The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-20
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
A MODERN GIRLS STORY.
FRIGHTENED HIS NERVOUS WIFE
But Her strong-Min Sister slugyed
Him With an Iron Pot.
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Him With an Iron Pot.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
AMITY, O., Dec. 12-The arrest yesterday
and the trial before Squire Butts to-day of
Miss Nancy Herring on the charge Of as
saultiDg Chris Kimmerly with an iron pot,
developed an unusually interesting ghost
story.
A few months ago Kimmerly's wife in
her1ted some property by the death of her
father, and her fat refusal TO convert the
patrimony into cash and give control of it
to Chris led to an estrangement between
the two, so that they occupied separate
apartments in their house. Some time
after the beginning of this unpleasant state
OF affairs himmerly impressively informed
Mrs. Kimmerly that for several nights
past her fathers ghost had appeared to
him, and said that It would never rest until
Mary, the daughter, consented that her
husband should invest the inheritance In
some paying business venture.
SENT FOR HER SISTER.
This startling information quite unnerved
Mrs. Kimmerly, who is a weekly little
woman, and night or two after that she
was still further shocked at seeing the
sheeted image of her father standing by her
bed. The ghost seemed to be greatly dis
tressed, but it did not speak, and soon moved
slowly away in the darkness, Then Mrs
Klmmerly wrote a letter to her spinster sis
ter, Nancy Herring. at Columbus. relating
in full her strange experience and requests
ing the lady, who is q woman of great
nerve and decision of character, to come to
her right away.
Miss Nancy came and slept with Mrs.
Kimmerly, and that very night the old
mans ghost reappeared-passed its hand
across their faces and then vanished. On
the third night it came again. The spectral
figure softly opened the door and advanced
to the bedside, and as it stretched out its
long arms another form in white,
WITH A FRILLED NIGHT-CAP
on its head, followed closely from behind
the door. 1t was the spinster sister, and In
her upiifted right hand she grasped heavy
iron pot, which came down bottom upward
with raking crash squarely upon the
ghosts head. The rim of the pot scraped its
way over the speoter's ears, nearly severing
one of them from its base, and Mr.. KIM
merly, with yell that was bitterly sug-
gest1ve OF hot-potued Amahagger, fell all
in heap on the floor.
In court the unfortunate man testified
that the almost scalpless condition of his
head, the halfway severed left ear and the
broken bridge of his nose were the results Of
his sister laws assRult-the iron DOT COM
ing down. he remarked, with a precision and
force that clearly indicated a murderous in
tent on the part of his ossailant.
Miss Herring frankly admitted that she
assaulted her brother-in-law, and expressed
deep regret THAI the pot had not boon red
hot. Her counsel set up the ingenious plea
that k1mmerly's presence in his sister-in-
laws bedroom was an assault in itself aud
that the lady's spirited action in the prem
ises was justifable self-defense. He then
made motion for the dismissal of the case,
which the court promptly sustained-et the
same time congratulating Miss Herring on
her ingenious and successful method Of lay
ing troublesome ghost.