The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-01
SURE HE SAW Taa GHOST.
The Alleged Apparition is Now the
Reigning Sensation. st,s \ b.
from the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago inter Ocean.
CARTHAGE, I'LL, Jan. 2S.-The excite
ment concerning Lewis Boston's ghost is on
the increase, and the story has spread far
and wide Newspaper men have been max
ing life burden to young Wright. WHO'S a
quiet country farmer, and ia his widest
dreams never hoped to gain the notoriety
he has attained. A correspondent. has sue
ceeded in obtaining from Wright an explicit
statement concerning his experience with
the spook. They were made in the presence
of A. N. Cherril, a notary public, and G.
w. Boston, relative of the dead boy.
The statement, which is full. and which
Wright will swear to at any time. is as fol-
lows: 49,.
My name is Arthur Wright; age 10. l
have seen ghosts twelve or thirteen times
within the past two months. On Wednes-
day night last l was going home from
meeting at Bowen, driving pair of ponies
to buggy, when, within nearly half mile
of home, a ghost came out from hedge
fence. 1t was clothed in white. 1t caught
both my horses by the bride reins. The
horses we're frightened and tried to get away.
The ghost spoke to the horses, calling them
by name. He caught the smaller one,
Frank, by the rein, and walked
around by the side of him., and then
came to the side of the buggy and
climbed on the wheel, and put his
knee on the side of the bed as if to get In.
He said 70 me: "Hello, Art.n 1t was the
ghost of Lewis Boston, who died lately.
l. worked for him about two years ago. He
said: Poor old L. L. has come back to
see you" He said be had come back to tell
me something. He told me some things
which / will not repeat. 1t was good adj
vice to me and other friends. He said to
me not to tell what he said now, but he told
me when l might tell them. He sent
message to his father, his son Willie and
his wife, and others not remembered now.
He asked me to shake hands with him. Ibid
so. His hand was as cold as ice. He said: 81
must go. for the angels in heaven are wait
ing for me, ;" or words TO that effect. He then
disappeared. The tone OF voice OF this ghost
was precisely that Of Lewis Boston. Ours
ing the time Of this talk my horses had run
into the hedge and were standing there, but
wanting to get away. Arriving at home /
said nothing about this apparition to any
member of my family, but told it the next
morning to all my folks at home. The
ghost said to me before it disappeared that
l would never see him again. and never
have. Once before this, when l saw the
ghost of Lewis Boston came out of
the hedge. 1t stepped ont in front of the
horses. They turned around. He went back
toward the hedge. The horses ran past him,
and he came running out and climbed on
behind the buggy top. He rode that way
about a quarter Of mile, when / hallooed
and he got of. Before this / met him COM
ing out OK the barn. This was the first time /
ever saw him. My horses had been driving,
were frightened, and / held them uatil the
ghost went out of the gate. saw
the same ghost at the barn q number of
times afterward, and once threw at it
with neck-yoke. The ghost started at me
as IL it would eat me up. 1t then disap-