Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-12
ADaad WIGS Rerenge

A Dead WIEe5S Revenge
The recent marriage of Lilly Hamp-
ton of Gallipolis, O., divorced wife of
Captain Nat Earhart, to a citizen of
Kansas has brought to light some
strange revelations pertaining to the
cause inducing the separation be
tween the captain and his wife.
These revelations have led to much
gossip in social circles, and it is gen
orally conceded that this strange
affair is one of the most remarkable
and supernatural known.
The careers of both the Hampton
woman and of Captain Earhart are
of the most extraordinary character.
The captain was in command of an
Ohio River steamboat. Miss Hamp-
ton, while a passenger on the Cap
tain's boat, was just on the point of
throwing herself in the river with
suicidal intent, when the captain
noticed her strange conduct and pre-
vented the rash act. This was their
first acquaintance, but before Miss
Hampton left the boat the captain,
though a married man with afamilY,
became completely smitten with the
charms Of the woman. After this
occurrence he paid her frequent visits,
until his wife, who was a very pre-
possessing lady and en-
tirely devoted to her husband, be
came so annoyed at his conduct that
she committed suicide by hanging.
In few months after this event the
captain and Miss Hampton were
married, and though apparently
greatly attached to each other have
passed through various Vicissitudes
Of misfortune and calamity the his
tory and incidents whereof cOnsti-
tute one Of the truest and strangest
tales. Butthe climax Of all the many
wonderful events connected with
the history of these two persons has
just been given to the public by the
confession of the newiY-Wedded wife,
and it adds another most interesting
chapter to therOmantic and unfOrtu-
nate career of the Well-knOWn
steambOatman. This confession was
obtained through an intimate friend
of the fair Lilly, to whom she freely
recited her reasons for deserving the
captain, declaring that she fOnnd it
impossible to endure the frequent
visits made to her by the spirit of the
captains first wife, and that she had
been tortured into the most mex
pressible agony with strange noises
and frightful apparatiOns so that
she could neither find peace or enjoy
quietness while in the captains
presence. Many times. she asserts,
she had been reused from her sleep
| by startling cries and sObs Of dis
tress at her bedside, and she also
heard voices nightly which herecOg-
nized as belonging to the captains
first wife, who beseeched her in the
most plaintiVe manner to give up
her husband, vOwing that there could
neither be peace nor happiness until
she did so. Often, also, she saw dis
tinctly the form of her spirit rival
arrayed in beautiful white garments
vainly endeavOring to snatch away
the husband from her side, and when
this could not be accomplished there
was presented to her imagination
such a heartrending picture Of de-
spair and sadness as produced IN
happiness and misery past all human
endurance. On one particular Occa-
sion she alleges that there was pres
ented to her the scene of the dead
Wife's suicide in all its hOrrid features
and such awful reality that it left an
impression on her mind never to be
forgotten and caused her to at once
make preparations to obtain a di-
VOrce.
The captain seemed to be no less
affected with these strange noises and
ghOstly phantOms of his former wife
than Lilly, and consequently readily
assented to the procuring of a di-
vOrce, believing a separation prefer
able to longer existing in a life O.
such torture. Lilly affirms also that
at several times the captains mind
was greatly agitated over these re-
peated visits of the spectre, and that
they caused him untold annoyance
and apprehension. Since procuring
the divorce Lilly says she has not
been troubled with the phantOms as
formerly, and she is quite positive
that Earhart has likewise been re-
ieVed Of the same spiritual affection.
a few DAYS since j. 81. Walker. J.