St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-22
TILES f: Of TERROR
EXPERIENCED by YOUNG MEN
UNDER WIDELY VARIED
CIRCUMTANCES.
A VICTIM OF JUDGE LYNCH
WAS ENCOUNTERED AT THE
NOON OF NIGHT BY A RE-
TURNING LOVER.
SHARED HIS BED WITH DEATH.
"A Human Skull and n Rodent
Cause Student to Forsake
Incidence

Chicago Tribune
They were talking about terrible
things. They We're all young men,
and one of them had just finished a
story of a man who had been scared
to death by ghost. Not one of the
party would own that he believed
in the supernatural, but the whole
crowd was agreed that there are
things that cannot always be ac-
counted for. Finally they got to
talking of actual experiences. The
outcome was that there We're three
stories told. All of them were
Vouched for. These are the stories:
Some years ago, out in Winfield,
Kan, young man drove out into
the country to see his sweetheart.
AT midnight he started homeward.
1t was dark night, but the young
man drove a pair of spirited horses
and made good time until he reached
the outskirts of his home town. The
only way he could get into Winfield
was to drive along the bank of a
river and then pass under a bridge
that spanned it. When he reached
the bridge it was so dark he natur-
ally slowed his team. To his sur
prise when he started to drive under
the bridge, his team showed signs of
not wanting to go on. He allowed
the horses to have their own way for
a time, and then, seeing that they
did not seem inclined to go on, he
q commenced to urge them. Still they
did not go on. He was patient for
several minutes, and then made up
his mind that the horses must pro-
coed.
The team, however, would not
bulge a step forward, but when
urged seemed inclined to want to
turn around. This move could not
be made, however, without great
danger, as the buggy was too near
the river bank. So, after seeing that
he was not likely to do much good
from the buggy, the young man
alighted and went to the heads of
the horses. To his great surprise he
found both animals were in a foam,
and then he knew there was some
reason for the
STRANGE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
They were plainly frightened. He
soothed them as we'll as he could,
and then he tried to urge them for
ward. They snorted with terror,
trembled in every limb, and with
dumb eloquence begged not to be
forced to go ahead.
But the young man had to get home.
He got in front Of the horses heads,
took each animal by the bit, and start
ed to back into the darkness. His hand
seemed to reconcile the horses and they
moved after their master. They went
slowly, to be sure, but they did move,
and as they went the man cheered
them. Step by step the man and
horses went along. They finally reach
ed the blacklist part OF the darkness,
the man still walking backward and
pulling on his horses heads. Suddenly
one of the horses gave a wild snort,
reared high in the air, and came near
getting away from his master The
man instinctively turned, and as he
aid SO, to his horror, felt himself struck
in the face. 1t was not a hard blow,
Dit it was hard enough to cause him to
cry out, more in fright than in pain.
Then he reached out in the dark to
grasp the thing that had struck him.
His hand found it. 1t WaS-a human
foot.
There had been a FINISHING party in
Winfield a few hours before and Judge
Lynch's crew had left their victim
dangling from that gallows bridge.
How the young man reached his
home he never knew. His hair, how
ever, did not turn white, nor did he
become a raving maniac, but, although
he has lived in Winfield ever since, he
has never passed under that bridge.
Two young men once lived together
in a. room on the North Side One of
not care for him, but he didn't know
it. So he went on and on keeping in
love
One morning about 1 o'clock the
young man who was in love came home
and found his roommate in bed as
usual. The young man sat down and
read for an hour and then he went to
bed. At 8 o'clock next morning he
woke up, and, to his surprise, found
that his partner had not yet got up.
He thought it was strange, but sup
posed the young man knew his business
and would get up when he was ready
to do so. So he dressed and was just
about to leave the room when he
thought perhaps his roommate was
oversleeping himself. So he spoke to
him. He got no response. Then he
spoke again, this time loud enough to