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And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Tonight, we bring you transcribed a story of what might have happened in the famous

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Lizzie Borden case.

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We call it Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden.

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So now, starring Paula Winslow, Virginia Gregg and Irene Tedrow, here is tonight's Suspense

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play, Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden.

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What did I do with my purse?

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Oh, there it is.

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Oh dear, oh dear, I know I've forgotten something.

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Something.

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Is that everything, ma'am?

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Huh?

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Oh, oh yes, just the two suitcases.

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What are you doing with the trunk, Expressman?

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There isn't any trunk, only the two bags.

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I'm only going for a short visit.

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I was told...

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It's my trunk, Miss Emma.

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I'm leaving.

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Oh, Maggie.

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It's all right, Expressman.

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You can take the trunk out.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Maggie, you can't.

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I can't help it.

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I'm sorry, I really can't.

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I'm sorry, I really can't.

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I'm sorry, I really can't.

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I'm sorry, I really can't.

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I'm sorry, I really can't.

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I'm sorry, I really can't.

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I'm sorry, Miss Emma.

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I've only stayed this long for your sake.

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I couldn't bear to leave you alone with her.

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Thank you, Maggie.

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Now you'll be gone off on your little vacation and she'll have somebody else in the kitchen

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maybe before you come back.

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Oh dear, Maggie.

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What shall we do?

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What are we going to do?

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I can't stand it, Miss Emma.

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I never feel alone in this house.

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I'm cleaning about, thinking no evil, and then I get a shiver between my shoulder blades

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and I turn around and there she is, perfectly still, just looking at me with that look she's

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had since the trial.

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More than a body can stand and I'm leaving.

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I know, Maggie.

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She's always spying.

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She knows every move I make.

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I know.

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No party, no callers, not a friend to drop in of an evening.

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It's like a house of death.

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It is a house of death.

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I can't stand it any more than you can.

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That's why I'm going down to Fairhaven.

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I can't stand being cooped up with her any longer.

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Then you know what I mean, Miss Emma.

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Have you told her?

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No.

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No.

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If you want to know the truth, I was afraid to say anything.

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I thought I might get my trunk away with your things before she knew.

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Where is she?

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Upstairs.

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Well, you'd better hurry then.

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Goodbye, Maggie.

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Goodbye, Miss.

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I'm sorry.

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And don't miss your train.

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Oh, I won't.

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I have a half hour yet and it isn't as if there wasn't another one soon after, you know.

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Well, I know you, Miss Emma.

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Don't miss them both.

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Goodbye.

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Goodbye, Maggie.

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Oh, what am I going to do?

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Miss Lizzie, Miss Borden is out.

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Oh, my God.

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I'm so sorry.

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I'm so sorry.

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I'm so sorry.

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Oh, dear.

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Why can't they leave us in peace?

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Oh, now what did I do with my gloves?

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Oh, I wonder what time it is.

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Maggie!

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Oh, oh, she's gone.

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Oh, dear.

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Lizzie will be furious.

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Oh, who is it?

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Who is it?

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Miss Borden.

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Oh, no, no, no.

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You can't come in.

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You can't come in.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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No, no, you can't come in.

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My sister won't see you.

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Please take your shoe out of the door.

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Oh, dear.

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This is the scene of the crime.

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Oh, please.

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The sword found over there.

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Please, my sister.

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Blood splattered all over the walls.

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Had them re-papered.

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Oh.

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Nice happy pattern, too.

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Oh, this is the picture, isn't it?

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The one that had 46 blood spots on it.

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You're Miss Lizzie Borden, I presume.

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Oh, no.

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No.

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I am not.

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I must say, you're not what I expected.

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Out West, where I come from, when a woman's tough, she's tough.

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Now, Miss Lizzie, I'm really...

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I am not Miss Lizzie. I am Miss Emma.

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Oh! Oh, the sister! That accounts for it.

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Well, Miss Emma, this is the anniversary of the Second Street murders, isn't it?

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It's just a year since Mr. and Mrs. Borden were murdered, but...

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Since my father and stepmother died. We don't talk about it.

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I missed your sister's trial. Some old girl, I heard.

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She was acquitted. We don't talk about it.

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No, of course not. But the public is interested, you know.

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Now, I'm from Cripple Creek, Colorado, Miss Emma.

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Greatest town on earth. Pick up gold right on the streets.

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I represent the Cripple Creek record, and I'm here to get some impressions from my paper.

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Second Street revisited and all that.

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Oh, you're one of those nasty female reporters.

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Oh, Lizzie hates reporters. I know she won't listen to you for a minute.

