Connecticut western news., 1873-07-11
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 10 tue Editor of tue Connecticut Western
 Ne1os;
 have read the articles in your paper of the issues of May 23rd, May 3Oth, and June 9th, this year, upon the ,so-ca!led haunted house, known as the "Lee House, J situated near your village, and have also during the last two days fully investigated the circumstances connected with the whole affair, and from such investigations, as well as from thorough knowledge of the place and its surrounding for the last thirty years, claim to be in 8 position to give complete solution of the whole matter. It may ap- pear somewhat absurd to many of youl readers that anyone should deem it aeces- sary at this late day to attempt to explain such occurrences as those to which you have alluded as having occurred at this house, and the only motive have in so doing is to endeavor to destroy any hold that modern spiritualism may have upon the minds and actions of our people. It is upon such stories as those you have pub llshed in and to this house, that the bernie ious doctrines of spiritualism and lnfidelity feed, and if spiritualists cannot succeed in gulliDg the people by their physical mani festations and stories of haunted houses, then their whole system falls 70 the ground After most exhaustive test of all tho pre- tended marvels of modern spiritualism for the past fifteen years. am prepared to say that there is nothing their mediums do that either cannot do myself, Cor will under take to furnish person who will perform them,) and will bind myself in any sum named for the performance of the above So much for spiritual manifestations. Now in regard to this house.
 This house was owned by my father, Dr. Charles A. Lee, at the time of his death. He died in February, 1872. His widow and children desired that it be sold. It twas offered fer sale at auction in the spring of 1872 and bid in by myself. There were other parties who wanted it at that time. held the place until this spring, when finding could not attend to it personally, it was again offered for sale, and purchased by MT. Fenn, for $3.3OO. Soon after he had agreed to take it. and before he had moved into the house, some persons (and it is impossible to ascertain who started the stories, although have my suspicious, told Mrs. Fenn that the house was haunted, and drawing upon their imaginations re- lated many circumstances that Go Mrs. Fenn) appeared mysterious. Mrs. F. (who is nervous woman in delicate health, ) therefore went to the house completely un- strung, physically and mentally, and Gas she admitted to mel sick of her husbands bargain and endeavo-ing to induce him to get out of it. She says that all she heard during the only night they stayed there was rattling of the doors and the barking of the dog. She says the dog had a peculiar bark or growl that night, ''a sort of an angry afraid kind of growl." think if our modern spiritual friends could train up a few dogs with this peculiar groWl, they might prove valuable acquisitions to theil seances. This advice gratis. The boy sayl he saw a woman in white at his bedroom door. When questioned he says he did no see her face at all. When asked how ht knew it was woman, says he thought il was. Says he did not speak, and went righ to sleep again, as he thought it was hi mother, &c., ,.tSc. Mrs. Fem says it was { very windy night, and that all the noise sht heard could have been made easily by thu wind.
 And what does MT. Fenn say himself He told Mir. Wolff; who carried Mr. Fenn' family and furniture, the next morning back to their old house in the village, tha his wife and children were homesick i; tha his wife was dissatisfied with the bargain h. had made, and that he had found, upol looking over the place, that he would hay to expend more money than he had to re pair it. In addition, he had very littl money himself, and his wife would have l.
 sell their old place in the village before h could pay anything on account of the pul chase, and that his wife absolutely refuse to help him at all in regard to the payments These same facts Mrs. Fem herself tol me, and further said that her husband ha made bad bargain, and that he could ge the place cheaper by and by. therefor find that these so-called spiritual manifests tions have yielded to the touch of invest gation. GEORGE F. LEE. Salisbury, Conn.,, June 10th, 1873.