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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 lea, 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
to 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 Ice
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