Lizzie Borden Took an Ax Page #6

When you were all at the house.

You mean the day

your parents were killed?

That day, yes.

Well, there was blood

found on that dress,

Miss Borden.

It was not brought to my attention.

Where is that dress now?

I have no idea.

At home, I suppose.

We'll need to seethat dress in evidence.

What does that mean?

We will send

a court officer around

to collect that dress

and admit it into evidence.

Lizzie? What are you doing?

What is that?

It's that dress.

Don't you need to bring that

to the police station?

This doesn't concern you, Emma.

Lizzie,

you can't burn that dress

after they've asked for it!

They'll think

you're hiding something!

Just go back to bed!

Do you want to go to jail?

This will get you

in so much trouble!

Just go back to bed, Emma!

Excuse me, I'm here to speak with

the Staff Sergeant.

Go right in, Miss.

Thank you.

We attempted to collect the item,

but the officer was told

it no longer existed.

No longer existed?

What does that mean?

She burned it.

Your Honor,

she knowingly

destroyed evidence in order

to conceal culpability.

We asked for the dress,

she destroyed it.

She didn't just throw it away.

She burned it.

That is enough to

convince me of her guilt.

Well, I'm just having

a difficult time believing

she could do this.

Because she's a woman?

Insane asylums are

full of insane women.

She's an insane woman.

She killed her parents.

So do you

want to formally charge her?

No, I want her to confess.

Don't be

too ambitious here, Hosea.

That woman

hacked her parents

to death with an ax.

This is not about my ambition.

You are in the barn,

you are looking for

a tackle kit

for a fishing trip

that is not going to

happenfor another week.

And yet there is

no fishing tackle

to be found

and neither Bridget Sullivan

nor your own sister

even know you own

a fishing tackle kit.

And while you're in there,

you stop to eat,

ot one, but three pears,

in a hot and dusty barn,

ext to a filthy pigeon coop.

Did you go into the basement that morning?

No.

Did you get an ax

from the basement?

No, sir.

Did you go upstairs

and have an argument

with Abby Borden?

No.

Did you conspire with others

to do away with your own parents

in order to inherit

their estate?

Absolutely not!

Did you see

your father's face,

dead on that sofa?

Did you see his face?

Yes. Yes, I did.

Did you feel sorrow for the man?

I... I was in

a state of shock.

Remorse?

Remorse?

I don't understand.

Remorse because of the fact

you slaughtered

the man with an ax.

Stop it! Stop saying that!

You are a murderer.

You lied to this assembly...

These accusations

are slanderous

and unfounded.

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