The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-29
A + HOS STORY
The Spirit Of a Supposed
Makes q MONDAY @,
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From the Pail Mall Gazette.

binary narrative from q corrssn ID. b
whose good faith and professions =
of observation We can vouch. u
tiatss his story with full detail =
names and places, which, hover l.
sake OF the survivors, he does no,
published. Without any further =
lay his letter before our readers; N'
As my wife and l were sitting N heae
with a guest WHOM l will call mi : DIE
On a visit for the first time to DIR II
neighberhood, our mald-servant 7 be we
OF the room on her way to the kid e mi
she closed the door Mr. A. stati in Bl
saying: 81 saw the spirit of a M was
Ing that woman, who, as he passsd Socii
tinctly in my hearing: God judi ann
man judgeth. l wal innocent of h.
der for which l have been ham
there, but l did not strike d "
"What is it like ?" l asked. Eli, "
describing a young Irishman vii
nized at once ~ the husband Of oy
tic, who E year or two before bad as IT
cuted on the charge of murder gre
complete stranger in the localiu
met me for the first time = day or, r.. II
and he was totally ignorant of t, ", is
which my servant was 50 desplyhI viii
For obvious reasons the subjsdl
alluded to in our household, whep spivj
ow was regarded with feelings Of n B,
which led US to avoid a. much a, d TIT
reference to her husbands fate. porni
viously good reason to doubt wh m,u
evidence against him justified his ,tsr.,
He died protesting his Innocence. ,d.,
His wife and friends we're firmly N
that, although he was in the fight, ,,;s
by his hand the fatal blow had bed
In addition to this l had good rea.OI Z,
lieve that the murderer was still
You can easily imagine my as!od
whea Mr.. A. thus suddenly ventu
forbidden ground, and abruptly ded
the spirit of a man who bad suffered
ital penalty, and whose personal al ]" '
exactly conceded with that of the pun
nate lr;sbm., WOO .c,r.llv fo,1or.1 Esle
want about the house, %prsnouncingi |us'h
cence in accents which, though inn n''
mo INV onss, doo,.r.a ~ CHI
BILE to him. | heard that Mr.. A. hid -''
~'scer,' but | was not a little STARTED Play'
striking illustration Of his peculiar lnsu
| remarked that it was very strange lo'
formed hiM that the woman whom be u
just seen for the first time with he'd stat
companion was really the widow oil II. I
cuted person. Some time a~fterwaa the
ciaimea. There he 10 again, repd pr
same words" hat
Intensely interested by this sudden u
parently supernatural coufirmatlM ma
suspicious, | determined to put the /
Of my guest to what | regarded as Pur'
test. | told Nr. A. that shortly ata Flan'
was going into town, and as | should MN!
ing tho spot where the murder vases n.
perhaps his shostly v~isitant might !irus
the place where the dead man lay
time atterwsrd wa started for lhs Df o.
When we left the house Mr.. A. d rem
"There he Swallowing u.s." alludis met
spirit. When we had proceeded pat bwn,
way along tho road, which was 81 h.
known to my friend,I made a dctoWj 6
a business call, and went up a~polhNd Mi
following him: Just rs, without h, u
on my part, we were turning ont of1 he
road, Mr.. A. said: "The spirit is std
the corner. He says We are not q
right way toward the place where The
was committed, and which he has
to point out to me-" l replied; :.
shall come out in tho main road again
by before we reach the spot" WspdN Vt
on about a quarter of a mile, and
done my business and struck the nd eio
which differed, l may remark, from
the other roads which We had traysr "a
A. Don after declared: "There is u 'sH
just on there, waiting for U.S."
AS we continued our wax | pupd
fraiped from uttering a word, OF ea rie'
thinking, as far as l could, about the ial
so as to prevent any possibility OF NJ emit
panion obtaining any clew. As we Fs ~
sing through one of the lowest paris
town Mr.. A. suddenly exclaimed; y
me it was here the murder was cod ~,
1t was just there (~pointing to the pIai IL.
road where the murdered man fell !,
the hubbub and confusion rise up bd
as a picture, with the people round NO
ever, tells me he did not strike the ta'
He does not excuse himself from bel
ally guilty as being mixed up with W UL
accomplished the death Of the NJ
strongly maintains that he was not nc
dercr." l will only add that in rel
the last incident that Mr.. describedt1 loV
spot where the murder was community ker
the circumstances i'll connection y ma
How a you account for thai? Nj
never ben ia tue towu before; le tW Do
lived within - couple Of hundred tpts Fts
he did not know ill within a day OF s
fore he arrived that ho would ever VIZ IN,
could not by any possibility have kH"
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