The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-05-09

ed TO know was bis close relationship
10 the family whose name for the last
two weeks had been in every mouth
Wait" l called out. "You say that
you live opposite the Moore house.
"You can then tell me-
But he had no mind to stop for any
gossip
EFT was all In the papers" he called
back Read them But first be sure
TO Gpd out who has struck a light in
the house that we an know has not
even caretaker in it"
lt was good advice. Ny duty aud
my curiosity both led ne TO follow it,
Perhaps YOU have heard Of the dis.
tingpishiug feature Of this house. II
SO, you DO not need my explanations
But Il, for any reason you are ignorant
of the facts which within q very short
time have set a hnal seal of horror up
on this old historic dwelling, then you
will be glad TO read what has made
and viii continue to make the Moore
house IN Washington one to De pointed
at in daylight and summed after dark.
not only by superstitious colored folk
but by an who are susceptible to the
most ordinary emotions of fear aud
dread
II was standing when Washington
was a village II antedates the capitol
ana the White House Built by a man
Of wealth. it bears to this day the i'm
press of the large ideas and quiet ele-
ga1c Of coloaial times; but the shad-
ow which speedily fell across it made
It & marked place even in those early
days While It has always escaped
the hackneyed epithet of haunted
families that have moved in have as
quickly moved out giving as their ex-
cuse ,hat no happiness was to be found
there and that sleep was Impossible
under its rcaf Ihat there was some
reason for this lack OF rest within
walls which were not without their
tragic "reminiscences an must acknowl
edge Death had often occurred there.
and while this fact can be stated iu
regard TO most old hous s it is not
, often that one can say as N this case,
! that it was invariably sudden aud in
varinbly of one character
a lifeless man. lying outstretched on
a certain hearthstone, might be found
once in house and awaken no special
comment but when this same discov-
cry has been made twice II not thrice,
during the history of single dwelling,
one might surely be pardoned a dis
trust OF its seemingly homelike ap-
pointments and discern in it's slowly
dark ening walls the presence Of an
evil which II left TO itself might perish
in the natural decay OF the place, but
which, il met and challenged, might
strike again and make another blot on
its thrice crimsoned hearthstone.
But these are old fables which
should hardly presume 10 mention
had It not been for the recent occur
renee which has recalled them to all
mems minds and given TO this long
empty aud slowly crumbling building
an importance which has spread itt
fame from one end Of the country tC
the other. refer to the tragedy at
tending the wedding lately celebrated
there.
Veronica Moore, rich, pretty and will
full. had long cherished strange likine
for this frowning old home OF her an
cestors and, at the most critical tiu'
10 her life, conceived the idea OF prov
ing TO herself aud 10 society at large
that no real ban lay upon it save fl
the imagination of the superstitious
So. being about 10 marry the choice o
her young heart, she caused this house
TO be opened for the wedding cere