Star. — London, England, 1828-08-09 00:00:00

- ~-' - - - THE TRIAL OP CORDER. . , ..410RFOLK CIRCUIT. • IN CONTINUATION 110 W TUN :MAR TESTARDAT. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, Avuusr 8. This morning, at nine o'clock, the Lord Chief Baron arrived at the Shire Hall, and having taken his seat on the Bench, William Corder was placed at the bar. The immense pressure and confusion of yesterday was, in a great degree, avoided by the Sheriff having made ar rangements to admit the Gentlemen of the Bar and the Reporters an hour before the Court opened for public business; still the same eagerness was manifested to witness the termination of this interesting trial. It was observed, that after the close of the business on Thurs day, when Corder returned to the gaol, he was very much depressed in spirits. If ever he exhibited any thing like feeling in the Court, it was at the time the Clerk of the Arraigns read the two letters which he had written to Marten, the father of Maria; ter she was murdered, in which he hypocritically pretended that Maria was then living with him, in good health, and inl which letters he also censured old Marten for having neglected to answer a letter which he pretended Maria had written to him, but which in the second letter he states he supposed had miscarried, and he would indict the post-office for the neglect, were it not for the pub licity be should be exposed to by attending a " Court Marshalro—for so he termed a proceeding against that establishment. At a quarter before•nine o'clock, Corder was put to the bar. He was dressed the same as yesterday. On inquiry, it is understood his age is not 40, but about 30 or 32. He rose early in the prison, and was, during the whole of the morning before he was brought to Court, engaged in introducing some alterations in his written de/fence, which were suggested to him late last night by his counsel. His manner was collected, his complexion fresh, and he looked around him at times with seeming cheerfulness He was nor, however, so entirely at his ease as he appeared to be early on the previous day; his head was not snerect, and he repeatedly heaved deep sighs. Immediately on being put to the bar, he put on his spectacles, folded his arms, and displayed an oscil lating and swinging motion cif his body, while he leaned his back against the pillar of the dock. He hung down his head frequently during the examination of the wit nesses. During the re-examitratlon of - Mr. Lawton, the sur geon, this morning, who produced the skull of the de ceased, which was handed from the Counsel to the Jury, aad exhibited so as to be observable in its fractured conditicin to whole Court, the prisoner, who had just taken off his spectacles, replaced them, and beheld attentively tbis•painful spectacle—he inclined his body forward so as to command a full view of the skull; but as if the effort to sustain this attitude, and evince this expression, had become too great for his nerves, he sud denly lung his back against the pillar, hastily dress' off hit spectacles,aud evidently laboured under the strongest emotion. In a few minutes, however, he rallied, re placed his glasses, took out his pocket-book. and quickly wrote a memorandum to his leading Counsel, Mr. Basmatce, who at once wrote a •reply, which the pri soner read with close attention, and on the signification of a movementsfrom the Learned Counsel tore it into the smallest fragments. His Solicitor, at the same time, went to the front of the dock, and had a long'consulta tion with him. The Jury having answered to their nomer, John Charles Nairn was called, and examined by Mr. ANDREW/3..4 am a surgeon; I received my diploma twelve months ago, but I have been in the profession upwards of twelve years; I attended on the 19th of last May, with Mr. Chaplin, at Polstead ; John Baal ham, the constable, was present ; he disinterred a body in my pretence; I czar:lined the cavities of the chest. • Mr. atODRICK -here stated that the identity of the body should be proved before the witness's examination proceeded further. James Baalham,thecon , table of Polstead was called, and be stated—l. am parish clerk of Polstead, as well as constable; I saw the body found in the barn ; it was interred in Poltaead Church-yard ; I screwed it down, but was not present at the foneial ; it was afterwards disinterred by my men; I was with Mr. Nairn when the corms was raised ; I found the body in the coffin, in the same mamas when I screwed it down. Mr. Nairn recalled—l found the internal parts of the cheat io a perfect state of preservation—so much so, that the slightest injury penetrating into the cavity fright have been detected: one beast was lying divested