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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. AUG. 1, 1957 lustice Done After 265JTears Justice has seldom crawled so tortoise-slow as it has done for Goody Ann Pudeator. It has taken just two hundred and sixty-fice years to catch up on Nicknamed "The Hag of Hell" Mother Pudeator was tried and convicted of witchcraft and hanged, to the delight of the men, women, and children of the New England village of Salem, Massachusetts. That was in 1692, when a strange and horrible phenomenon transformed the peaceful life of the colonial village and turned decent, kindly folk into fear-crazed fiends. Before the outbreak ended nineteen victims had been publicly hanged and one pressed to death for refusing to plead. . ■ . Terror stalked throughout the village in that year of horror, for no man or woman was immune from the pointing finger of the accuser. And it was so easy to accuse -- so hard to prove innocence. For Jonathan Corwin, grim, ignorant and superstitious, it was almost enough that the poor trembling wretch before him had been accused at all. (You can still see the little court-house.) But why should a God-fearing, Puritan community of quiet and sober habits suddenly become convulsed by fear of witches and of the presence among them of their master the Devil? You might as well ask why influenza epidemics occur. Hysteria, that strange, uncanny contagious mental disorder, strikes as mysteriously as any virus disease. There were ten nice young girls in Salem in 1692. They went to meeting on Sundays. They knew their Bibles backwards. They feared God and they feared the Devil. They were typical of the Puritan children of New England. But, for a spell at least, they were very different from other children. Their first victim was a guileless old Negro who was servant to the village pastor. Old Tibula was a popular character a decent, friendly man, faithful to his master and pious and sober in his ways. But those virtues did not save him when ten piping voices accused him of bewitching their owners. Very scon after the accusation of Tibula, the same nice little girls claimed to have been bewitched also by two old women. Both strenuously denied the charges, but were fiercely Interrogated and brought to trial. Now began a fantastic landslide of reason. The whole village was seized with witch-hunt mania. The first accusations had been made in May. By August hundreds Of men and women Bad been arrested ecd brought lo trial. Most of them were con-, ricted. Among these, Mother Pudeator, a harmless old woman, went to her doom. The charges levelled by the ; followed a general pat- tern. The witch had caused fowls and cattle to die; had brought disease to the victim; had been seen in talk with the Devil. In the case of Mother Pudeator the charges were exceptionally horrible. She was accused of the most vile crimes, and before her hanging had become known far and wide as Salem's Hag of Hell. Then, when it seemed as though half the people of Salem were either addicted to witchcraft or the victims of it, the governor of Massachusetts decided that it was time to take official action. In May, 1693, he ordered the release from Salem's .overcrowded lock-up of no fewer than four hundred prisoners, all held on charges of witchcraft. This firm action had the immediate effect of curing the people of Salem of their temporary insanity. As mysteriously as Satan had got to' work in the little town, he departed. And so the years rolled on. Then, not so long ago, a film director decided - to make a film. His subject was the witch-hunt mania of old Salem. Its central character, Goody Ann Pudeator. One day, Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts happened to see the film, "Satan in Salem." It made a very deep impression on him. The Senator arranged for his fellow legislators to see the film and then' said: "What we ought to do is to have a re-trial in the light of modern knowledge and on the known facts of the case." At first this seemed a somewhat crazy idea, but it took root and, early this year, the legisla- ■ tors of Massachusetts solemnly re-tried in her unavoidable absence) Goody Ann Pudeator on charges of witchcraft, and duly found her not guilty. Then the Senator drafted a bill declaring Goody Ann Pudeator wrongly convicted of witchcraft. He brought his bill before the Massachusetts State Legislature and it was passed without opposition and to loud cheers. But lawyers pondering this bill began to have doubts about its validity. The State had the necessary power, it was conceded, to legislate upon domestic matters not reserved for Washington. But could it undo by law acts done before there was any such thing as a State Of Massachusetts? For at the time of the Salem witch-hunt, Massachusetts was a British colony. So now Senator Saltonstall is going to take the case to the United Nations General Assembly. Before long, it seems, the cruel injustice done to Goody Ann Pudeator will be hauled out for inspection before the eyes of the modern world. After going about three miles a motorist who had given an old lady a lift on a country road asked: "And where did you say you were