Daily globe., 1883-11-04

! at al, and so I sat up reading, or rather trv.
| ing to read, until nearly II, and then
! did not quite feel as though / wanted to re-
| main in the same room, and desired as n,uca
| protection as the alcove room would give.
f! though there wera bat curtains TO senayats
| the rooms
So sat up in bed there for about half an
hour. All in an Instant the whole thing was
before me again, and I did feel somewhat
! queer and chilly, but I watched the progress
OF the wholetragedy again, and, as decided,
for the last time.
As soon as was feasible in the morning I
sent for Mr.. Adams, the clerk 10 come Up,
and asked him if he would tell me whether
any murder had ever been committed in that
room, and he declared there had not; bit
when insisted On finding out whether
; tragedy OF any kind had been enacted there,
| he admitted taaSOnce a man had committed
| suicide in that room. He had been sick and
/ was despoade0t, and so had taken bis life.
! felt sure, then, and told him SO, that that
man had been murdered, and under just such
| circumstances as l had seen Mr. Adams
! could not give the details of the position Of
! the body Of the supposed suicide.
| was then assigned to another room, and
! as long as remained saw no moro Of my
, gfostiy vision I promised Mr.. Adams TO
! say nothing about it., not ttAss we believed In
| ghosts, either Of us, but for TIE hotels sake;
| and went my way TO Europe aEtec few
| days, a4ad remained there some yeexs. On
/ my return L simply passed thro1gA New
! York ami had almost forgotten the whole
/ affair. After several yeazs' residence in
! America again, aad after travelling the whole
I length and breadth of our country tvice, is is
f.-rTEc r.,
. forgotten all about it. One day was writing
a very lively. spFightly letter, and feeling in
, particularly good spirits, when al at once I
| pushed aside tale letter, and drawing other
paper towards me wrote o4lte simple history OF
that affair, just as it WIS, and NAKED it TO The
New York Sun They took only time to verify
what they could Of the story and pub
ished it. It made considerable s5ir, and re-
IsortesS visited the room and interviewed NJ
Adams, who admitted all that IS hers told;
and also added that he felt positive that I
was perfectly sincere and honest and par
tculaTiy level-headei person, and one not
gived TO any Of the failacies Of spiritualis1n,
and that he did not doubJ tha5 ! saw every
thing as | said. He had had one or two per
Sons who desired TO leave the room, but he
did not know why. He would not be afraid
to sleep there but neves had done So Then
several persons who had occupied that room
began to be heard from, all relating differ
emf experiences, though none lad seen what
! had
a Catholic priest Published an article re-
IaCing 30 it, and aocoznting for it all by say
ing that ne believed that the man had been
murdered ard that assassin was still livinc,
and that as 4 punishment for his crime, he
was obliged to enact Ii every night in spirit
while asieep, and that it was Il well-knorn
fact that one mind had influence over an
other to a greater or less extent, and that his
mind during lis free moments had forced
mine to behold the tragedy.
Some Of the newspapers suggested that it
was the ghost OF Tamlnany; others declared
Is Bill Tweed, and some ridicQled the whole
affair
An English sea captain also published his
experience while occupying that room He
had been playing cards with a friend, and
while at the little table there came an invisi-
bic shower Of apparently heavy articles
down Oh the table, scattering the cards right
and left Another man had had peculiar,
but not startling experiences there.
Several years have passed since that time,
and l had almost forgotten that l had ever
written or seen anything, when about two
mind by a stTange and shocking incident.
l was walking along one OF the busiest
streets in New York and it was worry hotand
did not wish to got unnecessarily heated.
when became aware of an uncomfortable
sensation, Us if 4 czId hand yyas touching me
and leadjns mo forward few steps fur
ther took me toward lady Of graceful nien
and figure, VINO yFes standing by the side of a
gentleman {Dgn o,J (,r,,,-,
strangely familiar to mo. ca,ight his look.
which was fixed upon me, and ne drew his
Hps back in an attempt to smile, which was
50 ghaSay a lSht that all who saw it shud-
dered, and the0 he fel to the ground dead.
OF course everything was done that could
be done to restore him, but useleS5ly ana the
doctors said he died in fit. I was the only
other woman present, and, as such, felt 1t a
duty 10 stay by the woman, who seemed to
be stricken with paIior Of death, though she
did not taint or cry when they said he was
dead. took her hand and asked her if she
was able u give orders, and asked what
could be done for her She replied wearfly
but simply. nothing She would have the
body taken TO the TN ierta6er's and huri5I
from there, and then she wonld go home.
turned to 80 and gave her nay card, say
Ing that / should be but too happy 10 be- of
service, aui started out; but rs my eyes fell
upon the face Of the dead man saw, with a
shock that l fear shall never forget, that it
was the murderer OF my vision, without any
shadow of doubt
The next day brought me a package bv
post, in which was q pack of cards and
slip of paper, on which was written: 1T is
all over town, and the unhappy sight You
were forced 10 witness has wrought its result
The man you saw die yesterday slew his half
brother for fancied wrong, the pretext of &
quarrel at cards being subtarfuge. As
soon as my husband knew that his brother
had not supplanted him in his fathers af-
fectionS he became the victim of q renaorse
as terrible as imagination could paint. His
father became almost a maniac when be
heard of his younger sons supposed
suicide, and as my husband dared
not own himself murderer
to that poor OLD father. he suffered such tor.
lures as You can imagine, He was a, man of
powerful viii and coaid control hiruseli
while awake but rs soon as he would sleep it !
seemed AS if his wiz escaped from his body
ana seemed to tlv through space. and no mat. /.
ter where we were-anj we Travelled every
where--he would return in spirit 90 that fatal
room He told me all ana loved him well
enough 10 love him stu and to pity him in