AMAZING ROGUERY
WIICHES OF SABSMi
CBEPIftQUS JHJPES hOm TBOUSANBS
'(Hes. April 20, U.U p.m.)
time, Ap.riJ 20. Amazing stories of witcteraft were told at tli« Abslzcs during tho trial of several women on charges <jf. frauds.
Evidence wise given of tho iesistenco of a "Witches 1 ptofessiag a mystio povi-er onaWsng its leembew to Joeato Mddea treasUroi and suiiuuaii spirits frojn. tho dead, Htmdreds of dtipes parted frift th.ou* ■sands of pounds. A farmer Geyernor Eif aprisou, who'was tbi-eatejjcd, with dismissal for allowing a forooious brigAiid te escape,, §r)&iit all his private mcmia on iheso svitciies, who undertook to hare tho brigaild seized Sby from tlio rneiiKtain fastilesgesj and t,ai-. ■ricd tliFcugh tho err back to the prison eell. Many emigrftivts retiifniiig from Ampries- tfoie despoiled! or their savings, Rosa. Artiij site of fh» .prisoiierß:, who fa known a% "tho Saint of SttSsari," refused laivyer , .;' aid, saying that "Heaven is sending. St. Thomas and fit. Angftgtino'te defend- ifle."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 7
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158AMAZING ROGUERY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 7
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