The Cruel murder; or A Mournful poem : occasioned by sentence of death being pass’d upon William Brooks, James Buhannon [sic], Ezra Ross and Bethsheba Spooner, who were tried and found guilty of murdering Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield, and who are all ordered to be executed at Worcester on Thursday the 2d day of July next, which awful sight God grant, may be a warning to all.

Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1775-1783

Boston [Mass.]

Printed and sold by the gross or dozen, at N. Coverly’s Printing-Office

1778-07-02
[1778]

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 34 x 20 cm

Text within mourning border; verse in two columns divided by type ornament rule. New-York Historical copy damaged along creases, with slight loss of text.

Broadsides -- SY1778 no.36
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Crime--Massachusetts--Brookfield
Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Brookfield--Poetry
Murder--Massachusetts--Brookfield
Women murderers--Massachusetts--Brookfield

Brooks, William, 1751?-1778
Buchanan, James, 1742?-1778
Ross, Ezra, 1761-1778
Spooner, Bathsheba, 1746-1778
Spooner, Joshua

broadsides (notices)
poems

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