Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — BURNED FOR A WITCH [ARTICLE]

BURNED FOR A WITCH

Urn. Cleary’H Husband amt Father and Eight Others Held for Her Murder. A New York World cable from Waterford, Ireland, March 26, says: Ten pris>nors were arraigned at Clonmel, to-day, ind held for trial on the charge of murlering Cleary, the victim's liusDand and father being among the accused. Tho evidence showed that Mrs. Cleary was suffering from nervousness and brondiitls, and that her husband, believing ler to lie bewitched, forced a nauseous lecoction of herbs down her throat for :ho purpose of exorcising tho evil spirit, tfter tills tlie woman was held over a ire and dreadfully burned, until she de:lared in tho namo of God that she was lot Cleary’s wife. This torture was repeated on tlie following day, and in the ind her husband knocked her down, tore iff her clothing, poured paraiine over her Jody and lighted it, and tlie woman turned to death In the presence of her Flatives. Cleary claims that ho was not Jurning his wife, but a witch. The prisnarrowly escaped lynching at the Jands of the crowd in and about the ;ourt room, and had to bo taken to jail luder a strong escort.