Lizzie Borden Society Forum

This site attributes super strength to our Liz. Nah.

http://www.femalemuscle.com/memorial/famous/borden.html

Qoute from the final paragraph:
" Lizzie Borden was very aggressive and strong. In order to kill her father and his wife in such a brutal manner, she had to have very powerful biceps, shoulders and a solid back. Her arms must have over 17 inches and she probably could have curled over 175 lbs. To swing an ax over forty times takes a lot of power and coordination. I’ll bet she was vascular and pumped by the end of the act! She was also very cunning and intelligent to get away with the double murder. Lizzie Borden definitely would have been in the heavyweight class if she were a bodybuilder and an awesome boxer!"

--Huh??  
Is this Lizzie Borden on steroids? I hadn't imagined that!
Were there such things as steroids in 1892?

Bon Dieu!

They act like it would be a source of pride for Lizzie to go about telling Alice and the ladies down at the WCTU that she was "gonna pump you up"

I can just see Lizzie sitting up in her room doing curls with the flat irons.... Maybe that is what she did in Taunton... Chin ups on the bars and indian wrestling the matrons for cigarettes.

Doesn't sound like our Lazy Lizzie!

Heck, if she was that strong one hatchet blow would have done it for each of them.

LOL, Auds. Can just see Lizzie doing one arm pushups in her cell.

I do remember reading somewhere, probably a newspaper article, of a rumor that Lizzie worked out at a gym. Now to find that.

From Witness Statements, page 46 -- "...Mrs Potter and her sister Miss Dimon, the miliners on Fourth Street. I then looked up the above mentioned ladies and found them very hard people to handle. I was with them both for two hours, and elicited the following; Lizzie Borden has been practicing in a gymnasium for a long time, and she has boasted of the strength she possessed, not to these people, but to others. The place where she practiced was supposed to be in the Troy Block."

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tina-Kate. I've been looking for the reference the last hour and never even thought of the primary sources.

Of course I don't believe it but in this Borden saga anything is possible.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tina-Kate. I've been looking for the reference the last hour and never even thought of the primary sources.

Of course I don't believe it but in this Borden saga anything is possible.

Maybe she committed the murders in her gym clothes, haha. I do find this tidbit of information fascinating though.............

Thank you TK!

So were there steroids in 1892? This vascular thing has me worried...