Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
A LONG ISLAND GHOST.
A Posse of Armed Ven Hunting a
Mysterious and Elusive Voice.

a Posse of Armed Ven Hunting
Mysterious and Elusive Voice.
Dismal swamps, stagnant boys and
thick underground lie between the
Lu heran and Mount Olivet cemeter-
les. near Maspeth and Fresh Pond,
Lone Island. In this unlOvely neigh
borhood a phost has squatted himself.
much to the annoyance and alarm of
the residents of tina qui.t Deighhor-
hood It first shied its castor into the
ring on Thursday afternoon, when a
number of women and girls were
quietly gathering peas for the evening
meal on the farm of Mr.. Ell. Ring,
which lies close to Mount Oiivet Gem
etery and is skirted by the Newton
road. Suddenly cries were heard
issuing from the cemetery,
apparently of distress. With
mingled benevolence and curiosity,
all of them left their pals and
went toward the voice, which they
followed TO the edge of the pool,
where it faded away into hollow
groan. The peas were left behind,
while the women ran to the farm
house of Mr.. Ring and told him their
story. They were SO frightened that
he could not persuade them TO return
to their work. Aroused by their earn
estness Mr.. Ring accompanied them
to the only warlike man ne knew, the
town constable, Mr.. Henry Bosch.
taken by surprise. He had heard
about the mysterious voice and its
still more mysterious embodiment,
which had been represented to him
as ''tall man, six feet in height, and
perfectly nude, and be was ready for
war. Constable Bosch had no diff
Guilty in securing a posse, and with
ten able bodied citizens he set out to
solve the mystery, leaving the trem
bling and admiring women behind.
The sun was just sinking as they
reached the borders of the cemetery
At the fence one man remarked that
he hao forgotten to take bag of
flour home to his wife, and if the rest
would excuse him he guessed he
would go back, as they wouldn't have
supper at home Besides it was get
ting late. He wasn't afraid. oh, no!
but still he didn't like the idea OF
walking around IN a graveyard after
sun down. His sentiments, strange
ly enough, found an echo in every
they faced about and returned to the
house of Constable Bosch, where
they found a big crowd collected.
Among them was Miss Barbara En-
merine, who declared that she had
seen the ghost frequently and that it
was tall and thin, always dressed in
white, and that it brandished a huge
carving knife
John Trinless, the grave digger
while excavating, had often heard the
mysterious cries of Ohol and so had
both had the reputation of being hon
orable men. To them the constable
explained that they had returned to
collect information and decide upon
plan of action and for this purpose he
invited them all into a neighbOring
bar-room where they lined up and
found whole row of bottled spirits.
Then they prepared themselves for &C
ton on the homeopathic theory that
with ''simlla" they might take ''slmil-
bus"
Thus strengthen, the band set out
just before midnight numbering fifty
with fifty shot-guns, and went to
Mount Olivet cemetery. There they
heard the mysterious voice, and the
whole party advanced toward it,
but try as hard as they could,
it always kept the same dis
lance from them. They went tramping
through the mud for almost mile,
until they reached the Lutheran GEM
etery, where the, mysterious voice
ceased and could be made to speak no
more. On the next night the gallant
constable again headed a searching
party, and the voice led them a SINH
lar chase and sent them home puzzled
and frightened
Since then the people who have
heard the mysterious being in it's
travels around and between the two
cemeteries are increasing IN number.
As yet the mystery is unsolved, and
doors are always carefully locked and
prayers more often said than ever be
fore even in that moral community
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