The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-31
Mystery Concerning a Haunt
cd" House at Last Revealed
BETRAYED BY ONE OF her FEET
u Prafruted From Chimney Place, and De-
tscIITs Seized It-Pan 10 Keep
Tenants hxay.

New York, Aug. 3l.--The mystery of the
haunted house on Fort Hamilton avenue,
! Brooklyn, was solved last night.
The ghost who has at intervals appeared
at the windows. whose groans and
screams have terrified the neighborhood.
is poor woman, destitute and homeless.
who found shelter i'm the vacant house.
and 10 keep roof over her head adopted
this means TO scare away possible tenants.
After every appearance OF the spectre
at the windows the house was searched
but no sign OF any living person was
found until last night.
The house is on the corner OF Ninety
second street and Fort Hamilton avenue.
II is big gloomy place. and around IL
there hangs an old romance that ended in
a death that some people choose 70 con-
slider mysterious. Altogether the setting
for a ghost story was good.
For month the house had been haunt
ed. a woman In black" ives the first
ghost She moved about silently. fitting
past the upper windows.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE.
Then came the woman i'm white"
whose shricks startled the neighbors and
sent women into Mysteries Some OF the
old residents were sure they recognized
I'm her cry the name of the dead man
who figured IN the old mansion.
There are just a. many hard-headed
people about Fort Hamilton as anywhere
and these were as contemptuous over the
alleged mystery as men ever are. but
when the bravest of these had seen the
figure at the window and heard its
mournfu wall and Immediately had
searched the house from cellar TO garrot
and found nobody they did not talk so
cynicaly.
Among the men who refused TO accept
a ghost, even though he could find 10
sign OF living person when he saw an
appariton, was Detective Martin White
of the Bergen street station.
He lives near there, and as soon as the
gossip reached him he be-
gan an Investigation His police skill
urged him to precautions the Others had
not thought of. He stationed guards
TO see that nobody left the house and
then waited for the appearance of the
phantom.
lie saw it-a figure mufied in a white
cloak that shone for an instant In the
moonlight and then disappeared. while
a piercing shrek came down to him. He
To the guards. who closed around
the window where he had seen the APP
partition, and, starting there, searched the
house and found-nothing
After this had happened twice people |
began 10 prophesy dire things for the de- |
-ective who hunted spirits as he would |
burglars.
DISCOVERY OF THE GHOST.
On Wednesday night White was on
watch as usual for the ghost. He saw Il.
,boye the head OF the figure fiuttered a
linn light like that which hovers over
marsh on a summers night. The light
lickered and failed. and uncanny groans
anne from the house.
big crowd had been attracted. and
when White rushed across the street the
rowd followed
He broke in the door and searched the
ouse from foundation 20 caves, with the
sual no result. The crowd was begin
ing 20 uneasily drift from the house
ghen White caught sight of woman's
oot protruding from big open fireplace
lie grabbed Il.
TN come quietly" said a very human
oice, and woman dropped before him.
She said her name was Mrs John Bar
ett and told her story OF poverty.
The house is not haunted any more.