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BREAKING NEWS: GIRL INVOLVED WITH SALEM DEATHS SPOTTED IN BARBADOS
Abigail Williams, a 16 year old girl, who has recently run away from her home in Salem, Massachusetts and is responsible for the whirlwind of hysteria in Salem has allegedly been spotted in Barbados. After dozens of people had been put to death by Williams and her posse’s accusations of witchcraft, Deputy Governor Danforth and Reverend Hale have dived deeper into the murky backgrounds of the accusers. The appalling information they found was most likely the cause of the recent squalls happening in Salem. Several weeks prior, Williams and several of her friends had been helping “purge” Salem of witches. If a person was accused of practicing witchcraft, they were brought before the group in court. If Abigail and her minions were to scream and howl up a storm (apparently this equated to being under the spell of the accused) the court would immediately brand them a witch and ship them off to jail. But unbeknownst to the court, the girls were just pretending to be bewitched to conceal that they had been practicing witchcraft themselves that night Abigail’s uncle, Reverend Parris, caught them in the woods. Upon learning that Williams was missing, many people in Salem were in shock; Abigail had been an influential member in society to point where when she walked “the crowd [would] part like the sea for Israel” (Miller 162). However, there were others who had some misgivings about the girl. Hale, an expert on navigating the rocky seas of the concept of witchcraft, claimed that she was “false” from the beginning. The late John Proctor as well, claimed that Williams’s motive was selfish; she wanted to save her already tarnished reputation from the embarrassment and shame of having the community know of her affair with him and the desire to see his wife dead.
Originally Danforth had looked upon these misgivings as lies, proclaimed Proctor and several others guilty and let them hang. But upon Hale’s pleading to look deeper into the matter, he eventually complied just to put an end to the irritating man’s constant complaints. But after re-questioning Mary Warren-whose spinelessness they realized was ultimately Proctor’s undoing-they discovered just how selfish and deceiving Abigail had been. Furious, they immediately spread the word that a certain Abigail Williams was wanted for murder and false witness in the court.

Several weeks after the declaration, she was spotted in Barbados with another girl, suspected to be Mercy Lewis who ran away with Williams. According to the witness, they were living in a five-star hotel, eating delicacies and laughing as they spent money they had stolen from Reverend Parris on other luxuries. Search groups are being sent out to Barbados to apprehend Williams and Lewis and soon the two murderers will be brought to justice. Meanwhile, Mary Warren and the other girls are being tried for false witness and cowardliness. Danforth has also been fired as a judge due to his ineffectiveness and faulty judgement. As it turned out, he hadn’t really known what he was doing in the first place, having never even gotten a law degree. He just wanted to have all the authority and power that came with being a judge. Hale was nominated as a temporary replacement. The first thing he did as acting judge was release Elizabeth Proctor prison, who later gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
If anyone has more information regarding the whereabouts of Abigail Williams, please contact the police or call 1-800-WITCHES.

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 14, 2017 at 10:11 PM

    I liked how you took information from the play and made it summarized about Abigail Williams. But don't you think that her affair with John Proctor should be at least mentioned in the news story?

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