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The Midnight DOings of q Noisy PhGntOns
ia BOGrdinq- Honse-The Occupants
CdU ia the Police, WhO Utterly Fail to
SOJre the Mystery.

The Midnight DOingS Of q Noisy Phantom
in BOARDING. Hottse-The Occupants
CdlL in the Police, FhO Utterly Fail to |
SOlre the Mystery.
philadelphia Times.
For four nights during the past week a |
ghostly visitor has thrust his invisible |
but noisy presence into the peaceful house |
hold of Benjamin Shane, residing at 922 |
North Eleventh street, and disturbed the |
hitherto quiet members of his family and |
boarders. The house is an old-fashioned |
three-story brick dwelling, whose exterior
as well as interior appearance indicates |
its seniority in age, though it by no means
presents a shabby o. dilapidated contrast |
to its surroundings. The lower floor is oc-
cupied by Mr.. Shane, who is salesman in |
the shoe department. at rWanamaker's |
grand depot. His family consists of his
wife and one child. The second floor is
occupied by man named Channel. en-
ployed in the Keystone Iron works, who
lives there with his wife and boy about
twelve years old. The only other room
regularly occupied is the third story front
in which lives Leo Holman of Holman
Bros, at Front and Vine streets, and Eu-
gene Oppenheimer, an employe. Mr..
Shane last night said that he moved into
the house in November last and had grown
attached to his new home until the occur
rences Of last week compelled him to
search for new abode. He says that
about three weeks ago, as he was suffering
from i'll health, he determined to sleep in
the third story back room, leaving his
wife in their regular bed room, which was
| generally called the back parlor.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE sPooK.
On last Monday night he retired at his
usual hour, little before 10 O'Clock, his
boarders in the front room being fast
asleep and an oil lamp burning on their
mantiepiece, which reflected its light
through the open communicating door.
AS he was just composing himself to
sleep he heard three loud raps at his door,
which also awakened Mr.. Holman, who
called out to him to get up, as his wife
was pounding on the door. Shane called
out; "Who is there?" when the thrse raps
were repeated. He Immediately sprang
out of bed and, rushing through the ad
joining room, unlocked and unbolted the
door, and with the lamp in his hand
looked down the dark stairway. Nothing
was visible but the Pickering shadows of
the lamp. The three men gradually re-
turned to their beds and composed them
selves to sleep.
"wednesday night came the crash. 1t
was like thunderbolt,' said Mr.. Shane.
Il was awake. l heard a noise like puff
at the lamp-it fickered-then another
puff like a suppressed whistle-the light
went out, and instantaneously came the
terrible thud." This noise walked the en-
tire household except Mr.. Oppenheimer,
who was aroused moment later by the
connection it raised, and Immediately
after the blow, which this time came to the
door of the front instead of the rear room,
was heard the muffled tread of retresting
footsteps, not rapidly, but with a slow,
funeral tread.
FLEEING BEFORE THE GHOST.
On this night Mr.. Channell YVES enter
tanning his two brothers, who had called with
lady and gentleman. The party was
playing cards, laughing and talking in the
front room on the floor below, when the
terrible blow vibrated through the house.
The visitors, hastily Selling their wraps,
fed from the house. Thursday night the
occurrence was repeated, but Friday was
''the boss night" said Mr.. Shane. The
CHANNEL family went down early in the
evening to the first floor, in desire to
avoid as much as possible the loneliness
and dread which the previous nights oc-
currences had occasioned. At twenty min
utes to ten Mr.. Shane retired to his room
on the third floor, followed shortly after
by Oppenheimer and Holman, who soon
were fast asleep, and Mr.. and Mrs. Chan
nell were just about retiring when there
came blow at the door of the front room
strong enough to demoliEh the panel.
4 rush was made by the occupants of
the second and third floors to the kitchen,
and there, frightened almost to death, they
tried to encourage one another and dispel
the terrible misgivings which almost drove
: them to madness. After some time Mr..
$ Oppenheimer and Holman concluded TO
/ return to bed, the others being afraid to
leave the kitchen. The two men had
scarcely dropped into restless 1oze,
when noise like the full weight of an i'm
5 mense stone mallet resounded on their
| door, their light went out and Selling their
> clothing, without waiting to dress, they
, rushed frantically down stairs. Mr.
[ Shane's courage was exhausted, and, &C.
[ cOmpanied by Mr.. Channel, he hurried
| around to the Twelfth district station
, house at Tenth and Thompson streets and
. breathlessly detailed the remarkable story
, to the sergeant in charge.
PHANTOM SENTINEL.
The police promised to give the matter
attention. Returning home they learned
: that the sounds of slow, measured foot
3 steps could be distinctly heard pacing
3 like phantom sentinel in the dark hall
4 way above. Not person connected with
the household was up stairs. The men
women and two children were trembling
with fear, in the kitchen, straining every
nerve to catch the dismal echoes of the
; mysterious footballs. On Saturday night
e Lieut. Bosh, ascertaining the respectable
/ character of the tenants of the house, &C
t companied by one Of the ssrgeants, went
S to the house and examined the situation of
t the rooms, but the turbulent visitor did
3 not appear. They waited during the pc
: Rod when the nocturnal noises are said to
3 occur, and were unable to form any
opinion regarding the singular
I. affair. Last night was also
i quiet. When the reporter called Mr.
:. Shane took him at once to the haunted