The morning news., 1892-02-08

noisy operation, well calculated TO startle
the oesieged; but neither Tripp nor his wife
PAID the slightest attention to IL.
The smiling, jabbering. rapping and pens
Cling woman on the bed continued her
weird converse with the spirit world as
though nothing had happened
The old man sat smiling in his rocker,
apparently dead TO all his surroundings.
A PUZzLING SITUATION.
City Marshall Dowd has tackled a varietv
of freaks in his professional career, but this
beat everything. He was sorely troubled in
spirit Going up 60 old man Trip he
| caught the inventor by the shoulders and
vigorously shook him, as preliminary to
conversation, but it was no use. Trapp
seemed to be in trance. a mesmeric dream,
a something beyond the reach of a mere
earthly city marshal A popularity of his
condition was that in whatever attitude the
marshal placed him he stayed. Dowd
raised his arm above his head and there il
| stuck. He placed it before his face and IL
hung there as if glued to his expressionless
visage.
As for Mrs. Tripp. matters with her were
equally out OF order. She refused TO speak
20 the marshal or his companions, but kept
up her constant spirit rappings and
| writings.
there from the spirit world. The bed was
covered with it. Some of the letters were
on pieces Of brown wrapping paper, torn in
fantastic forms by the crazed medium.
Upon her table desk lay a freshly COM
pleted communication as the dispossess
party broke into the room. Marshal Dowd
captured this note, written in a bold hand.
1t was addressed to both Mrs. and MIR.
| Tripp, from their mystic communicants
1t warned poor Trip to speak to no one
| but his wife.
Disobedience in this case was punishable
| with arrest for the murder OF "Auntie,n
To Mrs. Trip there was this message:
Do not open the door for any one. for your
coffin is coming. Remain quiet and wen send
| you refreshments. You may need them as you
have been so long dying.
Another communication" was found
| close beside this, which embodied sound ad-
vice. 1t said:
| Take that bottle of poison and throw il out
| of the window CT take the consequences. Re
member, it will be anaiyzed.
The city marshal aud The newspaper meQ
had crowded into an adjoining room with
handfuls of the mystic literature to peruse,
when there was a rap at che door, and Mrs,
| Tripp, who a moment before had been in
bed, strobe into the room Over her night
robe she wore rich pink velvet opera
cloak, which trailed to her naked feet.
Placing paper in the marshars hands, she
hurriedy left thefooni, and in moment
was back in bed, with her tablet on her knee
and her pencil in rapid motion.
The message she left behind her was a
startler:
Will any Of you gentlemen who love mo
enough TO breaK into my room to see raving
maniac and will dare to testify that am not,
can prove ty l will tell you now, as get my
messages from your room, as my instrument is
in there, and an taking every word you say.
So hurry and bring in the first coffin full of
coffee. Mrs. MATTE JAMES BARNES TRIP.
Marshal Dowd was puzzled. What could
he do with two lunaticss Could he put
them out into the streetl
DandlsdY Lodewick came to the marshal's
rescue with a request that the singularly
affected couple be permitted to occupy their
room until this morning, when their peculiar
case can be brought before the court and ap-
propriate action decided upon.
So the marshal and the newspaper men
withdrew from the house leaving the en-
tranoed Tripp and his wild wife In posses
sion of the field.
Downstairs the Lodewick household was
in a state of cOnvulsion and collapse. Up
| to the stirring incidents of the afternoon the
members of this spirit-ridden establishment
had been very reticent as to what had gone
on in the house since Mrs. Trip inaugu-
rated her spiritualistc campaign. but when
City Marshal Dowd came and failed to con-
quer, all barriers of secrecy were thrown
down and the story of the last two weeks
was told by many tongues all at the same
time.
1t seems that Sc veral years ago Trip,
then man Of so years. married West
ern girl but half his age, who gave promise
OF being "A great vocalist. TIE couple
lived happily together for few years when
Tripp determined to educate his wife for the
operatic stage add consequently sent her TO
Europe for n long course of study under
French and Italian masters. Mrs. Tripp
raD Ir1aA oh ,toh
time her husband lived with Mrs. Lodewick
as an honored boarder, but a poor paying
one, for he interested her in one of his pat
ents and balanced his board bill with their
mutual expectations. Mrs Tripp, it-Swas
said, sang in Milan under the name of Nine.
Malta.
She returned from Europe six weeks ago =.
made flying visit to her old home in Cali
fornia and then settled down to quiet life
with her venerable husband in Mrs. Lode
wick's third flor back. tsgir
That was a month ago. The other board
ers at No. 64 were a retired colonel, school
teacher, several clerks, Miss Genevieye
Bradshaw and Miss Annie Gillespie, two
young ladies from Saratoga, and Mrs. Bah.
cock. well-known spiritualist, who occu-
pied fourth fooraparrment directly over
the Trips.
Mrs. Tripp had not been a week In the
house before trouble commenced She con-
ceived a dislike for Mrs. Babcock, and boldly
challenged her as one inspired by bad
spirit.
Then she announced herself as frst-class
medium who could throw the maligned Bah
cock into the shade. She instituted ''seances.n
mesmerized her fellow boarders, communi-
Gated to all of them from the spirit world
and made matters extremely lively and UNI
pleasant for every one.
Finally, two weeks ago, she arose from
the table with the serious announcement
that an attempt was being made to poison
her, and that in future her enemies must
seek her in her bed.
True to her word she took to her bed,
and has not left it since. There she has
kept up the frantic rappiugs aud spasmodic
writing with which she vanquishej the city
marshal.
But how Jared it with her venerable bus
band all this timer Badly.
he was as wax in her hands and for days
would sit beside her bed as though in a
trance. His old laudlady and partner was
loyal to him and did all in her power to
break the spell. Three days ago Mrs Lode
WICK and her hene boarders made last and
determined effort to win Tripp back to in
sanity, but they failed. By strategy they
managed to get him out of his room and
then gently, though firmly. prevented his
return while they talked and reasoned with
him. He was as a man in dream, con-
scious that something was wrong. but un-
able to explain himself
Finally he recovered his faculties enough