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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...
...Secretary, Joseph W. Worthes, a Boston attorney held the scholarship from 1910 to 1913 and the three other members Dr. N. L. Crone of Boston, Professor Cook of Middleburg, and Professor Vandergraf of M.I.T. were at Oxford during the twenties...
...have no teeth!" wailed a crone in the congregation...