Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 17: A Monthly Magazine; Organ of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations of Zion; July, 1896 This appears to have been the first instance in which a person charged with witchcraft had friends who' possessed the sense, courage and knowledge necessary to enable them to offer effective evidence for the defense, and the trial jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.