Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-16

NEwARK, V. J., July I6.-On Eagle rock. at the summit of the Orange noun tains, where hundreds of NewaLkcrs rush daily-or nightly rnthCr-fOr (. breathing spell, thcrc hAs been for a ws k much ex. eitemcnt owing to the appearance of what is said to be a ghost
 It appears nightly, so it is said, and aa the rock Is but n short distance from the spot where Phoebe Paulin. n pretty l6 year-old girl, was muFdcrcd Is years ago. the uncanny appaTitiun Is connected with that mysterious and to the present unpun ishcd crime.
 Not only timId women, but sturdy mel say they have seen the appArition, anL even some of tho members of the Eagle Rock company, which has done much tS make the place n resort, admit that thcy have seea 1t and heard the unusual sounds
 The first incident that brought the al lege1 ghost into prominence was the prus tr .tion of Miss Mamie F. kcanc Of ls Bruce strcct. Newark, N J. who has beer i confined to her home for a week as n TO suit of the shock produced by the sudden appearance of the ghost and the unearthl, moans which followed its disappearance They Met the Ghost Miss Kcanc, with her sister Lottie anC an escort. were returning rum the rOck on Sunday evening. and when near the | SE1A NAAGEN tAlN -NAAA1AGAA ANaAl AAtENrSNs4 Eagle Rock avenue they met the aPpari | tion-
 Miss Kcane says that she was not at al superstitiOuS. did not believe in ghost l and attributed her illness to n shock pro | duccd by mechanical rather than supcr natural effects.
 We were walking lcIsurcly down thu avenue toward the electic car, she said when something white that apPearc( like the figure of q woman darted acrOsi the road
 | Ut neither ran nor walked and almos instantly darted hack whence 1t came The thing appeared only n few yard ahead of o1r party, and. startled as W, were by the sudden appearance our alarn | was made moro intense a few seconds late when the most uncarthlry sounds, such a a person moaning from great pain, cam from the dense wood at the side of tn avenue where the figure had disappeared
 II do not believe in ghosts. nor am | at all supcrstitious, but must admit bG ing thoroughly frightened and confess i would require considerable urging to in duce me to go over the same road again a night.
 Does Not Believe In Ghosts.
 II have been indispo~ed since, but no because believe it was ghost I saw, fO I am inclined to believe the apparitiO was nothing mOrc than the ray Of an ar lamp located some distance down the RN enue. As for the strange noise, 1 don know what it was and will not make an effort to find what caused it.
 My sister did not sec the white rohc figure dart across the road. but she hear | the awful moaning and WAS just us muC frightened as l was Thre young me and two girls who were in the party hear the strange noise and declare that her after they will visit the rock during th day only"
 The same night Mart King, a humoris and Thomas B- Booth, diamond salCs man of this city. who wcrc spending th day at the rock, had similar experience
 Samuel A. Smith, cx-cOunty Clcrl William GrCasOn and Martin T. COnnC. | an undertaken. all of whom arc intc1sstg in the Eagle rOck property, have heIrd and investigated the ghost story. i MT. COOncy said last night he had ma n thorough invest StiE;ItiOn and Is saJ fife there Is something thcrc, but just wl,n' ! Is not prepared to say. He SAW the Eic and heard the strange sounds. but adi. ;: ! | his inability to account fs'r them Hundreds of persons gathered last mi at n respectable distanC" awaiting the :'l pcarancc of the ghost, and many of tn, say they heard the peculiar sounds
 thorough watch has been kept to diSsrnv, if this Is the wOSk of practical jokers. "s they have found nothing 90 far that wUul tend to solve the mystery