The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-07
a SUPERNATURAL STORY.
The Contents oi IA Paper Found on the Per-
son of an Insane Suicide.

con of an ln-an. st;icide.
Here is a story of the supernatural. 1t
happened more than 100 ycsrs ago. so
that YOU ma hope that II is not true.
Yet in those days the inveLtion Of news
was not yet known, ana the paper winch
contains this story was Il sober and hon
est journal. One Of n patients III a
madhousc-a Parish ~madhouse, ! think
that of L.aunceston-escaped. That was
no new thing. They all wanted to es-
As the woman, although very
mad indeed, was quite harmless, they
went about their search in a lelsureiy
fashion. At last they found her drowned
in a shallow ditch and carried her back
to the madhouse.
On preparing 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
a small parcel rolled up tight in some
waterproof stuff-whatever was then in
vented. The parcel was a document
written on parchment. 1t was written
very small and misspelied, but this was
how it ran:
THE man came along after dark. He
stopped at our door and said he was
q stranger. and would my aunt 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 shall sleep with
me- There were two bedrooms in the
cottage. up a ladder, both garrets. Dur
ing the evening he sent me out for
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 out
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
as 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
rushlight up the ladder. Aunt had the
| Bible in her hand. Swear she said,
that you will never tell any one VIVA,
has been done So | swore, trembling.
and wished | might go suddenly mad il
l tOlC. lueH, says she, I've kilic'i tHe
ledger. His pockets were full of guineas,
and I'm a made woman. But you must
help me-.
80 she made me help TO drag the body
down into the room below and ont in the
garden. where we dug a hole under tht
cabbages and laid it as deep as we could
Then we covered all up and Went bach
to the house and waited till d~aybreak
As soon as it was light we washed up th'
! place. and nobody yer found out. On'
night, when | was IA woman grown, tn
dead man came 70 my bedside and said
Tell the story and | said, Il cannot. be
cause l swore.' He said: If you tell. 70,
have sworn to go mad. If you do no
tell, / will haunt you till you dogo mad.
so. as | am bound to 20 mad eithe,
way. | nave written the story down am
sewn it up. When am dead, somehod.
will find it and will dig up the poor ma
k,and bury him in a churchyard. TIL
house is situated = y
Thus the narrative. And they dug ri
the garden in the place indicated an'
found the dead body in what had bee!
sailors clothes. -Walte Besant in Lon
don Queen.