The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-16

All Jackson Ward Excited Over.
This Remarkable #Phenonnc-
non Oh ST. JollnEStrect.
A VOICE CALLED TO I SARAH. y \. .
She Looked Up at the Window,
and Behold There Were
Faces on the Pane.

Weird and uncanny to the multitudes
That hourlyFflock to gnzc upon the sight,
three human faces are staring from the
roar window Of an obscure Jackson
Ward iresidencc-at least the Jackson
Ward people say they area blzprre and
uncarthly effect that is distractlng tho
entire community. sS
Whence cnmo tho strange Y shadows
tia aro solcmnly declared 70 be the
81 ofIles Of recently deceased residents
Of Lie street nobody knows or has the
courage, TO suggest. But. fixed upon
tie pancs, they are there, looking back
at the crowds that ndget beneath them
Since Tuesday last when. after certain
mysterious and awful manifestations OF
4 ghostIy power. !. the faces suddenly np-$
peared, hey have been staring. staring
and no human hand can obllterate their
lines. To an aged negro woman seated
alone In her Kitchen the voice Of
E,r, but recently buried. spoke out OF
the air and bade ter look. She gazed
fixedy In the direction indicated and
as she did SO strange things occurred
and the writing upon the glass took
form. In this manner the signs appear
ed and until nightfall on each day since
the colored population have assembled
near To behold them.
Great Crowds Gather.
Along the streets leading to the scene
a stream OF people poured during the
early afternoon OF yesterday Those
who went were incredulous and uncon-
vinccd those who came away were 81
lent and subdued: now and then talking,
but! of the faces only. Men. women and
chiiuren. all we're along. III
"Gwine see de excitement" was the
Usual hurried response to a query
The house, SO strangely visited. rs no
12oss st John Street, far out In the col
orcd quarter OF the city. In It lives
Sarah CorbIn and her children, one Of
whom is grown son. On one side lives
William Jenkins and on the other there
TN ed in her lifetime an old negro woman
na med Nilsson The J enssins man had q
daughter named sBesale.. The latter and and
THE old Wilson fwo man as wei were poth
/ frequently 1T the Corbin house, Bessie
Jenkins died .and was buried on christ
mas Eve. On he day that she was
buried the old Wilson woman died.
Nothing happened until last Tuesday
and then began the remarkable expefi-
erces Of Sarah corbin. The woman.
with an infant child In her. arms stood
In her rear door yesterday and recited
tho account She had picture OF tie
Jenkins girl, and by the exhibition OF 1t
nnde her story more realistic and pow
erful in It's effects upon her hearers.
The peculiar dialectic embellishments OF
the tale are removed for want OIL an
adequate Interpretation.
Last Tuesday af:eruuon.' the woman
said. II was sittln:, II my little kitchen
in the yard when this girl Bessie cons,
TO me. SHE say. Sarah, when left you
vou was weenin and ro1on,n,: Don 40
60 no mo- Yo' son goin take care of
You til you die" Size thought l was
.w.epin'. But wasn't. | Just had my
head in my hands. studyin' about de
worl'.
~ started to get un and come In doors,
v4her something caught me and voice
said Look upon yo' wiidO' and yo' see
de9 bandwritin'. And |. looked and ! SEQ
R.sslc's s face nndFtna others. And done
wash and wash and wash and dey won't
come off no moro. CcyI say I'm scared OF
them but aln't
There the pictura OF Bess.e was passed
a"cund and inspected. and finally the
.lilt., crowd gathered around the door,
pushed back into the large crowd IN tfo
yard, and all gazed fiNedly at the VIM
dow that had been cpere1 for the benefit
OF de edto' scribe" WHO was present.
The Window,
TIE window in question Is a second
s,cry, one, to the rem OF the little house,
II has about dozen panes of glass In It.
Iron the upper pale t the right is a
splotch, said to ba the face OF Bessie