The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-04

children, all OF them, to look upon her,
and sec II this were the person that hurt
them; and SO they all did look upon her,
and said this was one of the persons that
did torment them. Presently they we're
all tormented.
Sarah Good, DO you not see what
you have done? Why do you not tell
us the truth Why do you thus tor
ment these poor children?"
do not torment them"
Who do you employ then ?"
l employ nobody; l scOrn it. J."
How came they thus tormented ?"
What do 1 know? You bring 9th
ers here, and now you charge me with
it."
Why, who was it,"
&" do not know, but it was some one
You brought into the meeting house with
you"
1--WE brought you into the meeting
house"
But you brought in two more"
Who was it then that tormented the
children P'
cit was Osburn."
"What is it you say when you go
muttering away from peoples houses 2"
Eff 1 must tell, will tell"
Do tell u.s."
"Then if I must tell, will tell it is
the commandments. l may say my
commandments, | hope"
"What commandment is ftp"
&C If / must tell you, 1 will tell-it is a
psalm9'
What psalm o. (After long time
she muttered over some part of a
psalm.)
" Whom dOyou serve?'
"The God that made heaven and
earth Though she was not wiling to
mention the word God. Her answers
were in a very wicked, spiteful manner
rejecting and retorting against the su-
thOrity, with base and abusive words,
with many lies she was taken in. 1t
was alleged that her husband had said
that he was afraid she either was a
witch, or would be one very quickly.
The worshipful Mr.. Hathorne asked
him why he said so of her-whether he
had ever seen any thing By her. he
answered: "No, not in this nature >
but it was her bad carriage to him,
land indeed" saith he, "I may say
with tears, that she is an enemy to all
good"
This examination, closed here, speaks
for itself as to its candOr and justice.
But upon the whole, it may be said
with truth, that the appearance of ''the
wOrshipful Mr.. Hathorne" in this pas
sage, and his demeanOr toward the poor
person before MIN, was in no wise essen
TALLY different from his exhibition of
himself, in all the preliminary examina-
tiOns. His assumption of the prisoners
guilt, his leading questions his brutal
dealing with numbers of the accused
made the Investigations a farce. The
accused persons, in all the trials, never
had any counsel, never had any method
of presenting their side of a story in
open court as can be determined. And
almost all we know concerning those
who were arraigued is from adverse
sources.
The prisoner Good was removed to
make room for Sarah Osburn. This
was bedridden woman, with two sons.
Her second marriage, to O5burn, had
been unhappy, and trouble had dis
tracted her mind. She had once held
reputable position socially, but having
become the subject of scandal, was
good subject for the "afflicted to
pitch upon.
Her examination is preserved in full,
but cannot be given. She denied, as
Good had done, all the contract with
the Devil, and that she hurt the chill
dren, or employed any one to hurt them,
declared that she had not seen Sarah
Good for two years and in reply to
that wOman's accusation, said, 81 do
not know that the Devil goes about in
my likenesn to do any hurt"
The children stood up and looked at
her, and said this was one that did
af1lict them they had constantly seen
her with the very habit she then had
on. Her husband and others stated
that she had not been at meeting for
three years aud two months. No
strange matter, as a charitable mind
will think, for bedridden person.
Goody Osburn being taken out, the
Indian slave Tltuba was brought for
ward. At first she too denied all famil-
iarity with evil spirits, or that she hurt
the children. She said, indeed, that
the Devil came to her, and bid her
serve him, and that she had seen four
woman sometimes hurt the children.
Two of them she named, GOody Osburn
and Sarah Good. These two, she de-
clared, wished her to hurt the children,
but she had refused. She had seen,
also, a tall man from Boston. All three
had told her to hurt the children, but
she would not.
A deposition made by the Rev. Mr..
Paris is preserved-that during all
these days Eizabath Paris, Jr., Ann
Putnam, and Elizabeth Hubbard were
tormented, and that wnen Tituba con-
FruuaI thaTy mara oil To VIC
that Tituba herself, when she began to
confess, was very much afflicted. She
accused Good and Osburn of doing
this to her. OF these three prisoners,
Mrs. Osburn died in Jail, May 16.
months, and was then sold to pay her
Jail fees, and Sarah Good was hanged.
At the close of these examinations,
ninty-uine out of every hundred per-
sons in the community had been swept
into the torrent of delusiOn and alarm.
The physicians had given in their opin-
ion. The ministers had approved it.
The Rev. Mr.. Paris was making it the
topic of prayers and preaching Sunday
by Sunday The girls were suffering
more and more keenly, and the convie-
ton that the authors of the mischief
must be found out and put away became
very strong. Thus the time drew near
for accusations of more reputable per-
sons. Solicitude to know who were the
two other women making up the four
grew to be intense. When every thing
was ready, the girls began to give out
significant descriptions, aud then to call
names. The third victim selected was
Martha Corey, third wife of Giles Corey,
a man eighty years of age. Mrs. Corey
was a member of the church, who had
not favored these proceedings, going so
far, indeed, as to express a lack of faith
III the children. In this season of ex-
element, she had, however, renewed
her prayers, spending hours in devo-
ton Her husband being carried away
with the deIusions, she even tried to
keep him back from the gatherings at
the village. All this was doubtless
known there certainly it had been given
out that soon some persons in great re-
Not far from Dover lies the little
town of Shrewsbury, then a quiet ham
let, now invaded by the cottages and
villas of Long Branch pie asure- seekers.
Here lived Taber Chadwick, brother in