The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-07-10
Some
Homemade
BY. Spooks.
NJ. QUAD.

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was putting electric wires into the
house of gentleman named Endriss,
living In n fashionable street In Lon
don, when one day he Invited me into
his library, poured me out glass of
wine and then had n story to relate
From his statements II appeared that
his mother who was an old lady of Is,
had long been II member of certain
charitable organization, and certain
influence over her. She was being per
suaded to buy and deed the society
certain house and lot valued at about
$4,000, and the sons arguments and
protestatlons had brought about strain
ed relations. The long and short OF II
was, think. that the son did not want
the money To go out of the family, and
he had set his wits to work to invent
some scheme to dcfeat the old lady's
Intentions. lie had got the scheme aud
now desired my assistance to carry It
out The house stood alone on II large
plot OF ground and hud not been ten
anted for several years. The mother
was Il superstltious woman. who WIS
guided by dreams and omcns and had
once seen II ghost, and the son proposed
to knock her project In the head by
producing n haunted house. He want
II nh l., -,
and he believed | was the man To put
the job through successfully.
He was willing To pay n good price
for good thing, and after two or three
meetings we came To n satisfactory un
Outstanding 1t was II two story brick
house, with a cellar aud an attic, nnd
the grounds were surrounded by n
stone will There were three or rau
cid trees, with limbs touching thr
aba doors oon ana F22 as WA wv n 9aab
dated state found the cellar dlyidet
by four PARTITION walls, and the room
were gloomy enough to look at. 1t wa
an ideal place for spooks. Down In ON,
corner of the yard was n Toulouse, witl
door In the wall opening upon com
mon, aud after spending II couple OF
hours about the place l reported TO Mr.
Endriss that | could give him the
hauntedest haunted house ever known
In England. Tint door opening on the
commons and the high wall around the
| grounds gave me an opportunity to
come and go and do my work without
much risk of observation.
The Toulouse had n garnet to II,
| which was dark and damp and en-
trance to It was effected by trapdOor
| and ladder, and | took this attic for
my headquarters. Thlther | carried
my electric batteries and other para
pbernalin, and for II week | was busy
running wires and locating spooks. II
tested my ingenuity to run wires Along
the walls and up and down the trunks
OF trees and into the house IN such II
manner that they should be snfe from
all other eyes, but 1 carried this mat
ter out very successfully. | had to rip
| up the flooring and get into the part
tons here and there. but my tools left
no trace behind.
| do not know how Mr.. Endrlsa
worked 1t, but one day 1t was whIs-
pered about that the old Dum house
was haunted. A tramp told story Of
being driven out by strange noises, and
In "a hours II was all over the neigh
borhoOd newspaper had something
TO say shout 1t In II day or two, and be.
fore the week was out two grocers
clerks had decided to pass the night
| L., A
posted and was on hand Mt n proper
hour. The young fellows took up their
station In the parlor. having candles,
cards. drink and n good deal of cour-
age, but they didn't remain all night
! Under the floors of the upper and low
er halls had placed two fiat pieces Of
wood In such way that they would
! strike together when the electric but
ton was pressed. AS those spook de
fers sat smoking aud blufling they
heard the sound OF footsteps In the up
per hall. They had TO imagine that
the footsteps descended the stairs. but
| they kindly did 80. Then they caught
them In the lower hall ana imagined
that an Invisible bring pissed the open
| parlor door, and the way those chaps
got out OF that house and over the wall
was a sight to see. Their story created
| intense excitement, and, realizing that
his property was In peril. the owner
took Immediate steps TO solve the mys
terry.
Three nights after the young men
had been driven out the owner and two
policemen took up their quarters In the
house. A thorough search was first
made OF the premises, and then the
trio sat down 10 walt for spooks. In
due time the spooks came. There was
no wind outside, but shortly before
midnight there was gusty wall froE
the floor above, II long drawn wall that
seemed to have originated in a grave
yard. II was only II whistle OF my In
vention, worked by valve and u
spring, but up went the hair of the
three doubling ThOmases. The wall
was followed by spirit rapplngs on
the wall, and as flnlsher there was n
soft sad music from ghostly lips The
police only waited long enough for the
owner to suggest that he was sleepy
and wanted to go home and 20 to bed,
and then the trio made bolt for the
street. The next day all London was
taking about the Duff house, and peo-
pie came In such crowds and stood