In the case of that lovely and venerable matron, Rebecca Nurse, the jury at first brought in the verdict "Not guilty." But immediately all the accusers in the Court, and all the "afflicted" out of it, made a hideous outcry.

Two of the Judges said they were not satisfied.

The Chief-Justice intimated that there was one admission of the prisoner that the jury had not properly considered.

These things induced the jurors to go out again, and come back with a verdict of "Guilty." One of the charges against Rebecca Nurse, testified to by Edward Putnam, was that, after the said Rebecca Nurse had been committed to jail, and was thus several miles distant in the town of Salem, "she, the said Nurse, struck Mistress Ann Putnam with her spectral chain, leaving a mark, being a kind of round ring, and three streaks across the ring.

She had six blows with a chain in the space of half-an-hour; and she had one remarkable one, with six streaks across her arm.