Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — ARRESTED FOR WITCHORAFT. [ARTICLE]

ARRESTED FOR WITCHORAFT.

Mrs. Punic, of New York City,; and Mine. Murri.il, Elmira, N. Y., wbo huvo been telling fortunes at Wilmington, Dei., for a week, were arrested Tuesday, charged with witdieraft. They were' held f< r a hearing. The penalty for tho offense it otio year's imprisonment, one I cur in the pillory and $10) lino, but tho pithily is omitted in the ca3o of a woman. The law is a very old one, and this is tho first time the present authorities remember that an effort has been made to have It onforcedThe women were not put into, cells, as both liavo young cniidreu, who could not bo loft alone, Mme. Merrill was so frightened when the warrant was read to her that she fainted and had to be cared for.