Show CATHERINE HARRISON WITCH A paper on alie witch lore of connecticut dr C J hoadly read paper on catherine harrison witch at a meeting of tho connecticut historical society dr hoadly eaid that while catherine JI arrison was not executed two were executed for witchcraft in connecticut and othera hront whom thero bo some doubt this community was not swept by tho superstition as acro parts of massachusetts but tewo those hero who held to it catherine II arrison aras a bouso servant befaro her ni arriage and ono of the daughters of tho lionso sho worked enado catli that ablio waa notorious liar a sabbath breaker and a fortune teller tho depositions eaid tho had caused to como people to others had au unholy over eai 1 l becu ecchio appear ns y calf and change back to bor own shape and that her form or face had frequent ly bcd at peoples bedsides and other unlikely pl acs at this trial she was cot convicted sho was arrested again in may and again committed to jail at tho following term of coart sho aca indicted pleaded not guilty and was tried before a jury this jury then failed to agree and sho was remanded to jail until court should convene again in tho fall at that terra tho jury rendered a verdict 0 guilty but tho court was not satisfied it obtained an export opinion on witchcraft from somo ministers and still not being satisfied referred tho matter to tho general court sho remained in prison until may 1 G 70 when the general court released her on tho payment of tho just fees of tho trial and on condition she should leave the state catherino Cath crino left the state and went to N Y but her reputation preceding her tho inhabit ants complained to tho governor for time she was placed under bonds for good behavior she was afterward released hartford times dr paid as little heed to tho dictum of the rhetoricians that a sentence should not end with a preposition or other important word as did the other author of n work on rhetoric who laid down the rule A preposition should not bo used to end a sentence dr hollee ended not only sentences but chapters with prepositions and other insignificant words for example chapter 0 of elsie vennar the words attend to and chapter 12 of the same novel ends with the words die of boston transcript |