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...farmers belittled the whole affair-"bitch witches" sneered one; "get her a man and the wench'll settle down," laughed another. Oddly enough, those who had expressed their skepticism were among the next to be accused. Named among the new witches were John Procter, who had cured his maid's fits by plumping her down at a spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there sits Goody Cory...
...minister, finding only a cook and a maid at her residence, forthwith made plans for hiring a butler, a chef, an assistant chef, a parlor maid, a chambermaid and a personal maid, and announced that she was ready to give a few parties to further international understanding. Said she: "I came for service." Unfortunately, Grand Duchess Charlotte was out of the country, shooting grouse in Scotland, so the new minister could not even present her credentials...
Thin, bristling Police Commissioner Jean Eglenne of Cannes announced importantly: "We must reconstruct the crime." The criminals were still at large, but the victims willingly played their parts. The tubby Aga Khan, his pretty wife, a maid and chauffeur trooped out of the Aga's villa at Le Cannet, near Cannes, and showed just what had happened in the Riviera sunshine one day last week...
...Hisses had said that in 1937 they had given it to Pat Catlett, son of their Negro maid. Well, then, how did State Department documents get typed on it in 1938? "The Catletts didn't know how to type. And the Catletts didn't know Chambers...
...might, the defense was never able to get rid of that typewriter. It had called Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, the Hisses' onetime Negro maid, to testify that the Hisses had given the machine to her sons, had tried to show that the machine was not in the Hiss household when the treasonous act was committed. But neither Clytie Catlett and her sons, uncertain witnesses at best, nor the Hisses were able definitely to remember just when the Catletts got the machine. Pat Catlett remembered that when he got it, he took it forthwith to a typewriter repair shop...