Show o Witchcraft in Salem Salem Letter in the Washington Star Perhaps Salem is best known all over the country by the very thing which Fhe least d < riivs to have remembered the witchcraft delusion of 1692 Fw of the buildings by which Salem is linked to this grat tragedy remain the ite of tljo coiit house is still pointpd out zinc Gillov hill lies on the outskirts of the city lS of old but times changes hiv > swept away all the impjrtant buildings irduding the old jail on St Peter street Two houses still standing on Essex street are remotely connected with the delusion the home of Shat tuck the dyer who figured in the trials and the Roger Williams house nearly opposite Thc latter dating from 1635 IF the oldest house in Salem and was th > dwelling of Roger Williams before his fro thinking and free speaking olhged him to flee to Rhode Island in the dead of winter Subsequently it became ths residence of Judge Jonathan Jona-than Corwin of witchcraft notoriety and from the tradition that some of I the preliminary examinations were House held there it is often called the Witch |