122 Years Ago Today...

[Dizzy Miss Lizzie]

..."someone" took an ax

and gave my mother forty whacks

and when "they" saw what "they" had done

gave my father forty one

[MarleysGh0st]

Are you still searching for the "real" killer?

[MarleysGh0st]

Interesting, too, that your mother didn't rate her own name in the reward poster. She was merely "wife".

A sign of the times or an indicator of psychological factors at work, Lizzy?

[SpacemanSpiff]

Interesting, too, that your mother didn't rate her own name in the reward poster. She was merely "wife".

A sign of the times or an indicator of psychological factors at work, Lizzy?

We're not that far removed from those times. I still remember a pair of signs I saw in Heathrow in the mid-1980s at Passport Control (aka "Customs"). It directed two lines -- "Men" and "Women and Other Dependents."

[BackInTex]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Dizzy Miss Lizzie]

Father always said, "Nobody loves acquitter."

[Dizzy Miss Lizzie]