From buddy Wed Jun 26 11:49:24 1996
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:49:18
Subject: Above the Law?


I just came across this excerpt from a book called "The Hazards
of Life and all That," by J. Bond.  It's a summary of a rather 
odd legal case, that I thought you'd get a kick out of:

	"10th century Cheshire.  Severe drought in the area inspires
	 Lady Trawst to pray to a statue of the Virgin for rain,
	 immediately there is a thunderstorm.  The statue falls 
	 from its niche and crushes Lady Trawst to death.  The statue
	 is then tried for murder, sentenced to death but found to 
	 be too heavy for hanging.  Eventually the statue is tied to
	 a cross and left on the bank of the river Dee to drown."

Seems no one is above the law, not even the Holy Virgin.