Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-27
A JERSEY SPECTRE.
The Wanderings of a Ghost"
Terrify MoOrestOWn.
Only Women Daring to Brave it---The
BuIIiss COwed. Children Thrown Into
Spasms, Lovers Counting by
Daylight.
PHILADELPHIA Nsus.

spasms and give the braggarts Of mel
lively midnight chances. Whatever ma.
be the species, sex or purpose of the de
monical thing, it is referred to in Moores
town a The Ghost
During the past ten days it has appeared
30 frequently that social, religious ant
cammsrcial matters Of the borough are
much disturbed. The good people do mo-
say their prayers at church in the evening
and the bad folks move around after DARK
in groups. Lovers, and they are numerous
in this place, do their counting before the
sun goes down. Merchants put up the
shutters early, for customers are few after
supper. No community has ever been
impressed with the fact that they have q
demand among them than the inhabitants
of pretty Moorestown.
A few evenings ago Abraham Strouck,
a young man employed By Plumber Worrel,
on returning on the owl train from Phil,
adelphis, encountered the ghost Just as
he reached Mrs. Kepern's cottage below
the station. 1t came upon him noiselessly,
as if it moved over the ground without the
use Of its feet. 1t walked aside Of him for
a few feet before he discovered it; he WAS
too much frightened to cry out, and was
fixed TO the spot. The creature was over
six feet high, dressed in u black dress, with
q hideous ..ce, probably being an animal
mask. /, disappeared without u~ttering a
word.
The evening previous Mrs. Wilkins, who
resides at Second and Mill streets, wac &C
costed by the unnatural thing while return
ing from a store, and her description is
the same as Mr.. Stroucks. She is, how
ever Of the opinion that it is a man dressed
in female attire. Mrs. Esta Moore and Mrs
Mary Evans, who live in the section Of the
town known as West MoOrestown, have
also received visits from ut. The children
Of Mrs. Former will believe in Spooks until
their dying day, Tor their experience with
this thing Of mystery almost proved fatal.
A series Of spasms is said 10 have followed
the shock they received a few evenings ago
when returning from a visit to a school
mate.
Apart from noiselessly gliding up TO uE-
protected females, the ghost" has display
ed considerable ability in jumping back
fences and peering through Windows at
women and children while gathered around
the evening lamp. Mrs. Jones heard a
quiet tapping on the window a few nights
ego and quickly g!sncing atound she re-
marked: There Is a black ca:.' The
noise continuing she looked again aud
caught a tull viw Of the monster face. II
remained long enough that oil might see
its u~glinesa aud vanished. A few minutes
later Mr. Jones was cunning for it with a
revolutionary car6iue.
Both Mrs Klug aud Mrs. Barclow have
been favored By the spool with shocks, and
until assured that the thing is captured
will do their odd errands while the sun is
shining.
John Bolsnd, the shoemaker, employed
by W. + Thompson, on the main street,
feels rather uncomfortable because be is
obliged to peg away every night until a
midnight. To the News reporter, yester.
day, he said, as he lifted a huge Colts navy
revolver from under his bench: BE it g
ghost or be it q man, l only want one shot
q it. People are afraid to go out at night
10 fact you can hardly get anybody to open
III, ir doors after dark for fear the ghost
will be standing there grinning at them. l
don't believe in ghosts, but so many people
down our way have actually seen it that l
carry this revolver in case OF any surprise.
My wife keeps things pretty tight at home
after dark
Some Of the hsrdninded people in the
town declared it is somebody bent on mis-
chief. The figure being tall, some supici'
Gus folks have limited that 1t is Aaron
Burr, the constable and detective, because
he is the talIest mau in the place; but, to
settle such q damaging report, the well.
known catcher OF horse thieves has offered
a reward from his own purge for anyone
solving the mystery. He further declares
that he spent many nights prowling around
the town in fearch OF the devlish creature.
Headmits he has several times encountered
it, bat it fitted away before he could get
his hip pocket arsenal to bear upon it. A
number Of scouting parties have been or
ganized by the unterrifed Of the town, but
the ghost fitted in and out among them
before they recovered their senses. In fact
the ghostly "visitant has given several oil
the DULLES such a terrible fright and chase
that it now pros Wis around unmolested.
The only two people in the town that
have brsved the dreadful thing are women.
When it slipped up to Mrs Maggie Robin.
son The other evening, she struck out from
the shoulder and exclaimed: You brute
you cannot scare me" Mrs. Moore, when
she was ~accosted and was treated to a de
monical smile, took the compliment coolly,
and said "Yoa had better go home, for
| know ToC
Its present tramping ground at the pres
ent time is West Moorestown, but previous
to this the ghost had its rendezvous in q
clunp Of trees above the East Moore town
csnnaries. 1t is claimed BY some that the
ghost is frequently invisible TO men when
il is visible to the horses. Ga certain parts
of the road leading from the Moor stown
Fair Grounds, those who at different times
have driven the horses belonging to Far.
mer Comfort and Yeansns Gilingham
have had difficulty tn getting them past
certain points, and it is q generally *
pressed belief that the animals saw the
Ghost in some new masquerade.
Jim" the nondescript colored man EN-.
ployed by Frank ~Hollingshead On q farm
near Hartford, cannot be persuaded to
cross the threshold Of his masters home
eiter dark. A few weeks ago he came up
the road with 80 much momentum that he
flew through the papnels OF the bolted
kitchen dco. end made q dent in the oppo
site wall. declaring on his Bonded knees
that be seed it wild his own eyes
A Kings Thrilling Combat with Deer.
LIEfn Tr0n.