The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-04-14
Haunted IIstci.

si 81 Auib0nFs Alnn., dae4 sefSta4
weeks rinee. promising 70 ravlslt the
premises ana see how things were get
ting along. From the following car
cumstau,iai account gwen by Prof Nc
BAN. one of the residents ID the build
ing aud 40 believer IN superst.tions,
il seems that the promise is being kept
On Saturday morning, The l4th q
March. my d4ughlsr, al intelligent glrl
u fourteen years u age, was returning
from the post office (which by the way,
il kept in room on the ground floor
In the southeast corner u the building,
and came through the room in which
the engine stands, aud there saw tall
slim man. dressed in fine suit Of broad
cloth. with night-cap on his head, and
4 pair u white stockings on hrs feet
She passed him without speaking, and
came into the house, and made the re-
nark to her mother and myself that a
strange looking man was passing
through the laundry, dressed as above,
and that be must be a fool. This vas
about ten O'Clock a. NJ, aud ! went out
with her 10 see the man whom she de-
scribed as l)oKing and acting SO strange
ly. When we went out nothing was TO
be seen, aud we went and looked
through the largest cellar, dark and
bleak apartment forty feet long by
twenty feet wide, when all at once she
exclaimed, Father, there he is, come
ing towards us! and began to draw
me back to the door by the hand, and
seemed to be very nervous. | could
see nothing, but supposing 1t was some
one trying to frighten us. demanded
in an angry voice, who is here : What
do YOU wantT | received no reply
and yet the strange appearance passed
out os the cellar within two feet Of us,
as It seemed to her, We came into
the house, and myself and Mr.. Hubert,
my next doo neighbor, got lamp apd
made thorough search ofall the prem
ises but neither saw nor heard any
thing. That evening we again explored
the dark aud dreary cellars, &c, in
company with another man, and at the
extremity Of the interior cellar, in a
dark corner found large towel, clean
and ironed as if dropped by some one.
this towel belonged TO Mrs. Jewel, and
had been washed and laid by abont q
month ago. We then came TO the con
clusion that our visitor was of flesh and
blood, and that his visits were not of al
honest character. Under this belief
MIR. Hubert, another boarder, and my
self came to the conclusion that We
would bring his ghostshlp to grief by
powder and ball, and for the benefit o
all concerned gave duo notice accord
ingly. AIr. Hubert got his revolver IL
readiness, and gave my daughter pls'
tol also; but that night all was still
nothing seen or heard. On Sunday
morning we were congratulating our
selves that our threats of vengeance
dire had had the desired effect but
about ten o'clock a. m, our hopes wer,
dispedled by the loud report OF pisto
and the piercing cry of "Oh my God 7
had instructed my daughter that IL
case she should see him again to shoe
him instantly if be would not speak
aud that | would stand between he
and any harm. She went TO the laun
dry door for the broom, having her pis
, tol in her pocket, and just inside the
door stood the man, looking directly a
her, in the same garb in which she frs
saw him. She Immediately drew tht
F; pistol, presented it at him, but he seem
ed indifferent to the weapon, and at
t distance of six feet she fired at him
t He at once bent forward, clasping hi
, hands across his breast exclaiming 90
my GodI" and disappeared into tn
cellar. / heard the report OF the pisto
: and heard the cry of "Oh, my God 7
0 and under the impression that she ha
E shot herself, ran to the door, whe
: she exclaimed, Father, i have shot hin
. he is in the cellar We, in compan
: with Hubert, got lamp, went into th
: cellar, and, as we were going IN, sh
: said, ''Oh, father / have killed him
what shall dol" We looked for th
: man, searched for the traces of blood
D but, To our great surprise and constei
e nation, found neither. On Monda.
while placing clothes on the line in th
! ward, She saw him again. When sh
: asked him who he WAS, and what
!, wanted, he looked at her IN very IN
!, imploring manner, and after hayln
Il surveyed her attentively asked, "Whi
4 is your name 2" She replied that b,
x name was A. L. McBain. He then, |
n a clear shrili voice said, Go to No. 4
n on the fourth story and see what yo
can see" She, in company with sew
!. raj Others, went to the room indicates
!, but neither saw nor heard anything
i This, be il remembered, was at mId-da
a in open daylight, with clear Minnes'
's ia SKY, and the sun shining bright
r, She did not even know that there vi
ls such number in the house on Il
or fourth story. When / asked her WI
ar she did not at this interview shoot hir
is she said that he looked so pitiful tn
! she could not find If in her heart to
: 50. On Thusday, 10th inst, she sa
him again, when she fired at him, bl
I. as he was radidly gliding through Il
:. celia. door, she missed bin, lodgir
! the bullet in the wall Half an Ao'
y later she Saw him at the cistern, wh'
q he beckoned her TO him, and told b
ss 10 tell Nrs. Jewell ito sit on the We
ala @f tha tnk&a sxhan Gha held IA