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 [electronic resource] : 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.