The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-27
Sensation Over an Alleged Ghost in
Cambridge. Massachusetts.
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Cambridge is prolific in news of late
She furnishes sensation which forms
the chief topic of comment. The
story has for its basis haunted house,
in which the spirit of girl is supposed
to have appeared almost nightly of late
The house is situated in the shades of the
classic Harvard; was built fifty years
ago, and has sheltered many of the most
respectable families of Cambridge
Twenty years ago it was said to be
haunted, and for some time the owner
could not get an occupant. Two years
ago it was occupied as a clubhouse for
Harvard students, and afforded them
many an all-nights sport. The present
occupants are Henry Marsh and family,
who, during the past six months, ac-
cording to their statement, have been
almost driven wild by midnight gambols
of the spirits.
The ghost has been heard to walk and
run all over the house; to place its
clumsy hand on the heads of the oceu-
pants, both while they have been about
the house and abed. The windows have
been opened and slammed in rooms
where the occupants of the house are
positive there was no earthly being, and
beds have been moved and the house
generally shaken up. A few nights ago,
Marshs wife says she met the spirit sud
denly in the kitchen, and, almost scared
to death, listened to what the ghost had
to say. The spirit said her name was
Bertha Stoughton, and that she had been
murdered many years ago and was buried
in the cellar, and that her object in stay
ing in the house was to recover dia-
mond ring worn by her when murdered
The Marsh family are professed Roman
Catholics, and, as they have heretofore
been skeptical, their story receives more
consideration than if it came through
believers in Spiritualism. The latter
here have not allowed an opportunity
to pass of attempting to prove the doc
trine of their faith, and that there was
no illusion.
Late Saturday night, with Mrs. Wilde,
who is said 10 be the most powerful
medium in the country, a number of
seance at the house. The spirit of
the Stoughton girl manifested its pres
ence, and through the medium described
the details of the murder. She lived in
the house with man now living in Cam
bridge, and tutor in well known educa-
tional institution giving at the same
time his name, that she was seduced by
him, and he, finding her enc,ente, at
tempted to poison her, but gave her an
overdose that he then choked her in her
chamber on the second floor, dragged
her down stairs to the kitchen, and
thence through a trap to the cellar un-
der the L portion of the house that, al
though here begging her life to be spared,
he killed her by striking her four times
on the head with a club, and then buried
her four feet deep in the cellar. The
medium went so far as to point out
the spot where she said the body was
buried.
Shortly after midnight an inquirer
correspondent dug up the cellar to a
depth of five feet, but found no resem-
blance of a human body. This fact, in
a measure, goes to support the theory of
the skeptics that the phenomena is a
humbug. The Spiritualists, on the other
hand, believe the story, and express
confidence Of yet bringing the murderer
to justice, as well as finding the body.
Marsh's house is now the attraction for
thousands of visitors, and the sensation
has not been equaled here for many
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