In a standing-room-only trial that commenced a mere four days before the hanging in which the papers 
reported shortages of post-horses owing to the influx of rubberneckers - Corder failed to persuade 
anyone that he merited the least bit of mercy with his cockamamie story that Marten done shot herself 
through the eye. He was doomed by the jury with 35 minutes deliberation.,..,

The London Times (Aug. 11, 1828) waxed unctuously pleased with this circumstance as quoted here:.

	We congratulate the country on a manifest improvement in the condition of its 
	moral feeling, since the sickly sensibility of the press, and of the multitude 
	to whose foul taste it ministered, was wont to declare itself on the side of 
	ruthless and treacherous murder, and to stifle at once every movement of honest 
	compassion for the victim, and all reverence for the principles by which justice 
	is vindicated and human society held together.

	Another base ruffian has now equalled or exceeded Thurtell in guilt, and is about 
	to follow him in the experience of lawful retribution. To the honour of the people, 
	we have not yet heard one ejaculation of unnatural pity for the miscreant who 
	deliberately butchered the mother of his infant on pretence of accompanying her 
	to the altar. Corder has united in this one deed of horror - if it be his only 
	one - whatever the heart revolts at most in the conduct of man to woman. He 
	seduced - then betrayed - then massacred the wretched creature, in cold blood; 
	and providential were the means of his detection, as his crime was hateful to 
	God and man.

	Why will not unhappy females bethink themselves before it be too late, that he 
	who is depraved enough to corrupt their innocence, has already made no small 
	advance in that course which ends too often in his exacting from them the only 
	remaining sacrifice?

	Seated on a wall, which gave a commanding view of the whole scene, were several 
	ladies, dressed in the first style of fashion. I mention this fact because it shows 
	the intense curiosity prevalent in this county respecting every action of Corder: 
	for nothing else could have brought respectable females to behold a catastrophe 
	so uncongenial with the usual kindness and benevolence of the female character.

 From The London Times, Aug. 12, 1828