New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-30
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
SHUT IN A TOMB FOR THE NIGHT.
YOUNG FLORISTS STRANGE ExPERIEScE'
WOMEN THOUGHT BE WAS GHOST

A YOUNG FLORISTS STRANOb GAN
WOMEN THOUGHT BE WAS GHOST
A surprising experience befen Philip zeh' Irp
weIl.known florist and politician OF eou'n piooA .
lyn last week. He had to spend the mgn' Ooninu
the bars of granite tomb in GREENWOOD az nc ua.
Inadvertently locked himself In, and no ono apPcaIeu
10 release him. Young Mr. Zeh is about tWeney-siA
year. old and f. in business as florist with his father
AT No. 7e2 Fffth-ave. and they live at NO. 22I
Tvrentv.tbirdst He is an active Republican ana
has been candidate for member OF Assembly, WHO
popular association Of young men bears MS name
HIS duttes In caring for flowers on graves and Id
vaults took him to the cemetery week aEo y"
day. and he spent the afternoon IN superlhtenuine
the men under his charge At about B O'CLOCK no
want 10 the vault of s. B. Dewey, which is In rise
ef ground not far from the Charlotte Canda tonlo'
half mile from the main entrance. The vault %
butlt Of massive granite blocks and has places i
TWENTY-FIVE collins in the sides Eight OF thoso P,0
are occupied but one of them had not oecn sea-
aimee the coffin was placed 10 It. hr zen s'ePp.u
inside the vault TO see If all right ana oareesy
pulled the barred bronze gate shut ai'er ni'i
spring lock caught with sharp clcN 49,.
Although Il was nghtfall he thought sumo oio
ovId sneedilv appear and set him free ana ne began
m shout for helm But the cemetery was hedrIS uo
sorted and he heard no one for some time' flhahy
the welcome sound of footsteps fell on DIS ear au
he thought he would be free at once Ihree "oihon
nnas,ed IN sight and Mr. Zeh began to shout 10 them
htoo thew should turn and DO lost to view AZ the
ound NJ his voice they turned and In the dusk couu
distinguish a moving figure behind the door OF inc
,omb and hear voice say, Let me outP but 'ne
nncanny surroundings proved too much for tneir
nerve and instead of trying 10 see II any one heeuu
assistance they concluded that an unearthy appear
anoe had manifested itself TO them and with screams
~ terror they fed to the main entrance MI zen
bouebt the story they would tell to the eateheepel
would bring him aid but they only gave an incoheren
account OF ghost which beckoned TO Aeh' anu ''o
gatekeeper gave 1t no credence.
Mfr. Zeh made up his mind to watch out the nign'
IN the lonely solitude Of the city OF inc ueeu'
Desp,te his lifelong associations among the tomDs
the experience was trying one he hsn 10 VAN
nm and down the narrow precincts OF the want 70
keen warm and what with hunger and WEAKNESS was
completely tagged out when morning came shorty
before O'Clock on Thursday morning superintendent.
Costello passed near the Dewey vault and was haleu
nv zeh. whom he quickly released from his cell inc
voung man hurried home 10 relieve the anxiety Oh me-
EJepds who had wondered where he was anu ~ ~, "a
Have lis own hunger which the sleepless VigI na
made ravenous Yesterday he had wholly TecoNeie 80
from his unusual experience, and made hght W ,de
a trialng matter although like eApere1'e' nav ''
Young men gray and prematurely ageu osorco oc
m Is now twenty years since IKE OK PoIIorG an
,rrrsd IN Greenwood. Then Captain CorLeglo en-
tered AN underground vault, the I'D OF Wniront va
yonned mn by a stick and &c slipped and shu. nm M,
m until the next day, when some WorhineH s'' ~