The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-19
THE HOUSE rs HAUNTED
The narrowing Experience
Ofa Young Step
mother.

Cornelius Boyle, an intelligent
young miner living at what Is
known as Baltimore No. 2, a settle
ment of Irish and Welsh miners
near Wilkesbarre, married a sec.
.ond wife short time ago. Mrs,
Boyle No. 2 had died only 6 weeks
before, leaving four small children.
The present Mrs. Boyle is very
young for wife, being hardly II
years old. She is pretty girl: She
met her husband last st. Patrick's
day, and not quite month after
ward they were married in Phil
lipsburg, N. j., by Rev. Father
Burke. The week following they
spent in New York and then went
to Boyle's home in Baltimore No.2.
Mrs. Boyle's experience in that
home was so startling that she and
her husband have left it forever
and are stopping with neighbor
until they can find another house.
"I was washing some clothes in
the kitchen Monday afternoon,"
said Mrs. Boyle to New York
Herald correspondent, "when 1 ex-
perienced most singular feeling
as though somebody were in the
room with me. 1 looked around
hut could see nobody. Then 1 went
into the parlor, but no one was
there. When 1 returned to the
kitchen, all the chairs and tables
were upset and my washing spilled
on the floor. 1 set them right
again. immediately they were
thrown down. At that instant
there swept by me figure of no
particular shape, except the head,
and that 1 saw distinctly. The
face was woman's and had such
peculiar look about it that / can
never forget. 1t was gone in an
instant, and 1 tainted.
"The children called in the neigh
bors, and after some time was re-
vived. When my husband return
ed home, told him the story. He
called it joke and said l had i'm
agined it all. 1 tried to think no
more about it.
"The next day 1 was alone in the
kitchen making some bread when
1 again felt the dreadful, overpow-
ing sensation of the peculiar pres
ence. 1t gradually grew in shape
until the head was fully visible.
Then 1 could see the face. 1t was
the same as on the day previous.
"Fearing to sbe alone the next
day, 1 sent for my sister. That
night I again told my husband
about the ghostly visitor. My
nerves were unstrung, and was
very much excited. Mr.. Boyles
got some books to quiet me, and
We began looking them over
Among the books was photograph,
album. He was turning over the
leaves and explaining who the per.
sons were.
"Finally he turned page, and
there before me was the fare OF
that ghost 1 had seen. So sudden
ly was the face presented before
me that l shrieked with horror
My husband, startled, sprang t.
his feet and asked me what was
the matter. All I could do was Il
point to the album, which had fal
len to the floor, and say: THAT face
That facev
"What about 2" cried my hus
band.
otis the same as the ghosts"
managed to say.
"He was very much Mortified a
this and startled too.
"Why, that's the face of my frs
wife," he explained.
"Then he believed what ha
said regarding the. apparition, 70
he knew had never seen eithe
her or any photograph of her be
fore.
"My sister came the next da!
On Thursday my sister and / wer
in the kitchen cutting carpet rag
Among the old clothing was
JACKET Of Jamsey's, who is my hu'
bands oldest boy. / took it out {
the bag to give to Annie, my siste
~ leaned over to hand it to he
AS did 40 it WAS pulled from n,
hands and thrown on the floor. A
the same instant I felt the pre-
ence of the ghost, although coul
see nothing. My sister then picl
ed the jacket from the floor.
"As she did SO the jacket We
torn from her hands, and the ghos
stood before us, the eyes blazing q
though in anger.
MNhA next daY my husband sfa |