The Arkansas advocate., 1834-11-21

lO March last, Annette 5
 young Y woman, 20 years of \ aualll sergnoz' in the Isere, was a',s. uss M nervous complaint, which she 'as Ne oeggar, woman named Modion \ years old, who passed in tba s,Vn ,.i,l
 witch. Her family and the A,s n.;s4 Y 'aa conylnced hat t was she wba slas! aa'7z spell upon the young m, si.i. Ty N as!!. e. of Annette took her to the houss s' several times, but never found 'S ~
 she beng usually out seeking ",'
 d door to door. In a neigbbs,;s 2 ] liyed Crochet, reputed 0'a s0rSa,
 him the family had recourse 0s,sF io, ,e P oi Annette. Crochet listened d ,o N < K K and going up stairs. uttered, ss ,I 's| nolse' these prophetic words. "
 woman that has cast a snsl daughter. It will be difficult to g'' it. If it were man, there vo,I1 'v x | difficulty, for then 1t might be 90s, msa.1 to a cat or a dog }; but as it is aia
 only be gwen to another girl.n N day, the sorcerer wentto Rum,ll;. muttered some prayers, dipped 2 1;,'3 saint into water, and directed tbe l's' k light a large fire the next day, to ,s x girl some water, in which tha saI T''7 shoes had been boiled, and to nlsss near the fire, adding, that wbasrs'' first sit down op the chair was N
 that had bewitehed the girl. and s
 means of curing her was to bs.
 son well, and even give her
 These directions were exeeutsd 1I] morning, and it so happened tbattbs
 Modion came in, and sat down hv K Rumillier and his son, obeyina tbs k lions of Crochet, seized her and bs.'1 well. and finding the patient Orev k ter, the son kicked her out of tb. and beat her severely with a seF9 poor woman was afterwards fonDI|]| bottom of a rayine, called fine a2 Coinbe, 9 or 30 feet deep she vas7 up, covered with blood. and c.,, s neighboring stable. The neyi dssl children went to convey her homo, K expired before she reached it. R,,a his son, and the soreerer Brocbet. a1 consequence arraigned, a few days aM fore the Court of Assises at Greaoa| the charge of murdering the widow Nd Several witnesses spoke to the viiole1 the beating given to the deceased m miller, junior and one deposed 10 k seen her thrown down the Grande G by two men, one of whom was the prisoner. Other witnesses declared they heard the deceased state that th thor of her sufferings was the son, R Her. In {he course of the evidenced peared that the whole village regards death of this poor creature as blessi Providence, and that the Mayor of 1 noz so fully believed she was witch he refused to make minutes of her \ death. Against RumillieF, senior, no a was established. The son, iu his red >;ihie tic affair. affair evidently acted under iilei ence of brotherly affection, and ju fuH suasion of his sister being bemtebAs| the deceased. Crochet betrayed also3 conviction in the efficacy of his cuF means, and pretended that he ohA scribed baths and prayers. The ea for the prisoners argued that the n had not been proved, and called upa9 Court 10 give to that part of the couHf blessings of education, and not the sH of a sentence. The jury brought n { dict of Not Gully in favor ot RuaI| senior. and of Gully of wounds and b1 only, against the other two prisoners which Rumillier junior, was sen'sns n two years, and Brochet to l5 months prisonment.-Fr French paper'