slits enveloping membrane; there was a large wound in the tight ventricle of the heart; that appeased to be a recent wound; I could-form no opinion respecting the wound sa hen 1 first saw it ; I subsequently examined the wound, and.lthen formed an opinion that it was a recent Wound ; at.detached the heart from its blood vessels, and..laid it aside for further examination; I then examined the internal surface of the ribs; in the "ice between the fifth and sixth ribs I discovered wins.scl, about the breadth of three quarters of an inch, it was nearly an inch ;my opinion was, that the wound was on of long duration; and not a recently inflicted one; I did not examine the beam till I returned home, and then, about two inches from the apex of the heart. Idiscoveri-d a slight wound ;that wound was given in a direction corresponding with the eeteinal one, the wound between the sibs.; that wound appeared to have been inflicted with a sword or dirk, or some such sharp instrument; I hare seen the sword now produced by Lea, the officer; such a weapon as that, in my opinion, wai the most likely instrument for inflicting that wound; such a wound inflicted on a live body would have been, in my opinion, sufficient to produce death; I have since inspected the head of that body; I have *lied that sword, to the wound between the ribs since; it corresponds with the sizeof the wound, to the extent of two or three inches up the blade; there are apparetitly some marks oa'tbe buck of the blade which go to that extent; 1 ex *witted the wound ih the heart, having the sword with *se; the wound in the heart certainly might have been trade by the point of that sword I afterwardseraminerfi tie head, and discovered .the•Lraek s f a ball, entering the interior of the upper past of the upper left jaw. and proceeding to the internal angle of the right eye; from she site of the opening I should cnnclude•it to have been made in a small pistol ball ; that wound might have caused death, but I cannot ear she might not have re corned from it ; I examined the head further, mid dna covered a fissure or opening into the spheroidal• sinus; that-was in the.case of the skull; correspooding with the veriebste; any sharp pointedinstrument would have made that fissure or opening ; it extended• a b o ut i ceppii. ter of an inch into the spheroidal sinus ; there was no other sound that I am aware of; the lase wound_ might have occasioned death. - • • • aossittliniined by Mr. Throriatar—l eiafirtiids¢ the b o dy- 68 t h e loth cif 114Ay I'st;* the body hail been bicried about a month ; rshould think the exposure of the body to the atmorphare air would sot tend to increase the decomposition—sot in the condition that body was. in .; 4 did notahiikk that a body which had lain in the grassed for twelve months would have bemi so little deem poold ; j once saw a body that had ligeas in the grourid exactly twelve months. LORD Cuter BARON—Not one that had been buried' in the earth without a coffin ? Witness —Certainly not, my Lord: When I saw the heart, I found it without a pericardium ; it had been detached, and probably with a knife. From my exami nation of the two wounds, I should consider that the wound on the right ventricle was a recent one, from the edge being even; I form that judgment merely from the inspection of the heart, independently of all I knew or have heard on the subject. From the edges of the' wound on the apex of the heart gaping, I am rf opinion it was made before death ; I am of opinion that wound was not made after the pericardium was removed; I removed the pericardium from the heart, and used a knife; the apes of the heart touches the ribs close to the cartilage; the cartilage .connects the ribs with the sternum; the cartilage connected with the ribs are elastic substances, and a wound made in the cartilage would show the same before as after death; the falling in of the bones of the head was caused by a wound, and not by decomposition; I first saw the head in Mr. Law ton's possession; Mr. Lauton showed me the head ; I did not tee it taken off the body ; I took the heart my self from the body; a knife would have inflicted the same wound. Re-examined—l do not mean any sized wound; I mean a knife corresponding in breadth with such an in strument as that (pointing to .the sword); the wound was broadest on that side of the rib joining the sternum; it was broader outside than inside. _ _ Mr. Lawton, the surgeon, recalled—l showed a skull to the last witness; it was the head which was found on the body of the corpse found in the Red Barn ; 1 assisted at the exhumation of the body, and took the head off; Baalham had possession of it for a short time; I gave it to Baalham the afternoon