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...trials, involving 134 witnesses, the hag was clearly proved to have been in a London suburb in January 1753, and at the same time to have been several counties away. 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...
...MYSTERY OF ELIZABETH CANNING-Barretf R. Wellington-J. Ray Peck...
...lead rafters held up the roof), Memorial Hall of the University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire was hit, its headmaster killed. The Archbishop of Canterbury revealed that Lambeth Palace, his London residence, had been demolished several days prior, same day Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords were hit. Day after this announcement, Nazi bombs landed so close to Canterbury Cathedral they shattered...
...More significant was British admission of damage at airports like Farnborough, Maidstone, Manston, Weybridge (home of Vickers Wellington bombers...
...Wellington Sears Co., three other makers or distributors of airplane fabrics (for wings, fuselages, ailerons, etc.) and their officers were indicted for hiking and maintaining identical prices...