Without a lawyer and shackled hand and foot, the maiden warrior Joan of Arc was led into the courtroom today to face her first day of interrogation by a court of French clergymen headed by chief judge Pierre Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais.

Bishop Cauchon swore in the accused. "Swear to tell the truth concerning whatever will be asked you that has to do with the Catholic faith and with anything else that you know."