The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-22 00:00:00

A GHOST STORY.

The following account of an apparition, out of. the New
:Moritii/y Magazine, sounds genuine, and is new to us. • It. may
;lie se fu'ourreaders. It relates to the late John Palmer, the
:actor. Acts of Parliament now speak of 'the late Chartes:the
S'e'ehtil; but John Palmer,although dead before most; of • our
mwvoihcihyttif.iirlrlt:bdine 'Cifiay.acptostaftiinairraste
• readeh were born; was a contemporary with many of them, and
of•thiS statement many Witnesses are now alive and ready to
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sister of Mr. Richardson, of the firm of Richardson, Goodluck,
atfd ui., 'lottery contractors, Charing-cross, The house in
Which Airs...V. resided she rented.frem.her.brother ; it was, and
Spring-gardens, and•fo.rins part of, the ' house in Charing,
cross, then occupied. Mr. It., being divided only. by a. door,
whiiih Was seldom; if ever closed, the two
terms of great intimacy. Mr. R. was very fond of the company.
of theatrital and Musical men., and*Jobe Palmer had what is
termed "the run of his house," dining and sometimes
sleeping
there two or three times a 'week, and coining in and going out
at all hours. Mr. R. had an assistant, of the name of Tucker,
about eighteen years old, who has, since the.period we allude to
Become a Scen-pttinter and machinist. This,,person, slept. at
the' bottom of Mf..R.'s house, on a'nedstead that, in the.day-
tinie,•was'Conealed in a sort of closet. The street.door opened
into this rbett, 'god Tucker was'placed,therehecause his bed
stretched over the strong box in which the money, ,received in
the day was eaeli evening deposited. The street-door .was
secured 'by' belts; a bar, and strong.lock and chain, none of
Which, the *luck 'exCepted, were faitened until all the intnateS
of the house had Tetired. It is well known, that, on the 2wl of
Augus.l79B:John Palmer' played at Liverpool for the last
time; that he expired on the stage, iu the. character. of,. the
Stranger, repeating these lines—"-I-ou remember what the old
man said this,morning--` There is another and a better world.' "
The huur at' Which he -died between half-Bast nine and a
quer t,.r • t to Wit 'On this very dayTtielt,4 retired tehed between
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eight and'nine. it living.been. a tottery day, and he employed
from an 'early hour in the morning. tihortly before ten o'clock
he awoke, arid sat up in bed to listen to some sounds in the
street, immediately opposite the door. The noise ceased; he
IOO6d at the fistening of the deer; it was as he left it, on the
lock only, as some or 'the family were out, and they had latch-
keys to let themselves in. He returned to bed; but again beard
a nOise, anellibtsteps coining
.froat Mrs. I'ernors's house,. The
,lour which we have named, and which separated her dwelling
Trhin Mr. Itichatdson'S; opened,"and through thence he " dis-
linctly'saw Johit Palmer pass." This did not in the least
distuth Tricker, as Mr. P.'did so pass very frequently. The
figure: " p'asSed 'by :his bed, atirl'opening the street-door, went
forth Closing, riS Wks Mr. P.'s Went. the dour after him." He
observed nothing unusual in. his, appearance, save that he was
erg pale, and did riot RAUH' tl
•` Good night" that T. brute
'Min:. 'He' then till asleep, Arid WA§ ttWakenedhy the return of
jul4, fle ('Tischer secured the door; and to
the question of " Who was at heMe, u'ta had. been
replied—" Mr., Palmer, Sir, bait been at Airs. Vernon's, and