Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 05, 2025

Lupin covers all the bases. Smart cat.

Which is worse? Sued or haunted?

The mysterious case of the haunted head-chopper! A nursery rhyme by Lupin.

Burt has a point. You can’t be too careful.

Axe murderer. I hate people who murder axes. Oh wait. Is that murder exes? I get confused.

When “Bewitched” was popular I had a big crush on Elizabeth Montgomery, so I wouldn’t mind if that Lizzie Borden haunted our house. ;-)

I can’t decide which Lizzie Borden I prefer, Elizabeth Montgomery or Christina Ricci.

The first local murder mystery I remember involved a woman named Edythe. I was about 9 or 10 years old, and didn’t remember much about it other than her first name and the fact she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be executed in “Old Sparky,” the electric chair. I couldn’t remember if the execution actually took place, and this talk of Lizzie Borden inspired me to see if I could find any more details. Even though I misspelled her first name, the google came through. Thanks, Georgia for inspiring me to finally find the facts behind something that haunted my childhood! (A search for Edythe Klumpp and the "Case of the Century will lead to an article in the University of Cincinnati Archives with more details if anybody else is interested.

Not the healthiest hobby …

OMC! Look at Lupin’s toe beans in panel 2!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEღƪ(ˆ◡ˆ)ʃ♡ƪ(ˆ◡ˆ)ʃ♪!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lupin is correct. (nervously looks over shoulder for ghosts and/or lawyers)

Ugh. More Lizzie. I’m starting to miss Robin’s ambiguous weather reports, plus the red papayas.

It is scary when killers look nonthreatening and have childish innocent faces like Austin Mohn.

And there are such things as ghosts, right Tillie?

Speaking of ghosts, after my dad passed, we tore the 20 × 20 house down that he’d built and I grew up in, down, and built a new house on the property. He bought that property (about an acre and a half) in 1937 and it meant more to him than almost anything else in the world. Right after we moved in, when it was quiet in the house, I used to hear someone walking around upstairs when no one was up there. I’m pretty sure it was him. We’ve since moved out of proximity to be closer to husband’s job move (same company, different building) and I often wonder if the new people hear him too…

It’s a principal of libel law that you can’t libel the dead (legally speaking).

By the way? Adolf Hitler was a real stinker.

As I recall, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, although much of the public thought she was guilty.

Actually, she WAS innocent. Do the research.

Well, Lizzie was acquitted so…

I’ve always believed Lizzie Borden was innocent.

Whoa, Elvis! That eye roll was so hard, it dented the ceiling!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Royal Dining Hall

Beaver Lee Cleary: Iggy, you were talking about the Voyage Manuscript scroll.

Iggy: Yes. It’s a scroll our captain found on one of our voyages. It’s supposed to have come from the Library at Meowlexandria. It’s all in a foreign language no one can understand.

Elvis-Anum: I’ve heard of it. It has a lot of different illustrations that sort of make sense, but not really. I think there’s a copy of it in the oPyramid library.

Beatrixia: I’ll have to look for it. Maybe we could get the University Scholars to take a look at it to see what they can make of it.

Ora Z: I could shred it and make papier maché figures out of it.

Bea: I don’t think that’s exactly what we mean.

Elvis: I’ll meet with my scribe apprentices to see if we can make copies.

At Elvis’s Office

Scribe Apprentice Tira: Akil and I can work on making copies by hand, and Ebonee and Hapi can set up the printing press to make mass produced copies.

Elvis: How long will that take?

Akil: We’ll get right on it and send out pages as we copy them. In the interests of cartoon time it should be ready in about a week.

In this world, haunted seems much more realistic than sued. I love the ghosts of the BPH, but I am not sure it needs more.

IIRC Lizzie was treated poorly (not sure if I can use the a-word) by her parents and found not guilty.

I Think The Woman, Elvis, Puck, and Lupin are going to need some fried chicken and bacon wrapped ham after this.

Yeah, maybe she was a calm, rational axe murderer.

Yes, I know she was acquitted. So haunt me.

On a Thursday in an upstairs room

a woman was cornered, sealing her doom.

Her husband was killed while he took a nap

just downstairs, after a ninety minute gap.

The two others present, daughter Lizzie and a maid,

were soon suspected of wielding the blade.

No motive could be found for the maid to have killed;

the daughter was arrested, journalists were thrilled.

Lizzie was acquitted and no one elsewas tried.

The case is still studied; theories are applied.

But somebody killed those two people that day —

the secret answer is buried, and there it will stay.

Yeah, they’ve already established the haunting thing could totally happen. :P