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Oh, well. Hey, isn't that a picture of Pike's Peak on the wall?

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Oh, yes. It's quite artistic, isn't it?

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Uncle Morse brought it back to me from the gold fields.

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It's all he brought back. He painted it himself.

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Now, isn't that a coincidence? I'm from the Pike's Peak gold fields myself.

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Oh. Morse, Morse.

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Is your Uncle Morse an old codger, 60ish maybe, with...

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A droopy mustache?

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That's it. A droopy mustache and a sort of...

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Tall and thin. Oh, my goodness. Do you know Uncle Morse?

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I should say I do. I knew him well in Cripple Creek.

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Who is the old coyote? Put her there, Miss Emma.

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Any niece of old man Morse is a friend of mine.

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Oh, how do you do? Won't you sit down, Miss...

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Nellie Cuts. You just call me Nellie.

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Now, as I was saying, I represent the Cripple Creek record,

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and I'm on kind of a roving commission to report how things are on this side of the range.

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And listen, this Borden story's got everything.

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New England old maid, Sunday school teacher and all that.

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Just as a story, you know.

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Collar? She ups and kills half the family with an axe.

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Interview with Miss Lizzie Borden a year after. Great stuff.

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They need it up in Cripple Creek.

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She won't see you. Lizzie won't see you. I know that.

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Well, how about a word from you, the sister?

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How does it feel, Miss Emma, to live day in and day out within sight of the very blood stains, as you might say?

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How does it feel to take meals with a woman who was tried for the crime?

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Oh, I've stood it as long as I can.

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That's why I'm going to Fairhaven. I can be alone in Fairhaven.

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Must have been pretty tough on the nerves this last year.

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I guess Miss Lizzie'd be difficult to live with, huh?

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Shh! She hears. She's always listening and spying.

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She never leaves me alone.

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Oh, dear, I mustn't miss the 3.37. What time is it?

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You won't miss it. It's only quarter-a-half.

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Oh, my watch says ten o'clock.

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No, I set mine at the station just for...

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Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 wets.

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And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.

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Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 wets.

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What was that? She gave her father 41.

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How did it begin?

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He gave her father 41.

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This is a classic. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her...

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Oh, please, please, don't.

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She hears every word you say down here.

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Her room is right up there.

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Right up there?

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But she wasn't up there when her father was being murdered, was she?

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She was in the barn eating pears, she says.

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Now, Miss Emma, just sit down a minute, please.

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Is it true that on the morning of the murder,

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the breakfast consisted of bananas, cookies and cold mutton soup?

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I don't know. I wasn't here. I was at Fairhaven.

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Cold mutton soup in August. No wonder somebody committed murder.

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Well, now, Miss Emma, your stepmother was found upstairs

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with her head batted in with an axe.

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That's right.

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And your father's body was on the sofa here, like this.

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Oh, don't!

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Miss Lizzie spread the alarm.

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The front door was triple-locked

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and Miss Lizzie was watching the side door, so she says.

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She was watching from the upper barn window,

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just standing there, eating a pear and looking out, she says.

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How could anyone outside have done it?

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How could they escape right under her eyes

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if Miss Lizzie wasn't lying?

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My sister was acquitted.

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It beats me how they acquitted her.

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Blood.

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Hmm?

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Blood.

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Whoever did it was covered with blood.

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Well, what about it?

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Everybody saw Lizzie within ten minutes of the crime

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and she hadn't a spot of blood on her.

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The biggest professors at Harvard tried to find blood on her clothes.

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There wasn't any.

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That's why they had to acquit her.

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Tell me, Miss Emma, did you look carefully at Miss Lizzie

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to see if there was any blood on her, her hair, perhaps, or her shoes?

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Certainly not my own sister.

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Besides, I didn't see Lizzie till I got back from Fairhaven that night.

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Maybe she used an apron, one of those big coveralls.

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They never found one.

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Easy enough to hide a thing like that in your own house.

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They never found the axe either, did they?

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No. They never found the axe.

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I often wondered where it got to.

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They searched the house?

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Yes. They searched.

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They took up the carpets, didn't they?

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Did they search the chimney?

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Of course they did.

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Did they open the flue?

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No. We wouldn't have them tearing up the house.

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I'd tear it up.

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Loose brick here. Wouldn't be hard.

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Oh, Lizzie wouldn't have it.

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Everything's Lizzie's now.

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Lizzie's and mine.

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Miss Emma, excuse me, but is there any insanity in your family?

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Certainly not.

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That's the first thing they started asking.

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Oh, they asked ever so many questions about Uncle Mors.

