Item #25563 TRIAL OF REV. MR. AVERY. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF EPHRAIM K. AVERY, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF SARAH M. CORNELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND, AT A SPECIAL TERM IN NEWPORT, HELD IN MAY 1833...WITH ALL THE INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE TRIAL CAREFULLY PRESERVED, THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES NEARLY VERBATIM, AND THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL. . . REPORTED BY BENJAMIN F. HALLETT. Ephraim Avery.
TRIAL OF REV. MR. AVERY. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF EPHRAIM K. AVERY, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF SARAH M. CORNELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND, AT A SPECIAL TERM IN NEWPORT, HELD IN MAY 1833...WITH ALL THE INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE TRIAL CAREFULLY PRESERVED, THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES NEARLY VERBATIM, AND THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL. . . REPORTED BY BENJAMIN F. HALLETT.
TRIAL OF REV. MR. AVERY. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF EPHRAIM K. AVERY, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF SARAH M. CORNELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND, AT A SPECIAL TERM IN NEWPORT, HELD IN MAY 1833...WITH ALL THE INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE TRIAL CAREFULLY PRESERVED, THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES NEARLY VERBATIM, AND THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL. . . REPORTED BY BENJAMIN F. HALLETT.
TRIAL OF REV. MR. AVERY. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF EPHRAIM K. AVERY, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF SARAH M. CORNELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND, AT A SPECIAL TERM IN NEWPORT, HELD IN MAY 1833...WITH ALL THE INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE TRIAL CAREFULLY PRESERVED, THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES NEARLY VERBATIM, AND THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL. . . REPORTED BY BENJAMIN F. HALLETT.

TRIAL OF REV. MR. AVERY. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF EPHRAIM K. AVERY, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF SARAH M. CORNELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND, AT A SPECIAL TERM IN NEWPORT, HELD IN MAY 1833...WITH ALL THE INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE TRIAL CAREFULLY PRESERVED, THE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES NEARLY VERBATIM, AND THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL. . . REPORTED BY BENJAMIN F. HALLETT.

Boston: May, 1833. Second Edition. 191, [1 blank] pp + attractive folding map of the crime area. Scattered foxing, disbound, Good+.
[offered with] AVERY'S TRIAL. [SUPPLEMENTARY EDITION.] REPORTED BY B.F. HALLETT. [Boston: 1833]. 40pp, light soil. Disbound. Good+.
[offered with] THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL IN THE CLOSE OF THE TRIAL OF EPHRAIM AVERY, FOR THE MURDER OF SARAH M. CORNELL...REPORTED WITHOUT ABRIDGEMENT, BY BENJAMIN F. HALLETT. ALSO, A LITERAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL TESTIMONY OF PROFESSOR WALTER CHANNING AND DR. WILLIAM TURNER, REVISED BY THE WITNESSES, AND NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED. Boston: June, 1833. 94pp + [1 advertising leaf]. Good+. Disbound.

Three pieces on this notorious trial. "When Sarah Cornell was found hanging from the frame of a haystack in Tiverton, Rhode Island, it might easily have been called suicide but for a note she had left in her bandbox saying, 'If I should be missing, enquire of the Rev. Mr. Avery, of Bristol,- he will know where I am.' This was the beginning of the Reverend's troubles and one of the most famous nineteenth-century cases" [McDade 33].
Sarah had been five months pregnant, allegedly by Avery. A 27-day trial resulted in Avery's acquittal.
McDade 52, 34. II Harv. Law Cat 1008. Item #25563

Price: $750.00

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