The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-21

The house at 1442 Emma street was
deserted Tuesday night by a Portu-
guese family named Camara that had
lived in it because, as the Camaras
said, a former owner long dead came
in and sat on the bed occupied by the
two eldest daughters. The evacuation
of the dwelling was accompanied by
such shrieks that the whole neighbor-
hood was aroused, including the fam
ily of Mr. Alfred Mossman of the Ha-
waiian News Company, who lives next
door 1t was with him that the terri
fed Portuguese took refuge from the
ghost.
Mr.. J. F. Mays. who lives in the same
block, afterwards gave the unfortunate
hag-ridder people a room to shelter
them, as they were incapable from fear
of even going back to get their personal
property.
The tale as told in the accents of
terror to Mr.. Mossman and Mr.. Mays
is as follows:
There are six in our family. We
moved into this house some time ago.
The father and mother sleep in one
room and the four daughters in an
other. We do not know the people who
owned the house.
''This morning at o'clock the eldest
daughter was wakened by some one
entering the room and sitting down on
the bed She started up and found
woman in night clothes on the edge of
the bed. This woman had long black
hair and white face, white as ashes
and her eyes were white too. She slow
ly pulled her feet up off the floor and
lay down beside the youngest girl, who
jumped awake right away and cried
out. Then the eldest girl shrieked aw-
fully.
1.-The father and mother then rushed
in and saw the woman with the long
and slip into the darkness without a
sound
This veracious tale was listened to
with unbelief by the American neigh
careful description of the uncenny
woman. Il cannot explain the affair
said Mr.. MosSman yesterday, but the
Camaras' description TALES exactly il
it's details with that of the former own
err of the house, now dead. whom 1
knew. OF course, can not say whether
they knew her or not. But they picture
her to the life.
This vision seems to come of pie,
not piety, and yet the fact remains
that they think they saw something
and are sure enough of the horror oc
it to have moved incontinently out and
venture to predict that they will stay
out, for a more terrified lot of folk you
can not find
To ]. F. Mays the budding children
told the same story and laid particular
stress on the fact that the woman,
after they woke, lay down on the bed
among them SO that they distinctly
saw her long black hair over the Pill
low and her white and awful face.
What explanation to give is beyond
me-" said Mr.. Mays, but there is no
doubt about the accuracy of their dream
or nightmare, if such it was. Also, they
wasted no time in getting up a story,
for after the first howl al1d Shrek Ct
the girls there was a wild rush to get
out of the house and in their shudder-
ing fright they all told the same tale
without a variation. I gave them a
room to stay in last night, as they
seemed absolutely helpless in the face
of their fear of going back to the
house.
1.-The woman whom they describe has
been dead for long time, and in her
latter life was very unhappy, suffering
from a mental affliction.''
The Punchbowl Portuguese do not
stop to reason why. They look at the
house, patter a prayer and go on the
other side of the street.
The haunted house is on the Eva side