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Show TO PRISON FOR WITCHCRAFT Canadian Authorities Revive Ancient Statute That Will Appear Absurd to Modern Understanding. It has been a little moro than 200 years slnco anyone was convicted of witchcraft on this continent, says tho Columbus Dispatch, and we supposed thnt thcro would novcr again bo any moro convictions. But It seo.ms that such prosecutions havo been revived, for hero comes a report from a Cnnn-dlan Cnnn-dlan court to tho c.4cct that a young woman over thcro has lately been sentenced sen-tenced to prison for "practicing witchcraft," witch-craft," for all tho world llko the accusations ac-cusations thnt used to bo died against penplo In this country. Tho young woman In this case claimed to be ablo to tell who committed commit-ted a ccrtnln theft In her neighborhood. Sho snld a farmer's oats had been stolen by n man and a boy; that they drovo a hnv mare, and nroceeded west- ward after tho robbery, nnd that they would bo found at a certain place, about 40 miles away. Tho officers found her story to bo true, and arrested ar-rested tho parties who robbed the fnrmer, but as the young woman who gnvo the Information was In no position po-sition to know tho facts sho related except through communing with "the spirits," pcoplo began talking about her being a witch, with tho result thnt an ancient stntuto was Invoked nnd tho girl prosecuted and sent to Jail for her pnlns In nldlng tho officers of tho law. If It wero not all duly recorded record-ed In tho newspnpers wo could not believe be-lieve It. |