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Horrible rape and murder!! : the affecting case of Mary Ashford, a beautiful young virgin, who was diabolically ravished, murdered, and thrown into a pit, as she was returning from a dance : including the trial of Abraham Thornton, for the wilful murder of the said Mary Ashford, the evidence, charge to the jury, &c., tried at Warwick assizes, before Mr. Justice Holroyd, on the 8th of August, 1817 : taken in short hand : to which is added copious elucidations of this extraordinary case, and correct plan of the spot where the rape and murder were committed, &c. &c.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920 Available online

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

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