that I took it off, and he returned it to me a day or two afterwards, when I went fur it; it had been locked up all the time; I know it was the same head ; I had the other parts in my possession. Baahlam recalled—l returned the same head to Mr. Lawton that he gave to me. Henry Robert Chaplin examined—l am a surgeon; I have been practising four years—three years in Dis. pensary prictice, and one for myself ; I saw the body of the deceased woman at the same time that Mr. Nairn saw it ; the chest was in a good state of preservation ; I also examined the hear, and found a wound ; the first wound I discovered when Mr. Nairn opened the body, was on the right ventricle; that appeared to be of a recent date; I afterwards saw the heart, and then I saw another wound; I examined that wound, and could not say if it was a wound of recent or of ancient infliction; I examined the side, and found a transverse wound between the fifth and sixth ribs, which appeared to have been inflicted with a weapon which had a broad back and a sharp edge; I did not see a sword applied to the wound; I saw them separately ; I con sidered the wound in the ribs in connection with the ore in the heart, and it appeared to be a continuation of the same wound through Vat ribs into the body; the wound in the heart might have been inflicted in strip ping the pericardium off the heart ; the wound through the ribs into the heart could not have been inflicted in stripping the pericardium; such a wound is certainly deemed a mortal one; all wounds in the heart may not be mortal. I have seen a head in the possession of Mr. Lawton; and found a wound there; a bullet appears to have traversed it through she bones of the face; the course of the bullet was behind the upper teeth, and through the orbit of the eye; the appearances could not have been produced by decomposition; I thpuld not say that would have been a mortal wound, it might or might.not ; I found the'mark of another wound, a thrust in the same eye the ball had perforated ; it was iollicted with a sharp instrument with a broad back; it might have been inflicted with the same instrument that inflicted the wound between the ribs and pierced the heart. Cthas.examined--The instrument that pierces" the spheroidal sinus entered only about the depth of an eighth of an inch; I mean the spheroid bone, which is situate at the base of the cranium; the instrument might have been sharp at the point and gradually in. creased in thickness upwards; it the wound had been inflicted on the heart while living, there must have been a great effusion of blood, unless syncope bad taken place instaqily, sod then there would not. Syncope might have been produced by the loss of blood; but a shock to the system might have produced syncope; there were no appearances of blood about the heart; the probability is that each a wound would ilse followed by excessive bleeding. It is quite impossible to say if the ball entered or came out of the eye. Re-examined—The parts being soft, we could not say; had there been merely bones we might have ascertained. I was not present when some banes were found in the throat; I paid no attention to the fracture of the bones of the nose. Ili. Lawton recalled—l have the bead of the deceased in my hand. , _ _ , . Mr. atnoaews—Now. Sir, point out to the Jury the place where the Jag:meat pierced the skull. The witness proceeded to the Jury box with Mr. Baoriatcx, and the Gentlemen of the Jury minutely examined the skull. The , witness pointed out the direction where the bullet had traversed and the sword had pierced. The prisoner took hii spectacles out of his pocket. and was very attentive to the examination. The witness placed the point of the sword in the place where he was of opinion it had penetrated. 111r.Bnoosace—Place the point of the sword the other way, and it will correspond as well. Witness (petting the sword point in the wound the other way)— ' The sword will not 6t this way so well; it will not go through.— (The witness also showed the absence of the teeth from the jaw of the skull.) There were two teeth out of the opper jaw—one ap %leased to have been drawn out while the body was alive. Craw-examiee4 by Mr. Ilsooasce--One of the teeth might have fallen oat through decomposition. • Mr. Mathews reealled—Maria Marten had an enlargement in the front of her neck, similar in appearance to a wen. [liaallibm, the constable, produced the combs and linen found on_ the deceased]. Mrs. Marten, the mother, recalled—( Looks at the articles of dress (mod on the body taken From the Red Barn). These are Maria') combs; I saw her with them on her head on the 18th of last May i twelvemonths. These are the ear-rings she had in her ears at the 'same time ; they are both of them her's. This is the handk e r c hi e f (a silk one) she had round her neck the same day ; this also (the green one). was one she kad on at the same time; this was next her throat, and the silk one over it. Thief@ a piece of a Leghorn bat ; she bad on a Leghoin bat when how her last, trimmed with black .riband like this, the edges'of widet are the same. These are the shoes she had on. This is the Wain busk in her stays. This is part of a pair of itays. This is the sleeve of a chemise, the make of which is the same as that she bad on on the 18th of May, 1827, when the went to the Red Bara.