Daily Republican., 1881-09-06
ssones from Uuaeen Hands.

On the evening of the 9Th of July Mr.
Charles r. Killing, who lives in a neat
cottage near the corner OF Shay's lane
and Morris street, Rossville, Staten
Island, heard stones thrown against
his dwelling. Attributing the stone
throwing to boys, he ran out into the
yard and after firing seven shots in the
air he returned to his house. The next
evening his house was bombarded again
and for several nights his rest was dis
turbed by the rattling and humping of
large stones upon the walls and the roof.
The next door neighhor, Arthur Brash,
was annoyed in the same manner after
the second night, and tried va!nly in
company with Mr.. Killing to discover
the stone throwers. One day while
they were searching Mr.. Killing was
| hit on the back Of the neck with brick
Marking the direction from which it
came he judged that the man who
threw il was concealed in the corn field
back of Mr.. Brash's yard A search for
him there was fruitless, and viii the
search was going on stones came from
two OF three directions at once, rattling
llko hill against the houses. The stone
throwing continued night after night
with scarcely an intermission, until the
latter part of July, and became such a
nuisance that the families of Mr.. Kill
ing and Brash We're forced to keep their
shutters closed at night throughout the
hottest part of the summer. At times
Mrs Brash says she heard as many az
five stones strike the house slmulta-
nm h. llS nd
the roof.
Whole bricks and ordinary cobble.
stones struck The houses, and the WON
en- were afraid to 90 out after nighttai.
Failing to discover who threw the
stones, Killing, who is detective, con-
suited some of his neighbors, who
agreed TO aid him. The vigilance com
n.ttee comprised George Held, John
Vaughn, Christian Neisel, Arthur w.
Brash, Charles +. Killing, Morris
O'Briea, John Macdonald, Robert
Shight and John Morrison. The
$ 'onc-throwing continued. During the
storm of stones and bricks the men
said they could hear Il rustling, as OF
some moving object, near the houses,
but no matter how quickly they rushed
to the spot from which the sound came
they could discover no one. Once Mr..
Killing saw a man crawling on his
hands and knees in the corn-tielI and
tbougs he had caught the stone throw
cr. The man proved, however, to be II
poor neighbor who had come out to see
The "shost.' For the past ten days
the stone throwing has been les, fre-
uuenr, but it stll! occurs at intervals. |
OBrien's Hotel, back Of Mr.. Killings
house, has been struck several times
and the house of the Rev. Mr. Spencer,
at the corner Of Morris street and Shay's
lane, has also been slightly battered.
Mr.. Killings chimney has been injured
and one Of his lightning rods broken
off by big cobb!cstpnr. After the
first few nights os the stone throwing
it was rumored in the village that
"Ehost" had been seen. The ghost
turned out to be a stutf"d figure, clrd
i'll white, which was suspended from a
tree ami pulled up and down by rope.
Killing says he don't believe il. the
ghost theory of stone. throwing He is
not aware, he says, that he has an tne-
my in the town. He suspected one
man against whom he had threatened |
legal proceedings, but the mans limo.
cence was proved.