1958-11-01 — Page 17

Strange Story

Of

A Voodoo Devotee

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By a Special Correspondent

SINISTER link with voodooism in a modern civilised community has been uncovered by an investigation into the deaths of two men, a woman and a child in the town of Macon, about a hundred miles southeast of Atlanta, capital of the State of Georgia in the U.S.A.

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Accubed is a buxom 32-year. omong the plantatons of the old widow, Annette Donovan 50uthern states of the U.S.A Lyle, who ran a respectable restaurant by day, and by night dabbled in the mystic realm of voodoo charms, potions, apelia and fothes, She has been charged with the murder of two husbands, her daughter, aged nine, and tho mother-in-law of her deceased spouses.

Ant polson

with an arsenic base is said to have been the agency by which the victims were sent to their graves, Four bottles of it were found in her home, together with weird collection of items Associated with the cult of voodon-worship and Its supposedly magical

practices.

Voodoolsm, a degraded form of religion, is not something you would expect to find in a town like Macon, though at one time it had its ominous place

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It is more closely associated with Haiti, in the Caribbean, where it was introduced long ago by slaves recruited to Dahomey in West Africa. It is a role of the fetishist religion of the equatorial ben of the African continent, and its name' is considered to have derived from vaudouz ("negro sorcerer"), a Creole form of the French term Vaudits. The Vaudois were religious mect, also known

Waldenses, founded in the French clty of Lyons in the 12th contury, and represented by their enemies as being addicted to sorcery and necromancy, or the allegat práctico of revealing future events by summoning up and questioning to spirits of the drad.

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MIKE HAWTHORN THE NEW CARS

REPORTS ON

My moment of

DON'T know whether you

have ever noticed, but rain doesn't seem at all wet at 100 miles. an hour.

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Each drop is a tiny glittering entity of its own as it skitters across the wind- screen. The arc of spray from your front wing is na solid and unchanging as silver filigree.

The drumming of the wind, the din of the engine, the feeling of being as vividly alive and alert an a sparrow on a lawn.all these things go to make a happy, lonely moment.

There are people who would stop all these. They would, so I read, have us all, plodding along at he more than 50 miles an hour.

If they get their way then 1 would strongly, advise you not to buy the ear in which I went rocketing, through the main the other day, the new twin cam M.G.A.

For this, is not the vehicle for old women of any age of either

sex.

Impressive

Admittedly it-ip as docile as

wheels trouble. Good

ecstasy-at 100 m.p.h.

Mest, the now. twin-cam M.G.A.

and go sliding into ample visibility but a minimum of fresh air. I can also show as the suspension is, you the, scars on my hands from a dormouse in traffle, granted the performance could put the wrying to open the doors through that it is pleasing and easy to over-confident in the nearest the side screens. handle for the wife who sneaks ditch, away in it to do the shopping. But fundamentally, it is design- ed for fast motoring..

IL is BIL honest-to-goodness sports car. After all, it is very

Handsome

chase

This is a happy and graceful car, but not without a fault or two. The engine is extremely nolsy, reminiscent on occasion (of a demented sewing machine, The windscreen wipers are not their job. ·Auto-.

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or blinking at 60 mph. nary M.G.A.. without the extra wants them

happily away ages after one has

ACCELERATION: 0-30 m.ph., power.

rounded the corner,

2.55sec.;0-80.8.4sec.

Apart from the more power- ful engine, the disc brakes, and different wheels, the new M.G. is the same as the M.G.Ag

And there Le no ash tray at alter

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Voodoolsm as introduced by slaves from Dahomey was for merly very prevalent i22 the densely-wooded mountains and valleys of Haiti, which was the lal of buccaneers in the carly

I wouldn't like my feenage really up to part of the 17th century and which was subsequently д closely related to the M.G, son, if I had one, to French colony until the negroes which did some record-breaking around in revolted there and established

America a short time ago. in on Independent republic

As a sports car I lested it 1804.

savagely, for the small vices and By then voodooisin had taken virtues which are unimportant root in the cotton states of as you poodle along a city street

FUEL CONSUMPTION: America, a fearsome cult whose can be vital at high speed.

