The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-08
HAUNTED BY HIS DEAD WIFE.

! When on her deathbed three
months ago Eva Hebron, of Bound
Brook, n. j., warned her husband
Edwin not to marry again ifhe val
ued his peace Of mind. Before she
passed away Mrs. Hebron obtained
| her sorrowful husbands solemn prom,
Use that he would live and die wild
over. The wife died contented and
was duly buried.
A short time afterward Hebron
married again, taking into himself a
buxom widow of forty summers. Her
name was Mary Chandlee and she
was Roman Catholic. Hebron i'm
mediately renowned his faith in the
Methodist Episcopal Church and EN-
braced Catholicism In many other
ways he also endeavored to show his
affection for his new wife. But the
neighbors remarked that he was rest
less and seemed unwell. He said
himself that he couldnot sleep. One
night he was awakened from an IN.
easy slumber by an alarm of fire. He
leapcd out of bed and going to the
window saw the Episcopal church in
flames. He watched the darling
flames for a moment, then staggered
back with an expression of horror.
HIS wife asked what was the matter.
hut he did not appear to hear her.
A strange fascination seemed to hold
him. Suddenly he shrank back
again, placed his hands before his
eyes as if to shut out an awful vision,
and trembled in every limb.
See" he cried, "aee, the spirit of
my dead vile comes back to haunt
me Oh, Eva, why do you reproach
me o God !" he shrieked, "deliyer
me from this awful curse See how
she sneers and mutters 'As you low
ed me IN life, as you cherish my men,
DRY, as you value your peace of mind.
l charge you never to marry again
Don't look at me so, Eva. Your eyaa
will kill me. Forgive me, Eva. Do
not scQrn me. o God, can the dead
thus return to the world to tantrlize
those who have wronged them ?
Heavens She brings an army of
CHASTITY creatures to end my life. Ten
thousand devils, How they jeer and
gibe Merciful God !"
The terrified man tell Frustrated to
the floor with pitiful moan and faint.
ed. From that night Hebron believ
cd he was doomed man. His
dreams We're hidcOus, his wakeful
moments frightful. There always
lowered about him, it seemed to his
Imagination, the haunting spirit Of
his bqried wife. Darkness and day
light were the same the dismal
shadow was ever present. The man
became m0nOmaniac. One morn
ING his oauntenance looked more
CHASTITY than ever, and he told his
friends he had had horrible dream.
lie thought Eva's SHELTON lay by his
aide. The idea trenzied him. He
leaped from the bed, but the spectre
followed. At length it pinioned him
to the wall with one long, bony Gn
ger lie thought he lelt his life
blood eoze from his pierced heart and
drip to the floor. Then he thought
his departed wife licked up his fast.
flowing blood with ghauIish greed.
So. sEs screamed, ~ sup the
vitality OF my false husband 20
This story convinced Hebron's
friends that he was insane, and steps
were about to be taken to have him
removed to an asylum when one
m9rnina has, week he was found
dead in bed. No one disputed that
he died from sheer fright. His
nelghbors do not believe that he was
insane, but they think that he was
oyer-sQperstitious. Hebron left a
will, recently made, dividing a few
thousand dollars worth of property
between his wife and his sister. Mrs.
Hebron has decided to contest the
will on the ground that her late hus-
band was insane when he made it.