The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-28
A NEW WAY.
And an Effective One for Suppress
ing GhOstly visitors.
From the Boston Herald.


From the Boston Herald.
Mysterious voices uttering threats in
the most modern slang are no longer
heard in the haunted house at Valence-
en-Brie, near the forest OF Fontaine-
bleau, writes a Paris correspondent. NJ
Lebegue. his ailing wife his children, and
his servants, after having been nearly
frightened out of their wits by the sup
posed ghost or demon, are at length de-
lvered from the spell Of their sinister
visitant An ecclesslastic the Able
Schnebelin. who has studied spirtualism
closely, offered himself as exorciser, and
his efforts have been crowned with com
plete success The priest did not proceed
molly water but, after having carefully
examined the rooms In NJ. Lebegue's
mouse and surveyed the damaged furniture
and broken windows he summoned the
ghost to talk. The phantom failed TO obey
the injunction; so the able directed NJ
Lebegue to stab the air whence the voice
seemed to come, should he hear the ghost
ly tones once more. That evening, after
the priest had gone, the voice was again
vibrating In the ears of the family, but
10 their relief the ghost said. Il mean
10 be on now" Next day, however, noises
We're heard in the rooms, and mysterious
utterances RESPONDED through the place
NJ. Lebegue's son accordingly went for a
gun, loaded Il, and fired several times in
the direction Of the sounds. There was
a cry as of some one In pain, and from
mat. moment the voice ceased Able
Schnebelin naturally takes the credit Of
the affair. His advice was to stab or cut
the air with a knife or sword but the
fowling-p has evidently done It's work
thoroughly. The able had explained in
letters TO the papers and in statements
made viva-voce. how he arrived at the
conclusion that the voice could be- stilled
by method of assassination.
Ia 49, a
visible person into one of NJ. Lebegue's
rooms, and formed an opinion from il
of the energy of the person who had
thrown IT, He also conjectured that the
voice was that of a person who had a
grievance against NJ. Lebegue and his
family, such as a discharged farm hand
or servant. This protection OF the voice
and even Of the person is brought about,
according to the Ahbe, by the agency OF
certain fluids, which have an apparent
connection with electric currents BY
these means the human will can send
ITS motive power abroad, but this
proceeding is attended with danger to the
person using it, as he may meet an op-
posing current. The ecclesiastical further
states that there is nothing supernatural
IN tnese demonstrations, and he COM
mends his theories to the attention of
scientific men, who, he says, will find
them as marvellous after another man.
| ner as the telephone and the phonograph.
NJ. Schneider likewise asserts that nv
means of marks on the glass broken in
NJ. Lebeges rooms he has been able To
discover that the invisible tormentor of
the family is a white-beared, red-faced
old man, with hair like the quilts upon the
fretful porcupine, and that he worked
| with two accomplices. This Hoffman
esque story is backed by DIR. Papus, who
| was called in by NJ. Lebegue for CONSUL
tation as an expert in psychical phenom-
ena. He states that the voice was pro-
jected by the Volition of a person who ex-
pressly meant to annoy the family and
frighten them, and that this mysterious
agency was interrupted and thwarted in
its work by the Able Schnebelin. These
are the latest details concerning this ex-
| traordinary case, which has been occupy-
ing public attention in Paris, as well as
in the rustic village of Valence-en-B rie
| Tor nearly a fortnight. Whatever may be
the value of the statements of the priest
and doctor, it Is certain that the supposed
diabolical demonstrations have ceased for
the present.