Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14
Weird Story Of the Ghost Of a
Man Who Committed
Suicide.
READS LIKE A KPLlNG TALE.
self Murder Repeated-Srange Ex-
pcrience of An English Couple
SOiourning in Tirzapur.
Special correspondence.

special correspondence,
n OMBAY Nov IAN amazing
Il spook story told by a contributor
90 the Indian Daily Telegraph has
aroused much interest here. 1t is the
tale OF a ghost who shot himself The
woman who relates it had accompanied
her husband to Tirzapur. He had been
sent here to undertake the duties OF an
agent who had been sent home on sick
leave. The only accommodation they
could find when they arrived on July
- WAS au inspection bungalow.
They retired about no o'clock, hut
Mrs S. remained awake for soma
time reading a novel by the light OF
"a lamp She was just thinking OF
turning II out when suddenly "a man
holding revolver appeared in tho
room. She continues:
Before ] could move or speak. he
said, Don't stop me, I am going 10
! shoot myself As he put the revolver
10 his head / shut my eyes. and was
nearly defeaned by the report that fol-
lowed. MY husband jumped up, wide
awake az once, with a cry of Who
hrod| and / opened my eyes expecting
20 see "a CHASTITY heap ON the floor.
80 SIGN OF TRAGEDY.
'To my amazoment tho room was
empty-tkcre was no stain on the mat
tlur-and no sisu OF the tragedy that
had Just taken place in front OF me.
Ny husband said that ne had been
wakened out OF sound sleep by the noise
Of the shot and when ] told him what
7 had seen. Vye searched the house to-
gether Neither the puukah coolic. who
was sleeping iu the Vcraudah. nor tho
servants whose houses were close by
iu the compound. had heard anything.
.H Dol a.. O. IA. a. D..
bad not been disturbed 10 an hap
pcucd so suddenly that ! had no fccl-
iug of fright or terror. THE man
seemed to come from the direction Of
nay husbands office, whore there was
door connecting with tho bedroom.
Don front OF which we had placed a
heavy wardrobe he was "a shortish.
unpleasant looking man, and me held
tho revolver in DIS left hand Neither
UN husband nor ] were at am nervous
people ana when We could nnd nothing
t1 explain what had occurred, we de-
Did.d that ID must have boon imagina-
Uun. ana that Uur being in strong
sympathy with each other had caused
ua to Hlnre fhr same hallucinntiou.
we refreshed ourselves with iced drinks
ana biscuits and then we won't 90 bed
and slept souudly after having decided
t0 Keep our oVn counsel about the az
A STRANGE SEQUEL.
Sow f1r ODE sequel to No. shortly
afterwards me writer accompanied htr
husband 1u "a tour of the district.
Among fhe hills thCy met "a Nadams
Ir Beverly. who bad boon "a widow for
several Years. lu fhD course Of
conversation With hcr Mrs. S. dis
covered mat az one Uuo she h-d lived
in the bungalow Az rIrzauur where the
spectral suicide bad manifested himself
con hearing chat shH know our bun-
nnloW and hal actually lived in it,
tho writer adds. IN was impellcd 10
relate our strange experience there,
which hitherto my husband ana / had
ktui t0 ourselves She listened With-
lut comment but whom D ended my
narrative hy saying that we had come
tD the conclusion DO must have been
either Indigestion 0r imagination. she
turned very pale and nid You have
related something thRt really hap
reuri, my husband shot himself there
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