Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-07-23
a Real SpOOk story.
Horse stopping and Trembling with
Terror St the scene OF Murder.
rFrom The Reading ga Eagle,

ened horse on Wednesday night on the
turnpike between Mohrsville and Shoe
makerville. The occupants of the light
wagon were James Daubley, & drover Of
Montgomery County, and his hired man,
Henry Schmeck. These men related their
adventures to several friends IN this city
the next morning, the following of which
is a gist Of the story as told by Mr.. Daub-
ley:
I'VE were coming down the road on
Wednesday night at about 10 o'clock.
Wehad been up along the Blue Mountains,
| know where John Dichl murdered his
victim, Harlan, and threw him into the
small creek from the narrow bridge across
the road. | also know the island where
Adallne Weaver was dragged by man
and killed. | have also heard OF one other
murder, but | never believed in ghosts or
hobgoblins
The road was very dark and lonely, but l
had good. gentle horse, and just let him
pick out his own road, aud we went along
sll right. But on Wednesday night some
thing happened TO me that | never want
to happen again am not a drinking
man, nor 90 take il as 4 medicine had
a nap in the afternoon,aud when lett my
customers above Hamburg l never felt
better in my life"
ave passed ShOemakertille at about
ten o'clock, crossed the bridge all right,
and drove along slowly down the road.
Suddenly the horse gave a start as a bright
object skipped across the road IN front Of
Us. The horse SHE'D, and both Of Us men
saw the light. I'm no fool, and / know
that l Jill not see double that nightor dream
airy thing, either. The bright object skip
ped as a sheep runs, aud suddenly it took
a lump and leaped over tree twenty feet
bigh and disappeared. Our horse snorted
suddenly across the meadow or low land
| saw the same thing Il went up into the
air twenty or thirty feet and then came
dcwn and whiTled over to the road again.
The hight thing crossed the pike and then
We heard a low singing II stopped near
enough tor u 10 see i; plain. My bred
nan Jumped iuto the road and caught hold
Of the horses bride lie threw a c,lored
handkerchief over the horses eyes as tue
animal trembled Ike leaf
The singing became little louder but
could not make out the words own
W that for once in my life was scared.
The horse stood still aud trembled. The
bright object might have been 6tty yards
nom me IL seemed to be hanging from a
tree about three feet from the ground
When became little more cool thought
Il Was the form OF i woman 1t had long
bair and was dressed all IN white. The
arms were bare, and with one Of them ex-
tended, Il pointed toward the black woods
over the canal Then | think | heard
these words from her They dragged me
down. they dragged me down. am sure
sac said those words. but the last | won't
be sure about. They were these; Ny poor
life was robbed, was robbed, when they
murdered me Suddenly | thought Of the
murdered young woman. My hired man
saw and heard all that did, but neither
spoke a word.
Then the white form shot up through
the branches and seemed 10 float around in
a circle, leaving bright trail after her,
until there MSS a liehtish circle IN the air
that looked ike ring around the sun.
Then it sang, 4 come, come, the hour is
here. The last word she fairly shrieked,
and the horse rose on It's haunche>, and
the hired man fell on his back IN the mud
saw the figure shoot of into the black
night, and in a minute it was gone. Ii was
little time before We got started, as the
horse would not go faster than a smart
walk, MS head was well up and his tail
extended
"A horse can see sharper than man at
night, in my judgment, aud my horse has
a pair Of good eyes. We had not gone
very far before the animal gave q snort
and reared again. l did not see anything
but kBew the horse did. Ny hired man
again Jumped out, and held him at the
bride. | looked ahead and about a quar-
ter of 3 mile saw q blush white light
roll around on the top Of the tence on the
left side. 1t seemed to spin around and
it went along very fast
IL made up my mind to see what that
thing was The bright light came along
at good speed, but when a sudden squirt Of
wind blew. the light foated sway 1t soon
came back over the fence. Turn the horse
little further, l shouted I'm going to
grab this thing sure, II it takes all the
hair Of my head On came that light,
and suddenly il stretched Ii was not
ball, bat the form Of man, with black
hair, and it had on a white shirt, nothing
more I'll swear that it was nothing but
that, because saWa Iteame right up TO
me. | stopped down until it got right
above me, when Jumped 10 grab it,
tell into q mud puddle was not hurt,
bat something had struck NE on the fore
head The strange thing was singing some
thing about coming Wespoke not word
to each other When | got up looked
over the field, and | saw two bright lights
floating about in ciscle then knew it
was both Of the things We had seen. One
was man and The other was 4 woman.
The woman chased the man / then be-
come pretty weak, and leaned against
the fence. ! spoke 10 my hired man and
asked him, Do you see thai thing? He