What's Lizzie Borden Got To Do With It?

I can't help myself. As a true-crime reader, I recognized the name of the actress starring in The Witch — one of the Gem Theatre's features during the first week of October 1916.


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From the Hobart Gazette of Oct. 6, 1916.

These days Nance O'Neil is probably best known for her brief but intense friendship with Lizzie Borden, which began in 1904. By 1916 it was a distant memory. Nance had made a successful transition from stage to screen. Lizzie was still in Fall River, Massachusetts, living in well-upholstered isolation in the mansion where she had moved after the mysterious deaths of her father and stepmother.


This concludes our little digression.