WITCHBAITSNG
SHOCKING STORY EROM WESTPHALIA.
BRIDE TORTURED TO DEATH,
(Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, January 11. (Received Jan. 12, at 5,5 p.m.) A strange witchbaiting case resulted in a peasant bride of three weeks being tortured to death at Haltern, in Westphalia. The young girl was married at Christmas and brought to hosptial suffering grievous injuries. When dying she said that her husband and his family had caused them, as a fortune-teller pointed her out as the witch who had caused cattle plague on her father-in-law’s farm. She was therefore locked up, and was beaten, starved, and slowly tortured to death. The fortune-teller and tho husband’s family have been arrested. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19996, 13 January 1927, Page 9
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