—(This witness was so over powered, either by her feelings, by th e a of the rags, or by the heat.of the Court, that she was with difficulty preserved Train faint ing by the restoratives given her at the close of her examination). Lea, the officer, produced the velvet big. Tile Cater Banos—l don't think it is sufficiently traced to come from any place proved to belohg t%the prisoner. Mr. Asionaws—The prisoner wfs apprehended in the house In which his swam was; and id which was a desk, which opened by a key be himself gave to theolficef ; and In the same room wii found this bag. • 11se Cm', 8A11011.4 think you had better not press it. • Anne bfarten;the aster of Mari*. re-called..-This green hand kerchief 'is else' same Aar. my sister' went away with. - This silk isewdierchlef die akin had on it the astne time. These are the same throe* • This it pert..of 'the 'Leghorn bonnet,' trimmed with Mart tliarsif. TMs las pi‘trof the boatite she had in the bag when she . 4 6 5 out ; ° d ie b u t '.t a wan% bet caber-bee% These are like the e a t sb y she bad'ier ber.isilt.at the• same tilde_ . ••filte had on a pair a eiir.rings ; and these are such ones as my steAst , went away with i in her ears. a Mr. Aruma stated to the Court that there was found in the desk, ope illsz o i to rida she ke'y given by tie petunia -to j.e.datters rated to , and also a passport foe Fri Cot ter. The foe-Colr. The C4ster . relhoughtlit:rtafer Foe to receive evidence of thip,pspirtially as, in a case of this oat*, all doubtful pelnts ogight. (tom the importance of this trial to the pristioer, to be decided id favour. The prisoner here bowed Ws gratitude to his Lordship. Marten, the father, re-called.--The soil in the barn is a dryish, little gravelly, and stony soil. • Mrs. Marten. recalled, proved that her daughter wore white narrow tape garters. Mr. Mathews proved that Marla Marten was able to write very well. This was the case on the part of the prosecution. The prisoner, being called on for his defence, advanced to the front of the bar, took out some papers, and read nearly as follows with a very tremulous voice— " MY LORD, AND GENTAEWEN OF THE JURY, " I am informed that by the law of England. the. Counsel for a prisoner is not allowed to address the, Jury, though the Counsel for the Crown is allowed that privilege. While I deplore, as much as any human being can, the fatal event which has caused this inquiry, let me entreat you to dismiss from your minds the publications of the public press from the time of its first promulgation to this hour; let me entreat you, let me dissuade you, if I can, from being influenced by the horrid and disgusting de tails which have for months issued from the public press—a powerful engine fur fixing the opinions of serge classes of the community, but which is too often, I fear, though unintentionally, the cause of affix ing slander upon innocence. I have been described as a monster, who, while meditating becoming the husband of this girl to whom 1 was evincing an affectionate at tachment, was actually premeditaing and plotting the perpetration of this horrid crime. With such misrepre sentations it was natural, perhaps, to expect that an un favourable impression should have been created against me, and the more so when the accusation went beyon d the present case, and was connected with other crimes well calculated to excite prejudice against me. It is natural you should come to this trial with feelings of pr, judice; but as you expect peace and serenity of mind at borne, I implore you to banish from your minds all the horrible accusations which have been promulgated, and give your verdict on the evidence alone. Consider, Gentlemen, that the attorney for the prosecution is also the Coroner before whom the Inquest was taken; and his condo t, in refusing my being present at the Inquest, is conduct which you cannot approve. Since my committal, the Coroner has been again at Polstead—has got up ack ditional evidence. My solicitor pressed for a copy of the drpositions,which were refused...in cor,sequence of these . Unjust proceedings, r" . ever 'heard one of the witnesses examined, and cannot • therefore-have came prepared as I ought.to be. The Coroner thus acting in his double. capacit.