The Legend of Lizzie Borden Page #3

- He would be 70 next month.

He was a successful businessman.

He's very successful, yes, sir.

Started as a mortician, I understand,

and branched out into real estate banking.

That is correct.

Do you have an idea

how much your father was worth?

- No, sir. - Do you ever know

of your father making a will?

No, sir.

Did he ever mention

the subject of wills to you?

He did not.

Had you been on pleasant terms

with your stepmother?

- Oh, yes, sir.

- Cordial?

That depends on one's idea of cordiality.

According to your idea of cordiality?

We were friendly, very friendly.

Why did you leave off calling her mother?

Because I wanted to.

That's the best reason you can give?

I have no other anwswer.

In what other respect was your relationship

with her not that of mother and daughter

aside from your not calling her mother?

She had never been a mother

to me in many ways.

I always went to my sister, because she was older

and had to care of me

after my mother died.

Now, tell me Miss Borden,

on the morning of the murders,

did you get your own breakfast?

I... Did not have any breakfast.

I did not feel as though I wanted any.

Sick of the same mutton broth?

It was the heat.

Oh... Would you repeat the question?

We are trying to establish if you are certain

you were upstairs

when your father came to the house

on his return.

I think I was.

Now, you remember, miss Borden,

you told me you were downstairs,

not upstairs,

when your father came home.

You've forgotten, perhaps?

I don't know what I said.

I've answered so many questions

and I'm so confused.

I don't know one thing from another.

I'm telling you as best I know.

I have no one to counsel me.

There's no need for counsel.

This is only a coroner's inquest,

not a trial.

You may continue, Mr. Knowlton.

Which is your recollection now?

Were you downstairs or upstairs when

the bell rang and your father came home?

I think I was downstairs in the kitchen.

You think.

Miss Borden, we have been over this

a dozen times and each time a new version.

Now how will you have it?

I don't know!

I don't even know what your name is.

I... I think as nearly as I know

I think I was downstairs.

When did you last see your stepmother?

When she went up to change

the bed in the spare room.

And you never saw or heard her afterwards

until you discovered your father's body?

A period of approximately

one and a half hours.

- No, sir. - Did you have any knowledge

of her leaving the house?

She said she had a note. Someone was sick.

Did she tell you where she was going?

No, sir.

- Did she tell you where the note was from?

- No, sir.

- Did you ever see the note?

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