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and on the Snnday previnos to the 18th May he came to her mother's house, and it was then arranged that thy; should go to Ipswich on the following dry, for the pur pose of being united. They did not then go, neither did they on the Thursday, which after the first failure was selected for their nuptials. On the following Fri day he again called at the house of Maria Marten's father ; she was then up stairs, and on being called down, he said to her, " Will you not come with me now? Cart tap not be married to-day ?We have already been disappointed enou, : h, and will now be married." After some f other conversation, he then desired her to put her clothes in a bag; and that he would take them to the 'Bei 13trn, and recommended her to put on some male attire, which she could change when they got to the Bern, and that then they would go to Ipswich. The deceased, prevailed upon by his urgency, put into the hag several articles of chest, and, among other things, placed in a wicker basket, which it contained, a black velvet reticule. This eras' seen by Mtn Marten, her step-mother, and would be proved t•i have belonged to , the deceased.. Corder left the house, and was absent for about a quarter of an hour, during which time Maria dressed herself in a coat, waistcoat, and trousers, but under them still kept on her stsys, her chemise, and a flannel petticoat. Connected with the identity cf the stays, eis one circumstance, Gentlemen, which I beg you will observe, and it is, that, on the night before, her marl er saw her placing in it an ashen busk ; she abro took with her a comb and ear- , ings. Corder and the deceased lett the house at the same rime, - Corder dep.rs ling at one door, and Maria Marten at the other. I omiitso ter net ti..n nether a prominent feature in the' ease—thaf the deceased, when she left home, had oa her a green si.k bandk From the night of the 18th el May, none o 1 her friends heard any thing of hlseia Marten, 'neither hid they any accounts of her era, flier, except such as were given by the prisoner at the l e a, Home their departure, Corder told Maria Marten that Il railiam had neormed him that he was to take het up whenever he saw her, for having born bass tied children. This assertion was false, and we shall tall rnialhain, who will proee,sto your satisfaction, that he never Made any such declaration. Another link in the evidence at we shall adduce in this proseeution is, the - testraorny et a youn* lad, the brother of the de cowed, why, as 1 am instructed, while gathering some grass fur his donkey, saw Corder, ensuing in ndirece %inn from the Red BAUD to his mother's house, with a k ixe 'over his shoulder; and this, I would observe, was on the , very day on which Maria's parents were led t o believe that she had been taken to Ipswich. The next t me Mrs. Marten saw the prisoner Corder was on the Siturday evening, at his mother's house. He then told her Oat he had got a license, but that before it cooei he acted on, it must go to London for sig net ire, and that, in the mean time he had sent her to some friends of his, named %ratings, at Yarmouth. Mrs. Marten then told him that her son had seen him' with a pick-ale, crossing through the fields; but he said it was impossible it could be him, and expressed bits opinion that it most probably was a labourer, named Ayres, who had been grubbing among some trees. This excuse 1 shall prove to be unfounded, and shall by Ayres himself show, that neither was be in the place, nor so employed on the 18th of May, 1827. From that period, Gentlemen, until the following harvest, the psi soner had frequently seen the deceased's mother-ire law, her father, and her sister. For some days he was ab. set t, and on his returning to Polstead, and the asking him about Maria, he replied that she still remained at his friends, the Rawlings. To other persons who in quired after the deceased, he gave a different answer; at times lie ascaunted for her silence by saying that she WAS so busily occupied she had no leisure to write; and on other occasions he said that she had a sore on the back of ler hand which quite incapacitated her from holding a pen. I have said, Gentlemen, that his ac counts to different inquirers we - e various and discre pant, and this I think I shall be able to establish. To one person he said that Maria was gone to France in a steam packet—to another that she was residing not very far from where they were speaking, and to a Mrs. Stowe, who will establish the fact in evidence before you, he made a particular observation, which, I think,' d emends your most marked attention. Mrs. Stowe asked him " if it was likely-that Maria would have any mote children?" and he answered," no, she will never have any more; no, she has had her number." Mre,Stowe nest asked him 44 if she was far from home?" and his answer was, which I beg you will observe, " no, she is not, when I am not with her no one else is." These ex pressions are rather extraordinary, and when combined with after circumstances connected with this case, you will find they are of no