Catherine Krebs 


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Hanged for murdering her child.

The hanging of a woman was then, as it continues to be, repugnant to
the people of Pennsylvania. Yet there had been numerous instances of
it in the history of both the Colonial and State governments, and
before the law there could be no just discrimination in the punishment
of deliberate murder founded upon distinction of sex in the
perpetrator. Two women had previously been executed in Berks County
for the crime of murdering their illegitimate offspring.  Elizabeth
Graul, convicted at the November Term of Oyer and Terminer of 1758,
and Catharine Krebs, convicted at the November Term of 1767, were
hanged at Reading the former on March 10, 1759, and the latter on
December 19, 1767. No facts regarding these remote cases have been
transmitted.

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