The terrible hay-stack murder
Subtitle: Life and trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, for the murder of the young and beautiful Miss Sarah M. Cornell, a factory girl of Fall River, Mass., whose affections he won, and whose honor he betrayed. He afterwards strangled his poor victim, and hung her body to a hay-stack in order to convey the idea that she had committed suicide
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 51863; Making of modern law
Publisher: Barclay
Published: 1877
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Trials (Murder)
Other titles: Life and trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery
Notes: Avery was tried in the Supreme Judicial Court of Rhode Island at Newport, May-June, 1833.

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