Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-07-20
BAFFLES PURSUIT
Library Spook is Hard to Catch
Though Closely Pursued.

Bands of Watchers Keep Nightly Vigil
| Doors are Found Unlocked After
Being Securely Fastened-Story OF
Some of Those Who Have Heard and
| Seen Strange Things.
| The story of the Library ghost pub-
lished several days ago in this paper
has aroused widespread interest Par
ties watch for the ghost every night
but none of them have met with any
thing but Indifferent success. The
other night four or five watchmen,
among them Sam Southall spent the
greater part of the night in The Lii
brarY.
Sam Is the colored boy who former
ly worked for Col. r. E. Fast. He Is
an intelligent fellow and talks we'll.
He told Of the vigil to an interested
crowd.
"While we wuz awaiting fob the
man,who watches Jim Stewahtand Doc
Pride they say, they seen some one at
the window. looked but / couldn't
see nothin'. They couldn't tell what
he look like but JUS saw some one
movin round In the room"
seThen we went through the build
in. We didn't find anything. We
locked all the doahs and shook 'em to
see they wuz really locked. Then we
went down stains. Direcly we come
back"
cone of them doahs wuz astanding
hat open. / know twuz locked cause
l shook it mysef. Anotbeh one wuz
found unlocked but still shut. l
know it wuz locked too cause | tried
it when the man locked It,"
"That caused my haihto stan straight
up. | felt to see if my cap wuz on
cause l couldn't feel it. We staid
until two O'Clock. The Waterman
was scahed. His eyes blahed out when
he seen them doohs unlocked after he
had locked EN-"
"Then we went down into the base
meat and he told US about what he
had been SEEM and heahin'. One
night he was in front OF the fab In
the basement. He thought that some
one was at one of the doahs and he
looked and saw man standin' theah.
He got up aud went oven to see what
he wanted. y
'TThe fellow run and the Waterman
run afteh him. He lost him 10 the
dahk and then he come back and look
ed cross the room and seen him at the
otheh doah. He run over theah and
the man went down that hall and got
away Then be heard watah runnin'
at the sink wheah the fellow had
tuhned on the watah."
"He say that he don't think its any
ghost but its man and its the slick
est man he even saw. He say he goin'
to ketch him some night to find out
what he is afteh."
A young man named McClenathan
who lives in the upper part of town
says that he was passing the Library
one night before the stories began to
be circulated. IT. was afterone o'clock
He heard singing and stopped to see
what was going on thinking that
some of the University organizations
might be practicing.
He located the SOUND IN the Library
and listening more.inteDtly found that
it was in the basement, He listened
for some time but could not distingu
ish the words. He then went home.
He says that it sounded like about
forty people singing in harmony.
If Hoffmans theory is right and it
is some man bothering about the Lii
brary the intruder will probably get
hurt some of these nights and the
Waterman is getting tired OF foolish
ness.
From the times that he has been
seen a fairly accurate description Is
given of him He is bare headed with
light hair and pale face. He is dress
ed in black. Hoffman has been close
TO him several times as says that he
hears him walking around in the build
ing frequently.