American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-12-30
A5Girl Ghost-seer in New Jer.


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Mr.: Frederick Bohnenberger 10 jew
eler oy trade and owns considerable
properly on broome Street, near Spring.
neid Avenue. Newark. He has beer
swice married. and his second bride was
widows the relict OF Mr.. Philip Klein
ny his FIRST wife Mr.. acknowledgements
one child, q boy, and his second wife
IplQpgpLito ms house, NO. u broome
steeetss two daughters The result q
the second union was three children,
making six in the family altogether.
Mr. Bshnenbsrees has only one mosA-
er1n.iaW, Mrs Aieins and she il not Z
elosely related ,mother-inrlaw, ii being
me ints MRS Pohnenbergers first hns-
Danus nosner. rive WEEKS ago last hrl-
osys or .nerespoqts, Mr. bohnenberger
~ 80 xor ne second nms lett 2 .Wldo wer.
Inc herman population OF !" the Nh,
- snas Part o. sns' elsy " cahe0s safneq
0ut 70 acteno the zunerai the sunday
afterwards. Scarcely had the remains
oeen covered In woodland Cemetery
before fr1ghtfui stories began. TO; eirca-
late through the feighborhood. The
ancient housewives met together ct al
hours and In al plaoes' and in flushed
tones repeated the blood-curdiing tale.
Iney came regularly TO MRS. Nens
little butcher snop on FRINGE street Tor
the latest intelligence, and were pro
voked that she denied ali knowledge OF
the maneuvers OF Mrs. lBohnenberger's
ghost.
The story, as told by various persons,
in the neighborhood OF Broome Street,
IS peculiar. Mrs Bohnenberger died.
or was supposed to have died, of drop
sy. She breathed her last, or the next
to the last. as may be or as a daughter
OF Mr.. 1Klein expressed it, "rolled up
her eyes in my mothers arms = Mrs.
Klein loved her sons wife, and when
she saw her corpse burst into the
most frantic wailings, the burden Of
which was that her Kate was not dead
but IN trance. Ihes perfect repose4ofi
the BODY the expression OF the face,.
every thing bnt the Icy goddess OF the.
form, indicated that possibly Mrs. Bob
nenberger, who had previouslys been in
trance state, ghs mon be dead. de.
Hagen, the family physician, was can
ed in. and he said positively that Mrs.
bohnenberger was dead and she was
buried. On Monday night following
the burial, Miss Bertha Klein, Mrs.
Bohnenberger's daughter by her first
husband. q pieasant-looking girl OF II
sat alone IN the Kitchen OF bohnenper-
gers house. The building Is two stories
high, OF wood. On the hrst hoor Is the
Parior, where the BODY was laid out Pc
tore ouriai. IN the rear OF the Parior
y tAe kitcnen, 9 bedroom ana pantry
Fac hall from the front door leads back
70 the kiechen, ana there Is ? door lead
ing from the hall TO the Parlor. As
Miss Bertha sat in the kitchen she heard
three loud and distinct raps on the door
leading from the hall to the parlor-
She stepped to the Kitchen door and
saw that the hall was empty. She look
ed into the back YARD, and from the front
door. Slowly and with . feeling OF ter
ror, she oPenea the parior door and
hastily glanced throughthe room where
The remains OF her mother had lain the
day before. No one was there, so she
closed the door and retraoed her steps
70 the bedroom near the Kitchen. AS
she entered the room she glanced has
lly out OF the window ana saw what sne
imagined to be tall inquire Clad IN |
white darling by. Terribly frightened,
The sat down by the foot OF the bed,
and was partially recovering her COM
oosure when Mr.. Bohnenberger's son
entered. Noticing his sisters pale
ACE, ne said Why, Bertha, what IS
he matterP'' Nothing" was her re-
ply, and the word had scarcely left her
fps before small mirror which stood
N a bureau fell to the floor with a
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