small weight. Some time in ' the month of May the'prisoner also••borrowed from this Mrs. Stowe a spadeshe cannot, however, distinctly swear to a precise day, but a e shell thus far approach it--that %hetis enabled to prove mat she had, before that, been confined ; and had not, when the loan was made, been,churched. We have .thus far, Gentlemen, gore thrtugh the antecedent t me, and we have now arrived at the harvest of 1827. The Red Barn, where this mur der is alleged to have taken place, had been cleared out prior to the May, and all the corn been disposed of, Only an old litter, such as is usually the case in favm., was left on the floor. During the ensuing harvest, when .the•first field of wheat was cut•down, by the particular desire of the prisoner Corder, the produce was laid in the upper bay, and over the precise Spot where the body was fiund ; he superintended the laying of it hineelt, and 'was present until it was completed. (The Leaned' Counsel here pointed to the excellent model of the barn, nehich was placed on the table, and to which, he in formed the Jury, ney would have to refer at an after -period). In continuation he said, the key of this barn was always kept at the house of the pi ioner's mot ter. The bain itself, as you still perceive, .is perfectly en closed, and the entrance into rt is by a gate :even feet high. After the corn was got into the barn, this key Corder contently kept in his possession, a thing he used Geyer to do before the month of May ; when it was : housed, he left Polstead, and was driven, as I am in structed, to Colchester, by a person named ['tyke, to , whom he said, that since last May he had not seen Miele Marten. Before his departure he called on her .father, and told him, that he was then leaving home foe the purpose of being married 'to his daughter. Shortly, afterwards, the father received selectee front him, dated • Lendon, in which• he said that he was married to Medal, 'Marten, and expessed his,serynise that - they had re-' -caved -no answer I *ir)iit Which had been written Ic e therriliy• M •eria. and m which-she mentioned that the, iends she had been .aish (Mr. Rawlings and his daugh-, .err) had been present itibeir marriage. After this, Mar ten. the.father, received a second lettsr, andin this the' prison-r represented That be and the deceased were ) living in the Isle of Wight.. Its tie annuli of last 610-1 vember th! prisoner met a Gentleman narned , Mathese,l in London, and had some coaversatien with him, in th cruse of which Mr. Mathews , made some-inreeiries about Maria Marten. In answees ta this, Corder sod that be wal shottly about to marry her; that the delay that bad taken place muse out of the , adjustment of mate • family affairs, and that Maria was in the isle of Wight. Mr. Mathews is in attendance, Gentlemen. and Imo him you will have a more detailed account oft thel.as: etrances w hich Corder gave him rn their interview..., s 'rhe patents at leogth , not hearing from their daughter. 'became uneasy. *minim and suspicious. These suspicion. 'assumed a more definite shape s and were raised and di rected towards the barn. The father was. anxious to search it, and he wentaliete in the month of last April, and the corn was then threshed out, but some of the litter remained. Accompanied by another person, he searched two or three places without success, but at length. perceiving in the upper bay, which they closely examined, a part of it where the chalk was not quite so firm as in the other portions of the floor, their attention Was directed to this spot, and at about one and a half feet beneath the surface he discovered the body of the deceased. The rernaina were those of a female ; they. had on them a stays, and a flannel petticoat ; and on the neck was found a green silk handkerchief; the body and the clothes have been inspected by the father and mother, who, I learn, will be able to identity and de scribe them. And the surgeon will corroborate. their testimony. Maria Marten had a wen on her throat; the body that has been found had also a wen, percep tible to the surgeon who examined it. Maria Marten had lost two teeth ; the body which has been examined exhibits a similar deficiency. The features were not distinct enough for recognition, but you will hear the opinion of the witnesses as to her id, ntity, and you will also hear their description r f the dress she wore on the evening on which she for the last time left home; .one witness, I am assured, will speak most distinctly tithe handkerchief. Mali. Marten frequently complairied , of a pain in the side, and the surgeons will prove to you, that on their examination of the co,pse, they discovered symptoms of inflammation where the disease was supposed to have been situated. The body was disinterred with the grea,est care, and most minutely inspected. On that inspection, Gen tlemen, the mark of a pistol ball having penetrated the head was visible; there was also the appearance of an incision having been inflicted, as if from a sword, oat the face, the neck, and between the ribs. This will be proved to you by a surgeon ; and he will also