The Death of a Man in Hadley

The winter after mary's return from boston, philip smith began to look ill. He had frequent seizures and seemed delirious most of the time. The people caring for him were deeply concerned. Some young men in town had a theory that they needed to give it a test. They thought mary webster was behind the man's illness. In their minds, there was only one way to find out. One of the men stayed with smith, while the others went to mary's home. Three or four times, they knocked on her door and bothered her,. thinking that if she was indeed casting a spell over smith, this would break her concentration. And