Great Britain. The book framed in the skin of the murderer William Corder went to the exhibition

The BBC informs about the macabre exhibition of Moyse's Hall Museum in the English Bury St Edmunds. You can see a book there, as you think partly framed into the skin of the famous nineteenth-century killer.

As BBC describes, the book partly framed into the skin of one of the most famous British murderers hit the exhibition at Myse's Hall Museum in the city of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Dan Clarke working there explains that the book has an extraordinary historical value. At the exhibition in the same museum for 92 years there is another book, also framed in William Corder's skin. This, however, is covered in its entirety – the recently found copy has elements of the man's skin.

The murder from the nineteenth century shook the country

The murder that Cordder committed in 1827 shocked the then England. The case is known in the Islands as Red Barn Murder (from the red barn at the Cordderek estate, where the murder took place and the victim was buried) and was the subject of many films, stories, theater plays and songs. William Corder killed his lover, Maria. He then sent letters to her family, claiming that the woman was feeling well. When her corpse was discovered a year later, the man was captured and came to the court who sentenced him to death by hanging. His execution on August 11, 1828 gathered crowds.

The remains of the murderer for many years served students and doctors – the skeleton and skull were anatomical props in one of the hospitals. His skin was used to frame the book about the process. In 1933 she went to the museum.

The second book was recently found in a museum office, next to other, traditionally framed copies. It turned out that several dozen years ago she was handed over to the Family facility associated with a doctor who dealt with the murderer's body. According to the Museum's Facebook profile, only the ridge and horns of the book were covered with the skin. Unconfirmed messages show that the doctor could use skin fragments of the first setting to “decorate” a gift for a friend in this way.

As BBC writes, binding books into the skin of criminals was not rare in the nineteenth-century England. Currently, however, showing them is controversial. Last year Harvard University informed about the removal of human skinin which one of the books in his library was bound.