•, was likely enough; when meditating to act as attorney for the prosecution, to have entertained im pressions ioconsistent tor the= it discharge of his inqui ! siterial inquiry: and again,"as attorney for the prosecu tion, he was liable to be 'diverted from the fulfilment of his duties as Corcitier ; so_That I was ie this respect, on the threshold of inquiry, exposed to disadvantages frost which I ought to have been saved. This, however, was not all-, my solicitor remonstrated ; .was" noel only refused copies of the depositions, but the attorney. for the prosecution, Without any notice to me, has visited Polstead, and taken examinations upon oath of the different witnesses, and come to this trial prepared *ith evidence taken behind my back, and pruned down to suit the exaggerations of this case. I therefore. am brought to be tried for my life without any fair know ledge of the evidence against me. In consequence of this unjust proceeding on the part of the Coroner, how can 1 controvert, as I might have done were I allowed' to hearthe witnesses, equivocal facts and highly coloured statements, of which I am for the first time informed when brought to trial for my life? Were witnesses to be privately examined, and their evidence clandestinely ob tained? It has been well (shelved that truth is sometimes stronger than fiction. Never was this assertion better exemplified than in this hapless instance. In a few short months I have been deprived of all my brothers, and sly father recently before that period. I have heard the evidence, and am free to ray that, unexplained, it may cause great suspicion ; but you will allow me to explain it. Proceeding, my Lord and Gentlemen, to the real facts of this case, I admit that there is evidence calculated to excite suspicion, but these facts arc capable of ezplane. Lion; and convinced as I am of my entire innocence, I have to entreat you to listen to my true and simple detail of the real facts of the death of this unfortunate woman. I was myself so stupified and overwhelmed with the strange and disastrous circumstance, and on that account so unhappily dr iven to the necessity of immediate de cision, that I acted with fear instead of judgment, and I did that which any itincicVet Man might have done under such unhappy citculownces. I concealed the appalling occurrence, and was, as is the misfortune of such errors, subsequently driven to sustain the first falsehoods by others, and to persevere in a system of delusion which furnished the facts concealed for a long time. At first I gave a false account of the death of the unfortunate Maria; I Om' now sesolved to disclose the truth, regardless of the consequences. To conceal her pregnancy from my mother; [tank lodgings at Sud bury she was delivered of A male child, which died in a fortnight in the arms of MN Marten, although the newspapers have so perverted that fact ; and it was agreed beta eenMrs.Marten,Mar ia,and me,that the child should be buried in the fields. There was a pair of small pistols in the bed room. Maria knew they •were there. I had before that shown her the use of them, and on returning to her father's she, by some means unknown to me, contrived to get the pistols into her possession. It was well known that at that period Maria •was much depressed in spirit, and was anxious that I should marry her, although 1 had season to suspect that she was at the time in correspondence with a Gentleman in London, by whom she had a child. My friends objected to the match, and I declined it- at the time. But although poor Maria's conduct Was not altogether free from blame, I was much attached to her, and at length agreed to her wishes; and it was arranged that we should go to Ipswich and obtain a license for that purpose. Whether I did or did not say anything about a warrant having been issued by the parish officers for her apprehension, I cannot now pretend to say; but if I did, it must have been be cause such a report was abroad at the time. It was agreed that Maria should go in male attire to the Red Barn—so often mentioned in the course of the trial. You have heard from the mother of the unfortunate Maria, that she and I had had words. As we proceeded . to the barn she was in tears. To that barn we had oft:n repaired before, and frequently passed the night there., When we reached the barn, words_arose, and Maria flew into a passion. I told her that if we were to be married, and live together, she must not gd on so. Much conver. sation ensued, and on changing her dress, she at length ' told me that if