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The hanging of Susanna Cox : the true story of Pennsylvania's most notorious infanticide & the legend that's kept it alive Patricia Earnest Suter and Russell and Corinne Earnest ; foreword by Don Yoder
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HV 6542 .S88 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suter, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Filicide--Pennsylvania--Berks County.
- Filicide.
- Cox, Susanna, -1809.
- Cox, Susanna.
- Unmarried mothers--Pennsylvania--Berks County.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Women murderers--Pennsylvania--Berks County.
- Women murderers.
- Berks County (Pa.)--History.
- Berks County (Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2010.
- Contents:
- Prologue: the Kutztown Folk Festival
- Reading and the Oley Valley
- Fingers of guilt
- Middling stiff
- When law and humanity had but faint connection
- Twelve honest men
- A distraction from grim tidings
- As innocent as a child
- The last melancholy resource
- Ten o'clock to two o'clock and fifty minutes
- Slinking off anonymously
- A last hope
- Seduced by the devil
- Confession
- I poor wretch
- A final jolt
- Peace be to her
- The printers of Exeter Township
- The sad, sad song of Susanna Cox
- Advice from the dead to the living
- Her exit
- infamy
- Epilogue: back to the festival.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780811705608 (hardcover)
- 0811705609 (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 473655667
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