The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-22

hove baa,, called i,ro, IN INVESTIGATE. that
of Mr. Nfarsbalrs app3ritiou to the Rev.
Philip Burwash of Sussex,iae. and to the
Rev. Phillip Wendovcr. his curate. is Ger
tainly BY no means The least curious. IT
was communicated to the society by the
Rev George Burwash himself. with mass
of authenticauug evidence quite in excess
of the ordinary case of this description.
The Rev. George -Burwash is one of that
httle army Of honest and worthy amateur
investigators scattered throughout the
country clersymen, retired officers pro-
lessoFs Keeping monday ana iaaies OF e'-
cry description who. in spite OF certain
lneXperlence IN the handing OIL human eNl-
dencei are doing such excellent work IN
reVIVihg the efsl decadeht peleI lh splrll-
ual entities he was already faVoraoiy
known to the society 10y his experiments IN
Ahousht tIahSIeiehee
The apparitiOn occurred on Christmas
eve 1895 and his communication was read
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uafy. MY inquiries IA SusseAVlle were
prosecuted during the April and May fol-
lowing
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the reader is the English Tor a double;
YOU are here and vet YOU appear suddenly
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OtHer "oIus' doppeIsansei Is PHdhIasIh
of a living person Such phantasms are
believed bv many ollita reDutable paople
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ana, as IN the case had 10 examine are
often curiously purpOseless. Here we had
Mr. Marshall appe1ring suddenly and win
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WASH ana ms curate' utterng horrible I'M
precautions. threatening him. and then sud
denly disappearing He cursed and threat
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dure was totally without symbolic value.
But so vivid and so sonorous was the phan-
Hssm that at the time if did NOT enter into
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ahy'Hlhs put real person, albeit the fig
uie NOV ca with a curious gliding motion,
markedly dlHerent from walking. Untl
IL vanished lndeed, the thought of hosts
nid not occur TO MIN. The manner of dis
appearance ana the subsequent silence, as
Ahe reverend gentleman described them,
were, however, quite sufficiently ghCst-like
my hIst proceeding IN calculating this
interesting case was, Of course, TO visit
the scene OF the appearance, and, cOurte-
ousH put eNhaustlVely, 10 cross-eXamine
MT burWash and Mr.. Wendover on the
PARTICULARS OF the incident
MI burWash occupies a house on the
hliislde above the church, and in conse-
quence of the growth of his family he
mas Ior the sake OF quiet, built himself a
smaH nut convenient study of pine up the
mn PAIN crosses over the crest of the
MIL ana descends steeply from a little
gaze near the study between the vicarage
heuge ana the ehurchyard wall TO the lych
sac N the man road below.
On CHRISTMAS eve Mr.. Burwash had been
writing late at his Christmas sermon. hav-
ing peen delayed during the day by a par
cei OF spooklcal literature, and it was after
midnight that he finished. His curate
win whom he is, for vicar, on eXcep-
tiohally friendly terms came into the
STUDY ana sat smoking, while the vicar
,'ernatelS TAXED 10 MIN ana punctuated
nus discourse Tor the morrow. IL adds TO
me interest Of the case that this curate,
NJ. NehuoNer, was a declared skeptc.
Nheh the punctuation was completed
the wear got up. stretched and opened his
STUDY door TO look out at the weather He
saw oy the glare from the door that a few
preparing to turn and remark upon mis-
70 ne cufate when suddenly, and abrupt
fy' AR. Marshall appeared outside the gate.
anu stood for a moment swayng exactly
ike a drunken man, and apparently strug-
6hhg with violent internal emotions. Then
hndlng ms voice he poured forth with dra-
Ihauc uheNpectedness volley Of cures SO
Eross and personal that had the greatest
difficulty in persuading Mr.. Bllrwaeb i'm
the Interests of science, to repeat them
The curate became aware of Mr. Nor