San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-02
A PUGIllSTIC SPOOK.
Roomer In a New York Apartment Says
He Was Pounded by a Ghost.

He Was Pounded by a Ghost.
No. 5Sl Third avenue is an unassuming
five stored tenement house, with Apart
ments to Let" on a placard hanging over the
lowest fire escape. 1t would not suggest &c
the casual pesser by its claim and distinc
ton; 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 by
gienic motives actuated the plump Hibsrnian
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 thing
shadoWy but strong. In the morning he
bundled up his possessions and lit out, leav-
ing his good s1S advance for months rent.
Mrs Malonoy held converse with a trem-
bling Evening World reporter on the sub
ject.
He 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 in thu meagsr 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
bruised, and discolorsd generally He saw
a shadoUy shape that was meltreating him. I"
WhsthSr 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 np-
pear, and the doponsnt averred not But he
was knocked out in the first round
he went into his sisters room and cravl.d
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 thsy all
fled the haunted scene to locality NOS SO
affected by departed spirits
AS corroborativs testimony that a ghost
had licked him, Leonard exhibited large soc-
tions Of his anatomy to Mrs MaloneT. He
barred his massive logs and arms, and they
was all covered with black and blue soots.
like he had besE pounded" said Mrs. Nslo-
ney.
In spite Of the evidence Of the ghosts pu-
giliStic exercise on Mr.. Leonard, the buxom
Mrs. Malonsy calmly declared a perfectly
Bob lngsrsoll iuCredulity in ghosts When
questioned by the reporter, however, she
said:
ha Ia ~ IL, -.
like they would tumble down. Last night |
beard voice In the corridor at half past l2
o'clock. I've sometimes Weakened up two
young men to lodge with me to have them
see what they can find. l don't see what
makes the dreadful shakes"
Mrs. Newman, the housekeeper, professed
the most perfect incredulity in regard to
ghosts.
"Pvs lived here year, and l never heard
anything And my hearing is that good that
hear every little noise. If there was ghosts
faint likely I'd stay here with four chill
dren.
There was no talk about it until this big
man got the fright, and who knows but that
he'd been drinking and got the jimjams"
Young Master Newman, aged d. was train
ing for circus, or an early death, as luck
might turn, by acrobatic performances on
the rim Of largo green washtub.
''Do you believe in ghosts?" the reporter
asked him, knowing the simplicity and can
dor Of the childish mind
He shook his head stolidity. He didn't
take any stock In spooks.
Other children in the house, however,
claim to have seen "a man" in the cellar
There il no way for him to get there except
by the front or back door or the lower win
dows, so be was beyond doubt a real ghost
New York Evening World