The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-02

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TO another room, but did not offer any
explanations. j did not either, but de-.
cided not to 9tveup without one more
trial. aid this night determined not
10 fall asleep atall, and Sol sat mp sead-
ing, or rather trying tOiread. until near
" twelve, and then / did
not feelQuite a. though I wanted to re.
! main in the same room, and 1 desired
a much protection as the alcoye room
would give, though there were but cur.
tatnS Z o separate the rooms.
So I sat u p in bed there for half an
hour. Ali in an instant the whole thing
v q before me again, and, did feel
somewhat queer and chilly, but I
edy again, and as 1 decided, for the ayt
time.
As soon as was feasible in the
morning I sent fol-. Mr.. Adams, the
clerk to come up, and / asked him if he
would tell me whether any murder had
ever been committed in that room, ana
he declared there had not; but when /
insisted ON finding out whether a TRACE
dy of any kind had been enacted there.
he admitted that once a man had COM
mit,ed suicide in that oom He had
been SICK and vas Respondent. and so
had taken his life.
I felt sure, then and told him so, that
that man had been murdered, and
under just such circumstances as | had
seen. Mr.. Adams could not give the
details of tie 20 ,ition of the body of
1.-the supposed suicide.
/ vas then assigned to another room,
and as long as | remained | saw no
more of my ghostly vision. [ promised
MI. Adams to say nothing about it, not
that we believed in ghosts, either of US,
but for the hotels sake; aud went my
way To Europe after a few days, and re-
mainei there some years. On my re-
turn 1 simply passed through New York,
and had almost forgotten the whole af-
fair. After several years residence in
whole length and breadth OF our
pose that ] should have forgotten all
about it. One day I was writing a very
lively, sprightly letter, and feeling in
particularly good spirits, when all at
once / pushed aside that letter, and
drawing other paper toward me wrote
out q simple history of that affair, Just
ss it WAS, and mailed it to the New York
sun. They took only time to verify
what they could of the story and pub
lished it. 1t made considerable stir,
and reporters visited the room and in
terviewed MI. Adams, who admitted all
that is here told; and also aided that
he felt positive tnat l was perfectly sin
cere and honest, and a particularly level
headed person, and one not given to
any of the tallacies of s%piritualism, and
that he did not doubt that / saw every
thing as | said. He had had one or two
persons who desired to leave that room,
but he did not know why. He would
not be afraid to sleep there, but never
had done 30. Then several persons who
had occupied that room began to be
heard from. all relating different expert
ences, though none had seen what 7
had.
A Catholic priest published an article
relating to it, and accounting for it all
saying that no believed that the man
had been murdered and thatthe assassin
was still living, and that, as a punish
ment for his crime, he was obliged to
enact it every night in spirit while
asleep, and that it was a we'll known
fact that one mind had influence over
another to a greater or less extent, and
that his mind during its free moments
had forced mine to behold the tragedy,
some of the newspapers suggested
that it was the ghost of Tammany others
declared it Bill Tweed, and some ridi-
culed the who e affair.
An English sea captain also published
hisexperience while occupying that room
He had been playing cards with friend,
and while at the little table there came
an invisible shower of apparently heavy
articles down on the t.ble, scattering
he cards right and left. Another man
had had peculiar, but not startling, ex-
periences there.
Several years have passed since that
time, and | had almost forgotten that |
had ever written or seen anything, when
about two months since the whole was
brought to my mind by a strange and
shocking incident.
l was walking along one of the busiest
streets in New York, and it was very
hot and | did not wish to get ~unneces.
sarily heated, when l became aware OF
an uncomfortable sensation, as if cold
hand was touching me and leading me
forward. A few steps further took me
toward q lady of graceful mien and fig
ure. who was stanssing by the side of a
gentleman whose face and figure seemed
strangely familiar to me. / caught his
look. which was fixed upon me, and he
drew his lips back in an attemptto smile,
which was so CHASTITY q sight that all who
saw it shuddered, andthen he fell to the
ground dead.
Of course everything was done that
could be done to restore him, but use.
lessly, and the doctor said he died in q
tit. | was the only other woman pres
snt, and, as such, I felt it q duty to stay
by the woman. who seemed to be strick-
en- with a pallor Of death, though she
did not faint or cry when they said he
was dead. Itook her hand and asked
her fshe was able to give orders, and
asked what could bo doGe for her. She
replied YEARLY but simply, nothing"
she wouid nave the body taken to an
undertaker'sa and buried from there. and
then she would go home.
turned to go and gave her my card,
saying that l should lie but too happy ia
be OF service, and started out; but as
my eyes fell upon the face of the dead
man l saw, with a shock that / fear 1
shall never forget, that it was the mur-
of doubt.
The next day brought me a package
by post. In which was a pack Of cards
and a slip of paper, on which was writ
ten: 1T is all ove now and the unhap.
py sight you were forced to witness has
wrought its result. The man you saw
die yesterday slew his half-brother for a
iAneled wrong, the pretext of u quarrel
at cards being q subterfuge. As soon as
my husband knew that his brother had
not s%uPplanted him in his fathers aHec-
tons he became the victim ola remorse
as terrible as imagination could paint
HIS father became almost q maniac when
he heard Of his younger sons supposed
suicide, and as my husband dared mol
own himself a murderer to that poor old
father, he suffered such tortures as YOU
can imagine. He was a man of power.
ful will and could control himself while
awake, but as o 0 as he would sleep il
seemed to fly through space
and no matter where we we're
and we travelled everywhere he would