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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In New York on May 2, 177? report: Tailor Swanzer murdered his approximately three-month-old child by cutting its throat while the mother was at market. Neighbors alerted by another child's cries found him holding the body. He confessed, intending suicide after the child. Coroner's verdict: lunacy.
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Last Friday Morning a most shocking and cruel murder was committed in this city, viz. One Swanzer, a tailor, took his own child of about three months old, out of the cradle when asleep, (the mother being gone to market) and with a knife cut its throat from ear to ear. The cries of another child that was in the room, alarmed the neighbours, and when they entered the chamber where Swanzer was, they found the murdered infant in his arms: He immediately confessed the murder, and said he had been long tired of his life, and was determined to make away with himself, but he intended that the child should leave the world before him. The coroner's inquest being summoned, and after proper enquiry into the matter, brought in their verdict, Lunacy.
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New York
Event Date
Last Friday Morning
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infant murdered by throat cut; coroner's verdict: lunacy; perpetrator confessed intent to suicide after child.
Event Details
Swanzer took his sleeping infant from cradle while mother at market, cut its throat with knife. Another child's cries alerted neighbors who found him holding body. He confessed being tired of life and wanting child to die first.