"FORCES OF SATAN”
FEARED BY FRENCHMEN ASSAULT ON ALLEGED WIZARD. ABBE RECEIVES COMPENSATION. PARIS, Jon. 21. Twenty-eight men and women, convicted of assault on Abbe Desnoyers, of Bombon, who was stripped and flogged by a number of persons from Bordeaux who accused him of wizardy, were sentenced respectively to eight and six months’ imprisonment and fined 100* francs and ordered to pay Abbe Desnoyers 500,000 francs damages. The accused, pleaded that they acted legitimately in defence against the forces of Satan.
The Judge pointed out that the penal code did not provide for such an eventuality. 2*
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19748, 22 January 1927, Page 5
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