The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-06
SIGHTS MRS. JONES SAW.
QUEE8 DOINGs IN a HOUSE IN
PHILADELPHIA.

HorrOr6 than any Other flace IN
That City.
From the Philadelphia Times.
No. 1854 is but one of a row of pretty
new houses on the south side OF Lombard
street. This house was lately the scene of
some remarkable things
Mrs. Henry G. Jones, a young bride, who
resides at 2O4O Fenion street, yesterday re-
lated to Times reporter her experiences
during the three months from January TO
April which she resided in, the house 1894
Lombard street. Mrs Jones, who is an in
telhgent, prepossessing lady and an accom-
plished musician, said:
Sin the early part of January of this
year Mr.. Jones, who has since become my
husband, rented the house 1884 Lombard
street. and sub-let it TO others. Mr. and
Mrs Ingalls,, Miss Mossella Davis. young
music teacher; Miss Bell and Miss Beatrice
Cassell were the occupants. The last named
was myself l was Miss Cassell before |
was married"
"When were you marriedP
81 was married TO Mr.. Jones in this
house June 8, 1890, by Rev. Thomas VIII
liams, of st. Thomas Protestant Episcopal
church.
81 have heard through others that you
could not live in the Lombard street house
on account of things happening there to
brighten and annoy you
''Sister and / went there last January
Mr.. and Mrs. ingalls, also bad a room there
MIR Ingalls, is a bartender at the Ridgway
house Soon after sister and | rented rooms
in the house we took in Miss Mossella Davis,
a young music teacher. Henry q. Jones,
our landlord whom | afterward married, is
in the service Of the Pennsylvania railroad.
He would come there occasionally in the day
time
MAN WITHOUT A BODY.
1.-THE first thing that happened that set me
thinking was one afternoon soon after we
got there. l was coming up the cellar steps
with bucket of coal when | saw a part Of
Mr.. Jones in the kitchen. He was appar-
emily walking toward me- As l assembled
the steps further, to my horror / saw it was
only Mr.. Jones' legs that were coming. His
boots were nicely BACKED and adorned with
brightly polished buckles / knew they were
his legs by the trousers he wore. but all of
the body was missing down TO within six
inches of his knees They appeared to be
cut off as by a sharp razor. His legs walked
passed me and | could distinctly hear his
footsteps. l was very much troubled at the
time, and feared that Mr.. Jones had met
with an accident on the railroad.
"Some days after, while Miss Mossella
Davis and l were sitting in the dining
room five men came tramping In, all
strangers, and, without speaking, marched
down the cellar steps. We waited minute
or two and then went down to see what
they were doing, when to our CONSERVATION
they were nowhere to be seen, having
utterly vanished.
1T was winter time the cellar windows
were all fast, and we never found out what
became of those men. Soon our neghbors
informed us that the entire row of houses
had been built on a graveyard belonging to
the Fourth Presbyterian church at the
southwest corner of Twelfth and Lombard
Streets and that in excavating for the
cellars several wagon loads of human bones
had been exhumed. They also said that
several of the houses still contained graves
in the cellars, and that the bodies had not
been exhumed.
A GRAVE IN THE CELLAR.
1--WE Immediately investigated our cellar
and found on the floor the well defined out
lines of a grave, the center slightly sunken,
and a sharp, clear cut crack running around
the entire outer edge Miss Davis and got
shovel and piece of board and filed up
the grave and carefully smoothed over the
Top on a level with the surface Of the floor.
up to this time l was robust and healthy
and had not learned TO know what it was
to suffer from fear. But the next day when
i went into the cellar found the grave, not
as Miss Davis and had fixed it, but pre-
cisely as il was when we first discovered il,
l again filled up the trench and leveled it
off even with the rest Of the cellar floor, but
while doing so an unaccountable fear and
nervous dread seized me.
'Often after that some one of us would
fill up the grave only to find on the sue
ceeding day that it had resumed its first ap-
pearance, even to the sharply outlined
crack running completely around its outer
edge"
HUMAN MONSTER.
Mrs. Jones, assuming very serious, half
frightened look, said: "Do you know about
three years ago young girl was frightened
TO death in that house by seeing a human
monster enter her bedroom. Inc appari-
ton that frightened her into commissions.
from which she died, was half human and
half animal; human body with most
horrible green-eyed animal head, having
long crooked horns, protruding forked
tongue and white teeth.
"None of the partition doors in that
house were ever at rest, but continually
rafting and vibrating, as IL some one was
shaking them. | used often to fasten the
sitting room door back with chair, but it
would soon commence to shake, until the
chair was pushed aside, when it would slam
shut II shut and propped fast it would
shake until it came open.
Il became so frightened and annoyed
that fell Ill, and while sick in bed one
bright afternoon lemon or orange-colored
woman wearing pink dress came and
stood over my bed holding large open
book In such way that I could see only
her hands and just a little of her neck
When she moved the book I was horr filed
to find that the woman was headless.
Zone day while Miss Davis, Mrs. Ingalls,,
my sister Bell and myself were standing all
together In the dinipg-room some person
whom none of us could see, pushed right IN
our midst and roughly pushed against each
of US in turn
ANOTHER HAUNTED HOUSE.
"Mrs. Scott Carl, who used to live in the
house where Mrs. Henry now lives, at 1924,
one day saw a soldier in full uniform enter
the house and pass through while all of the
doors were fast The house 1922 is also
haunted. There are Two graves in the cellar
A very wicked girl died there and her soul
Is In state of continual unrest"
how long were you in the house 1882
1--WE went there in January and moved
away April 10 last The whole time was
there we were all disturbed by strange and
unaccountabie Notes.-The rafting of door
locks and latches and the continual shaking
of the doors. Mr. Ingalls, could not sleep in
the back room, but was undisturbed in the
other rooms.
Zone evening while we were all seated in