"I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir."

Lizzie Andrew Borden, American Celebrity

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"I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in."

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"I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in."

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"I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs."

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"Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father."

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"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know."

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"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter."

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"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron."

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