The Dawson journal., 1886-07-29
HAUNTED BY A DEAD WIFE.
A Terrible Hallucinati0n Causes thu
Death Of a New Jersey Man.

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When on her deathbed three
months ago Eva Hebron, of Bound
Brook, N. j., warned her husband
Edwin not to marry again if he
valued his peace of mind. Before
she passed away Mrs. Hebron OBJ
tanned her husbands solemn prom
ise that he would live and die a
widower. The wife died content
ed and was duly buried.
A short time afterward Hebron
married again, taking unto him
self buxom widow of forty sum-
mers. Her name was Mary
Chandlee and she was Roman
Catholic. Hebron Immediately
renouneed his faith in the Meth
odist Episcopal church and en-
braced Catholicism. In many
other ways he also endeavored to
show his affection for his new
wife. But the neighbors remark
ed that lie was restless and un-
well. He said himself that he
could not sleep. One night he
was awakened from an uneasy
slumber by an alarm of fire. He
leaped out of bed and going to
the window saw the Episcopal
church in flames. He watched
the darling flames Tor a moment,
then staggered back with an ex-
preston of horror. His wife
asked what was the matter, but
lac did not appear to hear her. A
strange fascination seemed to hold
him. Suddenly he shrank back
again, placing his hands before
his eyes as if to shut out an aw-
full vision, and trembled in every
limb.
"See," he cried, "see the spirit
of my dead wife comes back to
haunt me! Oh, Eva, why do you
reproach me? o Godw he
shrieked, deliver me from this
awful curse! See how she sneers
and mutters: AS you loved me
In life, as you cherished my men,
ory, as you value your peace of
mind, | charge you never to mar
ry again Don't look at me so,
Eva. Your eyes will kill me.
Forgive me, Eva. Do not scorn
me. 0 God can the dead thus re-
turn to the world to tantalize
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 fell PROSTATE
to the floor with a pitiful moan
and tainted. From that night
Hebron believcd he was a doomed
man. His dreams were hideous,
his wakeful moments frightful
There always lowered about him,
it seemed to his imagination, the
haunting spirit of his buried wife.
Darkness and daylight were the
same; the dismal shadow was ever
present. The man became a mo-
nomaniac. One morning his
countenance looked more CHASTITY
than ever, and he told his friends
he had had a horrible dream.
lie thought Eva's skeleton lay by
his side. The idea frenzied him.
He leapcd from the bed, but the
spectre followed. At length it
piuioned him to the wall with one
long, bony finger. He thought
he felt his life blood ooze from
his pierced heart and drop to the
floor. Then he thought his de-
parted wife licked up his fast
flowing blood with ghoulish greed.
49," she screamed, 81 sup the
vitality of my false husbandr'
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 morning last week he
was found dead in bed. No one
disputed that he died from sheer
fright. His neighbors do not be-
lieve that he was insane, but they
think that he was over-supersti-
tious. Hebron left will, recent
ly made, dividing few thousand
dollars worth of property be-
tween his wife and his sister.
Mrs. Hebron has decided to con-
test the will OH the ground that