Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-03
A SpiritS Visit.


Some of our readers, says the Roch-
ester Democrat and Chr6nicle, may re-
member statement by DR.. Ditson, of
Albany, copied into these columns some
time since, to the effect that Charles
Wise and wife, an aged couple living in
Schenectady, driving home from Glen
vile early one evening, twelve yearsago
were struck by an engine on the Central
road and killed, and that lady living
In Schenectady was told of the occur
renee about three-quarters of an hour
before it occurred The editor of the
Schenectady Union has investigated the
statement, and he believes it true in all
its details. "The lady alluded to-" he
says, sis now a resident OF this city,
one of the most intelligent ard respect
able ladies In the place, whose word
would be jus. as good as her bond.
She is known by most of our citizens,
and no one would think of questioning
her word on any subject when she spoke
knowingly" The Union repeats the
story, as follows:
AT ten minutes past five, just forty
minutes before the accident happened,
and while the train that killed Mr. and
Mrs. w. must have been twenty miles
from said crossing, the lady i'll this city,
already alluded to, heard her door-bell
ring, which she answered. She found
at the door an aged lady, or what APP
peared to her as such whose dress indi-
Gated that she belonged to a previous
generation, and whom she did not know.
She informed the stranger that she did
not know her, the stranger making
similar observation with,regard TO her.
The strange woman then told her to send
down to the 6 o'clock train, as the dead
bodies of her friends and neighbors,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wise, were upon it,
The old lady then left. The lady of the
house told her husband, who was in the
back yard at the time, who heard the
bell ring, what had happened, but he
did not believe it, and made the matter
the subject of ridicule. But being
urged second or third time, he went
to the depot. The train not having ar
rived he returned home, still more a
disbeliever than ever Concluding,
however, to satisfy himself that the
whole thing was mere fancy, he went
again to the depot, this time to find
the train in considerable late, but, true
enough, bearing the dead bodies OF Mr..
and Mrs. Wise, who were killed as above
stated. As was previously stated, there
is no telegraphic communication with
the scene of the accident, and If there
had been how could it have given no.
tice here of an accident forty minutes
before it happened? As was stated, the
lady who received this information was
not Spiritualist. She subsequently
described the appearance of the person
who rang the bell to a sister of Mrs.
Wise, who declared it to be true de-
scription of her mother, who had been
dead many years. We have repeated
part that was stated in the article in the
New York paper, in order to give the
facts just as we learned them, and also
to show that said report was essentially
true"
The editor speculates considerably as
to the mystery, and although he is not
aSpiritualist, he intimates his profound
belief first In the story, and next in the
supposition that the mysterious visitor
of the Schenectady lady was an embod-
led spirit. Now, then, will some
scientist, or perhaps some one well
versed In human nature and the preva-
lent desire to believe in the marvellous,
takeup this case and investigate it?