Lizzie Borden Society Forum

I wonder whether people do this out of ignorance or in effort to deliberately defraud:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lizzie-Borden-G ... 1e9dfd2e2e

And then there's 'ghost dust' for ...which makes me wonder how much soil contaminated by the contents of Andrew's slop pail would bring!??!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lizzy-Borden-Re ... 20fb2a9d02

Except for the lack of an unsolved double murder, my house would be worth about $300,000,000 right now...

I didn't know there was such a thing as ghost dust. However, the first item speaks of distaste, really.

The first item is bizarre enough, but the second item is downright absurd!

Description of item:

Offered here is a check dated October 28, 1936, drawn on the B.M.C. Durfee Trust Company of Fall River, Massachusetts, payable to Elton M. Borden in the amount of $222.22, and endorsed by him on the verso. Provenance from the estate of William C. Borden. Check has been gruesomely matted along with a reproduction image of Lizzie Borden and the Borden House, where the murders were committed.

Who is Elton M. Borden?

Who is William C. Borden?

What is their connection to Lizzie Borden?

It seems to me that the sellers are using our Lizzie’s name in order to sell these item. Shame on them!

Question: Dear kreismangallery,

How is this check related to Lizzie Borden?

- bluffstonetraders

Answer: Dear bluffstonetraders,

The check is signed by a member of her family, Elton M. Borden and is from the estate of another descendant, William C. Borden.

- kreismangallery

Kresimangallery appears to handle legitimate historical documents so I'm wondering why go out on a very shaky limb and jeopardize their reputation?!!? MB, do you know who Elton Borden was? There are several William C. Bordens, none of whom are closely connected to Lizzie. From what I can ascertain from minimal effort.

On the check is the date 1936.

Not sure who William C Borden was in 1936, but I have an early 30's directory and several late 1800s and 1920s and there is no listing for William C. He could have lived in one of the smaller nearby towns.



During Lizzie's life time there were a couple, (perhaps 3) Elton Bordens. One named O. Elton Borden lived a block and a half away from lizzie on the same street, French. He was a bank teller for the National Bank down the road on Main. Of course all the Fall River Bordens are related, once you go back far enough. Not sure how close O. Elton was, though. But he lived in a nice house.

Can''t find anything for a Elton M. but I did find an Elton E. A machinist. Not close to Lizzie,I would have to guess. In the teens and early 20s he lived in a modest 3 family home on Manton Street in the South of the city. By 1930 he was living in his own small cottage on the other side of town on Baldwin Street. A modest little place outside the center of town but still in fall river.

He was basically a nobody when it came to fall river history, except for his interesting name, "Elton."

Below is the little cottage where Elton E. lived. Compared to Maplecroft, Lizzie's place was 3 to 4 times bigger. A closer study would need to be done to discover who Elton M was.

Just for the record....

This is the house of O. Elton Borden.

As it stands today, 7 houses down from Maplecroft.

Again, no one of an important historical significance....but nice little place.

This Ebay sale is silly.

In the end the check has nothing to do with Lizzie Borden.

By 1936 Lizzie had been dead almost 10 years.

The fact that these "Bordens" and Lizzie are connected in anyway is just fallacious.

Love the house but it reminds me of a leaning white chocolate cake :-)

mbhenty wrote:This Ebay sale is silly.

In the end the check has nothing to do with Lizzie Borden.

By 1936 Lizzie had been dead almost 10 years.

The fact that these "Bordens" and Lizzie are connected in anyway is just fallacious.

I totally agree, MB.

There were zero bids on this $45.00 item, but the seller is not about to give up, yet:

http://tinyurl.com/n3atlvp

The seller now has the starting bid at $15.00.

http://tinyurl.com/o3fl258

HOLY BUCKETS!!!! If someone buys this for $5,000.00 then I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/This-Photograph ... 3cf48c2596

As Possum said the last time we looked at a photo that was supposed to be Lizzie, "The one part of a person that never changes is their ears."