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Show epiECED WITCHES ARE Hi GARROTEDJN HAVANA Convicted of Killing White Baby to Get Heart for it. Ponltire. U I HAVANA. Jnn -Dnmlnpn RocourL an oid negro, and Victor Mullna, a mulatto, were garrotc-d nt the prison here today Both men witi regarded as "witches'- hv i i their associates Their crime was the n t hideous murder of a white baby. Zolla u Diaz, for the purpose of procuring th X heart of a white female child which th v . "witches" prescribed as a poultice for a I certain woman as a cure for barrenness. The child's body was found smoked and t wilted weeks after the crime Execution Is Prompt The executions passed off promptly f There, was no special Incident .ind no wft- nessr-s excepting ih... . ..ftVlalh designated desig-nated to he present. A dozen other men and women an imprisoned In connection with I ho crime |