Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-03
WANTS A DIVORCE FROM A BAD SPOOK.
Spiteful Behavior OF Deceased Wiie's
Ghost Toward Her Successor.

Spiteful Behavior OF = Deceased WIG
Ghost Toward Her Successor.
MT. CARROLL, ILL, April 2.-Miss
Theresa Rippledane, a popular young
lady of this place, was married last De-
cember to Philip Baldwin, OF LamarK.
Mrs. Baldwin has now brought suit for
a divorce on most remarkable grounds,
and the trial will develop some strange
testimony.
She alleges that the ghost OF Mr..
Baldwin's first wife, Rosamond Bald
win. haunts their domicile, persecutes
her in various ways, and altogether
makes life miserable under their joint
husbands roof and forces her to live
apart from him.
At the marriage Mrs. Balnwin was a
bright, CHEEKY. and lively little woman,
but she now betrays nervous, depressed
condition of mind, owing, she declares
wholly TO the unsettled life LED her oy
the ghost.
Her story Of this persecution is that
on the return from their wedding tour
and on her entering as mistress the
house formerly occupied by Mr.. Bald
win and his first wife, the first sight
that met her eyes was lady dressed In
q loose white robe. She exclaimed at
the sight of this stranger seated Win
an air Of being at home in the apart
ment and, on his seeming to see noth-
ing of the figure, pointed it out to her
husband and was quite offended when
he declared that her eyes deceived her
and that there was no one present IN
the room besides herself, and the maid
servant who admitted them.
The bride concluded that he was jest
ing with her, but insisted that there was
a woman Of the description she gave
seated within few feet OF her. sue
noticed that the servant started and
turned pale on listening TO this descrlp-
ton, and afterward, ,on being alone with
this girl, she questioned her closely as
TO the cause of this emotion, and, after
a great deal of reluctance on the girFs
part, won from her the avowal that the
picture she had drawn was an exact
likeness of her predecessor, whom Mrs.
Baldwin No. had never seen.
Though much bewildered at this CO.
Incidence, and amazed at having seen
this singular apparition at her fireslde'
Mrs. Baldwin finally succeeded in dis
missing it from her mind, especially as
the figure disappeared soon after she
first saw it.
Several days afterward, however, the
figure appeared in her room as she stood
cOmbiDg her hair tefore the glass. She
called the servants and they searched
the room thoroughly, but could find no
trace of an intruder.
After this began series OF petty per-
secutions by the ghost, the latter, Tor
the most part, being invisible, but
pinching Mrs. Baldwin on the arms and
neck and pulling her hair about her
face. This was usually when she was
alone or when only her husband was
present, but on several occasions, in the
presence of guests, she was hardly able
10 suppress cries Of pain from severe
pinches administered to her by her in
visible tormentor.
She remembers once showing to a
lady caller her hand on which had just
appeared large and cruel brulse. The
lady gives her evidence also. She says
that her eyes chanced at that moment
TO be fixed on her hostess pretty, plump
hand, and that she saw the flesh caught
up as by a vicious grasp, which caused
Mrs. Baldwin TO cry out as though in
pain, and to exhibit TO her purple
bruise that had not been there the mo-
ment before. Mrs. Baldwin's maid tes-
tilted to having seen a woman in white
about the house, but she was never
close enough to her to obtain sight OF
her face.
Its understood that Mr.. Baldwin
promised his first wife when she was
diving that he would never marry again.
The case is the strangest one ever re-
corded in the Carroll county court, and
the fact that Mrs. Baldwin relates all
the foregoing in her plea gives the
ghost story a reality that almost stag
gers disbelief in the existence OF ma
terialized spirits.