Elena

Doubt it.

Certain his father would have mentioned this to him, Paul Jr.

went right to the police because he was like, this bitch did it.

Yeah.

And asked if they could check on his father and confirm that he was alive and well.

The constable agreed to go to the farm and check, but when they went there with another officer, they were met by Lizzie and she said, you're not coming in.

So they didn't want to escalate the situation at that moment, so they went back to the station to come up with what they could.

After conferring with some other officers at the station, they determined that they were able to get a search warrant.

And on the morning of September 4th, 1893, they went back to the farm with the warrant.

And despite having a warrant in hand, Lizzie said, no, you're not coming in.

And then she hit one of the officers with a stick.

So I feel like at that point they probably could have arrested her.

Yeah.

Now apparently they didn't want to keep escalating.

But they did come up with a good plan.

One constable asked if Lizzie would accompany them to Bloomingburg so they might speak with Paul together.

Okay.

And weirdly she agreed.

Okay.

So they were like, okay, let's go.