we were married, we should never be happy together—that I was too proud to marry. her, and take her to my mother's, and that she did not regard me. 1 was highly irritated, and asked her if she was to go on this Way before marriage, what was I to expect after ? • She again upbraided me, and being in a passion, I told her that I would not marryher, and turned from the Barn, but I had scarcely teached the gate when a report of a pistol reached my ears. I returned to the barn, and with honor beheld the unfortunate girl extended on the floor, apparently dead ; I was for a short time stupified with horror, and knew not what to do. It struck me to run for a sue. gem; and well would it have been for inc if I had done so. iihtt I raised the unfortunate girl, in order , if pOs.. Bible, to afford her some assistance; but I fund ha l altogether lifeless; and to my horror, I discovered that the dreadful act had been .committed by one of my own pistols, and that I was the only person in existence who could tell how the fatal act took place. The sudde n alarm which seized me suspended my faculties, and I[ wasfor some time before I could perceive the awf u l sittation in which I was placed, and the iinsp*i nn ,' which must naturally arise from my having delayed.* make the circumstance instantly known. I, at length, found. that concealment was the only means by which I could rescue mys:lf from the horrid imputation; and . I resolved to bury the body as well as! was able Havin g done so, I subsequently accounted for her absence* the manner described by the witnesses, saying sometimes one thing to one person, and at other times other thing s to another. I may be asked why, if innocent uf the crime imputed to me, I felt it necessary to &it those answers? To which I answer, that some persons ate driven to do acts from fear which others do from guilt which is precisely the case with me in this instance. e t may be asked, too, why I have not called evidence to prove the facts I have stated ? but, Gentlemen, 1 putt to you whether things do not sometimes take plane, which are only known to the parties between whoa they happen; and what direct proof can I give, whoa the only person who knew of these facts is no more? I can, for the same reason, give no direct proof of the unhappy woman's having got possession of my pistols. I say pistols, because I found the other loaded pistol is the unfortunate Maria's reticule. As to the stabs and other wounds described by the witnesses, I can only say that no stab or cut was given by Maria or mystic and I. firmly believe that the surgeons would never have sworn to them, were it sot for the circumstance of a sword having been found in the room in which I was arrested. If any stab did appear upon t'se body, it must have been done with the instrument used in disinterring it. One of the witnesses told you that on striking theist strument into the ground, he exclaimed, " there is some thing here; ' so that the instrument must have entered the body. Gentlemen, I have now told you all the fact: of the case, as they have occurred, and I entreat Tout attention to the few remarks I lave to make upon some parts of . the evidence. I am charged Kith having basely murdered the woman whom I loved, and pomised t* marry. Is there, let me ask, any adequate cause assigned for such an act? I inigkt, had I ro pleased, have broken off the connection, on the grounds of the displeasure of toy slimily, or because of Maria's connection with another. Where, then,' could base been my motive for the horrid deed? I ask any man whether, it I had contemplated the death of the poor girl in the manner de tribes by the prosecutor, I should have selected tha barn for the • scene of such a deed? Would I have chosen for such a purpose a spot surrounded with cottages and persons, is all of whom I was tnown? True it is that the death ..remained concealed at the time, but that concealment was purely accidental. None but a madman could have eirpected concealment in such a place,under such circum stances. I put it to you, whether, if I had contemplated such an act, I would not have selected a better time and place and opportunity for its perpetration; car. hiving perpetrated it, might I not easily have made my escape? Sut you have it in evidence that I remained at bode until the month of September, when, being' taken ill. and suffering from severe losses in my famity,l, by the • advice cf my physician, proceeded to a watering-place. I went to Portsmouth, and from thente to the Isle el Wight; from thence I proceeded to London, where I met my sister. You have heard of a passport for France having been fund in my desk ; that 'passport was ob tained by desire of my wife, who was