Comments on: Within a life of banditry, a pearl

By: doc

doc — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:17:21 +0000

bcarter3:

Thanks for the clarification. I was working from memory, which is getting exponentially more fragile as I age. Too damn lazy or cantankerous to Wiki or google things. :-)

Doc

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:54:21 +0000

I have always felt bad for those mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters who are accused of murdering a family member. Even if it is some wacko who pushed her sleeping sons into a lake, I would probably pity her.

Melinda, the Rosenbergs’ story bothers me to no end! Poor Ethel. Poor Julius, too.

I also pitied Mary Read and Anne Bonny. Mary Read died in prison, either of a fever or childbirth, and Anne Bonny reportedly was bought out by her wronged husband.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:49:17 +0000

Speaking of Lizzie Borden, I was internet surfing about stuff in Massachusetts and came across a website for Lizzie Borden’s house. It’s a “Bed & Breakfast” now. You can stay there, sleep there, and hear the whole story about her life. Ya wanna spend a night in Lizzie Borden’s house??? I didn’t save the website but you can search for it if you want to.

By: bcarter3

bcarter3 — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:46:55 +0000

>>”Elizabeth Borden…was executed for the crime.”

Nope. She was acquited–the jury only needed an hour to come to a decision–and lived another 35 years after to murders. See Wikipedia for an interesting biography.

By: Doc

Doc — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:20:45 +0000

Couple of folks come to mind, but I don’t recall names:

Woman who set her abustive husband on fire – was made into a movie w/Farrah Fawcett, “The Burning Bed”.

Elizabeth Borden allegedly killed her abusive parents (”Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 whacks, and when the job was neatly done she gave her mother 41.”) She was finally aquitted of the crime, FWIW. Too late for her, as she was executed for the crime.

I’m with Sue on the cute blonde teachers having sexual relations with their students. Makes me wish I was back in High school. Had a 5th grade teacher I had a crush on, but suspect the feeling wasn’t returned.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:12:57 +0000

yeah, but sometimes people might take it too easy on criminals just because they’re female too.
even more so if they’re pretty. just look at all these pretty female teachers that get on tv when they have sex with there pre-teen students, but the men have all they can do not to get lynched. lol
our country’s weird. what can you do?

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:28:09 +0000

After reading Sharon McCrumb’s “The Ballad of Frankie Silver” part of which was based on true events, I felt a lot of sympathy for Frankie Silver. She was the first woman hanged in North Carolina. I learned a lot about our legal system as it was in 1832 and how it played a role in her execution that many felt unfair at the time.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:22:23 +0000

When I was in the first grade I can remember my teacher telling our class that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had just been executed and were now dead. Since they were both tried and convicted traitors to our country their trial and executions were news worthy current events. But even at six years old I remember feeling sorry for Mrs. Rosenberg because for one thing it took three electrical shocks for her to finally die whereas it took only one shock to kill her husband Julius. But mostly I felt sorry for her because she was a mom with two young sons and after all these years I still feel the same way.Very tragic!