The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-01
HAUNTED BY HIS DEAD WIFE.
The Terrible Hullucination Which Caused
the Death of Edward Hebron.


New York, June 2S.-When on her
deathhed three months ago Eva Hebron
of Bound Brook, y. j., warned her hus-
band Edwin not to marry again if he
valued his peace of mind. Before she
passed away Mrs. Hebron obtained her
sorrowful husbands solemn promise
that he would live and die a widower.
The wife died contented and was duly
buried,
A short time afterward Hebron mar
ried again. taking unto himself buXom
widow of forty Summers Her name
was Mary Chandlee, and she was a Ro-
man Catholic. Hebron Immediately
renounced his faith in the Methodist
Episcopal Church and embraced Catho-
licism. In many other ways he also en-
deavored TO show his affection for his
new wife. But the neighbors remarked
that he was restless and seemed unwell.
He said himself that he could not sleep.
One night he was awakened from an un-
easy slumber by an alarm of fire. He
leaped out of bed, and going to the WIN
dow saw the Episcopal Church in flames.
He watched the dartlng flames for mo-
ment, then staggered back with an eX-
preston of horror. His wife asked what
was the matter, but 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,
.,,l +r,,,I>1o6 in a,,or, limb
"See," he cried, "see, the spirit OF my
dead wife comes back to haunt me! On,
Eva, why do you reproach me! 0
God!" he shrieked, "delver me from
this awful curse! See how she sneers
and mutters, las you loved me in life,
as you cherish my memory, as you value
your peace of mind, I charge you never
to marry 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 return to the world to
tantaIize those who have wronged them?
Heavens She brings an army OF ghast-
ly creatures to end my life. Ten thous-
and devils! How they jcer and gibe !!
Merciful God!"
The terrified man fell prostrate to the
floor with a pitiful moan and tainted.
From that night Hebron believed he
was doomed man. His dreams were
hideous, his wakcful 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 sha-
dow was ever present. The man be-
came q monomaniac. One morning his
countenance looked more ghastly than
ever, and he told his friends he had a.
horrible dream lie; thought sEYa's
=. !. his side. Tile idea
frenzied him. lie leaped from the bed,
but the spectre followed. At length it
pinioned him TO the wall with one long,
bony finger. lie thought he felt his life
blood ooze from his pierced heart and
drip to the floor. Then he thought his
departed wife licked up his fast-tiowlng
blood with ghoulish greed.
$50" she screamed, 81 sup the vital
ity of my false husbandm
This story convinced Hebron's friends
that he was insane, then 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 dis
puted that he died from sheer fright.
Ills neighbors do not believe that 'hc
was insane, but they think that he was
ovcr-superstltious. 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 husband was insane when
he made 1t.
MICMT To MILD AN EDITOR