tell you, that he personally removed the handkerchief from off the neck, and that the ligature was so tight, that it would nature ly produce strangulation. In conse quence, Gentlemen, of this discovery, suspicion was di .rectly attached to the prisoner, and a country constable WAS dispatched to town in pursuit of him. He obtained the assistance of James Lea, an active and intelligent officer of the London Police, who, after many searcnes, at last dis overed him in Baling.lane,,pear Brenttord ; when be took him into custody he told'hitn that he ap prehended him on a most serious charge, and said that it was about a young woman named ( Maria Marten, who had for some time been missing, acd with whom he bad kept company. He, to his several inquiries, in variably denied all knowledge of her, and Lea properly 'not pressing him farther, brought him before a Magis trate." The Learned Counsel here went into a long de tail of several minor incidents, that subsequently train.' spired, and which were afterwards borne out in evidence, and concluded his statement by imploring the Jury to dismiss any prejudices from their mind, and if they en tertained any doubt, to let it operate in favour of the 'prisoner. The first witness called was Ann Marten, the step mother of the deceased, and, on her ascendirik the box, the prisoner very systematically put on a pair of steel mounted spectacles ; and, after surveying , her tery closely, and taking a hasty glance round the Court. pulled out his pocket-book and pencil, and commenced in the coolest and most collected manner to take notes of the evidence. It was as follows: I am the wife of Thomas Marten ; I reside at Pol. stead ; my husband had a daughter called Maria ; I knew the prisoner nearly seventeen years ' • he resides at Polstead ; he was acquainted with Maria Marten; 1 do not know when they became first acquainted; I do not recollect when he began to visit us frequently at our cottage, but it was a year before May, 1826; in that year she was delivered of a child; she then went away, and at about seven weeks previous to the 18th of May, 1627. she :corned to her father's house, and brought a child with her ; the 'child died in about a fortnight afterwards ; after the death of the child, the prisoner acknowledged himself the father of it; the prisoner had frequent conversations with Maria Marten relative to , the burial of the child ; I cannot tecollect them parti cularly, but I heard him say that he canted the child to Sudbury; and I also heard them have a couversatiou about a 51. note ;,she said that he took the bread out of her child's mouth ; before, she had the child by Corder, she•had another ; it was after the birth of her child by Corder that she said to him " you have taken mine and my child's bread out ut our mouths ;" I heard him say to her that the officers of the parish intended to 'take her up for a bastard child ; this was previous to the 18th May, 1827. The last conversation I heard them having about the 51. note was a week previous La the 18th of May ;1 tecollect on the Sunday before the 18th of May, Corder came to our house on the evening of that day ; he remained there about half an hour.; Maria and,he went away togaber . ; they said that they were going to Ipswich on Monday. morning early ; they hereto havesemained at. Mrs. Corder's house; Maria returned between three and four o'clock in the morn ing (Monday); I saw Corder op the follow. ing day ; I beard him tell. Maria that, he-should drive her to Ips avich on Wednesday night ; they did not then go; on Thursday night it was fixed to go to Ipswich ; they did not do so because his.btother James was so ill, that they expected his death every hour. On Friday Maria and I were at home; Corder called on us between 11 and 12 o'clock; I was up stairs along with Maria; Corder came up stairs, and, on entering the room, he said—" Come, Maria, make-baste, lam going." Maria reptied- ,66 How can I go atthittime of the day without any one seeing of me?" He said—" Never mind ; we have been disappointed a good many times, and we shall be disappointed no more." I remained jo the roam during this conversation. She again said—" How can Igo without any one seeing of me?" Corder replied. " You can go to the Red Barn, and wait there until I bring the horse and.gig for you." Maria Marten said, " How am 1 to alter my things?" Corder replied, 6' You can take them with you." She again said, " How can. I got. off without any oae seeing of me r ' Corder replied, " The course is quite clear, .and none of my woritmen are in ..the way; Some things were packed -up in a brown holland bag ; there was a wicker basket also, in which was i 4 black velvet remote, two pair of black silk stockings, a , black silk gown, a cambric skirt, and several other thins ; I should know the velvet tetioule if I saw it again, as 1:• have seen it frequently ; when the things were put into the, bag, he took it with him ; after Corder went-away, Maria dressed herself a pairail blue ' trousers, a striped waistcoat,, and a brown coat ; Unlined her tactresslterse i lf ; she bad also on her a shift, an