Anyone here good at Googling in German?

Here’s my dilemma. One of my favourite distractions is to read magazines from two hundred and fifty years ago to see what the main talking points of the day were. It’s mostly pretty mundane with a few oddities here and there but recently I found a case so remarkable that I couldn’t believe it had been forgotten, even after so long.

According to the story, in Vienna on 31 July 1769 a woman was charged with having killed around 100 children. She worked as a nurse for women who were, themselves, nurses. She would get several months paid in advance and then, after a short time, would tell them of the sad news of their child passing away.

“It is certain that during 17 months near 90 children have been carried from her house to the grave.”

So I wanted to know more about this, especially since the story mentions accomplices. I thought it must have been a huge story at the time but I can’t find anything when searching in English. 

If anyone here speaks German would they have a quick go? Maybe they can find articles that I couldn’t. There’s a link to the article below (click the one on page 366) which, annoyingly, doesn’t name the woman in question.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_e...na&f=false

Here’s my dilemma. One of my favourite distractions is to read magazines from two hundred and fifty years ago to see what the main talking points of the day were. It’s mostly pretty mundane with a few oddities here and there but recently I found a case so remarkable that I couldn’t believe it had been forgotten, even after so long.

According to the story, in Vienna on 31 July 1769 a woman was charged with having killed around 100 children. She worked as a nurse for women who were, themselves, nurses. She would get several months paid in advance and then, after a short time, would tell them of the sad news of their child passing away.

“It is certain that during 17 months near 90 children have been carried from her house to the grave.”

So I wanted to know more about this, especially since the story mentions accomplices. I thought it must have been a huge story at the time but I can’t find anything when searching in English. 

If anyone here speaks German would they have a quick go? Maybe they can find articles that I couldn’t. There’s a link to the article below (click the one on page 366) which, annoyingly, doesn’t name the woman in question.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_e...na&f=false

I don't speak German, but I can't resist a challenge, so I had a quick go, but couldn't find anything resembling the case described.

No doubt you will have seen the case of Catharina J, who confessed to having killed six children in 1769:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8ccy...AJ&pg=PA87
http://www.lawcrimehistory.org/journal/v...matted.pdf

Perhaps this could be a wildly exaggerated reference to that case? At any rate, I'd have thought if there had been a case where a woman had murdered 100 children, there would have been some reference to it in that second work, devoted to female murderers in 18th-century Vienna. It includes several pages of discussion of infanticide and child murder.

[Ninshub]

Can't find much but there are other books that mention the case:

https://books.google.com/books?id=3BewPU...na&f=false
(see August 29)

https://books.google.com/books?id=7G0EAA...na&f=false

(Murder; a remarkable case...)

Thanks for your input. Chris, I did see that result from Google books, but I just sort of glided past it. I missed the pdf completely, so thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I'm wondering if it is a case of exaggeration after all. Those references from Ninshub would probably have used the same source that The Gentleman's Magazine used. It's not mentioned in any contemporary English newspaper that I have access to.

I'll keep an eye out for it anyway. Thanks again.

Thanks for your input. Chris, I did see that result from Google books, but I just sort of glided past it. I missed the pdf completely, so thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I'm wondering if it is a case of exaggeration after all. Those references from Ninshub would probably have used the same source that The Gentleman's Magazine used. It's not mentioned in any contemporary English newspaper that I have access to.

I'll keep an eye out for it anyway. Thanks again.

I did a bit more looking earlier, and it seems there was a newspaper named the Wienerische Diarium (predecessor of the Wiener Zeitung) at that time. Some of the 18th-century issues have been digitised and are available online, but unfortunately not the ones for 1769, as far as I could see.