The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-02
A SUPERNATURAL. STORY.
The Contents 81 = Paper Found IN the Per-
son ~ An Insane Suicide.

4he Contents ~ = Paper Found on the Pcs.
son NJ An Insane Suicide.
Here is a story of the supernatural. Il
happened more than 100 years ago. so
that you may hope that it is not true.
Yet in thos. days the invention Of news
was not yet known. and the paper which
contains this story was a sober and hon
est journal. One Of the patients in \
madhouse-a sar;sh madhonse. | think
that If Launceston-escaped. That was
no new thing. They all wanted to es-
cape. As the woman. although very
mad indeed. was gui'e harmless, they
went about their search in a leisurely
fashion. At last they found her drowned
in a ~hallow diich and carried her back
to thu madkors-.
On preparli : the unhappy woman for
the grave they found in her corset-then
called her stays-something that rustled.
They cut the thing open and discovered
. small parcel rolled up tight in some
waterproof stuff -whatever WI then in
vented. The parcel va y incan.alt
written OF parchment. 1t wI-N-ritten
very small and misspelied. ! II TINS was
how it ran:
The man game along after dark. He
stoptei at onr door and aid he was
. stranger. and would my a mt take him
In for the night: He seemed a sailor
and said he was respectable and showed
money Elizabeth. said aunt. he can
have your room. and you snail sleep with
me- There We're two bedrooms in the
cottage. up a ladder, boil garrets. Dur
$nn Tho Ar-a,r he .~t 1.A E.
drink, and he had a lot and was drunk,
but he got up the ladder safe and SO to
bed. In the night | heard aunt get ont
OF bed. There was a moon shining in
the skylight window.
She took something and went into
the mans room. Then l was frightened
and sat up in bed. and | heard a sound
Is OF a blow and nothing more. Present
~ aunt came back. and in the moonlight
she saw me sitting up in bed. Get up,
she said; go down stairs and get. if you
can. a light. So | did and brought the
rushiight up the ladder. Aunt had the
Bible in her hand. swear she said,
that yon will never tell any one what
has been done So | swore, trembling.
and wished | might go suddenly mad if
! told. Then, says she. I've killed the
lodger. His pockets were full of gnineas.
and I'm a made woman But yon must
help me.
she made me help to drag the body
down into the room below and out in the
garden. where we dug IA hole under the
cabbages and laid it as deep as we could.
Then We covered all up and vent back
to the house and waited till dayhreak.
As soon as it was light we washed up the
place. and nobody ever found out. One
night. when ] WAS a woman grown, the
dead man came to my bedside and said.
Tell the story. and | said. ~.Icanna,. be-
cause | swore. He said: If YOU tell. YOU
have sworn to 90 mad. If Won do not
tell, will haunt yon till vou do go mad
80. as | am bound IL 60 mad either
way. | have written the story down and
ewn it up. When | am dead, somebody
will find it and will dig mp the poor man
and bury him in IA churchvard. The
honSa is situated" = y #
Thnst the narrative. And they dug up
the garden II the place indicated and
found the dead body in what had been
cIothes.-Walter Besant in Lon
don Queen.