New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-16
4 GHOST IT NOONDIY.



We have received the following extraordinary
narrative from q SpOHdcEt r whose good i-it
and professional A,Il'n' o. % III ', ,II
of dates names and places. which, however. Tor the
sake of the survivors, ne does not wish 10 be pub
liShcd Without any further preface We lay his let
ter before ouT readers:
As my wife and were sitting nj hrrak'a.t with
guest whom viii call MIR. A.-ihcu ON Visit Tor %"
first time 10 orr house and ncl-lh0rIuon-oH mall-
servant passed out Of the room on her way io 'N"
kitchen As she closed the door Mr. A. startled me by
saying, saw spirit OF q man f"UoMrG iha'
woman, who, ne passed, sad distinctly IN
my hearing God judgcth not rs NAV judg'th
was innocent of the murder for which have
been hanged. Twas there, hut did not strike ne
describing young lrlshman whom recognized ~
once rs the husband of my domestic, who year or
two before had been executed on the Char@c of uur
der. Mr. A. complete stranger I" the locality, mai
only met me for the first time two DAYS before and
be was totally Ignorant OF the crime m winch my
servant was so deeply Interested. foT ohNlniN req
SONS the subject never alluded 10 IN our house
hold where the widow regarded with feelings
of sympathy, which led us 10 avoid rs much Dos
sible all reference 10 her husbands fate. had
previously good reason to doubt whether the cyi-
drnce against him justified his execution. lie
had died protesting his Innocence. ill- wife and
friends were firmly convinced th2t although ne ha,
been III the fight. II was not hy ms htnd the tlf1
blow had been dealt. In addition 10 Tins. had
good reason 10 believe that The real murderer wa"
still al large. You can easily imagine my aston. h
ment when Mr. A. thus suddenly ycnturcd upon
forbidden ground, and abruptly declared that the
and whose personal a p.arancc exactly conceded
with that of the unfortunate freshman, wa~artually
following the servant about The house pIoc.ani.R
his innocence III accents Wmch, u, though lnAuqabl'
TO me. my guest declared were perfectly audible 80
him had heard that Mr.. 4. had been " seer
but was not n little startled at tins striking Illus
tratOn OF his peculiar faculty. remarked that 10
was very strange, and informed HIM thai the woman
whom be had just seen for the hTst time with n"r
ghostly companion WAS really the widow % an cN-
ccuted ieion. Some time aIirI"ala ne exc ,i,H'd
There ne is again, repeating IA" s1nc word-!"
Intensely interested by tins sudden and apparent
ly supernatural c ntrmat0n OF my suspicious.
determined to put the sccr,hp OF my guest To what
| regarded a crucial test. told Mr \. that
shortly aftcrWard | Was going into the town, and
az should be passing the spot where thc murder
was CONN ttcd perhaps his gho5tly visit ant might
indicate the place where the aead man lay. some
time alt"rwam started for the town When
We left the house Mr.. A. remarked, There hc Is
following rs" abiding To the spirit" When W.
had proceeded part OF The way along the road.
which quite unknown 70 my iHcnd made a
dctour TO make Il business call and went along an
other street. Mr.. A. following ne. Just as without
word on ny part, we Tsle turning oud &l me
the corner. lie says we are not going the right way
toward the place where the murder was committed,
and which he has promised 10 point out To me.
replied, "Oh, we snail come out III the man ROAD
again by-and-by before we reach the spot We
proceeded on about quarter OF a mile, and having
done my business and struck The main
road again which differed, ! may rr-
mark, from none OF the other roads We
had traverscd-Nr A. soon after declared, There
continued our walk, purpOscly rclraincd from ut
teriup a word, or even from thinking, as far rs ]
could about the murder, 50 rs to prevent any posi-
biljty OF my companion obtaining any clcw. As we
were pa sing Though one Of the lowest parts OF
the town Mr. A. suddenly exclaimed -" lie tells me
that IL was here the murder was committed Ii was
lust there pointing to the place in the road whcro
the murdered man fell. ! see the hubbub and con-
fusion rise up before me as picture, with the pco-
ule rOund. lie. however, again tells that lac did
not stnke the fatal blow. He does not
excuse himself from being morally guilty as
death OF the man, but strongly maintains that Inc
was not the murderer" VIII only add in relation
to the last incident that Mr. A. described the exact
spot where the murder was commit tied, and the CIR
Cumstances in connection herewith. How can you
account for thatf Mr. a. had never been in the
town before; he had never lived within a couple of
hundred miles OF ii he dld not know till within a
day or two before lie arrived that he would over
visit IL: he could not by any possibility have known
that the poor woman III my employ the widow
of man who was hanged He had no conceivable
interest in deceiying lie, nor NE concerned to
prosecute the matter any further