The sun., 1894-08-13
THE GHOST SEEN AGAIN.
TRACK LABoRERs sTAMPEDED BF
THE MAPLEToN SPECTRE.

| Thst sf the PerrSn who, Thursday
Might. Pet n Place the stops watch
New Nsrks the spot or Margaret Bsr--
Tags suicide Inspector NeKeL
veg Relates HI- Ghostiy Ezperie.ees.
The excitement prevailing in those neighbor-
hoods where dwell the people who declare they
have seen Mapleton's now famous ghost one or
more times increases with the growing mystery
surrounding the apparition. Whence IL comes
whittier IL goes, and what It Is wise
enough to explain satisfactorily has rs yet been
found.
Since the apparition appeared early last Friday
morning in full view Of passengers on the Sea
Beach train coming from Coney Island scores
Of people have been found who say they saw
the spectre either before that eventful night or
after.
The alleged ghost seems to show up in about
the same place at about the same hour each
night. IL invariably. according to the most
trustworthy testimony, rises up where Margaret
Barning committed suicide week ago yester-
day, and makes its way into the neighboring
woods.
Whether the ghost, after its invariable flight
to the woods when reused out of its lair, ap-
pears again that night, has not yet been dis
covered, because no one has yet had the cour-
age TO go out and see. with the exception of
nights hunting WnlCn DthJ an
ignominious retreat on first sight Of the appari-
tion.
True to its habits. the wrath appeared In
about its accustomed haunts after midnight
Saturday night, more properly, sunday
morning. IL the testimony Of an engineer herein
recorded be worthy OF credence.
Saturday night the Sea Beach Railway had
work train out in charge of Conductor Hilger
and Engineer Kirk. gang of laborers was
along This train was on a side track just be-
low Mapleton, near woodlawn, waiting for the
1 o'clock train from Coney Island to pass. The
latter train running in two sections to ac-
commodate the crowd.
After the first section OF twelve cars had gone
by. Mike Clooch. one Of the laborers on the
work train. emitted bood-curdling yell, point
ed toward the woods where the ghost had been
seen to retreat, and made for the locomotive.
Every one OWNED at once the cause of his
fright. The other employees caught the alarm.
and a general panic ensued All that could find
room crowded in the engineers cab, and u num-
Der OF the workingmen being Italians, the engi-
all demanded that Kirk should start up and
work in that neighborhood at night any more.
Kirk, In describing the affair. said:
and while didn't believe in ghosts, / was very
glad when the second section OF the train
passed; made short work of getting away
"If another work train is to run at night I'll
find it convenient 70 be sick. no more spooky
hours in a spoOky place for me-"
Hiiger. the conductor OF the work train. de-
clares that he the spectre start up out of its
This was after the first section OF the O'Clock
train had passed. II seems to indicate that the
set S out ali little ahead Of time None me Of the en-. %
ployees on the second section of the train saw
the ghost. so il seems not to have resppeared
SO far as reported. the people on the work
train were the only ones who saw 1t saturday
night.
appearance which roll thoroughly the people
declare persistently that they don't believe in
the general run OF ghosts. One Is The theory
half dozen heads " families; namely, that 1t
was seen only in the imaginations OF certain
hooS %heTe recent tt tragedy may have
The people OF MApleton who say they have seen
the ghost resent strongly this insinuation
There's Jere Lott" said one of his friends |
yesterday to THE sun reporter. HE saw that
said so. But, after thinking IL over. he decided
it wouldn't do 10 scknow ledge the presence OF a
home the day the thing becomes known to
ton people who are reported as denying the pres
ence Of something strange-I won't call IL a |
ghost. and e Dartcaiariy they don't want yam other other
people to think they've got one.
Now I'd far sooner take the testimony of |
working people, as train hands, who up late |
at night, and have an opportunity Of seeing the |
ghost, than of people who go TO bed before |
about"
John Hennessey is one OF those who resents
the imputation against the correctness of his /
vision. Hennessey is Jere Lofts coachman. and
rear OF which Margaret Earning committed sui Sii
eide =, HssnIsssey len said Yesterday; ;'sry
thaf ybnst Thursday m ahnut half
% oeIoSk that was Woie IV. .Wensy. ha
hours before the train stopped out here to let the
hearing tapping on my window pane. II was
gentle at first, Then Il got louder and oftener.
still. ] thought IL was birds at first, but soon
found 1t was no birds sound. Then | began TO
ped, and heard brushing sound against the
window and then all was still.
Next morning. when ! heard the ghost had
I'd heard" ''''''
Two servant girls at Michael Mccormack
house. near the MApleton station, declare they
saw the ghost the night It first appeared TO the
Sea Beach train passengers They both say
Irish boy who works on the premises, had gone
Oh To visit some OF his neighbors. They had Just
Violent blowing OF the railroad engine whistle
They looked out of the window and what
aIoag over the ground. They would have thought
i was a tall woman in a nightgOwn, with white
hair streaming, from behind, they gay, II it
Both girls were very much frightened Kelly |
who says he doesn't believe in ghosts, tries To
make the girls think they were scared any way |
because he wasn't in the house, and moth
ing at ALL but the girls will not give up the idea
that they saw "A ghost.
McCOrInaCk's house is located ON the side OF
the railroad where the woods into which II is
alleged the RpparitiOn goes are located, and the
girls window OverlOOks these woods.
FlagmRn George Washington Mills is very In
ignAnt over the idea that the low despairing
wall" which he says he heard early Friday
morning proceeding from the spot where the
large white stone with a cross marked upon IL |
notes the place where the sunday suicide Oc-
,urred was the wall OF blAck tOmcat confined in
iallagher's stable as some of his neighbOrs say.
Mills said yesterday:
when the time comes that can't tell a cats
lOwling from any other noise, ghost or no ghost,
TOu may shoot me dead
The other suggestion that stirs the blood of
'Sople who say they saw the ghost Is that the
alleged apparitiOn was pig. This solution was
dNen by Conductor Tully nt the sea Beach road |
FULLY ran the O'Clock train saturday morning |
day after Engineer MallOn had hls hAir-rRis-
ng experience. and said he saw the alleged !
'hOst, but when he stopped his train he found
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