The distressed Mother: OR, Sorrowful WIFE in TEARS:  
Being a full and true Account of a most horrid, barbarous and bloody murder, committed at Chatham, in the County of Kent, on Tuesday the 16th of this instant September, by one Mrs. Katherine Fox, a Gentlewoman, on the Body of her own Husband, and two young Children, by cutting their Throats from Ear to Ear; with the manner of her Apprehending and Taking, Examination and Confession before the Worshipful Justice Bourchier, and Commitment to Maidstone Goal for the same.  
ONE Mr. Fox of a plentiful Estate formerly in Chatham in the County of Kent, but trhough riotous Living had consumed it all in a few Years, insomuch that he was reduced to a very low Ebb of Fortune, but on Tuescay 6th of this instant September, he went to a public House to drink with his old Cronies that had ruined him, where being most vehemently incensed by loss and mischief, in so bitter and terrible a manner, did he Beat his poor Wife, who came to seek Relief from his hands, for her, and her poor Children, in the fight of his drunken Companions, that as he thought, he had left her Dead, and past Recovery.  
This desolate Wretch at last returning to her self, and repairing back again to her to her sad sorrowful House, behold, two her young Babes, grievously oppressed with Hunger, with Tears in their Eyes, taught not to Speak by Age, but Misery, required and desired Sustenance of her; Mother, saith one, a little Food, or I die, Mam, saith the other, and with piercing Signs Speaks the rest, Alas! poor Babes, saith the Mother with bitter Sighs, Where shall I get it? Your Father hath lost his Patience, with his Wealth, and we our Hopes, with his Mishaps: Alas! alas! what shall become of me, or who shall succour you, my Children? Better it is to Die with one Stroke, than to languish in a continual Famine. So pressed by these Miseries, and brought to this Despair, she took a Knife in her Hand, and cut her Childrens Throats from Ear to Ear, setting her self down purposely to Die, and perish in her Sorrows.  
Now her Husband returning Home the same Evening, laden with Wine, and more fit to take rest than examine these Tragedies, cast himself on his Bed, neither dreaming on his Losses, nor her Miseries: Whereupon she being urged by her pressing Necessities, occasioned through his wilful Extravagances, seeing him fast Asleep, who regarded not her Afflictions, with the same Knife wherewith she had killed her Children, she cut his Throat, the cause of her Confusion; speaking likewise thus boldly during the time of her Execution: Thou shalt Die, thou negligent Man, since thy ill Government hath been the ruin of me and my Children.  
But Day and Time discovering these Murders, Mrs. Katherine Fox, was on Wednesday Morning, being the 17th instant, Apprehended by some of her Neighbours, and being charged with a Constable, she was carried before the Worshipful Justice Bourchier, by whom being examined, she confessed the bloody Fact; upon which she was committed to Maidston Goal, in order to take her trial for the same the next Assizes; and whither she went with much Constancy, giving all the way she was going to Prison wholesome Admonitions to the numerous Spectators, which tended, That Wives should beware of too much Fury, and Husbands to be more circumspectly in their Families.   

London: Printed for J. Beuvet near Billingsgate.