SCOTCH "WITCH" MURDERED.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN FEANCISCO, May 11. The strange case of Martha Russell.. 80-year-old "seeress," murdered in her little red cottage on March 17, has baulked the police and private investigators, and left an eerie feeling in the city of Rome, in Georgia, where she lived, that there was much in the realm of witchcraft behind the slaying. Among the superstitious negroes and white farmers of Northern Georgia there is a tradition that no gun can kill a "witch." Misg Russell was slain wfth a knife. Her throat was cut three times, and she also was stabbed in the breast. The woman, who had made a name through the countryside as a fortunsteller and spinner of "voodoo charms," came from Scotland may years ago. The black arts and superstitions of the heaths and moors of her native land were said to have been part of her stock in trade.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 10
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