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Auction: 21066 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 195

Great Britain
Execution Broadsheets
The Red Barn Murder
1828 (Aug.) "The Trial, last Confession, and dying Words, Execution, of William Corder, For the Murder of Maria Marten, in the Red Bard, at Polstead, in Suffolk, Who was tried and found guilty on Thursday and Friday, the 7th and 8th of August, 188, and who underwent the awful sentence of the Law this Morning Monday, August the 11th, 1828, at Bury St. Edmunds", headed by a simple vignette of a man hanging.
Giving details of the offence, defence and sentence. Tissue paper very fragile though generally fine and perfectly legible. (240x360mm)

Notes: The case of the Red Barn Murder became infamous with related tourism attracting people to Polstead and the barn stripped by souvenir hunters. Corder had intended to elope to Ipswich with Marten after having conducted their affair in secret, Marten having born his Bastard child. They met in the Red Barn where Corder is supposed to have murdered her. Corder then sent multiple letters to Marten's family telling them she was in good health. When suspicion arose, her body was found in the hay stores of the Red Barn."

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