Gombert, Johann. A new mournful song, containing the history of Susanna Cox who was hung in Reading for infanticide in the year 1809. : From the German.

Gombert, Johann.

A new mournful song, containing the history of Susanna Cox who was hung in Reading for infanticide in the year 1809. : From the German.

[Pennsylvania? : s.n., ca. 1850]

Translation of: Ein neues Trauer-Lied.

Attributed to Johann Gombert, a Bern Township schoolmaster who was present at the execution of Susanna Cox on June 10, 1809, in Reading, Pa., for the murder of her newborn child. Several broadside editions of the poem were issued soon after the event. Cf. Homan, Wayne E. "The sorrow song of Susanna Cox," in Pennsylvania folklife (Summer 1971), p. 14-16.

Verse in 32 unnumbered stanzas. first line: Take notice now ye people all, ....

Printed in 3 columns divided by single rules; printed area measures 26 x 19 cm.

Cox, Susanna, d. 1809,

Infanticide -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.

Murder -- Poetry.

Infanticide -- Poetry.

Executions and executioners -- Poetry.

Crime -- Poetry.

German American poetry.

Broadsides. rbgenr

Broadside poems. rbgenr

Poems -- 1850. rbgenr

Women.

Imprint Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. 1850.

PA. 1850.

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