Maddy Pelling
speaker
6,688 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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june fifth, eighteen ninety three.
We're in New Bedford, Massachusetts, standing in the corner of a crowded courtroom.
We've had to jostle our way in.
It's loud in here.
Men and women are discussing the case with a kind of electric excitement.
There's debate.
The man behind us waves his hand enthusiastically in the air, as though trying to hammer home his point.
His friend shakes his head in disagreement.
The jury, two rows of near identical men in three piece suits, their faces dressed with whiskers and moustaches, and their waists glinting with pocket watches, looked grim.
And so they should.
For the task is not an easy one.
They must decide on the guilt or innocence of a young woman in a case so ghastly the details of it make everyone, from factory workers to magistrates in the industrial town where it happened, blush in horror.
Quite suddenly a hush falls in the room.
A door swings loudly open, and through it comes the accused herself.
She is small and neat, dressed in black and
with an elegant pin fastened high at her throat.
In her hand she carries a bouquet of fresh flowers.
The petals trembling slightly as she steps up to the dock.
and to take her place.
Over the next few days, this apparently demure, respectable woman will be fighting for her life.
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