St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-06
The Headless Ghost of a MUIR
dered Wife Creates q
Sensation.
It Is Dressed in White and
Belongs to the Late q
Mrs. Lebo.
A Milkman's Thrilling Adven-
ture With a CHASTITY Spec
ter Down South.
Spiritualism and Far0--Mur-
derers Discovered by a >
Dream.

Reading (Pa.) Special. I
The headless ghost of murdered
wife is creating intense excitement
among the residents of Glover alley.
near Moss and Tenth streets, in this
city. 1t is no ordinary scare, if the
testimony of dozen witnesses can be
believed. A few weeks ago young,
jealous husband, Harry Lebo, called
fathers house and shot her dead in the
yard. Her father died on the spot from
fright, and the murderous husband es-
capped into the country and shot HIM
self.
From various statements of the resi-
dents in tie vicinity of the murder OF
the girl-wife her spirit has come back
to earth, and is now haunting the vicin-
ity of her cruel murder. William Rup-
pert, his wife, and two grown sons live
directly opposite the scene OF the trag-
edy. Mrs. Rupert is plain, matter
Of-fact woman, and this is her account
of what she saw.
81 don't believe in ghosts or COLLINS,
and am not superstitious. My health is
excellent and am not at all nervous
at least was not until after what saw
on Friday night. 10 be sure, the muir
der of young Mrs. LebO was horrible.
but we had nearly forgotten it until we
saw her awful apparition just across
the way. l was III bed and doing
at the time. Suddenly heard groans.
as it some one was in great pain out III
the street. | arose, thinking it might
be some one in distress. l first went to
my sons room door and knocked, and
they answered. next opened the sec
Ond-st0ry window and looked out. l
saw no one on our StOOp, but still l
heard agonizing groans.
1t was bright moonlight night, with
hardly any air stirring. l looked across
the way near to the spot where Harry
shot his wife, and there | saw the figure
of woman near the. gate. The gate
was swinging backward and forward,
and yet no air was stirring. The figure
of the woman had no head. 1t appeared
then to be leaning over the gate.
''All the while the groans continued.
Filled with horror, | again looked at
the figure. was sure it looked like
the form of the murdered woman.
closed the window and dropped into
commissions. which lasted for two hours.
IL was never before afflicted in that
way. Several of our neighbOrS have
seen the same figure, and they all be-
lieve it to be the wandering spirit OF
poor Mrs. Lebo."
Mrs. Rupert was corroborated in her
statement by her husband. their son
Oscar, aged seventeen years, and an
other older son.
Peter Rupert, aged nineteen years,
says he saw the apparitiOn, but that it
had head which was the exact coun-
terpart of the murdered wife's. She
was dressed in black. The murderer'S s.
body was buried inAlsace cemetery, and
residents in that section say strange
voices are also heard there at night.
sounding like, "Oh, Harry! Oh Harryw
This ghost business Is the entire talk
of the people in that neighborhood, and
owing to the reliability OF the people it
is being seriously considered. and a
committee of citizens is on the watch
tonight.