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Susannah Martin, the Salem fathers believed, was every inch a witch. She sent the devil into cattle, raised phantom puppies and came into the house dry out of a drenching rainstorm. She was therefore hanged on Gallows Hill in 1692, the year of the great Salem witch trials...
Last week, acting on the petition presented by a descendant of Ann Greenslade Pudeator, another victim of Salem's witch-hunting elders, the Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill reversing the convictions of Ann, Susannah and four other women-Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Reed-who were hanged for witchcraft...
...three sat listening to the speeches very carefully. Fletcher mentioned "Witch-hunters and red-baiters," and Robertson turned to the bald man and grinned...
...overzealous amateur "untrained in the use of proper investigative techniques, may constitute a serious menace to civil rights . . . . Patriotism and zeal cannot compensate for a lack of detailed, technical knowledge . . . . The work of the vigilante too often deserves the label "Witch Hunt"; the work of the fifth columnist needs no label. Let us beware of both." J. EDGAR HOOVER...
...would undercut the implementation of justice altogether in making the defendant the judge of the competence of the court. Rather, it is a revision of the procedures of trial and investigation in which miscarriages of justice occur, and the institution and improvements of methods of appeal, review, and redress. Witch trials and kangaroo courts are bad. So are the methods of some authorized forms of investigation. But no broader principle of immunity will make them better. They themselves must be eliminated or set right...