- Around beginning of September, Nora turned to crime - Around beginning of September. Nora turned to crime - Clear sons hid crime - Crime - Crime Centre parsons - Crime of burning property - Crime of setting fire to property
- Ill-treatment - Infliction of pain - Torment with torch? Ah, so I’ve heard! - Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. - Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as
punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession
from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin,
or by the rack or wheel. - The act or process of torturing. - To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to
vex.
- The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or
putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is
superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels. - The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was
publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was
prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual
court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of
the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with
him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which
was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.