Murder of Joseph White

Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail, corner of Merchants' Row & Market Square, Boston. Cut of coffin at head of text, above four lines of poetry beginning: Shall auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind. At head of text above coffin: The following lines were written on the death of Mr. Joseph White, of Salem, who was found murdered in his bed, on the morning of the 7th of April, 1830, aged 82 years. Joseph White's murder, committed for profit motives at the instigation of Richard Crowninshield by Joseph and Frank Knapp, became a celebrated criminal case because of Daniel Webster's involvement and oratory. First line: O what a horrid tale to sound.