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.

Format:

• Book

Series:

• Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
• Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Thornton, Abraham, -1860?--Trials, litigation, etc.
• Thornton, Abraham, -1860?.
• Trials (Murder)--Great Britain.
• Trials (Murder).
• Evidence, Circumstantial.
• Great Britain.
• Evidence, Circumstantial--Great Britain.
• Ashford, Mary, 1796-1817.

Genre:

• Trials, litigation, etc.
• Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (64 pages) : map.

Other Title:

• Thornton (1817)
• 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, etc., 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, etc. etc.

Place of Publication:

London : John Fairburn, 1817.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Two columns to the page.
• Reproduction of the original from the British Library.

OCLC:

937013206

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