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Good old Uncle Mors.

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He arrived for a visit, didn't he?

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Just the day before the murders.

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Yes. And they were awful about Uncle Mors.

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They kept asking people if he was quite right in the head.

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Just because he doesn't work steady any place, but sort of drifts around.

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Oh, it made me terribly angry.

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Uncle Mors is as sane as I am.

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Where was he the morning of the murders?

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Visiting around. He had a perfect alibi.

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It was just humiliating the way they snooped around about everybody.

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Where was Uncle Mors? Where was I?

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Miss Emma, tell me about the kitten.

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Oh, they say the kitten was found down in the cellar.

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Dead.

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It had been killed with an axe.

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Oh, the kitten.

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The kitten was the hardest.

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I cried for a week.

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It brought on my neuralgia.

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I like kittens.

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Lizzie never cried at all.

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It was Lizzie's kitten.

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She's a hard woman.

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Yes.

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Well, now, Miss Emma,

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let's get back to the fatal day.

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Mrs. Borden is lying in her blood upstairs.

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The servant is downstairs.

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She hears Mr. Borden at the front door trying to get in.

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She goes to let him in.

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She finds the door is triple locked.

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She lets him in and upstairs on the landing, she hears a horrible gloating laugh.

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The murderer is standing up there, Miss Emma.

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And as she sees her second victim walk into her trap, she laughs.

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It wasn't Lizzie. Lizzie was downstairs.

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She changed her story.

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First she said she was downstairs.

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Then upstairs she was lying then.

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Well, in comes Mr. Borden and lies down for a nap right here on the sofa.

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The murderer covers herself with something

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and creeps up on the old man with an axe from behind,

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like this,

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and brings down the axe again and again.

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No, no, no.

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Wasn't it, Miss Lizzie?

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Wasn't?

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No, no.

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No, it wasn't, Lizzie.

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It wasn't.

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Emma.

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You talk too much, Emma.

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You are listening to Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden.

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Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills,

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Suspense.

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CBS radio reminds you to do as Sparky the Firefighting Dog says,

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don't give fire a place to start.

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Be sure all cigarettes are out before discarding them.

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Clear your house of old newspapers, damaged furniture and inflammable debris.

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Repair electrical wiring as soon as it shows signs of wear.

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These simple rules will help keep your valuables safe.

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They could even save your life.

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Don't gamble with fire.

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The odds are against you.

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And now, we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage,

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Virginia Gregg, Irene Tedrow and Paula Winslow,

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starring in tonight's production,

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Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden,

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a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Lizzie, this lady is an old friend of Uncle Mors.

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You're going to miss your train, Emma.

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Oh, yes, Lizzie.

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Oh dear, perhaps I should have called a cab,

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but it's only a step from here.

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Goodbye, Lizzie.

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Goodbye.

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Emma?

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Yes?

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You forgot your gloves.

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Oh, oh, so I did.

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Thank you, Lizzie.

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Goodbye.

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Goodbye, Miss.

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I represent the Cripple Creek Record, Miss Lizzie.

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A friend of Uncle Mors?

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What color hair has the old man got?

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Gray.

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Bald as an egg.

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Good day, Miss.

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But Miss Borden, my paper wants an interview.

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I don't give interviews.

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Just one question, Miss Lizzie.

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The blood-stained apron, where did it get you?

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I have nothing to say.

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And the bloody axe.

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Why wasn't the chimney back searched?

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Good day, Miss.

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If you just say a word for my paper.

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I suppose I'll have to hide them somewhere else now.

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Hi.

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I'm Lizzie.

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I'm the new

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Miss Borden.

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I missed the train.

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You can catch the next one.

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Lizzie, your apron and the axe.

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That's where they were all the time.

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Lock the door, Emma.

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You hid them there after?

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Yes.

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I was afraid Maggie would come down any minute.

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I hid them in the flue.

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I always wondered where they got to.

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I wondered how they could search and search and never find them.

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Father kept money behind that brick.

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He never knew I knew.

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Once he was dead, nobody knew about it but me.

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Why did you do it?

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There's a way, isn't it, to tell who's been handling a weapon?

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I don't know.

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You've always been the clever one.

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I don't see any marks.

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I don't either, but they say the police can.

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A Frenchman wrote a book about it.

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Besides, you bought the axe in Fairhaven.

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It has the store mark etched on the head.

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Why, Lizzie, you knew all the time.

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I saw you.

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I saw you from the barn window.

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You came out the side door and stood looking around.

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And I saw your face.

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It was all I needed.

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You ran to the street and I came in and found Father.

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It was my apron and the blood.

