The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28
~HERE has been filed in the courts

grounds probably the most extraordinary
in the annals of the law, these grounds
being that a BONA tidc ghost prevents tho
lady bringing the suit from living with her
husband in any degree of matrimonial
quietude and happiness. The plaintiff is
Mrs. Theresa Baldwin, nee Miss Ripple
deane, of n promiiIct family, who was
married on Dec. IA last to Philip Baldwin
of this place.
Mrs. Baldwin alleges that the ghost of
Mr.. Baldwin's first wife, Rosamond Bald
win, haunts their domicile, pcrsecutcs her
in various ways. and altogether makes life
uncomfortable under their JOINT husbands
roof, and forces her to live apart from
him. She declares that she was abso-
lutely skeptical on matters supernatural,
n before the beginning of her cxtraoI-
binary experiences would lave laughed
with the most matter-of-fact at the idea of
a ghost. Mrs. Baldwin's friends also tes-
tify to her practical and even turn of
mind, but say that her disposition has
beer entirely altered since her marriage.
She is a bright, CHEEKY AMI lively little
woman full of gay and pleasing chatter,
but now betrays u ncrvous, depressed on
ditIon of the mind, owing, ehe declares,
wholly to the unsettled life led her by tho
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.. Baldwin and his
first wife the first sight that met her eyes
was a lady dressed in a loose white robe.
She exclaimed at the sight of this stran-
ger seated with an air of being at home in
the apartment, and, on his seeming to see
nothing of the figure pointed it ont to her
husband, and was quito offended when he
declared that her eyes deceived her and
that there was no one present in the room
besides herself, himself, and the maid
servant who admitted them. She conclu-
ded that he was icsjinG with her, but ill.,
sisted that there Was a woman of the de-
scription she gave seated within a few feet
of her. She noticed that the servant
started and turre ed pale on listening to
this description, and aftcrward, on being
lone with the girl, she questioned her
closely as to tho cause of this emotion.
and, after n great deal of reluctance on
the maids part, won from her the
avowal thai the picture sho had drawn
was an exact likeness of her predecessor.
Though much bewildered at this coinci-
dence, and amazed at having seen this
singular apparition at her tlreside, Mrs.
bdIbN u lllloliN SuCCetNtu Ill ulSllllSSlll1
il from her mind.
Several days passed without the occur
ance of anything to startle her, when, one
night while alone in her bedroom, her hus-
band being away on business, she was
standing before her mirror brushing ont
her hair. She saw all at once at her elbow
this strange figure. Turning from tho
glass she looked about the room, but it
Was nuitn ap,ntV anb ,l;,li,. ,I,, H.,
imagination had deceived her. she turned
again TO the mirror, when, as distinct as
before, she saw the figure staring at her
with an angry and di>picascd counten-
ance.
Frightened now beyond all control Of
herself she ran screaming to the bedroom
door, but to her astouishment found IL
was as securely locked as shc herself had
left it on entering the DOM. She called
the cook, who was The only servant in the
house, telling her what she had seen, and
together they searched the bedroom and
the dressing room opening into it, but
found no trace of any one. She was so
disturbed over this occurrence that sho
unable TO sleep for the rest of the
So much was she upset by the mystery
OF the thing hat she wrote TO her sister,
Miss Anna Belle Hippledeanc. to CONT
lend her company when MIR. Bald
business took him from her. The
>o1ne lady,a sprightly miss Of 1G, was told
nothing of what had hapIencd, and TO her
bright, sunshiny nature the unhappy lady
trusted TO drive from her mind the de-
fusion which she was beginning TO believe
was the cause of her seeing this cboetIy
GrI1re. Tut on tho d,v .ftcr b,- ,rni,nI
No. A., MI ,lnr,sra ~ i
re Co. 20 "'o''oScu 'i'lS nope ny
ieLha'n'LE 10 "or SISTER mat sle had seen
a lady IN "hltc walking down the hall just
before her, and asking where she had
gone.
Her sister nut her Off with Soma trivial
axnlap,tior bu, tho nav. h.. IL D."
,Tddoano - ny
P ~ y 0GG "rt anu t"r' baId-
WILL saying tlat sue hau 1uSt seen a wo-
man dressed IN white enter her bedroom,
and that, following her into the apartment
she had been unable to find any trace of
her. She insisted on her sistnr ,,d NJ
aIdwin occomp,nvirr nov - rrut
.aanoh NJ paLJn -. ~ " t"i''et
~ W. ''iI'n W." 'i'c" put GUITAR
"nat he coi!sldeied a h\Sterlcal creature
OF MS WE heated imagination. Mrs.
Baldwin denied this, and, being up
held in her statement hy her sister. tho
gentleman bepan also 10 look ur.,.y ond
1900