Apart from theso defects the (Driven very hard) 21 to 24 secret rites were based the what did I find as my speedo-

twin cam M.G. is fun. In the m.p.g. It has the same splendid. worship of the green snake, and meter needle slithered up.

fish and the same handsome wet and in the dry she handled

THE' TECHNICAL: whose dark tenets at one time 116. .116.

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Suspension, front, independent; Chinose Croods & Customs Vol. well Indeed. The acceleration is instruments are clear, although light as it is pig-headedly posit.c.: bhp., 108 at 0,700 t.pm. impressive, so is the stability, I did find that the reflection,

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"The foor-mounted But I would make one re-

gear Now for performance—–—–

GEAR SPEED; Top 117 heavy-footed change is a joy. With the hood servation The could lock the M.G.'s tron and side screens up there is mph; third, 63 m.ph 2nd, 51

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cheerful and happy when the dummy hits the table. He potions and other preparations, beamed and sald, Nice bidding, found during a search of

Mrs Lyles' home in partner!"

The play started out simply enough. Joe weht up with dum ny's see and cashed his ace and king of spaces discarding a club from dummy.

Now he was ready to start ruffing out losers. He ruftfed the three of spades low, returned to

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his hand with the ace of clubs and rufted the nine of clubs with dummy','ɛix spot.

accused

Macon, Georgia, are actually sold in several small shops in that town. Their labels profess that they wil ward of the evil eye," guarantee success affairs of the heart, and so on.

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Among the discoveries in the woman's home were a "Lucky Sweetheart" concoction, a com- "Adam and pound known as

| Eve Oil," recipe for anixture.

"Dragon Blood," and

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All these in a house that was otherwise well-appointed in the (modern serie, and fashionable.

There was also a man's pic- ture-but not as one' might ex-

pect va find it, on side-table, cabinet, mantel-shelf or wall It was led in a sock under Mrs Lyles' bed.

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LOST for nearly 30 years, the gravestone of Daniel Defoe, the

author the London borough of Stoke Newington's most famous citizen-is now safely lodged in the borough's history collection at the central library. The gravestone vanished in 1870 when a more suitable monument was put up by public subscription Charles, Then Mr. at Bunhill Fields, Firway, burial ground, Davey, former member of Stoke Newington's libraries committee, moved to Southampton and notlood the stone lying unnoticed in stone to Stoke Newington Council.

afront garden there. He decided to buy it and presented the

And, before-mentioned, STALWART AGED 90

there were the four bottles of ant polson, arsenic-based.

But, according to the pro- secuting authorities in the State

motive behind Mr Langdon, joined after his shoo shop was bombed during the of Georgia, the the deaths of Mrs Lyles' daugh- war and has been a Civil Defence worker over since. He founded the Ladies Football Club at Portsmouth during the 1914-18 war, mother-in-law and Ler: husbands was not wrapped in and served ten years on Portsmouth City Council. He is the only. mysticism but was dictated by Burvivor of the 61 members of the council in 1914. spite...and greed. in all like-

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hood, they believe, especially TANGA HARRY RETIRES

by greed.

At this point, the roof fell on Inducement-more potent than

him. East overrufted with the more voodoo-warship. queen and, led' attother «trump. Now Joe had to lose his queen

01 clubs and the contract.

As usual' Joe had hard fuck and an usual Joè could have avoided the hard luck by proper play.

Once the ace of clubs held he had a spectacularly, but còm- pletely safe way of playing oul the hand to make his slam. He should have ruffed the nine of clubs with dummy's ace ot trumps. Then back to his own Hand by ruffing's diamond with the king of trumps.

Now he would ruff his queenj of clubs with dummy's six spot aild concedo a trick to the queen of trumps.

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West

The bidding has been:

North Kari Boulia

Double

Pasi 2N.T. Par

↑ You, South, hold: MAJE MEN +976 MK109 ST

What do you do?'

Al-Dia thres-ne-trump. Your. tww ne-icing was a mla Kimaa, but your partner dier not expect you'lo pin on this bidding m↑ qarsion,

· TODAY'S_QUESTION . Your partner har doubled one spade and the next hand – bas passed. You hold;

MAQS VIN QEII AKQJ5

What do you do?

Answer on Monday

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