Show WITH THE AID OF SORCERY women of sardinia thought they had a chance to recover a burled buried treasure an old sardinian woman named anna romano has been arrested at sassari bassari charged with obtaining money under false pretensions the italian penal codo code has no provision dealing with magic and consequently when anna romano was surprised at midnight by the police surrounded by several women holding torches over a hole she had excavated in the courtyard ot of a house despite the fact act that the women was openly engaged in magical practices sha was accused of swindling money from the credulous torch bearers the women admitted that they had given the sorceress money and all opposed her arrest as they were convinced she wa was on the point of 0 discovering great treasure the police do not believe in treasures however and very likely anna romano will be sentenced to a long term ot of imprisonment strange as it may seem the existence of the treasure Is corroborated by tact fact anna romano Is in possession of 0 a document written in the sixteenth century in which it is related that a wealthy woman 0 of sassari bassari Sas sari tearing fearing a french invasion bid all the money jewels and plate she bhe owned in a secluded place this woman was subsequently murdered and tier body was buried in the courtyard of her house A faithful servant knew that her mistress wore around her neck a locket containing the document with the description of the place where the treasure had been hidden when anna romano was arrested she had bad just discovered the corpse cor apse of the murdered woman and the locket with the secret document the police found the locket but not the document new york sun |