The San Francisco call., 1897-04-13
| WRATH Of ARGO
IN MAR|N'S JAIL
This Time It Is a Woman
Who Sees the Suicides
Ghost.
Annie Kehoe's Night of Horror
in the Haunted Cell at
San Rafael.
In a Frenzied Effort to Escape She
Drugs Her Bed Into Another
Apar rtment

| SAN RAFAEL, CAL, April 12.-Once
again has the ghost of Argo made its ap-
pearanca in Marin's County Jail. Thi:
| time woman, Annie Kehoe, saw il, and
to escape from Its evil influence dragged q
bed from the haunted cell. where CHASTITY
| figures taunted her. into an adjoining cell,
only TO find that the apparition, with its
| uncanny scare and low moaning. followed.
The woman told her story to Under Sher.
| iff John Harmon to-day. 1t is the same
as that told by other unfortunates who
have been locked in the haunted cell and
ghostly visitor.
"I'll bet you a thousand dollars to a
nickel that l saw ghost, if my life
is worth it," said she in reply to q
taunt that she was only dreaming. 81
was lying on my cot when l saw man
crouching On the floor right near the
tanks. / was terribly frightened and the
man was continually moaning. He was
dressed in dark clothes and wore large,
black slouch hat with a big brim and
seemed 10 have two coats on"
County Treasurer j. I. Fallon, who was
under sheriff at the time prisoner Argo
killed himself In the cell which he is now
said to haunt, was sent for and Annie
Kehoe repeated the description of the
ghost to him. He said that she described
Argo minutelT and that at the time Argo
com mitted suicide in the cell he had on
two coats and was dressed and looked as
described by the woman.
Annie Kehoe was arrested last Thurs
day night for petty larceny, she havin g
been charged with stealing won an s
wrap. To-day she was before Justice Rod
den OF San Rafael and was acqu tied
When she returned to the County Jail for
her belongings she showed the Under
Sheriff and Treasurer FalIon where the
ghost crouched. Her bedding was on the
floor in the adjoining cell. whittier she
had dragged IL in her efforts to escape
from the apparition. She said that she
saw the ghost OF a Chinaman, also She
| described her thrilling experience vividly,
and when she lett the prison this after
noon she exclaimed:
Thank God. 1 won't have to spend an
| other night in that terrible place.
The ghost has been seen by other pris-
oners before. Murderer Kelly. who
| stabbed feIIow-convict at San Quentin
prison and who was tried at San Rafael
for the crime, spent a night in the
haunted cell, and was foundin the morn
ing by the Sheriff's deputies in frenzied
state. He said ghost had visited him,
and that he would commit suicide if the
Sheriff would not take him out of the
cell rather than pass such another night
as the one he had just gone through.
Argo, whose apparition is causing all
trouble. was arrested for some petty Of
tense and confined in this cell. The next
day his lifeIess body was found on the
fioor and since that time prisoners have
repeatedly said that they have seen his
ghost.
A Chinaman, who had never heard OF
the stories in regard to the cell and who
was unable to read English, related the
same tale as did Annie Kehoe. The mys-
terry has never been explained, and tram ps
. without mum ber, who have heard of the
ghosily visitor, have given San Rafael a
wide berth for fear of being confined in the
haunted cell.
II cannot account for it, said Under
Sheriff Harmon, ''but it Is fact that the
descriptions of the apparition tally in each
instance"