The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-06-02
DEVILS HIDE WHEN
CHARMING WOMAN
GOES AFTER Them
yellow Powder and Weird In
carnations Are Among Her
Methods of Healing
Disease.

N NV iork, June Mrs. Carmelo
Heubino, Of No. 30 Grand street. is a
charming woman. If witnesses who
testified in Jefferson Market smoke
truly, she can charm devils" out of
your house, disease out of your body
ana money out of your pocketbook--
mostly the latter. In short, Mrs. Ru-
olno is accused of being the most sue
cessrul exponent of modern witchcraft
now practicing sorcery in New York
Mrs. Rubino was arrested on COM
plant OF the Medical society, and Mrs.
Leonora Buffano, of No. so Wallace
ave-, Jersey City, was the PRINCIPAL
witness against her.
Mrs. Buffano said she first visited
the seeress about March 1, and asked
10 be cured of stomach trouble.
according to her affidavit, Mrs. Ru-
pino rubbed yellow powder on her
chest, muttering strange lamentations
the while, among which the only dis
tinguishable words were 1920 please"
MRS. Buffano said she paid the $40
and two days later received a return
call from the wizardess at the WITCH
ing hour Of midnight. in her Jersey
City home.
Her House "FulI Of Devils"
After weird conversation with the
unseen, according to the testimony,
| AsoOiho ucCldTtu the mousse WAS
''full of devils" To be rid of them.
Mrs. Buffano must put $55 in a pan
and cover the money with sand. It
was done with great solemnity and
awe, and the seeress, according to Mrs.
Bufano, took the pan away, promising
to bury 1t in vacant lot. The devils
would follow the money, she said.
AND, sure enough, after that night,
there were no more devils in the house.
But the illness Of Mrs. Buffano con-
tinued, and three or four days later
she again visited Mrs. Rubino. This
time there was more yellow powder,
Dut the seance was completed with a
wonderful ceremony Of tying blue
ribbon around Mrs. Buffano's left leg.
twenty dollars more, please. And Mrs.
tBuffano was invited to call again.
She testified that when she did so.
the seeress informed her that her eld-
est son would soon be arrested on a.
charge OF murder, unless a charm
worth $35 was purchased right away.
Mrs. Buffano bought the charm. And
sure enough, her son was not arrested
for murder.
Her faith In the sorceress thus fully
JUSTIFIED, Mrs. Buffano was sufficiently
alarmed when, according to her testi-
mony. Mrs. Rubino paid her another
visit and impaired the tidings that the
entire Buffano family was about to be
stricken with a fatal disease. Mrs.
Buffano says she paid $40 for each Of
her six children to be saved from this
calamity. She received six powders,
with Instructions to rub them on the
heads Of the children.
Witchcraft obviously was doing so
much for the family that Leonard Buff
fano decided to accompany his wife on
visit to the charmer, to see IL she
could cure his rheumatism. He says
he, too, was rubbed with yellow powder
$50 worth. But he did not know
what Mrs. Rubino discovered through
his visit.
She wouldn't tell him, either. She
told Mrs. Buffano. He was going to
desert his family-that is, unless he
was charmed out of the notion.
This was hard one, though. Yellow
powder wouldn't do it. According to
the testimony, the sorceress clipped
the finger nails Of the clients right
hand, wrapped the clippings in a $40
and tied the package with shreds from
Mrs. Buffano's clothing. 1t was then
deposited In mystic urn, and
Well did Mr.. Buffano desert his fam
lily? He did not. When he heard about
what he had escaped he gave the sor-
ceress $40 bonus for her good work.
Girl Died, Despite Her.
A week later Mrs. Rubino informed
Mrs. Buffano, the latter testified, that
she must drive an aged relative, Car
mela Palermo, from her home, and all
the sickness would disappear This
advice, the witness said, cost her $50.
And then she had to buy charm
worth $55 to prevent the devils from
returning.
Seeing that they did not return
Leonard Buffano readily paid the sor-
ceress $25 In tips" in appreciation Of
her great services to his family.
But then Mrs. Conchetta Spenella's
daughter became i'll, and the Spen-
elias being neighbors of the Buffanos
Mrs. Buffano advised visit to Mrs.
Rubino.
After several treatments, according
to the testimony, the girl died, and in
stantly everybody concerned lost faith
in Mrs. Rubino's charms. They say
they demanded some Of their money
back, and were warned that spell
would be cast on them If they told the
police But they did tell the medical
society, which amounted to the same
thing.
Now I understand why they used to
burn witches" remarked Magistrate
Kernochan, who held the Rubino
woman under $500 bond for trial