Age: 20
Sex: female
Date: 26 May 1817
Place: Tyburn, Warwick
Mary Ashford was killed in a field on 26 May 1817. A man was tried but found not guilty.
When she was removed from a pit in a field near the junction of Bell Lane and Penn's Mill Lane, and it was found that her person had been violated.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see real-Life Crimes 61 p1346-1350.
see Lancaster Gazette - Saturday 22 November 1817
see Chester Chronicle - Friday 07 November 1817 (has large sketch map of pit, fields and roads)
