The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
THE GHOST ON DECK
Another Visit Made Satur-
day Night to MitchelPs
Gin Mill.
CHAIRS AND TABLES UPSET,
The Summons Bell Rang in the
Presence Of a Half Dozen
Men.

Inc gnOSG OF SulclQo DoDey Is eVluenIly
determined to make things as disagreeable
as possible for Saloonkeeper James Mitchell
and other residents of the west side of
Greenville On Saturday night there was
another manifestation in Mitchells saloon,
and the residents, who had read the article in
THE JERSEY Cry NEWS on Saturday re-
garding the queer doings of the ghost and
visited the saloon to see if his ghostship
would appear, received as practical demon
stration of spiritualism as any one could de-
sire.
Mr.. Mitchell had hopes that the ghost
would transfer his scene of operations from
his saloon, and more than once during the
past week he regretted that he had ever al
lowed LOBBY to enter his place of business.
"If these antics continue" said he, ssmy
business will be ruined. / never believed in
ghosts, but must say that there is some
thing occurring in my place that | cannot
understand
WAITING HIS GHosTsHIP'S APPEARANCE.
On Saturday night at halt-past eight
O'Clock there were half dozen men in the
barroom discussing the queer occurrences of
the previous Monday and Saturday nights,
when Mr.. Mitchell was startled by hearing
the bell ring.
There's Lobey,n remarked one of the
men,
s'I'll investigate this" said another, as he
started for the rear room. He returned a
few moments later and announced that a
customer was waiting there. A general
laugh followed, and the discussion regarding
Lobey's ghost was continued. None of the
men present had witnessed any of the previ-
GUS manifestations" and all were inclined
to look upon the matter with suspicion.
Less than ten minutes after the discussion
had been resumed there was a loud clatter in
the rear room and the men all rushed in
But there were no signs of ghost Mr..
Mitchell had neglected to lock the door open
ing on Bergen avenue, and the wind had
opened it and slammed it violently against
table which was standing near by. The door
was closed and locked and the key was given
TO one of the ghost hunters. An examina-
tion was next made of the windows. They
were all securely fastened.
THE GHOST ON DECK.
Satisfied that if anyone entered the room
it would not be without noise the men re-
turned to the barroom. Everything was as
quiet as churchyard in the rear room up to
ten o'clock. At exactly three minutes past
the hour there were sounds not unlike those
caused by person walking rapidly across
a room with heavy boots. The noise
seemed to start in the corner of the room
near tbs door and continued across to the
opposite corner and then ceased. 1t was
followed by a loud clatter caused by falling
chairs. The bell in the barroorn rang twice
while the men were on their way to the
room. When they arrived there they found
three chairs upset on the floor, and the
table, which stood near the door and close to
the wall, moved three feet away towards the
centre of the room.
Mr.. Mitchell was first accused by his
visitors of having something to do with the
queer proceeding, but when they remem-
bered that he was in the barroom with them
and that the door and windows were
locked, they began to believe that
it was not human hands that upset the chairs
and moved. the table. While they were in
the room the bell in the bar-room again
rang. There was no one near the push
button. All the men, including Mr.. Mitchell,
were standing near the rear door and no one
could have entered the room and rung the
bell without betraying his presence to those
in the room.
The chairs and table were set Alright and
all hands went back to the barroom. The
matter was discussed in real earnest now
and jocular remarks were no longer made.
WAITED TILL MIDNIGHT.
All who were present declared that they
would wait until midnight and endeayor TO
solve the mystery 1t was expect
ed that another disturbance would
take place in the rear room, but the
ghost hunters were disappointed. Not
another sound was heard by midnight, when
Mr.. Mitchell closed his saloon. Since then
everything has been quiet. No noises were
heard during Sunday, but Mr. Mitchell is in
constant fear that the rear room of his
saloon will furnish even more exciting scenes
than those that have already taken place,
and he is at loss to know what to do.
The residents on the west side of Green
vile are making the occurrences at Mitchell's
saloon the sole topic of conversation, and
stories about the affair are receiving color
ing at every telling Consequently many
wild stories are being told