Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-11-27
2 GH0SF STORY.
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NooIa1y Car.
 Prom il.s Pal ssa.i Gaz., ,.o.I
 N'e leva received the following extra CrUiHalg narrative from a correspondent. : for whose good faith and professional : ccureucss of observation ve can vUuch. ] He slbstantlates his story with full de- tail oi dates, names and places, wL.ch, : however, for the sui.e of the survivors. [ he does moi wish tO be published. ! WitloUt any further preface we lay his ' letter before our readers:
 As my wife and I were sitting at ! breakfast with a guest whom ] will call Alr. A.. then on visit for the first time tl our house and neighb1shCOd. our uGll-ScTvGut passed out Of the room on her way Co the kitchen. As she closed the door Mr. A startled ne by saving:
 "i saw the spirit Oi a I-au following that
 womau, who. ds ue paS5e !, said distinct ly iu my hearing. "God iudretL not as
 Iuan juigctu. 1 was innocent Of the murder for which | have been hanged.
 ! was there, bu. ! did not strike the
 blow 'NLat IS 1t like l asked. He
 rep.ist Gv describing @ young IrlShmau
 whom J recognized at once as the hus-
 band of my domestic, who a year or two
 before had been executed on the charge
 oI murder. Ar. \, G complete stranger
 m tie locality, had only met me fUr the
 frs- time a day 1r two before, and he
 was totally ignorant of the crime m
 vhIci ny servant was sO deeply inter
 ested. Tor obvious reasons the subject
 was never alluded to iu our household. l
 where the widow was regarded with feel l
 iuEs cf sympathy, which led us Co avoid l
 as much as possible all reference t0 her !
 husbands late ] had previously good !
 reason to doubt whether the evidence !
 against him justified his execution. He
 diel protesting his innocence.
 Ills wife and friends were firmly con
 vlnceo that although he had been in the !
 fight, t was Eo; by his hand the fatal |
 blow had been dealt. In addition to |
 this, l had good reason Co believe that |
 the real mUr ie-cr Was st-li at large. You can easily lulIEc my aSt1uIshmeut ]
 when H,. A. tiUs sad l1s.Iy venru-el | upon forbidden ground, and abruptly declared tha, the sFiut of a man who had suffered tbe capital penalty, and | hose personal appearance exactly com cidet with that of the unfortunate IuslmaU, was actually following the servant about the house prouOuncing E.s innocence ID accents wh.ch, although iHaudI1-e to Inc, ny guest declared were Der cst!. aUllL'e Co nm. I heard that
 Mir. A. had been "seer," but l was not a lJtle startled at thIs striking illustra- Sion of lus peculiar faculty. | remarked that 1t Was very strange, and informed Lim that the woman he had just seen for the first time with her gh0stly com panIJn vas really the widow of an exc cuted Ierson. Some time afterwards he exclaimed: "There he is again, repeat ing the saIle words"
 Intensely interested by this sudden and apparently supernatural cOnfrma- tluu uf my suspicious, | determined tO pUt the scersllp of my guest tO what l regarded ls a crucial test. told MT. \. that shortly a'Jerwdrd 1 was going into town, and aS should be passing the spot where the murder was committed, per laps his gLustly yIsitaut might indicate the place where the dead man lay Some a .Ime aiterVarl We started for the town. When We left the house Mr. r.A.remarked, There he K, following Us' alludiug to .he "spi-i-' When We had proceeded part Ji tie way along the road, which I gas quIIe unknown C. my friend, made < ] uctpur Co make g. business call and { went along another street. Mr. \. roi- : owing iim. Just as, without a worl on nv part ye were tIuiuEoUt or the main cad, NJ. <. saIl. ~Ihc spirit is stand ug at the corner. He says We are not ,oing the right way toward the place where the murder was committed, and which Le has promised Co point out t. { nc ] replied; "th VIC shall come ont ' n the main road a-alu ty and by. be- 1re Te reach the spot We proceeded = u about quarter Of a mic. and having .uns my business and struck the main JJd lich differed, | may remark. - rom none of the other roads We had p rayeIsed-Mr. <. soon after declared: ILcre IS that man just on there, waiting lg us
 As We continued our walk purposoIy efrducC from Uttlrlug a word, or even rom thinking, as far as I could about Ie murder, SD as to prevent any possi- lity Ot my companion obtaining any .aw. as VIC were passing through one I ths lowest parts of the town. Mir. A. .iGdeulv exclaimed: lie tells me 1t a.s here the murder was committed. It as just there troiE.nr to the place il be road where the murdered man felu
 see the hUbbub and confusion riso up 't'tt --i- tI' lfANLtt4- -s W ltll tue people h Jund. He however tells me a-aiu that h e did not strike the fatal blow. He does Ot excuse himself from being morally uilty as being mixed mp with those who the death Of the man. but
 rOngly maintained that he was not the
 Urderer." l will only add in relation } the las. incident that Mir. 4. described Ii ie exact spot where the murder was lmmittej, and the circumstancei in con action herewith. How can you ac- .Uut for that: Mr X. had never been Tn
 the town before; he had aever lived ithIu couple of hundred miles of 1t; ,r. } aid nos know until day or two be- re Ee arrived that he would ever visit
 he could not by any possibility have 'oWu that the poor woman iu my em- pg was the widow of a man who WIS
 uged. He Lad no conceivable inter F. in deceiying me, nor was Le concern
 to prosecute the matter any further.