Finally the three women were arrested and arraigned for the crime of witchcraft. They were unpopular and uncomely women, as Mrs. Upham shows, Mrs. Good having been abandoned by her husband and Mrs. Osburn being a poor unhappy woman, bed-ridden and suffering from nervousness and melancholia.[41] Tituba, the Indian woman, believed in witchcraft herself and had told the children stories of evil spirits until they firmly believed in her unnatural power. On March 1’, 1692, the trial was begun at the meeting house in Salem, before Esquires John Hathorn and Jonathan Corwin. Sarah Good was first examined and denied any communion with evil spirits and affirmed her service of God. No counsel was allowed the prisoners, as this was the custom according to the common law, in capital cases, unless the Court was in doubt, as the Judge was supposed to be the counsel for the prisoner. After having been tormented for some time, and believing her escape to lie only in the conviction of someone else, Mrs. Good accused her co-prisoner, Mrs. Osburn, and she was remanded to jail and Mrs. Osburn was brought before the court. Frail in body and feeble in her intellect, this poor woman, when interrogated by the pompous oracles of the law, could only protest her innocence and deny any communion with evil spirits, or any knowledge of the offense charged against her by her alleged accomplice. After this travesty of a trial, she was again committed to prison, where she was kept heavily chained, from March 7, until May 10’, when she died, her innocent soul being thus forever released from the unnatural and inhuman affliction heaped upon her body by her fellow-beings. The Indian woman, when she was examined, did not deny that the children had been bewitched, but she laid it all to the door of her co-defendants, Mrs. Good and Mrs. Osburn. The girls, when brought before the supposed witches, fell down and shrieked, in their excitement; if the prisoners clasped their hands, they screamed that they were pinched; when they bit their lips, they in turn, asserted that they were being bitten; they produced pins, which they said the witches had pricked them with and worked upon the morbid imagination of the assembly so that the trials of the witches were little less than a burlesque.[42] Martha Corey was arrested on the 19’ of March, 1692, and the evidence of her husband was used against her, to the effect that she had taken his saddle to keep him from attending church; that she sat up late at night and frequently kneeled on the hearth, as if in prayer, but uttered no word; that certain of his cattle had been afflicted and that one of their cats had had a fit. On such evidence as this, this good woman, was adjudged guilty and was one of the eight persons executed on the 22’ of September.[43]