The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-05
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lapsed thus without the application of
an exterior and powerful force.
At last the Dicksons decided to move.
Wonder may be expressed at their re-
naming so long. They would. indeed,
have moved. and did try to find other
quarters. but a dwelling so coinmo-
dious. well built and well situated was
not so easily found When a ITO Let"
sign was fix to the house. IL was n
month before the Dicksons actually left
the place. Several persons called upon
the owner TO inquire about the house,
and IL was noticed that in each case he
sent two members of his family to show
the inquirers through the house. He
never did this when he sought to rent
any of the other houses. and the infer
ence h Dicksons drew from this was
that the landlord had knowledge of the
ghostly disturbances.
The secret had been well kept by the
Dicksons. Indeed, their next-door
neighbors never knew anything about
the supernatural disturbances. The
Dicksons are Roman Catholics, while
all of their immediate neighbors pro-
fess other religions. Hence they not
only disliked to impair the value of the
property by giving Ii an i'll reputation.
but they felt that their statements
would not receive due credence because
their faith was dissimilar from that of
those about them. They once invited
a priest to spend a night i'm the house.
He did so. but he neither saw nor
heard anything unearthly. He ventur-
ed the opinion that some sou in pain
might be their tormentor. and suggest
ed that they make diligent inquiry and
find out IL possible whether any one in
that immediate neighborhood had ever
suffered a violent death or failed to re-
ceive a Christian burial. One peculiar
circumstance Is worthy of note in con
parffnn with ,ha ralfOints nhnSn ~ this
case. and that is that one member of
the household. Mrs. Stafford. though
in full possession of all he faculties,
never during the hole four years felt
or hear a single unnatural manifesto
ton. Her immunity was attributed
to the fact that at her christening the
Gospel of st. JOIN was read over her.
She had always been told that the gos-
pei conferred such exemption.
The last experience of the Dicksons at
the haunted house was on moving day.
The family had during the day secured
every window throughout the Gus
and saw to their satisfaction that the
building was empty. After shutdown a
male friend of the family volunteered
to wait in the house until the drayman
returned to cart away the last case of
goods, which stood on the front stoop.
He lighted several candles and also a
cigar and was preparing to demon
strate his courage when suddenly he
heard a connection on the upper floors.
Windows ratified as though struck by
a hurricane. doors opened and slammed,
and rumbling noises came so fast that
he was completely unnerved. He stood
the ordeal five n and then fled.
Soon afterward the drayman came. He
placed the case on his truck, and then
recollected that he "a left his coat
on the top story i'm the large bed room.
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disturbances and ran up the two flights
of stairs. Scarcely had he reached the
top landing when he heard a din and
before he could reach the room where
his coat lay some one or something
dealt him a blow across the face with
some heavy instrument that almost
felled him. The pain made him call
for help, but he did not wait long for
assistance. for i'm "A I'M he was
down on the sidewalk-coatless. He de-
clares he did not touch a step ON the
stairs. so swift was his descent. Nor
did he ever venture back again.
The Dicksons and their friends have
hard to get a rational eXDlana-
ton of their experiences, but little or
no light has been thrown On the case.
one Trims only did they learn about
years ago a man hanged himself from
the door leading from the hall on the
third floor into the big bed room.
Mr.. Goodwin Smith says July For
um. 1880, regarding the ghostly man.
ifestations: THE only case, so far as
we are aware, in which there is any
thing like first-hand evidence
is that of the warning APP
partition to Lord LyttletOn,
may be explained as the masked
of a voluptuary stated with life.
Apart from the miraculous raisings
from the dead. no one has been seen
or heard from after death."
But Mr.. Goodwin Smith never heard
of the case of the Dicksons.-New York