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WANTED “CONJURE BONES.”Colored Ghouls Deeeontte a Gme to GetBone* For ]icw.Several weeks ago it was announced .that the grave, injwMch-.Sarah~Barlow, an i a£o afe Post Oak Church, Miss., had been desecrated. Recent developments have' led to the arrest of three young colored men for the crime.It turns ont that these ghouls were not after money or hidden treasure, but that they were longing after “conjure bones, ” and bones ont of which to manufacture dice, which are currently]re-ported among a certain class of ignorant negro “crap shooters” as invincible.)The story goes that when they dug in/corpseWithstanding it 'had been buried nearly two years, they took fright *md ran away.The case has attracted considerable attention on aooount of its novelty. It is possibly, the first, one of its -kind ever tried in the state. The colored population are manifesting no little interest in the affair, as most of them have a mortal dread of “conjure bones” or anything pertaining to the “black art. ”—■ Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Morning Telegram
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 16, 1895
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