Hatchet hiding

[Kevin Luna]

If those 12 old white men had all voted guilty, would the crimes be solved?

[twinsrwe]

If those 12 old white men had all voted guilty, would the crimes be solved?

I find the ‘old white men’ part of your post offensive. The jurors were not all ‘old white men’. At the time of the trial, the oldest juror was 64 years old, and the youngest juror was 35 years old. I hardly call either one of those ages ‘old’. Yes, as far as I know, they were all white men; do you have a problem with their race and gender?

The partial information below is from Leonard Rebello's Lizzie Borden, Past and Present, page 201:

George Potter (1839-1909), age 54, from Westport, Massachusetts, farmer, …

William Francis Dean (1839-1904), age 54, from Taunton, Massachusetts, farmer, …

John Wilbur (1833-1915) age 60, from Somerset, Massachusetts, farmer, housewright and road surveyor, …

Frederick Copeland Wilbur (1857-1928), age 36, from Raynham, Massachusetts, carpenter and cabinet maker, …

Lemuel Keith Wilbur (1832-1912), age 56, from Easton, Massachusetts, farmer, …

William Westcott (1845-1921), age 48, from Seekonk, Massachusetts, farmer, …

Louis Bradford Hodges (1834-1905), age 59, from Taunton, Massachusetts, Iron moulder, …

Augustus Swift (1851-1906), age 42, from New Bedford, Massachusetts, proprietor of Acushnet Iron Co. and businessman, …

Frank Granger Cole (1844-1915), age 49, from Attleboro, Massachusetts, jeweler/workman …

John C. Finn, age 35 (Fall River Daily Herald, June 6, 1893, p7.), the youngest juror, from Taunton, Massachusetts, painter, city councilor, clerk at Post Office, …

Charles I. Richards (1829-1910) age 64, the oldest of the jurors, from North Attleboro, Massachusetts, real estate and town assessor, …

Allen H. Wordell (1848-1920), age 45, from North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, farming tools and produce, retailer of agricultural implements and seeds (Wilson & Wordell) …

What do you think the answer to your question is?

[Kevin Luna]

I'm a 32 year old white man. I have no problem with old white men. My point was that they were all the same demographic, the demographic which I think was probably most likely to acquit Lizzie, and the demographic which I think was probably least willing to deviate from their preconceptions.