The Dickinson press., 1889-03-16
A PuelLIsTIc spook.

"a As""mcr Ill Ncw York apartment Says
Ho Was Founded by II Ghost.
No. 5Sl Third avenue is an unussuminr
i've Stored tenement house, with APART
nents to Let on II placarl hanging over the
lowest fire escape. 1t would not suggest to
the casual pasSer by its claim and distinc-
ton, but it has one, Just the same They
say it is haunted
All the apartments arc for rent, except
Two, OF which one is occupied by Mrs. Ann
Newman, the housekeeper and the other by
Mrs Haloney, snug littlo matron, with
rosy checks and n disposition to give up her
apartments. "l don't think it's healthy is
what She says, but probably other than Inv
elenlc o,ivesactnatcd tue plump IIibernian
| Years ago, they say, Il poor devil was
done TO death i'll tho cellar, and everybody
KNOWS that gore spots in n house breed
| ghosts.
One day II large, muscular fellow named
Leonard entered into possession of an apart
mcnt in tho haunted house The mex, night
he was almost hammered to death by II thing
shadowy but strong. In the morning ho
| ouhuiea up MS possessions and lit out, lcav
ing his good Sl3 advance fora months rent.
Mrs. Alaloney held converse with u trem.
bling Evening World reporter on the sub.
ject
'Ho was big, stout man." quoth she.
tAtter he went to bed his light went out
he thought he might llavo left the window
open or that the oil in his lamp had given
out, rs did that of the unwse virgins.
But when he roso and pottercd to the win.
dows III the nlcager draping of his shirt tails,
ne found them all closed, and the lamp was
| filled.
m "rhen he went back to his bed again.
| linen no was punmelcd and beaten. and
bruised, and dlscolored generally He saw
slaao"y shape that was matreating him "
Whether this John l.. Sullivan of II spook
| was mad ut tho way Leonard had voted can-
not be told, or why the big man waited till
he was pounded to death almost, does not an.
pear ana the dcpon"nt avcrrcl not But ho
was Knocked out in the first round.
| llo went into his sisters room and crawle]
into bed with her and her husband. His sis.
ter's name was Clark. Here he shook for the
rest of the night, and tho next day they all
He'd the haunted Scene to a locality not so
affected by departed spirits.
| AS corroborativc testimony that n rhost
had licked him, Leonard exhibited large sec.
tions of his anatomy to Mrs. Maloney He
barred his massive legs and arms, and they
like he had been pounded" said Mrs. Malo.
ncy.
In spite of the evidence of the ghosts pu.
gilistlc exercise on Mr. Leonard tho buxom
Mrs Maloncy calmly declared a perfectly
Bob Inscrsoll ncretlulity in ghosts. When
| questioned by the reporter, however, she
| said:
''Tho walls Of my room shake every night
like they would tumble down Last night |
beard voice in the corridor ut half past l2
| o'clock. I've sometimes wascnc,l up two
| young men to lodge with me to have them
sec what they can find don't sec whut
makes the dreadful shakes.'
| Mrs. Newman, The houscl;ccpcr, .ro,cs.,d
the most perfect incrcdul,y in regard to
ghosts.
''Ivc lived here year, and never heard
anything And my hearing is tia, good ,l.,
hear every little noise. If thcr. was ghost,
'tain't likely Id stay here with four clil
drcn
''Ihcre was no tall; about it until this biz,
man got the fright, and who knows bu, that
he'd been drinkln, and got the jimlanis"
Young Master Newman, aged 4, was train
ing for n circus, or an early death, as lucl;
might turn, by acrobatic performances on
the rim of Il large green washtub
DO you believe in ghostst' the reporter
asked him, knowing the simplicity and can
dor C the childish mind
He shook his head stoldity He didn't
take any stock in spoos
Other children in the house, however,
claim to have seen "a man" IN the cellar
There is no way for him to get there except
by tho front or back door or the lover WIN
dows, so he was beyond doubt Il real ghost =
New Yor; Evening World