The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-09
HAUNTED MARsHFIELD HOUSE.
Weird Story Associated With Old
Building in Webster's Town.

Weird Story Associated With Old
Building in Websters Town.
The haunted house of Marshfeld has
| attracted attention for almost two CEN
| turtles, The story is weird one, but
| Marshield people say that 1t is true-7
| particularly the older residents
Young people to-day do not take over
much stock In ghosts.
In fear and trembling generations
past have gone by this deserted dwell
ing. 1t has not been occupied for years,
but was recently purchased by DR.. Her.
verd Lindsey, a Baltimore physician,
and next spring 1t will be transformed
into one of the finest dwellings in
Marshheld Heroic DR.. Lindley! He
knows no ghosts
Two hundred rough New England
winters have touched with icy fingers
it's two dude-shingled stories, have car
ried away its old-tlme blinds and ruined
the proud front doorway built in the
days Of the long ago. None but daring
schoolboys, plodding home at noontime
or at nightfall from the little knoWl-
edge-box on the hill, have dared ven
ture in for years. And, in truth, it is
rather hard to get inside the mansion
anyway, for the lower windows are
shattered with time-stained boards,
and there Is but a single opening
through one of these that allows even
the school-boys access.
1t is said-tradition tells the story
tbpt ha hp11cp hl1i1t IN, tbo ri,
days of the seventeenth hentury by a
poor man whose life in after years
brought him into ill-repute with "the
powers as were" IN Plymouth town, not
many miles away, The owner was
taken prisoner and put I'm the jail, but
was later allowed his freedom upon his
promise that he would leave the coun-
try.
As the tale runs he went away to the
provinces to make fortune. He Wah
successful beyond his own anticipations
and in a few years accumulated some
thing like eighty thousand dollars. A
deep-seated longing seized him to see
once more the old home on the LOVELY
ing land at Marshfeld.
He chartered baby schooner and set
sail from provincial town for the
coast of Massachusetts and landed on
Scituate, about six miles from the pres
ent town.
The spot wherein he first set return
ing foot is now known as Humarock
Beach. and on that night, being una
BILE to cross North river, he hamped on
the sandy shore. During the night the
party was awakened by a peculiar
sound. Upon investigation it was
found that the noise was occasioned by
the rolling of the pebbles in the nervous
tide. They named the place Humming
Rock, and 1t was subsequently called
Humarock and as such the beach Is
known to-day.
Well, the party went inland next day,
sleeping safe, as they supposed, from
prylng eyes, and the following evening, |
as darkness shut down. conveyed their |
treasure to the one-t time home of the |
expatriated owner.
Scarcely had the gold been hidden in
a closet ere the entire party was muir
dered by spying enemies. The wealth |
was stoen-and that's the ghost story
Older residents Of Marshfield could
tell, If they would of the appearance
and temperance at the upper window
Of these victims and of the criminal !
himself, all blood-stained and driveling
On moonlight nights--so the legend
goes-the ghosts keep guard on the
lawn, wardlng off inquisitive visitors
md causing every one to give the man.
sion wide berth-Boston Journal.