Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-14
A COUPLE OF SPOOKS
Stalk About the Confines of Windsor
Park These Nights.
A C0L0RED MAN SEES ONE GHOST,
And the Whites of His Eyes Turn Black
Through Fear of the Specter
STRANGE DEATHS IN THE VICINITY
A COL0RED MAN SEES ONE GHOST,
STRANGE DEATHS IN THE VICINITY

The ghost walks in Windsor Park these
nights, it is numerously said, and some
people who are required to pass the park
after nirhtfail feel sort of eerie and walk
very rapidly Windsor Park has been a
favorite resort this season and its proximity
TO West Bell evue has been somewhat an
moving to some citizens who do not care
for picnicS, especially those at which
beer is sold, or attendants carry
pocket pistols, so some of the people down
there are rather inclined to rejoice that a
disembodied spirit has become the guardian
angel of the park, its presence having a
tendency tc calm some unruly spirits in the
flesh
GHOSTS THAT ARE WELCOME.
The people say The rain has fallen on the
Just and the unjust in the park, and the
shades of night have fallen on a consider
able proportion of the tough element that
sometimes makes night hideous, which eX-
plans why they, the quiet people, like
ghosts for a change.
The genesis of this spook, or these spooEs
there are supposed to be pair OF them
is not definitely known. Some time ago
Patrick Manning lcll out Of bed and was
mysteriously killed, and the dead body of
another man was found in the vicinity OF
the park and some "Spiritualists' down
that wav draw conclusions from these facts.
1t is said that number of people have felt
the brush of spectral pinions and have eX-
perienccd strange ghostly sensations toward
the small hours OF the morning, but only one
person has had ocUlarproof of supernatur-
al visitation. This person is a cOlOred man
in the employ of 4 gentleman named Brad
ley. \ few nights since he, while walking
through the park, experienced a queer SEN
sation. which grew on him until he became
thoroughly frightened, and looking back he
saw a specter Of hOrrid mien stealthily and
silently gliding behind him.
BEAT THE GHOSTS TIME.
The man quickencd his pace and so did
the specter.
His heightened chin, his turned-up snout,
His eldritch squeel and gestures
were horrifving, and the colored man was so
frightened that the whites of his eyes turned
black, so that only q ghost could see him;
but it could, and while it did not seize him,
it kept close to him and did not show the
hvdrophobic fear that possessed the witches
that pursued Tam O'Shanter, but glided
over rivulets as unconeernedly as over the
arid ground
The condition of the colored man since
then is said to be extremely pitable. No
sooner is the sable pail of night spread DER
the earth than his distempered vision peo-
pies earth, air and sky with 'ghOsesses'
innumerable. No sooner does he fall asleep
than a spirit passes before his face and the
hair of his flesh stands up. Tt is true there
are some people who have sufficient bravery
at high noon TO attempt to cast doubts as TO
the veritableness of the apparition, but some
Of those would-be scoifers are noticed to be
more respectful at night, when they show
Discrimination to discuss the subject