. An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder of Maria Marten, with a full development of all the extraordinary circumstances which led to the discovery of her body in the Red barn; to which is added the trial of William Corder. Taken at large in short hand specially for this work, with an account of his execution, dissection, &c., and many interestng particulars relative to the village of Polstead and its vicinity; the prison correspondence of Corder, and fifty-three letters, in answer to his advertisement for a wife [electronic resource]. A correct View of tlie Exter. T:ilR Kf
. An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder of Maria Marten, with a full development of all the extraordinary circumstances which led to the discovery of her body in the Red barn; to which is added the trial of William Corder. Taken at large in short hand specially for this work, with an account of his execution, dissection, &c., and many interestng particulars relative to the village of Polstead and its vicinity; the prison correspondence of Corder, and fifty-three letters, in answer to his advertisement for a wife [electronic resource]. A correct View of tlie Exter. T:ilR Kfci 1) IkVK^ AT IIMj>!Li§T E A U . OF MARIA MARTEN 55 stead church, and about half that distance frorn thelowly cot where Maria Marten once lived, the inno-cent nymph of her native village. It stands on the declivity of a field called Barn-field Hill, which is itself situated in themidst of other large inclosures of arable land, oneof which, from its extent, is called barn-yard, which is entered by a large gate,has sheds and outhouses on both sides, which attachto the barn, so that the area forms an imperfecthalf-circle. From the yard a narrow lane, abouteighty yards long, leads to a cottage at the foot ofthe hill, at which place Corder borrowed a spade onthe day upon which the murder was probably com-mitted. Many have supposed that at this cottage even ashriek might have been heard, had it issued fromthe spot where the unhappy girl was murdered ;but from experiments we have made, we arriveat quite an opposite conclusion. This barn has for a long time been r
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