Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-30
ANOTHER GHOST.
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ARelAxT10x or JOHN FRASKFoRD.
~ supss~bundanc Of Supernatural yisisations
= xAneasser County. Of Late. Due Entirely TO
ths Ovsrfsedlas Of Guiiibis Reporter
On Chsistmas Cake and Mince Pie.

4 one Of the imaginative reporters OF our
o1toemed contemporary the Ncw Era, having
iudulged too freely In the indigestible viands
Of tho Christmas season has been riding the
nightmare ever since. Like pillar Of fire
by night and pillar Of cloud by day, a
nhostly vision haunts his dreams and con-
fronts him at every turn in his waking hours
HIS oppressed readers consequently have to
sup with horrors every evening.
Tho bloody ghost, II will not down. One
day II appears to him in the form of head
less man stalking over the Manor hills
next day II is the petrified corpse of a muir
siered peddler found in the marshes of Full
ton township; and, lastly, the apparation
took ON the form of one-eyed John Frank
ford, who came to the reporter in his dreams,
showed him the empty socket of his gone
eye and told him how he had died out in
Ohio.
The Canard Hunted Down.
Accordingly the New Era of Monday
evening contained wild tale from Akron,
Ohio, claiming to give the particulars of the
death of John Frankford in that place several
months ago being only another version of a
story which appears with the periodicity of
the moons changes, and will reappear regu-
larly as long as Frankford is at large.
1t was claimed that letter has been
received in this city by a daughter of Frank
ford, from Martin Kline, his step brother in
Akron, stating that the celebrated jail-breaker
had died at his house en- October 22d., and
that his death was from brain fever caused
by the wound which lost his eye.
Frankford has number of relatives in
this city, and all have been seen by an IN
TELLIGENcER representative. From them
il was learned that Michael Kline has been
dead for over year, and no letter could have
been received from him, except by the same
ghostly hands that were recently carrying
lanterns and dead mems heads over the hills
of Manor.
Frankford has one grown daughter in this
city, who is married TO a well-to-do young
man and has several small children. She
declares positively that she never received
any letter of the Kind and knows nothing of
her fathers whereabouts.
Another daughter of Frankford's resides
in Philadelphia, and he has several small
children in this city, They are by his second
wife, who procured divorce from him some
years ago.
All Of Frankford's near friends and rela-
tives claim that tho story is untrue, although
several of them intimated that it would be a
great deal better il itwere, as John will never
have any peace while alive, as he is constantly
being chased by detectives and others The
only persons who pretend to believe the story
are the family OF his second wife, who, as
stated, is divorced from him.
The Ghost stin Mt II.
The same vivid imagination which has
concocted the other local ghost stories, gets
his work into the Police Gdzette this week
In that sensational sheet Abe Buzzard is
again pictured as he is supposed to look
while attending revival services on the noun
tain. This time Abe is seen kneeling in from
of reverend-looking gentleman, in long
robe, who is supposed to be minister, and
he looks as solemn as hearse. He il
dressed in a neat-looking suit and wear'
high-topped boots. In each hand he holds d
revolver and looks as though he don't NEAR
Ia be taken by surprise while Mt prayer
Frankford is also seen in this picture-the
artists having not had early and exclus
i've" notice Of his death in Akron, Ohio.