Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-28
A PUGlLlSTIC SHOOK.

A Boomer in Q New York Apartment Says
 He Was Pounded by Q Ghost.
 No. 5Sl Third avenue is an unassuming five storied tenement house, with Apart ments to Let" on placard hanging over the lowest fire escape. It would not suggest to tho casual passer by its claim and distinc- tion; but it has one, just the same. They say it is haunted.
 All the apartments are for rent, except two, of which one is occupied by Mrs Ann Newman, the housekeeper, and the other by Mrs. Maloney, a snug little matron, with rosy cheeks and disposition to give up her apartments. II don't think it's healthy" is what she says, but probably other than hy- gienic motives actuated the plump Hibernian.
 Years ago, they say, & poor devil was done to death in the cellar, and everybody knows that gore spots in a house breed ghosts.
 One day Q large, muscular fellow named Leonard entered into possession of an apart ment in the haunted house. The next night he was almost hammered to death by a thing shadowy but strong. In the morning he bundled up his possessions and lit out, leav- ing his good SIS advance for months rent.
 Mrs. Maloney held converse with a trem- bling Evening World reporter on the sub ject.
 "de was big, stout man," quoth she. After he went to bed his light went out. He thought he might have left the window open or that the oil in his lamp had given out, as did that of the unwise virgins.
 "But when he rose and pottered to the win dows ill the meager draping of his shirt tails, he found them all closed, and the lamp was filled
 "Then he went back to his bed again. Then he was pummeled and beaten, and hysVyy CorIo ov,I shadowy shape that was maltreating him" :"
 Whether this John L. Sullivan of a spook was mad at the way Leonard had voted can- not be told, or why the big man waited till he was pounded to death almost, does not ap- pear, and the deponent averred not But he was knocked out in the first round He went into his sisters room and crawled into bed with her and her husband. His sis ter's name was Clark Here he shook for the rest of the night, and the next day they all fed the haunted scene to locality not so affected by departed spirits. As corroborative testimony that a ghost had licked him, Leonard exhibited large sec tions of his anatomy to Mrs Maloney. He barred his massive legs and arms, land they | was all covered with black and blue spots, | like he had been pounded" said Mrs Malo- 1 ney.
 l In spite of the evidence of the ghosts pu- 1 gilistic exercise on N~ Leonard, tho buxom Mrs. Maloney calmly declared 8 perfectly 1 Bob 1ngersoll incredulity in ghosts When questioned by the reporter, however, she l said:
 1.-The walls of my room shake every night like they would tumble down. Last night ] heard . voice in the corridor at half past 12 | o'clock. I've sometimes wakened up two young men to lodge with me to have them sec what they can find. I don't see what makes the dreadful shakes" l Mrs. Newman, the housekeeper, professed the most perfect incredulity in regard te | ghosts.
 | "I've lived here a year, and never heard anything. And my hearing is that good that hear every little noise. If there was ghosts 'tain't likely I'd stay here with four chil | dren.
 "There was no talk about it until this biz man got the fright, and who knows but that he'd been drinking and got tho jimjams."
 Young Master Newman, aged 4, was train ing for . circus, or an early death, as luck might turn, by acrobatic performances 0u l the rim of large green washtub. -.
 "Do you believe in ghostsi" the reporter asked him, knowing the simplicity and can dor of the childish mind.
 take any stock in spooks.
 Other children in the house, however claim to have seen "a man" in the cellar There is no way for him to get there excep, 1 by the front or back door or the lower win dows, so he was beyond doubt real ghost New York Evening World.