The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-24
GHOST GONE OUT OF SIGHT.
ROBERTSVILLE FREE OF SPIRIT
MANIFESTATIONS.

The Rain Drove the Crowds and the
Ghost Into SheIter-A Few Watch
ers, But They saw NOthing-sOme
of the Ghost Cases the Police Have
Been Called on 10 Investigate.
The rain yesterday kept the crowds
away from the neighborhoOd of Wilson
and Walker streets and prevented further
reports concerning the ghost. A few days
OF steady rain would probably settle the
ghost business altogether.
The ghost story. however, has revived
in the minds of hundreds Of people expert
ences OF their own or coming under their
own knowledge when what appeared to be
a foundation for a belief in ghosts as a
genuine thing were dissolved by the dis
cOvery of the actual facts.
No longer than two years ago there was
a general report that a house in the neigh
D0rhood of Montgomery and Jones street
was haunted. The excitement was kept
up for a considerable length of time and
hundreds of people visited the scene night
its. 1t was finally proven that the ghostly
manifestations We're the work Of mis-
chieVous boys in the neighborhoOd The
house was vacant at the time and it was
an easy matter for the boys to gain ac-
cess to it.
Sergt. Kiuourhy recalled a pretty good
ghost story the other night in discussing
this matter. where if a policeman had
lacked nerve there would have been very
strong grounds for a belief in ghosts. It
was good many years ago when the
present site of the De Soto was occupied
by the old army barracks, and that neigh
borhood was less thickly built up than it
is now.
There was a high wall" said sergt
killourhy on Liberty street east Of
where the De Soto now stands. At point
on Drayton street near the lane there was
a tree which branched oyer the wall and
cast a shade on the sidewalk. 1t was be
ueved by a great many people that this
The policemen were required to walk the
streets and lanes alternately. Many Of
the lane in that block, and 1t was funny
now many varied excuses they would
make Tor not doing so, acknowledging any
thing but their fear of spirits. 1t was af-
ter midnight one night and in the middle
OF winter, too, when a policeman arrived
at this corner and took a look about him
before Venturing into the lane. Then he
saw something that made the cold chills
run down his back 1t was a white figure
lying in the shade of the tree by the wall.
he looked at it for some time and not
being able to make out what IL was he
begun TO walk around it. He finally mus
teEed up courage to go up and
Gould get neither word nor sound from il.
he dragged 1t to the corner, to
the gas light, and was surprised to
ind that it was a man dressed in white
and on a cold winters night. too He
could not get a word from the strange
creature, and was as badly puzzled as
II ne had found a ghost sure enough. He
LOOK the man 10 the police barracks and
u was learned afterward that he was a
GEAR mute from Florida. He had arrived
on the night train, and losing his way
had stopped under the shade tree bv TIE
wall, right where the ghosts were suppos-
ca to make their appearance. Had the po-
lceman not investigated the matter, but
told the story of the ghost he had seen
by the haunted tree, the general belief
that the place was haunted would have
been confirmed"
There were all the materials for first
class ghost story in this case, had the
policeman had less nerve