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Trial of Rev Mr. Avery, A Full Report [Bound with] Narrative of the...

Trial; Avery, Ephrain, Defendant

Two Landmark Accounts of a Infamous 19th-Century American Murder Trial, Including the Rare Harnden "Narrative" [Trial]. Avery, Ephraim [1799-1869], Defendant. [Hallett, B[enjamin] F[ranklin] (1797-1862), Reporter]. Trial of Rev. Mr. Avery: A Full Report of the Trial of Ephraim K. Avery, Charged with the Murder of Sarah Maria 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, And a Correct Map and References of All the Localities Described in the Testimony, Prepared Expressly for this Report Alone. Boston: Published at the Offices of the Daily Commercial Gazette, And the Boston Daily Advocate, May, 1833. 191; 40 pp. Two parts, each with individual pagination, pp. 33-40 of second part, which has the running title Avery's Trial [Supplementary Edition], in duplicate due to a binder error. Folding map. [Bound with] Harnden, Harvey. Narrative of the Apprehension in Rindge, N.H., Of the Rev. E.K. Avery, Charged with the Murder of Sarah M. Cornell, Together with the Proceedings of the Inhabitants of Fall River. Providence: W. Marshall & Co., Printers, 1833. 36 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"; 19.70 x 12.10 cm). Contemporary three-quarter pebbled calf over marbled boards, gilt fillets and title to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities, hinges starting, armorial bookplate of the estate of William Paine Sheffield to front pastedown. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, negligible light dampstaining to a few leaves, creases and minor edgewear to folding map in Trial, signature of William Gilpin to head of title page of Narrative. A very good volume. $750. * The Avery case stands as one of the most sensational and culturally significant American murder trials of the nineteenth century. The Reverend Ephraim K. Avery, a Methodist minister, was accused of murdering factory worker Sarah Maria Cornell after discovering she was pregnant with his child. Avery allegedly strangled Cornell before staging the scene as a suicide by hanging her from a barn rafter. The trial pitted anti-Masonic and anti-clerical sentiments against a defensive Methodist church, capturing the absolute fascination of the American.

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