Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-19
The Marine Ghost.
BE Is INTERVIEWED BY A BOSTON -DIUM.
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BE Is INTERVIEWED BY BOSTON -DIUM.
The EreniRg Star Read ia the Spirit LaRd-TAe
DefEnct Thinks Our Reporter tcds
TOO Herd on HIM.
Since the publication in last Saturdays STAR
of the FRANKS of the ghost of Howard, the de-
ceased marine. at his late residence near the
marine barracks, the excitement in that neigh
bOThood has continued to increase; crowds of
people being almost constantly congregated
about the premises and many lively scenes have
occurred there. Barnharts family have vacated
the house and moved TO Baltimore. What with
ghosts and ghOst-seers, and curious public, they
COULDN'T STAND THE PRESSURE.
On Tuesday evening, about O'Clock, while
some hundreds OF people were standing about
the house, as usual, a carriage drove up to the
door, and lady and gentleman stepped out and
immediately requested TO be admitted to the
haunted house. Officer O'Hare and his partner
Shelton, at once obtained the key, and soon
admitted the visitors, with some half dozen
ladies who had been invited TO be present from
That section of the city. The gentleman proved
TO be DIR. Thompson and the lady Mrs. Pond. a
celebrated test medium from Boston, who stated
TO the company that she had been
IN CoMMUNICATION WITH HowARD's SPIRIT,
on the Sunday previous, and had made an ap-
pointment with Howard to meet him at his
former residence. She requested TO be put in
dark room BY herself, she being then, she said,
under the influence of Towards spirit. She
was accordingly locked up in a back room all
alone, where she remained about fifteen minutes
when a rumbling and shutting noise was heard
by those outside, as II Of persons engaged In a
struggle. This increased so suddenly and yio-
lently that all the ladies made a bound for the
front door, screaming to be let out, but Officer
O'Hare, who had stationed himself at the door
held IL tight, saying that Ii against the rules
OF the spirits, and he kept them in, some of them
NEARLY PAINTING.
MIS- FOND, the medium, soon after appeared
with troubled visage, and informed those
present that she had met Howard, according to
previous appointment; that Howard told her he
had suffered great injustice by the reports cir
culated about his being wicked man; that he
had something of great Importance to commu-
nicate to his wife, which he would not tell on
that occasion, but had requested her Mrs.
Pond) to meet him again at the same place for
that purpose; that
HE had READ THE REPORTS IN THE EVENING
STAR,
and was not quite 30 bad a man as THE STAR
represented him TO be; that she had made an
agreement to meet Howard again to receive his
communication for his wife, who, he stated
gave him great trouble and concern Mt
" mare promised to give her admission when
ever she came, and just as they were about leay-
ing The house the ladies imagined that they
heard voices and knocking in the back room.
ana ran out terribly scared. On the pavement
again, the medium gave the party A history of
her own life, telling the N that she had had threa
husbands, her first having Converted her 80
spiritualsm, and he had sent her TO the hattle1
field TO look after sick and wounded sold;ers
and she had waded to her boot-tops In hIoa5 80
relieve wounded men, etc. ~N "
FINE PLATED Oroide, Etruscan, Shell. and
Ny..HN II al all h