en f laa flannel petticoat, and stays, a green and red striped handkerchief, amid a silk shawl . ; the petticoat was flan• nel, and the shirt was Irish ; I saw the shift before; the stays were made of white jean ; I laced her stars, and I saw them before the 18th of May ; the day, before she went away, she put :he busk and bones intoher smallest stays . was tight down the font she put in an ash busk, Initead .of bone; I ttegaentfy taw : the bask before it - leak pat in ; it was " Masker fkaympti" made The ,shoes she wore were in, thp forepaw Denmirk and the hindpart leather. Atter Maria was :diessed,:-Cortleir s retaivned ; Marie-was 'up'. steins ; we togither. &Uri! Ise said—" Mrs. Marten, the reason I go tiattswich .m.day is, because bhp ilaai r ha*, the constable, came into the stable this. waffl ing. and told me .that he. bad got a letter from Mf., Whitmore. of London, and in rill letter there was wefts* to have Maria takettoP and-prosecuted for her bastard children.;" I said to him yoki .had but married. Maria, as I *jibed you to tin before 'the child was bore, all this *Mild be settled;' he se " Mrs. Marten, don't mike yourself uneasy, am going to Ipswich to-day, and we shalt be ',tanked to-morrow morning." I then ,said, e. %them: - vital will you do if you can't be married Cor fer re plied," Don't Make yourself unhappy; she shall be my lawful wife before I come home." I then said, What will you do if you can't ?" and he said, " He'd, gets her a place." This is all the c.'nversa tion we hid before Maria .came down. Afte;r she came dowit, she asked 'llle - to go into the yard to see if there was anybody Amu who would see her to away ; she was dressed in man's clothes. Col der and she well away together. , She had a .man's hat on; she bad a large , comb and two small side one.; she had ear-rings in her ears; it was about half past twelve • o'clock when they weist. away. Maria went out at one door; and he at another ; Cordes went out at the door next the road, nod, she went by the field and met' him iu the road; I Saw theniiiiet ; they go t over the gate, and crossed the - field ia COM pany, in the ditectiort of-the Red Baia:: I did not see either of them that JAY ; L have never Teen Maria Mar. ten since: when Corder went away he ha 4 a goiti s and when Maria went away she'had • a (men utsibtella s tit was a cotton one; it had a bone handle; it had a button to it ; I have seen it before. The next time I saw COrder was on the Sunday night, but I did not then speak to him ; I was in a shop, he was in the chamber where his brother James was; the next time I saw him was at my house on the next Sunday; it was about nine o'clock in the morning; I then said—" William, what have you done with Maria ?" he replied—" 1 lett her at Ipswich, and I have got her a comfortable place—she is going with Miss Rawlings to the water side:' I said, " What will she do for clothes?" he replied, " Miss Rawlings has got plenty, and Miss Rawlings would not let, her send for any e . he told me that he had got a license; but that it should go to London to be signed, and he could not marry Maria for a month or six weeks; he also told her that he had changed a check for the sum 201. and had given the money for it; he told me that they went. by Stratford to Ipswich; I asked him where she changed her clothes? and he saiii slie.puther things. on in. the barn, nd put the great coat over them until she could get into some bye lane; the coat and hat were put ,into the gig on the 18th of May; my son George told me a circumstance which I mentioned to Corder; I did yso the week after; what I said was, "William, you did not go from the barn so soon as you said," Corder re plied, "Yes, Mrs. M. that I am me I 'did, for I left half an hour after I left here." I replied," No,William, yeast did not; my son George saw you go down the Thisdplane" (which adjoins the Red Bata), He re sure Mrs. M. that. was not me, it was Tom :Aims. who was planting trees on Mr. Hoyeshill.' l — brother John died about July twelvemonth ; ;Corder about this time told me Maria was well, and that she was with Miss Rawlings et Yarmouth.— Whenever be was absent from borne .he used to say that he was going to see Maria ; on his mato on being , asked, he used to say that Maria w.asperely ;Oh He used also to say that he would bring her home at Mi chaelmas. I nevet received any letter From Ataria ;I com plained to Corder of her not writingto.me—he replied 'that she had got a bad hand. Pi eviously t his leaving Polstead he came to take leave of us. He told, us that he was going to the water side for . bishealto, andfie.said that he would,take Maria with him and be married at Ipswich. Maria had a wen upon her neck, and a cough before she went away ; _she had . one .tabth drawn and one fell out; 'hire was one out, of the right side of the upper jaw; and one out of ,tbe lower, I believe. When she went away she had.a ilk hand kercliia round her neck—it was placed over her .chin and earrings. I recollect the funeril of. James Corder ; the prisoner was there; he had an umbrella with him; it was Maria's; this was a short