anxious to visit a relative at Paris ; but I objected to the journey, on the ground of the expense. Articles belonging to the valor innate Maria are proved to have been found in my pee session. Would I, had I been the guilty man I am repre sented to be, have retained those articles—or would I not for my own protection. have at once destroyed theta I can prove, that while in town in December last year. I publicly advertised the sale cf a house belonging to my wife, and in that advertisement I gave my name and address. Did this look any thing like guilt, or a desire of ,concealment ? If I had courted seclusion. would I have lived with my wife in a public establish ment? Surely no man can suppose use so careless cf life as to do so. I have now, Gentlemen, stated t e case exactly as it *ands, and I hope I have convirxed you that the only fault of which I have been guilty is the fault of concealment; or should any doubt ...till lin-, ger in your minds, I hope you will extend so me that generous principle of the English law, which 11.1.1 s a Man to be innocent until his guilt is clearly establishes'. Gentlemen, whatever may be the result of this inquiry. my conscience tells me that I am innocent, and 1 im plore you not to send me to an ingnonaittious L'esth.l have no more to say, but that my life is in yrur hand s.' The prisoner occupied a quarter of an hour in reading his achke 4 Wm. Goodwin examined-1 live in Plough-lane, Sudtni:•y; d . 'prisoner came to my house and took lodgings in the I ntl it VW ; he afterwards came with Maria Marten, Who lay an owe: the prisoner visited her two or three times a week before and ahor her accouchement ; they had a room tc themselves. Mr. BRODIUCK—Did they seem fond of each other? Witness- - I cannot say to the contrary ; I remember before Maria ;liana was confined; the prisoner went out with her to Mr. Harcourt" the guemaker, of Sudbury; when they left my house, they vel in a one-horse chaise; she lay in ea the 19th of Alarzh, and .li on the 16th of April, taking the infant with her. Cross-examined-1 cannot say how lug they were event et, tk day they went to Mr. Harcourt's.- Maria Marten afterwards/vitt of baying been at Harcourt's with the prisoner. Mary Ann Goodwin examined by Mr. PILINDCRUA3 I . --1 f eu , Plough-lane, Sudbury ; un the 18th of March, ISO, Maria lis t e with me ; the prisoner brought her to my house; she wad 0114001 at my house; the prisoner Irequently visited her ; sometimes oia. a week, and sometimes oftener ; they appeared very muck aaschei to each other; she was in bad spirits ; I heard her say , s he rerr after the pistols to the shop where they w e re; she went at ;.c... left orders for her to fetch them against b e came tor them, ands? - she went and fetched them. 1 John Hardy—l was in Mrs. Corder's employ in Fels. lc: , _ saw the prisoner•cleaning th e pi sto l s; I r e member 'Erin "" 1, ' ,.v _ Marten on the 13th of May ; sh e w as walking with Corder ~ i c i : the yard towards the stabl e; I w e nt - away ; there are two WON/ i... in Mrs. Corder's hous e; t wo p ersons mi g ht go up niln of the s:r cases to Corder's room with o u t Mrs. Corder knowi n g any t 4 abo c u r t o i s t s.z ; z l am do i n' ned t tor t w th as at a C bu o u rd t enrinuesedo,ctiooctkakienththi:gs t ' eveii i N n i g ar o ia t .... „ I saw them in the yard. Lucy Ilialham examined by Mr. Ilanuiticx—l Deod ifl : ,e s _ }". . g Corder's service last year ; I lett her on ;he 11th of last Octot i . I" zi , had lived with her 11 montiss; I had seen pistols in . the spt,iuni: that year in Corder's bed room—sometimes in the iti•nli: a n d tin times on the outside of the prisoner's box ; the 'primmer s.on to live at his mother's till within ifPnut a fortnight of the tiros Went away; the prisoner was always a kind, good . ' al u r ", _, 1. , 1 „i, Mr. Edward Javan; examined — l am . a surgeon at -‘ l l _ . in a about two miles from l'olstead; I have attended the priso l, er st y, _ medical capacity ; I advised - the prisoner about this tin . w_ Ivo : to visit sonic bathing place for the - benefit of his health, I str _ l ' ll. , mended the south coast ; his health 'required IC, as he was " threatened with codsumption. ii and isi Ai b r re s.. aa T h l:ea u py r zar A p s ;r e ao r r s due d e c i t, s od n l as i I n ee newspaperdt to able a i k e i w on fd ( t ' ah i. n e e d d 3 e db r ul ) f o r , 0 1.,. : ge h l i nb s lt i r. n r: ..c.Y: • 14, . • : M pre he a a. he .nc '4] ta re hi it Cr al ei %CI ro al el he he us wa ei • e n 4 al 01 id a, he I d en er f a of flue N. eht M. all sai 'II al he he RI he Cl al 21 cl' he ta' ha Or is hi !It Cr' 11 en ec he OI at hr .ri ac he at COI tit on ec son ag, tau pre tint ••