The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-16

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The rrsrEs-xsssers taks crest ds2s q
iase-sss IN The Ts1ors-hannssd nSsate
on n<isaen ayenss@- where Dr. ks9rr
sy@s. Ye-seedsy psos,stay Thousand
r,~r.sss. vs~wes3 the isoase. ard fssosf
at tse time the rfsses IA fFsssss OF q = -
hssskssi With se0sf@ When evening
came The CROWD gsex larger. asssf eFsss
a. flashing ssgtstztng and The threat
~rsEssg rninssorrss faiIgt to ey.se al Use
rS~ssle xxav. Is - astaesd THAT TIE
Policeman on ske a~4f passed. ~ %
the ether ssie. uf. ks9r seft o., 20
A esass.sav school raeBfc al Liewsasyn
PARK snsi took his tasnsly along Ees v
.gg the hossse keeper alone -5e SASS
ste ~as lot q ks.k afrass. for sfss Old
not believe in xssssxfs, and besides. TOE
strange Noises we're never beard n fas
ssxv tsfne or before the midnight b*nf-
fhe house ~ located at ga bez1Fn
s.eane and II ose os = pasr- The
houses are sxs-st.yyy snd Dassmena
brieA.. wsfh fias roofs. and are shaded
in front by large trees. Dr. hove re-
turned AZ s O'Clock in the afternoon
He regretted exceedingly thas the
strarze noises ts1ez-d In the house nag
beeu told about ard described y tife
rsew@rap<rs. lie said that he dld not
believe thsi ghosts caused TIE noises.
ard said further THAI he Dad nos De-
Isexr In ghost al ali. He had neard
qseer noises, very unusual Eofsr-, IN
the UPPER hallway. When ne HFSt
heard them he th0ughs burglar " a.
II, the house ard looked through 81
the rooms, finding all the doors ana
windows fastened ami everything IN
DISTURBED. He said be would not pre-
fes;f TO account for the noises
But Ar. Turner. OF Turner x TO-
real e.ts,. dealers. of IL Lincoln ave
usts thinks he can account Tor TIE
n, sterioQs noses. He disclaifns sne
ghost theory and argues that someone
made the noises 10 frighten Hr. Rowe
aud make him move oai.
II ara the agent for the house
said Mr., Turner last night, and II -
owned by a Mr.. Mcmillan, widow
gbo lives somewhere on Ffftn-fitth
street. ia HYDE park. Now she l. q
yery estimable lady. who wouldn't do
ANYTHING that wasn't perfectly square
That property was owned, Ep 20 about
a year ago. bv Mrs George Wilson,
and Mrs.. Mcmillan purchased IL at
that time for something under 81 go.
Mrs. Wilson's husband - very
well known here IN Chicago. He keeps
a saloon on Clark ard South Water
streets that il patronized by good
MANY raen in a day. Well. Il little
while after Mrs. Wilson sold the house
on Belden avenue property values in
the neighborhood began tn slide up IN
A great hurry, and the place was soon
worth great deal more than she bad
sold il for. Now. what do you think
Mrs. Wilson did, She very cooliy re-
padiaied the sale, declared there
wash { any sale, and that the alleged
sale was a fraud. a litigation was
commenced and is still dragging on IN
the courts, with Mrs. Wilson on one
side of the fence and Mrs. Nc MILAN
on the other. The court recognized
the fact that Mrs.. Mcmillan had prob
ably the right side OF the
lawsuit and gave her temporary pos
session of the property.
We rented the house to DIR. Weaver,
who was In there some time, but
moved out last October aud went TO
practice on Center street, near Lin
coin avenue. went over there To see
him this afternoon about the ghost
business. He says that in all the time
he was there he never saw ghost or
heard ghostly sound. so far "a he
knows there never was anybody killed
in the house aud never anybody died
there. But he did tell me that while
he was in the house Mrs. Wilson came
around there with a lease and tried Ia
make him sign il, but he wouldn't do
IL. That shows how she acts and
there's the secret OF this whole hnsi-
ness. tell you, ii anybody's been
dressing in white and flying over the
hoasetops up there, it's Mrs. Wilson
and If anybody has been firing pistols
and moving chairs and rafting doors
and falling down the stairs in Dir.
Roae's house, it's Mrs. Wilson or
somebody she sent. Depend upon It.
| ana right in the matter, and she is at
the bottom of the whole business.
Why. the house was vacant from 0c-
tober all last winter through that wo-
mans scheming.'
But. Mr.. Turner, how could Mrs.
Wilson spirit herself through closed
door into pr Rowe's upstairs hallway
and then fire pistols. toss about chairs,
tumble downstairs, and escape before
the doctor could get out in the hall
way with light?'
II don't know anything about how
she did il, but, depend upon it, she
did do il. Its not ghosts; i's Mrs.
Wilson"
Although Mr.. Turner's theory sup
plies a motive, il does not explain the
mysterious noises. The Rowe family
believe il would not have been posi-
BILE for any person 10 remain con-
cealed in the house night after night
and escape discovery. One night DIR.
Rose did not 90 TO bed at all and
heard the noises in the hallway as
usual The moment be heard the
sound III footsteps on the stairs he
rushed out with u lamp in his hand,
but found nobody aud nothing that
could have caused the noise