The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 . e year1826 she formed a third liaison with the man who became her deliberatemurderer. William Corder was the son of an opulent farmer at Polstead, andhaving become acquainted with the unfortunate girl Marten, the conse-quence of an illicit intercourse which took place between them, was achild. From that time he became much attached to her, and was afrequent visitor at her fathers house. The child di
The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 . e year1826 she formed a third liaison with the man who became her deliberatemurderer. William Corder was the son of an opulent farmer at Polstead, andhaving become acquainted with the unfortunate girl Marten, the conse-quence of an illicit intercourse which took place between them, was achild. From that time he became much attached to her, and was afrequent visitor at her fathers house. The child died within a short periodof its birth, and from the circumstances of its having died suddenly, andof Corder having taken it away at night, and disposed of its body in amanner which he would never explain, an idea was entertained that it hadcome unfairly by its death. However strongly this notion may have takenpossession of the public mind, after the apprehension of Corder, it doesnot appear that any real evidence was ever produced publicly, to supportthe impression which had got abroad; but certain it is, that the unhappygirl made use of the circumstance as a means of endeavouring to procure. r/^ &k?t-c>/^y^ ^.^ay^^ay ./n^^/z/i^?^: THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. .47 the father of tlie child to fulfil a promise which he had made, that he wouldmake her his wife. On the 18th of May 1827, Corder called at the houseof old Marten, and then expressed his willingness that the ceremony shouldbe performed ; and he said that, in order that no time should be lost, andthat the marriage might be as private as possible, he had made up hiamind to have it celebrated by licence instead of by bans. The next daywas appointed for the wedding, and he persuaded the unhappy girl todress herself in a suit of his clothes, so as to secure the greatest secrecy,and to accompany him to a part of his premises called the Red Barn,where she could exchange them for her own, and from whence he wouldconvey her
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