8 August

The jury convicts Corder and he is sentenced to hang and be dissected.

Maria Marten and William Corder Executed

A Suffolk molecatcher's daughter left home in men's clothes to elope in 1827. Eleven months later her father dug her up from the floor of the Red Barn.

The trial opens before the Seine Court of Assizes in Paris.

Thérèse Humbert Convicted

For twenty years Paris lent fortunes against an American millionaire's legacy locked in Thérèse Humbert's safe. In May 1902 they opened it.