anyone seen any reports of actual protests (like those depicted in the LEGEND OF LIZZIE BORDEN TV-movie, for instance) outside the courthouse (or anywhere) during Lizzie's trial? What form did the widely-reported WCTU support for Lizzie take? (Did someone issue statements, do interviews, etc.?)
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Yes I do, but I find that source a bit unwieldy at times!! In Kent I've found a few bits and pieces:
"Profound Sympathy Offered:
The WCTU and the Young Women's union held a special meeting Monday night and passed the following resolution: 'We offer our profound sympathy to Miss Lizzie A. Borden in the sad and painful bereavement which has befallen her by the recent tragic death fo her parents. We would also declare our unshaken faith in her as a fellow worker and sister tenderly beloved, and would assure her of our constant earnest prayers that she may be supported under hte unprecedented trials and sorrows now resting upon her." Miss Borden is treasurer of the Young Women's union and has been prominent in union work."
"Public Opinion:
It is certain that public opinion is wavering in the conclusion it so firmly hugged to itself since Thursday night, and when a man is asked today for a theory, he is ready to admit that he has none. The friends of Lizzie Borden rallied so promptly to her support, and so generral has been the testimony to her womenly characteristics that people who were led to conclude from printed statemnnts of her coldness and lack of emotion, a nature quite devoicd of feeling which could have slaughtered right and left without a fluttering of ocnscience, have had their theories severely shaken."
"The charitable are always ready and willing to look on the bright side of a question or anything that will ltend to lessen the abhorrence that a general public will have for a person under suspicion. This, probably, and the fact that the woman was not allowed counsel to protect herself have done more to cause nearly the entire press of the country to rise in indignation aganist the so-called inquest. While they may not believe in her innocence, the right that the weak should have support is predominant."
"The regular attendants at hte proceedings found themselves out of place at the throng of tastefully dressed women and respectable citizens of leisure who were crowding to get into the building."
So a few things, but nothing too revelatory. No sign of any actual protests. Certainly no mention of posters and placards!
"Profound Sympathy Offered:
The WCTU and the Young Women's union held a special meeting Monday night and passed the following resolution: 'We offer our profound sympathy to Miss Lizzie A. Borden in the sad and painful bereavement which has befallen her by the recent tragic death fo her parents. We would also declare our unshaken faith in her as a fellow worker and sister tenderly beloved, and would assure her of our constant earnest prayers that she may be supported under hte unprecedented trials and sorrows now resting upon her." Miss Borden is treasurer of the Young Women's union and has been prominent in union work."
"Public Opinion:
It is certain that public opinion is wavering in the conclusion it so firmly hugged to itself since Thursday night, and when a man is asked today for a theory, he is ready to admit that he has none. The friends of Lizzie Borden rallied so promptly to her support, and so generral has been the testimony to her womenly characteristics that people who were led to conclude from printed statemnnts of her coldness and lack of emotion, a nature quite devoicd of feeling which could have slaughtered right and left without a fluttering of ocnscience, have had their theories severely shaken."
"The charitable are always ready and willing to look on the bright side of a question or anything that will ltend to lessen the abhorrence that a general public will have for a person under suspicion. This, probably, and the fact that the woman was not allowed counsel to protect herself have done more to cause nearly the entire press of the country to rise in indignation aganist the so-called inquest. While they may not believe in her innocence, the right that the weak should have support is predominant."
"The regular attendants at hte proceedings found themselves out of place at the throng of tastefully dressed women and respectable citizens of leisure who were crowding to get into the building."
So a few things, but nothing too revelatory. No sign of any actual protests. Certainly no mention of posters and placards!