Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-10
A MINISTERIAL GHOST,

1t Raunts the House OF Brother Minister
I'm AN Uncanny Way.
From the Pail Mall Budget
To look at "a ST. Georges road, KiIburn. ous
would not suspect it of being haunted. II is q
solid, substantial. comfortable-looking house,
standing in about the middle of q rather in.
posing terrace, with a small garden. containing
few bushes in the front aud a larger grass
plot at the back. 1t is not by any means new
house. but i. has so few marks o. age about Il
that a self-respecting ghost would hardly have
been expected to regard it as an eligible resi-
dence. Yet there are three people dwelling in
the house who assert confidently that they have
each on separate occasions been eyewitnesses of
q remarkable apparition in the house. The Rev.
G. S. Tyler, the minister at present attached to
the Quex Road WESLEYAN Chapel and his fam.
lily. who are the eye witnesses Of the ghost, hsy We
told Pail Mall Budget reporter about it, The
house has Tor many years now been the dwell
ing place OF the various ministers who have
succeeded each other every three wears At the
Quex Read Chapel Mr.. Tyler and his family
have lived there now for eighteen montha II
have never seen the apparition myself" said
Mr.. Tyler, land have always been q confirmed
unbei!ever in spirit manifestations, and SO on
But the fact remains. explain IL how Won viii
aged respectively twenty and nineteen years.
have distinctly seen a mysterious something.
which, IN the absence Of any better way OF de-
tcribing 1t, we have called an apparition. They
agree closely in their several descriptions Of the
figure:
IT is that OF q person attired - a Wesleyan
minister might be, in black clothes Of q cier-
ical cut 1t Is figure Of average stature, with
long gray beard ami keen peculiar ewes. Ia
WAS my younger daughter who first met with
the apparation. She will tell you in her own
way" Miss Julie Tyler then took up the story.
II vas standing at the corner OF the stairs"
she said. land saw what l took 70 be "a. I
had gone to cal him to tea. and when called
him be neither answered nor moved thought
he was playing with me, and giving me the
trouble to go up to him, and I ran up 70 push
him. pushed right through the figure and
fel against the wall. l was dreadfully
frightened. but when 1 told the others tbey
laughed at ne. But then Ada. later on. saw
the same figure. and then mother herself. Il
was before Christmas that l saw ii. No, had
not been reading any ghost stories 4
all then. But l have since. So have we
all Miss Ada then related her nrst
experience Of the uncanny visitor. She
was alone in the house with a child one sun
day evening and saw the figure in the doorway.
She thought a man had broken into the house
at first, uatil she observed the clerical cut of
the figures garb, and then recalled her sisters
experience. Mrs. Tyler's statement was that
while passing by the small room at the end OF
the passage one evening she saw Mr. Tyler
standing in there. rs she thought. She ran up
stairs to the study and there found the actual
Mr. Tyler in the fesh. Ii is in this room at the
end OF the passage, indeed, where the appari-
ton has been most frequently seen, and the
ladies' OF the household do not care to venture
near II alone 1t is a small room looking out
on the back garden. but with wooden shutters,
which are fastened over the glass in the even
ing. IT was in that ROOM" said Miss Julie.
that me. the figure face to face. shall never
forget his eyes-grayish-blue in color. and
they seemed to look right through me quite
huugrily."