Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27
GRISLY AND GH0STLY.
Grewsome and Grotesque Stories
About Startling Sights.
QUEER TALES OF APpARITIoNS
4 Horrible Scene That Met Traveller Oh
Dark, Dismal Night.
EXPERIMENTS ON A CLAIRV0YANT LADY

| MIR. Stead's second regiment OF spook'
(''More Ghost Stories" Reuiep Of Reoieus),
is, on the whole, even better than his first,
says the Pail Mall Budget. We have dreams
and dreamers, prophecies and second-sight,
spiritual vagaries and good honest ghosts,
haunted houses in London and out of it in
variety sufficient for house-agent's cata.
| 1ogue, clairvoyants to whom Sam Weller's
double-magnifying gas microscope for the
penetration of deal doors and brick walls
would be quite superfuity, and as fol
doubles" and Thought bodies"-why, one
lady had such an energetic second self that
she was under the constant necessity oi
proving alibis.
Readers may not be surprised to find that
one of the most interesting stories is more
OF less photographed. Mr.. Stead is tell
| ing about some experiments with 'clair-
voyant lady" "Now," said 1, ''take
another test Tell me if you see an ything
with this" Then 1 took from my purse
| the shilling which 1. most prize of all the
| pieces of money in my possession. I said
| nothing to her about it beyond saying that
had carried it in my pocket for several
years and that there was story connected
with it which 1 wished her to tell
The Story Of Shilling.
She held the shilling in her hand for
some time, and then said: 'This carries
me back to a time of confusion and much
anxiety, with feeling that everything de-
pended upon a.successful result. This shil-
ling brings to me vision of very low
woman, ignorant and drunken, with whom
you had much better have nothing to do.
Gha hos, Jao o1
of fever about; 1 feel great pains as if
L had rheumatic fever in my ankles
and my joints, but especially in
my ankles and my throat. l suffer
horribly in my throat, it is an awful pain;
and now L feel a coarse, dirty hand pass
over my brow as distinctly as if you had
laid your hand there. 1t must be her hand
1 feel the loss of child. This woman is
brought me by another. She is about 80
years, about five feet high, with dark brown
hair, gray eyes, small, nicely-formed nose,
large mouth ''Can you tell me her
name?" I asked. mot certainly, but I
think it seems most like Anne. Is that
right?" 'T do not know" replied. And
then told her the storyof that shilling.
Six years ago when L was standing for nv
trial at the Old Bailey, poor outcast girl
who was dying of disease in hospital asked
that the only shilling which she possessed
in the world might be given to the fund
that was being raised for our defense. 1t
was handed to me when I came out of Jail
with written on its paper cover, "Dying
girl in hospital gives her last shilling"
have carried it about with me
ever since, never allowing it to
pass out of my possession for single day.
Beyond that know nothing. The symp-
toms which Mrs. Davies described were
very like those which such poor creatures
suffer in their closing hours, and it is too
probable that the donor was low drunken
woman; nevertheless, think envied Mrs.
Davies the touch of her hand upon her
brow, tor, low and drunken as she was, I
would prize that touch more than permis-
sion to kiss the hand of queen.
Remarkable and Startling Sight.
And now for a good old-fashioned specter
of most unpleasant kind. We plunge in
to the story:
When 1 had walked about a hundred
yards away from my friends 1 saw on the
bank of the canal (Which runs parallel with
the road for six or seven miles) what l
thought at the moment was an old beggar.
The spot was very lonely one The near
est house was good quarter of mile
away. The night was as silent as death.
Not single sound broke upon the silence
from any quarter. couldn't help asking
myself where this old man had come from
to such place. I had not seen him in
going down the road.
l then turned round quite unconcernedly
to have another look at him, and had no
sooner done so than saw within half a yard
of me one of the most remarkable and start
ling sights I hope it will ever be my lot to
see. Almost on level with my own face j
saw that of an old man, over every feature
of which the .putty-colored skin was drawn
tightly, except the forehead, which was
lined with deep wrinkles. The lips were
extremely thin, and appeared perfectly
bloodless The toothless mouth stood half
open. The cheeks were hollow and sunken
like those of q corpse, and the eyes, which
seemed far back IN the middle of the head
were unnaturally luminous and piercing.
Bands of Calico Over Its Head.
This terrible object was wrapped in two
bands of old yellow calico, one of which was
drawn under the chin and over the cheeks
and tied at the top of the head; the other
was drawn round the top of the wrinkled
forehead, and fastened at the back of the
head. So deep and indelible an impression
it made on my mind that were an artist
could paint that face to-day, and reproduce
the original excepting, perhaps, the Iu-
minous eyes) as accurately as if it were
photographed
What have thus tried to describe in |
many words saw at a glance Acting on |
the impulse of the moment turned my face |
again toward the village, and ran away from !
the horrible vision with all my might for |
about go yards. 1 then stopped and turned |
round to see how far 1 had distanced it, and, |
to my unspeakable horror, there it was still !
face to face with me as if had not moved |
an inch. 1 grasped my umbrella and raised |
it to strike him, and you can imagine my |
feelings when 1 could see nothing between |
the face and the ground except an irregular !
column of intense darkness, through which
my umbrella went as q stick goes through |
water.
am sorry to confess that again took to
my heels with increasing speed. Hav- !
ing gone few yards down O branch road, J
determined to speak with my strange pur-
suer, whatever he was, and boldly turned
round to face him for the third time, intend
ing to ask him what he wanted, etc.
The Ghost of Strange Character.
He had not followed me after 1 left the
main road, but l could see the horribly
face quite as plain as when it
was close by. 1t stood for two or three
minutes looking intently at me from the
center of the main road. 1 then realized
fully it was not human being in flesh and
blood; and with every vestige of fear gone,
CDDIMN It'd ~