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Show 'WITCH' CURSED HER BABY. MOTHER SAYS IN COURT NEW YORK, Dei 28. Echoes of Puritans nays resounded within the walls 01 ashlngtpn Heights court .Monday .Mon-day when s reams of "Witch Witch! Bbe'S a WltCh!" Were hurled at Mrs i Bessie Avorln l She appeared as a complainant 'against Mrs. Sophb Stern, whom she charged with having publicly de- I nounee.l 1., , with iii inn cos : 1.. s. I but suddenly she. turned defendant when Mrs. st-rn came t court with jher two-year-old daughter who had been cursed, she said, by Mrs. Avorln. and had lost the power of her leps. ' L'p to a COlfple of months 11(50," 'said Mrs. Stern while her sympathizers booed Mrs. Averln, "my baby was i strung and healthy. Then this woman wen! and cursed It. Your Honor, that I woman Is a witch. Two hundred years j ago she WOUld haev ben burned at the stake." "The witch' The witch' " yell.d the woman spectators. I Rang, went the masistrate's gavel. I Then he dismissed the summons against Mrs. Stern for lack of evidence. |