Evening star., 1898-12-17

the cart, just before the cart was pulled
away (the corkscrew was found In Wild's
dead hand afterward). or Jack Sheppard.
or any of the other hundreds who met
death at Tyburn Tree. still haunt that side
of London, deponent knoweth not
1here are. however, well-authenticate ted
apparitions even in the prosaic London of
today. One of these is the wrath of poor
Anne Boleyn, said to walk the chapel in
the Tower, close to the place where she
met death so untimely. The ghost who
came to the notorious Lord Lyttelton con-
fined her attentions to one single night
but the history of the visitation is known
TO this hour and by many people firmly
credited.
1t is to the effect that Lord Lvtteltou.
| then thirty-fiva. and confirmed rake when
residing at his house in Hill street Berke-
icy square. was surprised one night by the
fiuttering of a bird in his chamber and the
appearance of woman, who. pointing at
clock on the mantelpiece then on the
stroke of midnight, informed him that at
that hour on the third day after his life
would be concluded.
Lord Lyttelton told the story to his
friends, and went down with q large party
OF them to his residence near EPSON where
ne became i'll with a suffocating fit, to
which he was subject From this not infre-
quent seizure he quickly recovered and
seemed gay and free from a premonition
of trouble.
In order to help him to make light of the
warning of the apparition on the third and
last day all the clocks in the house and the
watches of those who carried them We're
put forward half an hour, so that when at
quarter before midnight he was in bed
the watches pointed to a quarter past and
LORD Lyttelton exclaimed, This mysterious
iady was no true prophecies I find" and
said he would try to sleep. But when the
nour OF midnight really came he expired
very suddenly, and in his turn 'aupeared'
TO friend, who was in bed at Dartford a
man who little believed in ghosts that
ne got up and searched for Lord Lyttelton.
OF whose death at that very hour he heard
Iater In the day.
Perhaps this is one of the hest autben,i
Gated of London's ghost stories, though the
one that foretold the assassination of
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, runs
it close
In this case there were MANY wefrd var,,-
inss. OF which the duke was well aware
Out the crowning one was vouehsafed TO a
man at Windsor, Mr.. Towse an officer of
the Kings Wardrobe, to whom on three
separate occasions the spirit of the dukes
rather, Sir George Villiers appeared to
urge Mr.. Towse to see the duke and tell
MIN that If he did not strive to insrati
himself with the people his death would
soon occur.
The duke was murdered at 10 High street
portsmouth, about six months after Mr.
George i'i' u on
There have been multitudes of metropoli-
Tan sensations as highly colored as the
COCK lane ghost affair. and as absolutely
fraudulent, but happily, as decade sue
eeeds decade the Londoner takes less and
less account of superstitions and supernat-
ufai Vlsitaticns, and even cheerfully con-
sents to reside in neighborhoods said to be
haunted. - "
Some few actually seek for haunted
houses, either to gee them at a reduced
rental or to prove that there is notbfnr In
the smallest degree uncanny about them
Members of the PsychicaI Research Soci-
ely are keen ghost hunters