Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-08-05

A GbOss All the Way from Lel and
While some women and girls were
picking peas on the farm of w. II.
Ring, close to Mount Olivet Cemetery
on the Newtown, L. l., road, the other
day they heard cries of " 0, no =" They
ran to the spot and distinctly heard
the same ooh, hos" but failed vol
discover the author Of the peculiar
soaud The pea ickers refused to re.
turn TO work. Mr.. Ring expostulated,
but in vain, and he then went to Fresh
Pond to inform Henry Bosch, the town
constable. MIR. Bosch had heard OF
the strange occurrence from his neigh
bors, some Of whom declared that they
had seen the " spook," as they called
IL, and described 1t as "a man about
ak feet high, well built and perfectly
made"
The officer and Mr.. Ring, with about
ten others, started through the woods
to catch the naked man." As they APP
preached Mount Olivet Cemetery they
heard the 90, hos" but they came
from the direction of theLutheran ceme-
terry, about . mile distant. The men at
once changed their course. 1t WAS sun
down When they reached the Lutheran
cemetery fence, and one of the party re-
fused to 60 any further.
"Devil q step further I'll 60 with
you. Ny wife told me all about this,
an I'm blanked fool for interfering.
It's after shutdown AN that's just the
time them things come around these
cemetries: If you'd take fools advice
you'd go home.'
Why, what do you mean?'' ner-
vously asked the constable.
l at. hos Oh I 81 ~
just what I mean, an I'm going
noine."
The men looked ut one another, shook
their heads, aud the constable said,
Well, l guess we had all better 81
home"
Reaching constable Bosch's house
about nine o'clock in the evening, they
we're met by crowd of women and
children, all Of whom had heard the
sepulchral 80, hos" and many of them
had seen, what they all now believed
to be real ghost, travelling between
the two cemeteries. Miss Barbara
Emerine of Fresh Pond was sure that
she had seen something dressed in
white. I'm sure 1t Was ghost" she
said. &C. II was tall and thin, and carried
a large carving knife"
saw it too" chimed in Mrs. Luth
eran. knew that them things was
in the old cemetery. Fritz come
home"
| The constable invited the men pres.
ent into the bar room to make arrange
} ments for the capture OF the ghost Later
in the night They had just entered
1.-THE room when woman rushed up Il
} the door, shouting: "Ttm, darlin,
where are you? o, Tim, hurry up
that things around the house an tn,
childer are all alone" Tim rushed GU
Of the bar room, but not in time to saw,
! his wife, who fell in swoon on sh
rail, DAD platform. She soon revived
When the poor woman came to sh'
said go, Tim, touid you many ,
time not to be around thin cemeteries
after dark"
4 After time Mrs. Mccormick was ia
ken to her home, and she found tn,
, childer" all right. The men Of the vii
lage, armed with shot-guns and led b,
constable Bosch, male q thorough
search through, the swamps and under
brush between Mount Olivet and Lu
: theran cemeteries. About midnight the,
|, heard the" o hos" and followed til
sound to the Mount Olivet cemetery
fence, where 1t seemed to sink into tn
earth. The brave men returned to thei
homes scared.
Il When a reporter called on constabl
: Bosch on Saturday afternoon he WAS Il
bed and the barkeeper directed him
Mrs. .dcCurmick, q handsome, INTEL
!, gent Lash woman. She said 1T
! ncsoIt that can tell you all about Il
o Y see before l married Tim In th
aid country was Miss Nellie Alcocl
vas keeping company with Mix
d helly, of Tempburn, an we were 81
: gagged to be married, an We would hav
been, too, only Tim came along q
= says: Nell, I'm going TO Americks
: will you come wild me-? Indeed
says l, an we got married. I'll
y week after was married poor Mil
. committed suicide, an from that ia
until this his ghost has haunted me.
.f you remember, about thrt
months ago we lived up by Calvar
J. cemetery, and we heard Mike. "
. moved out here, thinking of cours
that he wouldn't find us, but the PIX
y fellow follows me up. I've had mass
y said for the p ace Of his poor soul, b,
l. it Doesn't do me any good. He sti
u follows me. If he keeps on he'll driv
:, me out of my mind"
John Winters, grave digger
= Mount Olivet cemetery, is positive tn,
L. it's somebody's ghost. John Devon,
stone cutter at the cemetery, saw som
n \ thing, but, 81 thought 1t was q ms
4 dress ed in white. didn't care to RI
20 after it,"