The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-28
GHOST WANTED
INDICATION.
Spirit Of a Typewriter Girl
Haunted a Young Man.
HE PROVED HER INNOCENCE.
She Had Been UnlasiIy Accused Of Stealing
Money, ans 10 Consequences Had
Committed Suicide.
HE PROVED HER INNOCENCE.

"It is a mistaken notion that ghosts
only appear at night and in the dark
ness" remarked solemn-looking Young
man to his ucighbor, a pretty girl at
! dinner. 81 have seen one iu broad day
light. and am sure she Is a ghost. How
do l know? ON. by her general appear
ance.
"Once I saw through her-and besides
that, she seems To sort OF float instead
OF walking But the thing that really
convinced me she IL spirit is that am
s0re / am the only person that sees her"
A week or two later the pretty girl
again met Mr.. y. This time IL was at "A
ball How is your ghost?' she asked
him flippsnty.
Il have found out all about her!" he
exclaimed soiemnly Come with me into
supper and / will tell you all her history.
You know, he began after ne mad sup
piled her and himself with chicken cro-
queues ard salad and taken his seat al
The little table, that ] told you that
thought | was haunted by that girl for "A
purpose. and so ] was
The day after ! talked TO You about
would follow her. Try as ] might
could not overtake her; she was always
about ten feet in front OF me.
JUMPED FROM WINDOW.
''She finally stopped before an open
stairway next 10 "A small cigar shop. and.
turning toward me, beckoned slightly,
but Enthusiastically. then glided up the
open door leading into an empty office,
where, near an open window, was desk
upon which stood typewriter
once more the girl turned toward me.
pointed TO the desk, aud then, Ia my hor-
ror, Sprang out on the narrow window
ledge and apparently plunged into space
/ aGh had ~ xsrifa l.x nj Al,.I laxt
In the street below the people were walk
ing 20 and fro as usual, and, To my great
relief, there was no evidence of the
tragedy I,had feared for. although / told
YOU | thought she WAS ghost. | did not
actually believe IL until that moment
Going down stairs, ] entered the cigar
Shop. ana, buying some cigarettes. | en-
gagged the proprietor In tion, in
the course OF which he told me that five
years before tragic event occurred i'm
"A young girl committed suicide by
jumping from the window of the room
above. There had been. some money lost
ployed as typewriter. she had been sus-
peeted, and her sAlf;inficted death con-
iirned her employers In the belief of her
dishonesty, AS he talked | began to dis
cover the reason why / had been
haunted.
MONEY WAS FOUND
81 am OF what is generally known as a
receptive nature--that Is. have been told
so by my friends that experiment with
magnetism and so-called spiritual mani
fcstations.
MY theory is that j was chosen on
that account to prove her Innocent te the 7
world, for i went to her employers. told
them the whole story and Insisted, de-
spite their skeiiticism. upon a thorough
examination of the dead girls desk
Back of one of the drawers was an
empty, inclosed space formed by the con-
struction of theAdesk the back board OF
the drawer had become slightly showed
down, and through ,this aperture the
for IL was found at the bottom of The
empty boy-like space.
"Of course, she, INF her spirituallzed
condition, became aware of this fact. and.
as was but natural sought n medium TO
whom she could discover IT,"