time after Maria had. gone away. After the fanetal 1 said to him, " William, you had Maria's umbrella with you at your brother James's burial ;" he replied that it was not Maria's um. brella— it was Deborah Plyke's ; I then said, I think it is Maria's; he said no, but it was veryfilce it. About a week before he went away, he said that he.had been to Ipswich .to meet Maria, who came from Yarmouth; she lent it to him to bring home with him, or else he should have got wet ; he said he should take it back with him before M irsa and he went away. He showed me a gold sing, and told me it was Maria's wedding ring, and that he bad bought it at Colchester, alter Maria came home from Sudbury. Cross examined by Mr. BRODZIIICK....Has three chil dren unJes her care, her husband's, besides Maria. Mania did not seem to be anxious to be married to Corder. They were riot absent three months when they went to Sudbury. Prisoner brought deceased home in his gig; knowing the death of the child, It died in her arms. They went away together to have it buried. Knew noshing about the child nut being buried at Suit. bury. Never made any inquiry about it. Maria always told her it was buried at Sudbury. Corder told her the; two nights they were absent they were at Mrs.Corder's.l Maria said so too. They told the witness to tell the father they had been to Sudbury. Maria dressed a little fine. She and her sister sometimes quarrelled about it, and she, and witness, and her father too. Maria was sometimes very low about it. When they went away, on the eighteenth, Maria's sister, and George were present. No secret was made about, it. Corder snapped his pistols by the fire when lie showed them. On that day he took two slices of ham, from his pocket for Maria. •He gave money to thel witness weekly for the child. She had five putuids splatter for her child by Mr. Mathews. Never heard the bastardy warrant mentioned' by an one except by Corner. Maria never went out of the •cissor after she came from Sudbury, except the two nights, and the Sunday night prior to the 18th of May. Witness and, her husbaud were afraid Maria would be taken up. she went away on the 18th, she *as 44. Co,-, der often brought a gun - to thi house. Wert examine, before she Coroner (Mr. WAyman,' areas is 'alio *Moths rot the ,prosecuitonti Mr: Wa'yitari, .the tarone: elautiord Kupoti her was their nor wris the primmer; he Nit es gait time. Doi • net know A sis beam .Coi Oci . was In the room it the In pies vrhen *are . was eXamtned: Thothas Carder • irra Drowned bey!, the lb tit " The * Mintage wit • . talked about at that time. Corder, when they w er e talking about the five-pound note, said, Maria, i i„., talk about it ; as long as I have a shilling, you and your child shall not want." They seemed very fond r.f e ac h cther.—This witness gave her evidence very well. , Thonias Marten is a mole-catcher at Polstead; Maria was his daughter; she was about 26 years old in Mav last year ; the last time he saw her was on the 17th or Mlsy ; did not see her on.the .I*in he _ went nut early ; knows the prisoner, who had been in the habit ()Termin g to the posse of witness fre9urentlii found out on the 19,1 t that they bid gone away; saw Cadet' as the Sunday at his hou'se s , w > said," tirkin'your daughter to lisswiifi"tri be snaffled to her, buts the literise must go to London before we can be married ; Corder said he had grit her the plate with Miss Rawlings, the sister to a young man he had gone to school with at H a d; :ley,; sale him frequently afterwards till September, and . the answer to his inquiries always was, that his dough: ter was.quite, well. About a month co five weeki after o b e. ,. wgilt s,”, witness first asked Cordef why she did not write ? The answer was; 4 4 a sore on ,the back of her hand prevents her holding a pen."..:. Asked , him once after that the meaning of her n o t writing; Corder said, "she is so full of business that •she has not time to write." Corder came to take leave of witness in September; had seen him about a week before ; said he had got a new suit of clothes to be mar. tied in. After this witness received two letters; they were given to Mr. Wayman, or somebody, at the first examination; heard nothing more from him after those leiters. Searched the Red Barn on the 19th of April last, in the Iron Of which there is a yard ; the witness de set ibed the mad use gate is six feet high, or perhaps higher. Someone Was with him; the bays of the barn were covered with litter; Mrs. Clit der's bailiff,W.Pryke ; was in before him ; they began to poke down in the shay to see if they could find any thing ; the straw was thick, and thiy removed it ; at the second or third time of roll; Mg it off; they found some large loose stones in the bf y,n a the right, going in. Witness thought there must halt teen something there, for the earth seemed to have been disturbed. Poked down with the handle of a rake and mole-spike he had with him. He turned something up black (Pryke assisted him), and something that ap. pealed to be flesh stuck. to the pike. Previous to this they had cleared the earth off a