Excerpt from Report on the Trial of Daniel H. Corey on an Indictment for the Murder of Mrs. Matilda Nash, at the Term of the Superior Court of Judicature: Holden at Keene, in the County of Cheshire, on the First Tuesday of October, A. D. 1830On Saturday, the 13th June, 1829, about noon Of that day, Mrs. Corey, wife of the prisoner, with her child and mother, and other members of the family, went to the house of Mr. Daniel Nash, in Gilsum, being about seventy or eighty rods from the house of the prisoner. Mrs. Corey made complaint there that her husband had abused her and the family, and that she was afraid to stay at home, in the house with him, lest he should do them some seri ous harm. She, Mrs. C. Requested Mrs. Matilda Nash, an aged lady, to go up to Corey's house and try to calm him. Mrs. Nash consented to go, and took along with her a small bundle of ¿ax that she might have an errand for calling at his house. Mrs. Nash went, accompanied by a little girl, and when she came to the door of Corey's house, which was open, she spoke to him, and said, Mr. Corey, how do you do P Corey at this time was lying on the bed, he spoke to her, and said, what are you here for, get out of my house or I'll kill you - Corey sprung from the bed, seized his gun, which hung upon hooks in the room - Mrs. Nash and the little girl run from the house as fast as they could - the girl being forward and Corey pur suing. About seven rods from the house, Corey came in reach Of the old lady, and, holding the gun in both hands, struck her upon the head with the breech of the gun, and felled her to the ground he struck her once after she had fallen, and then pursued the little girl a short distance, but not being able to overtake her until she came in sight Of Daniel Nash's house, he did not follow far. The little girl ran home, informed the family, and went immediately to the field and informed her father, Mr. Daniel Nash, that Corey had killed her grandmother dead in the road. Dan iel Nash, after the information he had received from his daughter, Went and found the corpse Of his mother. She was perfectly dead, her head horribly broken and mangled.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.