Marilynne K. Roach

In the 1930s during the Great Depression, before images of actual trial documents became widely viewable, an enterprising con man covered the heartland, financing his travels by using Salem Witch Trial death warrants as collateral for loans from the unsuspecting. These fakes still manage to turn up not only among family papers, but also in museums and respectable auction houses proving once again the value of research. Even a laudable love of history can lead one into temptation.