Word: crone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GEORGE J. CRONE...
...This forms "the strangest enigma that ever faced a court of law," says Lawyer Barrett R. Wellington of Troy, N. Y. in The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning, a book which is both a mystery story and a case history in the perilous science of evidence. Wellington doubts that the crone had an enchanted broomstick. He thinks she was twins. The Lord Mayor and the twelve good men & true were "fuddled, deceived, duped, gulled, hoodwinked and lamentably humbugged by a pack of clever gypsies...
...Jones. She claimed that she was seized by two ruffians, robbed, dragged to a bawdyhouse where a gypsy hag with a nightmare face ripped her stays (value: 10/) from her, locked her up in the loft. There Elizabeth languished until she escaped through a boarded window. The gypsy crone was tried before the Lord Mayor of London, condemned to the gallows...