going?" "Well," she said, "to tell you, the truth, I was going in the opposite direction, but I didn't like to hurt your feelings when you (Offered me a ride." DO-IT-YOURSELF GLIDER--Here's one glider that won't ha> *iitch a ride from an airplane. The retractable engine makes it 'he only self-launching glider in the world. Ted Nelson, engin-»er-indusfrialist, invented the "Hummingbird" glider. Nelson ihows, upper left, how the engine looks fully extended. At upper right, Nelson starts retraction. At lower left, Nelson has engine in place and, lower right, closes cover to complete quick task. The 40-horsepower engine is used mainly for take-offs but can be restarted in mid-air. The engine for. the $10,000 Hummingbird carries engough fuel for an hour's flight, but uses only about five minutes' worth on a four to six hour hop. ROYAL RACER IN OSLO-Running before a brisk breeze which fills its balloon spinnaker, the yacht Hanko, manned by Norway's Crown Prince Regen Olav and his crew, competes in the annual One Ton Cup race as Oslo. The prince is a sailing enthusiast who takes part in many national and internatioal competitions. He skippered the Hanko to a second-place finish in the race this year. Mel Ott Talks About Old Times A fellow was complimenting Mel Ott. "You were one of the few ball players to come directly into the big leagues from the sandlots," he said to the little man who hit more than 500 home runs for the New York Giants. "Not many made it up here without minor league experience." "Well, I wanted to go to the minors when I first came to the Giants," said Ott, now a play-by-play broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers. "In the beginning, I had no idea I'd stay right there with the Giants until I retired. Of course, I didn't know what Mr. McGraw (manager of the Giants) had planned for me." There must be many pleasant memories of a long career in the National League. "Too many to remember," Mel said, smiling. "It was? a wonderful life. I loved every minute of every inning of every ball game. The only trouble was, they didn't last long enough. It all ended too soon." This from a fellow who lasted for 22 years. "Sometimes you meet somebody who brings back a flock of memories," Ott continued, seriously. "Or you read a name in the paper. Like Paul Waner. 1 read something about him the other day and I immediately thought about the way he could hit that ball. He was a wonder with the bat--could, as they say, thread a needle. "He'd watch you in the outfield while at bat, and if you moved one step in one direction, he'd aim the other way. If I edged a little toward the foul line in right field, he'd shoot for right-center--and he'd hit it a surprisingly high percentage of the time. You couldn't give him' an inch. He stole a lot of base hits that way. "I remember his brother Lloyd Waner, too," Mel said. "He got something like 190 singles one season and more than 230 hits in all. Any ground ball to the infield that bounced twice was a base hit. Travis Jackson was the greatest throwing shortstop I ever saw. He played Lloyd shallow, but still couldn't throw him out. The little guy could fly down that line. "Lloyd and Hughie Critz, who played second base for the Giants, had a home run race every year. It really was funny. Neither one ever hit more than three or four. "Well, with about two and a half months of the season to go. the Cardinals came into the Polo Grounds, with Dizzy Dean pitching. Critz always wore pean out and he hit two into the stands that day. Pittsburgh came into New York after the Cardinals left and Waner paid Hughie off. "I'll never catch you now,' he told Critz. He never did, either. I think Lloyd finished up with one and he got that inside the park." Lefty O'Doul's name was mentioned and Ott continued: "Lefty and I made them change the rules of batting practice. We'd walk up there and hit 20 fouls down the right field line in practice, getting our aim sharp for the game. We'd take up so much time getting cur five hits in safe territory that they finally changed it to five swings for each hitter. "That O'Doul really could 'con' the pitchers. In.those days they threw at you even more than they do today, but if Lefty got a hit the first time up, he'd somehow get near the pitcher and tell him what a great pitch it was and. how lucky he was to get his bat on the ball at all. The next time up it would be the same thing -- a line drive. He was an artist." 'Do As I Say . . .' Presiding at a meeting of the British Automobile Association in London, Prince Philip admonished his wife's subjects for the 800 daily casualties on Britain's roads. "We've got to help drivers be better and safer drivers," he declared. Later that day, while driving Queen Elizabeth II in his dark green 1953 Lagonda sports car to a dinner honoring the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Philip collided with a tiny prewar sedan on the London-Windsor highway near Staines. No one was injured, but the royal roadster had a dented fender and a smashed headlight. "It's all right," Prince Philip shouted to the other driver, Ronald Sutcliffe. "No damage. Don't worry. 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