The affecting case of Mary Ashford : a beautiful young virgin, who was diabolically ravished, murdered and thrown into a pit, as she was returning from a dance : including the trial of Abraham Thornton, for the wilful murder of the said Mary Ashford : with the whole of the evidence, charge to the jury, &c. : tried at Warwick Assizes, before Mr. Justice Holroyd, on the 8th of August, 1817. : taken in short hand, to which is added copious elucidations of this extraordinary case ; and, a correct plan of the spot where the rape and murder were committed, &c. &c

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