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You needn't have used my apron, Emma.

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It was the handiest, Lizzie.

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And you brought the axe from Fairhaven.

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I only had a minute.

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I hid them in Father's hiding place.

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They were safe until that newspaper snooper began to get ideas.

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Why did you hide them, Lizzie?

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What else could I do?

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I hated her too, Emma.

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Oh, you don't remember our mother as I do.

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You couldn't have hated Mrs. Borden as I did.

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But Father, why Father?

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After what he did to Mother?

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Marrying that woman so soon after?

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You were always soft over Father, Lizzie.

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It's a relief, I suppose.

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Oh, time after time I wanted to ask you about things

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when they were asking me questions, cross-examining, keeping after me.

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Oh, I wanted so badly to know so I would know what to say,

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but I never dared ask you.

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They had spies about me all the time.

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Oh, I made so many mistakes.

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When they asked if I'd seen anybody leave the house,

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I was on my guard not to mention you.

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I said, no, nobody.

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So they decided it couldn't have been a stranger that did it.

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It must have been Lizzie.

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I ought to have said I saw the murderer leaving.

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A big-bearded man with a bloody axe.

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But I wasn't used to lying.

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And when I went on the stand and told the truth

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that I hated her worse than you did,

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they were sure I was lying to cover you.

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I had to lie about the laugh.

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I had to change my story and say I was up there laughing.

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Otherwise they would have started asking who was laughing.

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Whose laugh sounds like Lizzie's?

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Mine.

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I haven't laughed since.

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Neither have I.

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I haven't laughed since I found my kitten dead.

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Oh, Lizzie, having to kill the kitten was the hardest.

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It brought on my neuralgia.

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I cried for a week over the kitten.

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I know you did.

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I cried because I had to do it, Lizzie.

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I should have understood then.

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After the kitten, I should have been on guard.

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You know, I was afraid at first they'd find out

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you'd been away from Fairhaven.

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Oh, I prayed for guidance, Lizzie.

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All the time I was at Fairhaven,

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I stayed in my room and prayed for guidance.

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What's that got to do with it?

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Why, don't you see?

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When the answer came to me, I'd just got the axe

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and started for Fall River.

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They thought I was still in my room.

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What a risk that was.

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Oh, no, no risk, Lizzie.

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My prayers for guidance were answered, don't you see?

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I was protected.

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I protected you.

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Why? I wonder why.

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Oh, I don't know.

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Because I've always protected you, I suppose.

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Because I enjoyed having the laugh on everybody, maybe.

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I never guessed.

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You had the laugh on me, didn't you, Lizzie?

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No, I knew.

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No, of course you didn't.

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What would you have done if they'd found you guilty?

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Gone through with it, I suppose.

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I'd have gone through with it before I'd given in to them.

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I guess you would.

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You were always a wicked, stubborn thing.

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Oh, I used to get sick of it.

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The jail reporters, examining, cross-examining.

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I'd get sick of it and think I'd had enough.

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I'd tell them now the truth.

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And then that prosecutor would come along with his pious face like a public statue.

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And the very thought of giving in and admitting I'd lie would make me say,

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No, I'll face it, they won't break me.

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And they didn't.

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No, they didn't.

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Besides, I would have been giving in for nothing.

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They wouldn't have believed me.

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I suppose they wouldn't.

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I used to wonder, if they found me guilty, what would you have done?

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I used to wonder, too.

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But I had my guidance.

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I didn't let it worry me.

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No, it didn't worry you.

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Me sitting there in court day after day.

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The crowd hating me.

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I know, Lizzie.

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Oh, how do you know?

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How do you know what I went through?

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The crowd staring, thinking I did it.

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The women who hiss at you at the courtroom door, they hate you.

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They want to see you dead.

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What do you know about it?

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What do you know about it, Lizzie?

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You had the easy part.

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You didn't have to do it.

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I thought it would be like chopping wood.

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It isn't.

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Wood splits.

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The other strikes back.

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It stops you.

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Wood doesn't bleed, Lizzie.

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It doesn't fly.

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Jump at you.

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The air fills with it.

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I saw the walls.

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You don't know.

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You don't know anything.

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You didn't have to do it.

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I didn't want to.

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Listen, there she is.

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Mrs. Borden, going up the stairs.

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I'll have to hurry.

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Mrs. Borden's gone, Emma.

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She's been gone for a year.

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No, no, she's upstairs.

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Don't stop me.

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Put down the axe, Emma, and come with me.

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Where?

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Just across the street to see Dr. Bowen.

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Oh, so you can put me away.

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So you can shut me up.

