The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-05
SEPARATED BY A GHOST.
Grounds on Which an Illinois Woman Ap
plies fo- Divorce.
PHILADELPHIA Times.


LENARK JUNCTION, ILL, March IT,
There has been filed in the courts of this
city 8 suit for divorce on grounds proba.
bly, the most extraordinary in the annals
of the law, these grounds being that 9
bona fde ghost prevents the lady bring
ing the suit from living with her husband
in any degree of matrimonial .quietude
and happiness. The plaintiff is Mrs.
Theresa Baldwin, nee Miss Rippledeane,
of a prominent family, who was married
on the 18th of December 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, persecutes
ber in various ways, and altogether
makes life uncomfortable under their joint
husbands roof, and forces her to live
apart from him. She declared that she
was absolutely skeptical on matters su-
pernatural, and before the beginning OF
her extraordinary experiences would
have laughed with the most indifference
at the idea of a ghost. Mrs. Baldwin's
friends also testify to her practical and
even turn Of mind, but say that her dis.
position has been entirely altered since
her marriage.
She is bright, cherry and lively little
woman, full of gay and pleasing chatter,
but now betrsys nervous, depressed
condition of the mind, owing she de-
clares wholly to the unsettled life led her
by the ghost Her story of this peraecu-
tion is that on the return from their we'd
ding 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 lady dressed in a
loose white robe
She exclaimed at the sight of this
stranger, seated with an air of being at
home in the apartment, and on his seem.
ing to see nothing of the figure, pointed
it out to her husband, and was quite Of
Tended when he declared that her eyes
deceived her, and that there was no one
present in the room beside herself, him
self and the maid servant who had ad-
mitted them.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
She concluded that he was jesting with
her, but insisted that there was woman
of the description she gave seated within
few feet of her. She noticed that the
servant started and turned pale on listen.
ing to this description. aud afterwards.
on being alone with this girl she ques'
toned her closely as to the cause of this
nmotion, and, after 8. great deal of reluc'
tance on the maids part, won from hel
the avowal that the picture she had drawn
was the exactlikeness of her predecessor
Though much bewildered at this coninci:
dence, and amazed at having seen this
singular apparition at her freside, Mra
Baldwin finally succeeded in dismissipg
it from her mind.
Several days passed. without the occur.
renee of anything to startle her, when
one night, while alone in her bedroom
her husband being away on business, she
was standing before her mirror brushing
out her hair. She saw all at once at hel
elbow this strange figure. Turning from
the glass she looked about the room, but
it was quite empty, and thinking that hel
imagination had deceived her, she turn
ed again to the mirror, when, as distinct
as before, she saw the figure staring at
her with an angry and displeased coun.
tensnce.
Frightened now beyond all control oI
herself she ran screaming to the bedroom
door, but to her astonishment found il
was as securely locked as she herself had
left it on entering the room. 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 anyone. She was sc
disturbed over this occurrence that she
was unable to sleep for the rest of the
night.