Evening journal., 1905-07-13
MISS PRETTYMAN
COMPLAINED OF
Young Woman's Strange
Actions Bring Protests
From Neighbors
WAS ONCE SENT TO DELAWARE

Lillian Prettyman, the Philadelphia I
young woman, who created sensation /
at her home, No. 1905 North Twenty |
seventh street. about a year ago and |
was taken by her father to a farm |
near Milford, has returned to her /
Philadelphia home and the neighbors !
are aroused at the fact.
Disturbed by the uncanny shreks
and the sickening odors which they
say come from the house at regular
intervals, the residents or the neigh
borh0od have appealed 90 the Board
OF Health. the police OF the station
house at Twentieth and Jefferson
streets Philadelphia and, as a nnal re-
sort, to Mayor Weaver Medical in-
spectors have been sent to the house
within the pas few days, but the
ineighbors say they go no further than
the door,
William T. Prettyman, the father Of
the girl who agreed last year that he
would send her away from the city 90
the country where her health might
be benefited. admitted last night that
his daughter had returned 10 the house
and he declared that she was going to-
stay there.
He said that neighbors pounded on
the walls OF his house and excited the
girl, and that this explained her
screams, and also that a number Of
cats With which his daughter sur
rounded herself were the property OF
the house and annoyed no one else.
COMPLAIN OF NOISES.
The house adjoining the Prettyman
dwelling on the north. 170S North
I
the family OF John Sterling including
his wife, their daughter and their little
boy The name of the latter is Abner
and It was through his youthful
curiosity that the present situation in
the Prettyman house was brought to
light.
Mrs. Sterling has been confined 20
bed for a month with a illness which
she and her husband declared was
directly due to nervousness, brought
on by the curious things that went on
in the house next door. Once within
the past few days. in the dead of night,
a mufied crash was heard as il the
entire ceiling of the house had fallen
in. Again there would come a sudden
shrek, followed by the shutting of
feet and then silence.
According to John Sterling. smoke
would pour from the chimney of the
Prettyman house at odd intervals. the
air would reek with foul odors and re-
quests for explanation brought forth nc
reply.
Mrs. Sterling said that she had Just
recovered from the illness which sh,
attributed to the noises and fumel
from the house next door.
The Sterlings said that they weu
loath to stir up an old controversy. bu
declare that PrettymaR was failing 4
I comply with the order Of the court
. and that conditions now in the Pretty
man house were worse than ever.
HE SAW STRANGE THINGS.
e on Tuesday evening. they said, littll
[ Abner Sterling was playing in the bacl
o yard and he climbed upon the shed o.
e the Prettyman house. Abner says tha0
{ at that moment he raised himself 81
q that his eyes surveyed the room
a Lillian Prettyman was standing in ths
y centre OF the room, he says. with q
. butcher knife in one hand and a hug,
4 piece Of sticking plaster in the other
The boy declares that she was CUTTING
!, strips of plaster and covering her fac,
4 with them. He says there was no bet
Z linen upon the bed, and that the condi
T tion of the room was indescrlbable
\ Prettyman says that his daughter Il
h in fair health. When asked why II,
was ignoring the order OF the court
7 he said that his daughter had beer
= born and bred in this state, and tina.
D she had a right TO remain here. Nils!
], Prettyman, it appears, has been actin.
strangely for six years-ever since tn,
ldav when she went TO attend the i'm.
T yelling of the monument in Fairmoun
] Park, was lost and brought to he
home by a guard.