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I'll not be shut up, Lizzie.

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I wasn't meant to be shut up.

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Just come and see Dr. Bowen.

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No, no, he'll put me away.

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I'll not have it, Lizzie.

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I'll die first.

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But I don't have to die, do I?

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Nobody knows but you.

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I'm not the one to die.

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Emma, what are you doing?

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I'm putting on my apron.

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I just explained to you, Lizzie.

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Blood spatters.

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You don't want me to spoil my best bengalene, do you?

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Emma, listen to me.

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You have to go to Fairhaven.

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You'll miss the train.

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Emma, Emma.

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It won't take long.

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It's over in a minute, Lizzie.

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Emma, think what you're doing.

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You can't escape twice.

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Oh, yes, I can.

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I do what I have to do and the rest takes care of itself.

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I don't want to.

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You must understand that.

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Emma, you don't have to.

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Oh, yes.

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I knew as soon as I saw the axe.

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What else did you keep it for?

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I knew there was to be another.

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But I kept it to protect you.

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Oh, Lizzie, don't talk.

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It only makes it harder.

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Now, Lizzie.

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Here, give it to me.

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That's better.

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Miss Lizzie, can't you change your mind

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and give me a statement now Miss Emma's gone?

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There you are, Miss Emma.

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You missed the train after all.

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You don't have to talk through the window, Miss.

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Take that thing off, Emma, and open the front door.

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Well, good for you, Miss Lizzie.

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Give me the apron, quick.

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I'll cover the axe with the newspaper.

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You be quiet.

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Now, open the door.

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Oh, this is real nice of you, Miss Lizzie.

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Hot day.

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I hope we have rain.

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What's the weather forecast?

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What's the paper say?

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Fair and warmer, fair and warmer.

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Oh, fair and warmer.

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Now then, young woman,

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what do you want to know? Quickly, please.

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Tell me, Miss Lizzie, the murder weapon,

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has it ever found?

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What's your opinion?

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Where did it get to?

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I think the murderer carried it away with him.

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That's all, you think?

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That's all, thank you very much.

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But I'm not through.

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I have nothing more to say.

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Miss Emma's leaving now.

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You can walk with her to the station.

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Well, hey, isn't this the Providence Journal?

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I hear they put out a scorching editorial

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wanting to know why these murders are still unsolved.

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Please don't...

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Emma, don't miss your train.

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Come along.

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I'll send for my things, Lizzie.

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Very well, Emma.

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Goodbye, Lizzie.

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Isn't she coming back?

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What did you say?

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Isn't she coming back?

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No, she isn't coming back.

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So that's the axe.

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Whole thing torn wide open now, huh?

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Will you give me a statement?

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Certainly not.

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Miss Emma thinks now you killed them, doesn't she?

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Did you, Miss Lizzie?

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No, I didn't kill them.

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Come on, you've been acquitted.

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You can't be tried again.

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I didn't do it.

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Then who did it?

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Was somebody in the house?

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There's the murder weapon.

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If you didn't do it, who did?

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Maggie, Miss Emma?

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Miss Emma, that's it, Miss Emma Borden.

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Why didn't I see it before?

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Stop talking rubbish, young woman.

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I'll make a statement for you.

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I did it.

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You killed them?

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You killed them both with the axe?

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Yes.

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Why? Why did you?

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I don't like cold mutton soup.

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What a scoop.

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It isn't a scoop.

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Why not?

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It isn't a scoop if you can't print it,

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and I'll sue you if you print it.

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I've been acquitted in open court, my girl.

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I'm innocent.

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And don't you forget it.

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You print a word and I'll sue.

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I've got a quarter of a million dollars,

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and I'll spend every cent of it,

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depending on my good name.

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Good name?

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Everybody in Four River knows you did it.

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You just admitted it yourself.

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Never mind.

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Never mind what I admitted.

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Just you keep your tongue between your teeth.

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You're not going to print that story,

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so you can tear up those notes of yours.

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I certainly will not tear it up.

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I have a duty to my paper.

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I said...

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Tear it up.

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You wouldn't.

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Tear it up.

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Of course, Miss Lizzie.

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I'm glad to oblige you.

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You couldn't put down the axe.

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Thank you, Miss Lizzie, for your time.

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I'm just going.

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Go on.

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Open the door.

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Go on.

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Yes.

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Yes, of course.

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Thank you again.

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No wonder Miss Emma isn't coming back.

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Goodbye, Miss Lizzie.

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Lizzie bought the chocolate and gave her mother 40 wacks,

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and when she saw what she had done,

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she gave her father 41.

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