The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-07-22
BAFFbES PURSUIT
Library Srook is Hard 70 Catch
Though Closely Pursued.
Bands Of Watchers Keep Nightly Vigil
Doors are Pound Unlocked After
Briug Securely Fastened-ssorJ of
soms Of These who Have Heard and
Seen Strange Things.


The story Of the Library ghost pub
llished several days ago in this paper
has aroused wides pread interest. Par
ties watch for The CHEST every night
but none OF them have met with any
thing but indifferent success. The
other night four or i've watchmen.
ainoDg them Sam Southali spent the
Fgreater part OF the night in The Lii
brarY.
Sam is the culUred boy who former
! ly worked for Col Il. +. Fast He is
40 Intelligent fellow and talks well.
He told OF the vigil TO an interested
crowd.
awhile we wuz awaiting fob the
man who watches Jim Stewart and 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.p
"Then we went through the build
lin. We didn't find anything. We
los ked all the doahs and shook 'em TO
see they wuz really locked. Then we
went down stains. Direcly we come
back
ssOne OF them doahs wuz astanding
hat open. know twuz locked cause
/ shook it mysef. Anotbeh one wuz
found unlocked but still shut. |
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 en-
cause / couldn't feel 1t. 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
ment and be told US about what he
had been seein' and heahin'. One
night be was in front OF the fab 10
the basement He thought that some
one was at one OF the doahs and he
looked aud saw man standii' theah.
He got up add went oveh to see what
be wanted.
"rhe fellow run and the Waterman
run afteh- him. He lost him in 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,"
ssHe 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 fnd 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 Organization Us
might be practicing.
He located the sound in the Library
and listeniog more. intently found that
lii was id the basement. He listened
for some time but could not distingu.
lish the words. He then went home.
He says that it sounded like about
/ forty people singing in harmony.
If Hoffman's theory is right and II
is some man bothering about the LII
brary the intruder will probably gel
hurt some of these nights and The
Waterman is getting tired OF foolish
ness.
From the times that he has beer
seen fairly accurate description II
given of him. He is bare headed will
light hair and pale face. He is dress
ed in black. Hoffman has been clos
TO him several times as says that b.
hears him walking around in the build
ing frequently.