The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-17

Hard Luck Experiences That APP
poured to he nhappy LcEacirs to
Those Interested In Its Custody
In corner Of the first Egyptian
,9am at The British museum behind
iAe crouchinE body of the prehistoric
chief Who lived before there We're
phardohS in Egypt OF pyramids on the
Nile. stands woman nodded from
some ancient form Of cardboard She IS
merely a she'll, the cover Of Il mummy
ease Tier hands are crossed above
her breast and her dark eyes stare
fJta ard into vacancy.
According to the catalogues sh" IL
VI. 22JI2. a prublcmntical royal per
soHage and priestess of the College
Of Amen Ra. She lived In the mighty
CITY al 1hcbcs some 600 years before
{ hfist
And about this same coffin cover
there hangs as terrible story M ever
an Edgar Allnn Poe or IL Bnlzac or II
kipling produced from gloomy imag
iHatiGn.
If you question the attendants in the
first Egyptian room they VIII shake
their heads and say nothing, But
there is Il famous professor In the
museum who knows that the facts are
true though whether they hc coinci-
dence or manifestation of supcrnat-
ural power who can say He says:
For three months | have been gath.
ering the tangled threads of evidence.
l have now In my possession proofs OF
the identity of all those who suffered
from the anger of the priestess OF
Amen Ra. But for the sakc of friends
and relatives | have been requested to
suppress the names.
About the middle of the sixties OF
the last century party of five friends
took ship in a dahabeah for trip up
the Nile. They Travelled to Luxor on
their way to the second cataract, and
stayed there to explore the ruins OF
the great and wonderful city Of Thcbes,
with its avenues of sphinxcs and rams,
lis vast hall of columns and its temple
To Amen Ra, which Is uncqualcd on
earth in the sublimity of its ruined
One night an Arab sent by Musta
pha Aga came to one of their number,
Mr.. l., as we may eall him, saying
that he had just found mummy case
of unusual beauty. Whnt became OF
the mummy the man did not explain
The next morning Mr. j.. bought the
ease Both he and his companions
We're impressed by It's remarkable
beauty and by the curious fnce of the
woman portrayed, face that was
filled with cold mnlignaney of eX
preston unpleasant to witness.
They had agreed that, being all
interested In Egyptoloey, they should
npportion their finds by lot, and SO,
though Mr. u. had been the cause Of
its discovery, he lost the mummy cover,
which passed to II friend. whom we
viii call MIR w.
1T was ON their return journey that
the series of misfortunes commenced.
Mr.. D's servant WIS handing him Il
gun. when without visible cnuse 1t tx
ploded, the charge lodging In his arm
which had To he amputated, sccont
died in poverty within the year; I
third was shot, while Mr. w, the own
or OF the mummy ease, discovered oi
HIS arrival In Cairo that he had lost q
large part of his fortune. lie died sooI
aftcrWurd The prlcStcss of Amen ltG
had sIgniiicd her displeasure In very
convincing manner.
prom the date 1t was shipped OF
board the steamer Mr.. ID, lost sight OF
the mummy ease for several years
lie did not mt the time in any way
associate the misfortuncs that had oc
CURED to the party with its discovery
but when he next heard of II and had
full information of the disasters which
Ind been subsequently associated with
its possession he began To suspect that
il WAS not merely chance, not merely
Il coincidence that had brought 80 sin
lister a fate on all who had dealings
with the pricstess of Amen Rn.
"on the arrival of the ease In ENG.
land IT was given by It's owner Mr.. W.
to Il married sister living near London.
From the day the case entered the
house misfortune followed misfortune.
The family suffered large losses. and
the end came with painful troubles
which need not he spccihcd
The lady while In possession of the
case received one day visit from
Nine, Hlavatsky The great thcoso
phist became very disturbed on enter
ing the room, and after few minutes
conversation told her hostess that there
WIS something In her house possessed
of most malignant influence She
asked To he allowed To search the house
and on discovering the collin iii APP
pcalcd To her hostess To send away an
object which she described AZ of the
utmost danger. Her hostess, however
refused laughing at what she imagined
10 be an example of foolish supersti
ton.
Some time afterward the lady sent
the ease To we'll known photographer
in Baker street. Within week the
lady 5 house In n state of great excite
ment. lie hhd, he said, photographed
the face with the greatest care, and he
could guarantee that no one had
touched either the negative or the pho
tograph In amy way, yet 1t was not
the cardboard features that looked out
of the photograph but living Egyp-
tian woman staring straight before her
with an expression Of singular malevo-
lence shortly after the photographer
died suddenly and mysteriously.
1t was about this time that Mr. u,
happened to meet the owner of the cof-
in lid and begged her upon hearing her
story to yet rid OF II nj once She
agreed, and "A carrier was found To con
ycy it t. the British museum This
carrier died within week London
Express.