This was considered a marvelous proof; and produced a wonderful effect upon the magistrates and the people.

Mistress Ann Putnam went into such great bodily agony at this time, charging it all upon the prisoner, that the magistrates gave her husband permission to carry her out of the house.
Only then, when no longer in the sight of the prisoner, could she regain her peace.
"Mistress Nurse was then recommitted to the jail in Salem, in order to further examination." "What deviltry is coming next ?" said Joseph Putnam to his friend.
Many of those around glared on the speaker, but he was well known to all of them as a daring--and when angered even a desperate young man--and they allowed him to say with impunity, freely what no one else could even have whispered.

His son in after years, looked not into the wolf's eyes in the dark den with a sterner gaze, than he looked into the superstitious and vengeful wolves' eyes around him.
"To think that a godly old woman like Mistress Nurse, should be tormented by this Devil's brood of witches, led on by that she-devil sister of mine, Ann Putnam." Many around heard him, but none cared to meet the young man's fierce eyes, as they blazed upon those that were nearest.
"Do control yourself, my friend," whispered Master Raymond.

"Preserve yourself for a time when your indignation may do some good." Then the constable brought in a little girl of about five years of age, Dorcas Good, a daughter of Sarah Good, who had been arrested on the complaint of Edward and Jonathan Putnam.
The evidence against this little girl of five was overwhelming.

Mistress Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott were the accusers--charging the innocent and pretty little creature with biting, pinching and choking them--the little girl smiling while they were giving their testimony.