Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1912-01-19
Az TER Wit cheat
LIES in WAIT With
SOLID GOLD BULLET. NJ
II lex Has Caused Various Kinds q,
Woe Ia Tumbling Run Valley and s h.
Can't Be Killed With ordi- III
AZ nary Ammunition, 1.

E}t7 At Tunbling Run vail ey, near POtts-.s
vile . family is lying in watt
for a witchcat with / q gun loaded
with a solid gold! bullet, and has also
Iput a itchcat- eating cat on the'
trail Of the q lex, a or Witchcat. This
lWitchcat appeared at the home OF.
Howell Thomas, some weeks ago. It,f
was always seen at four o'clock I'M
the morning proving around the.
barnyard and it is said n to N have,
grown until 1t was four feet long
1t is averred that the hens began;
1 growing like ROSTERS and the pigs.
barking like dogs, and this first evis
dence that something was wrong was
followed by horses, cattle, poultry
and even people pining away AM and
dying II VII h
The climax came when Il 4 Howell:
Thomas himself died. Two daughters,
We're left a spinster, \ the other
married. The former charged the lat,
4 ter with having put, the t'hex witchA
cat" on the property, and II at the
funeral the two had q grieYous clash!
/ for the unmarried sister tried to ex-;
pei from the house the III married
"witch-send Ter. s: II, NJ n
!: The Thomases had been shooting
at the hex and though their aim
ordinarily was good, they seemingly
could not hit the strange cat. After
her fathers death, Miss Thomas held
4 a conference with an unknown witch
doctor and announced that it had
1 been revealed that the reason the
4 bullets had not been effective was be-
cause they were lead. She followed
directions and nodded a solid 81. gold
bullet out Of a five-d dollar gold piece.
q But when the magic bullet was in
y the gun ready for use, the cat failed
4 Ito reappear Miss Thomas and the
neighbors have lain in wait for the
hex but all in vain. Some declare
\ its absence due to the fact that too
{ many people have been wearing
| Ecrucifixes and talismans to protect
I themselves. d The affair became So
\ mysterious that the PottsvilIe Repub
II lican editorially asked ri complete
& investigation u 5,ts
4 5 The latest turn to the my s teriioxs
q ease, u AOWttGT,sfIS Inc NfUSL=J lnJGr6Et
: ing Of al AZ black eat owned by: a
!. schuylkill Haven man has been found
u by the n hex doctors to he q t..hexa
II hemeron cat This cat lis Baia Il
a have been born on the 9th day d
the sixth month in 1906, and to hay.
4 been one of q Hitter OF sig kittens
! VII was blind only SIX days al tel. be
a ing born whereass all ordinary cat,
n are blind nine days The wore
], Ehexahenneron IL is Il taken Ri from it,wt
, Greek words, hex and a GENERA
and means a completion iii six parts
Il isE usually used in referring to til.
six days abor Of Creation, as de
~ sc ribed IN the first ehapt of Genesis
While, a there are only I've books ii
Moses in the authorized Bible, til,
d hex doctors declare they have
5& sixth n book of Moses. IN this book TIL,
witch Of Endor aseribes f,lll power t,
y the shexahenaeron eat il warding Of
evil spells. "a
It was declared that the .pshex cat
had beyond B doubt an Il engagement
d with the evil one, Whereby ii had i'm
parted to it an imp, or spirit. M,
I schuylkillI Haven cat has never eatel
nythings hut 81 toada. Il ,ffrogs, \ lizard
and serpents. and the hex doctor
& agreed that its presence win restor
1 q the Thomas homestead To q nonma
I condi tiDn.