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...editorial of the CRIMSON for Friday, March 16, there is reference made to the burning of witches in Salem. This is not the case. They were hanged. The legend that they were burned is very widespread, and the knowledge that one is from Salem always elicits the reply: "O, that's where they burned the witches!" It is bad enough to have put the unfortunates out of the way anyhow, without being charged with burning them. This story is one that will be met with at every turn, and which should be as often contradicted. MALCOLM B. JONES...
...Johnson laid the "Cock Lane ghost" by showing that some one who had learned the dangerous minimum of fact was playing upon the credulity of the public. So completely did the Salem witches take in the hardheaded Puritans, that they were placed in the fire to drive out the evil spirits. Mary Ellen of Nova Scotia kept sophisticated newspaper readers undecided between belief and scorn. And more recently a nurse caused gray bearded doctors to shake their puzzled heads at her steadily maintained temperature of 114 degrees until the hoax was discovered in the form of a hot water bottle...
Carter White, of Salem...
...crowded court-room in Salem over eighty years ago the prosecuting attorney, Daniel Webster, pronounced what led to death on the men being tried for the murder of Captain White. His magnetic eloquence always effective, in this case left a profound impression on the minds of his contemporaries in the triumphant climax, "There is no refuge from confession save in suicide and suicide in confession...
Sensational as it is and melodramatic in the extreme, Jesse Murphy's speech ranks with Webster's at the trial in Salem. And the great climax of the nineteenth-century attorney is twisted in the case of the twentieth-century prisoner until the latter finds a refuge not from but in confession...