The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-06
One Youth Who Received q
Blow for His Impertinence.
FOURTH STREET IS A6ITATED
Efforts to Solve Puzzle Prove UnavaII-
Ing, The Plot Seems to
Thicken.

The White Horse mystery grows deep
er, and Fourth street is agaitated from
one end to the other by this strange
case. Nearly all of the residents were
out last evening trying to discover the
secret of it, but were again foiled, as
they have been week after week and
month after month. The police, even,
have taken a hand in the matter, and
for three weeks have been trying to do
what the other people have been endeav-
oring TO accomplish, but with no better
success.
Last night the chase became SO hot
that the white horse and his driver were
forced to go to Fifth street, and there
the yelled lady was received behind the
side curtains, and the nightly trip be-
gan-whither no one knows. A gentle
man with fast horse drove after the
rig, but the good white horse went at
a gallop and outdistanced pursuit.
Strange are the tales told of the mys-
terious nightly happenings. Residents
have been endeavoring for months to
solve the matter, but are foiled at every
turn. They admit that they have made
no progress, and are just as much in
the dark as they always have been.
On Sunday evening young lad
thought to draw aside the veil that
shrouded the features of the lady-in-
waiting, as she stood ready for an OPP
perfume moment to signal the white
horses driver, but she rewarded his inn
pertinence with singing blow that
sent him to the ground and nearly be-
reft him of his senses for the moment.
With this example, it is not likely that
the lady will again be disturbed.
A we'll known resident of Fourth
street states that the affair has been in
progress for two years past. He has
given good deal of time to trying to
solve the mystery, but has failed. He
intends to take it up again. He states
that the horse is hitched to an ordinary
buggy. The favorite meeting place for
the couple until recently was near the
Swedish Methodist church. Generally the
lady stood on the boulevard just north
of that church, but when the inquisi-
tiveness of the residents made that a
dangerous place for the meeting, the
parties met at any place along the
street where there was no one near. The
white horse would be kept walking up
and down the street for a few blocks
until the way was clear and then sudden
ly the yelled lady would make her ap-
pearance of a sudden in the most unex-
pected way and the couple were away
for a drive. Sometimes the. gentleman
has gotten out to assist the lady into
the carriage, and sometimes he has not,
but it has been too dark to get de-
scription of him.
The lady is described as being small
of stature, but beyond that no one
knows the least thing about her. 1t
is not known even where she lives in
that vicinity, for no one has ever seen
her emerge from house. She has ap-
peared as suddenly and mysteriously
as though she came up out of the earth.
This fact, and the mystery surrounding
the entire matter, have given the entire
incident so uncanny an appearance that
people inclined to believe in ghosts have
been strangely worried. Fear to walk
far along the street after dark, sleepless-
ness and timidity are symptoms that
have affected many people. What the
outcome of all this will be is uncertain,
but some of the leading spirits among
the residents intend to probe into it
still further.