few inches down, Both were struck upon seeing this, and waited for some one to come and help. The moles-spike is round, and sharp at one.eitd: Pryke went to see for somebody; they did up the doors, and witness waited near the barn. It was on a Saturday. No one came back with Pryke. Witness went home, and returned in about two hours. Went into the barn with Pryke and William Bowtell. They cleared the earth away till they came to a body. They then cleared towards the head part, and found a handkerchief that appeared to be tied round the neck. The outside of it seemed of one colour, but on undoing the folds they could see the colour ; they then cleared towards the feet; the body was lying down, bat not stretched out ; it occupied about three feel and a half; the legs were drawn up, and the head was bent down a little into the earth ; there were three of them, but they did not brio* what to do with out somebody eke ; witness went away, and returned to the barn with one other person; found Pryke and Bowtell there ; they had not then gone so far as to find the shoes; got Mr. Whitmore, of Poland, to come, who came, and advised witness to let it alone till the Coroner came, who came on the Sunday, and witness was present, as was Mr. Lawtln, the surgeon. The body was then taken from the hole—they put a door down, and raised the body up to it. When they turned the mouth up I thought it looked like my daughter's, Maria Marten ; she had a wen on the centre of her neck; she always had a husky cough a year before she went away. The things found upon the body were given to Baalham, the constable. (Witness described the things) The shawl was Insderteath the body when it was takes Ip. There were ear-rings and a busk with the stays. These were partly decayed. There was something tha Looked like the piece of a shift. Combs were taken out of the hair. ctoss-examined--Pryke had a fork and tried about with it, and with the handle of a rake. They hid tried about before they took the straw off. The mole spike hid struck the hip. Mr. Wayman ezamined the %nem on oath artheCock, and no Magistrate was there, nor was the .prisoner. Ann Marten was at home on the 18th of May, when Corder and Maria left the house. Her sister had melts clothes on ; she had combs in her hair. Heard Corder ' say to Maria she was to change her dress *hen she got into the barn. The testimony of this witness was bim.kir to that of her step-mother. Saw the dead body on toe ,Monday, when the Coroner and the Jury were them. Saw it taken Ow of the grave. It was the body of Maria Marten. • She knew it by the things she had on, and by her features, and the mouth, and the face. Mati 4 had lost two teeth as described. Witness knew tie ear-i logs. Cross-eiamined by Mr. PRENDERGAST--WLen h er sister left home she was very low spirited and crying. William Corder said they were going to be married Her sister said nothing about it. Sometimes the si , ter quarrelled with witness and the father and mother. George Matter, a lad apparently about ten years old, examined—Remembers the day when Mall/ Merit away with Corder, who had a gun with him, v hicb he said was loaded. Saw Corder with a pick rse co his shoulder ; he was going home over the corner if 11" 0 ‘ 1 .* field from the Barn. He went down Thistly Lie. It was between three and four in the afternoon.Wi t* " was within 20 . iirds of the prisoner, and is quite sure it was him. Maria was crying when she went out of dcors Phoebe Stowe examined—;-Lives at Polstead ; krrim Corder. Her house may be about SO rods from the fits' It is the nearest cottage to it. Remembers Corder c a l l ' ing on her one day in May last year ; it was about o'clock. She had known him a good many years. If said," Mrs. Stowe, has not your husband got An old 'P si ., he could lend me ?" She lent him one. She was Wells and had lately been confined. He said to witness, look bad moue, but I'm in such a hurry, I can to talk to you. She bad been confined on the 29 11 : April, and was churched that day month. Cor dele, before she was churched. Does net remember thatole ever borrowed a spade of her before. The spade ca oaLk. Does not know who brought it. One day I; t harvest, in her house, Corder talked with her *b t h child. Witness asked him where the child was ,e 4.1 Maria Marten had by him ? He said, " ° ...ess o t and butted, and she'll never have any more." "R"... Pave 0214" said, •• she is a young woman, and may e )et." Prisoner said, "No ; Maria Marten 'NI . no more children ; she has had her num,l,se pr.::sol::Lan: d, mother you our I can know that. • I can ; I'll be d—d it she'll have any mom ," You are mat t et' to Maria Masten ; y lctit o t s lave atth her ?" Prisoner bard, she's w iser ,) e 1r to t er aqy day or any hotu just wh en I lit: _.11.04 •ss said, " Perhaps you arc rather jea lous tr• m hei ; Ist ships y. u think sourebr4l_,,l2 er th i l t i n en s . Ure nobody rs fg sv z, b a : , n , 1:11:1". ne t " V •it 'hi w 0 a 1 ap Vs pre 1 Orli aga 1 doc by and gut in 1 wit the him etiti the Nei pre! &iv thit the tain ~ti .044 . 4% you th: thi.' )11' hi lb 1 0f il Will 47, t•ir y tide