Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-09
MILITARY sPEcTREs.

so strikingly displayed"
MILITARY sPEcTREs.
The White Lady Of Sehonbrunn ane
Spooks.
The remarkable story Of the police
constable who saw a number Of spec
tral figures promenading at dead OF
night in the grounds Of Hampton
Court palace, form into processiona
order, and then vanish into thin all
reminds one Of stories Of soldiers who
have similarly seen spectral and mys'
terious figures promenading in roya
palaces.
Some years ago, during the nigh
before the late press Of Austria wa.
so treacherously tssassinated. a SEN
try on guard in the Castle Of Schon'
brunn was frightened "out Of his wits
by the spectacle Of a beautiful woman
robed in white and wearing a long
flowing white veil, walking along the
corridor where he was on duty. Thrice
he challenged the trespasser, ant
had started in pursuit of her wher
she vanished as suddenly and mystic
riously as she had appeared.
This was by no means the first ap'
pearance Of the LADY In white" fol
she was seen as long ago as 1867
Just before the tragic death Of Max.
imilian, the Inflated Austrian arch.
duke who was made emperor OF
Mexico: again, in 1889, on the very
night when Rudolph, heir to the Aus
trian throne, was so strangely done
to death in the forest Of Meyerling
and on other occasions when a mem.
Der of the imperial family had died
So coincident have been her appear
ances with disaster to the reignine
house Of Austro-Hungary that heI
visits are always dreaded as the her.
aids Of calamity.
| 1t Is about six years since a strange
story Of an apparition was told by q
young officer on guard at Windsor
castle. He was reading in the library
about midnight when, on looking UP
from his book he saw woman garbed
in black, and with her face concealed
behind a long black veil, walk past
him and vanish into a neighborine
room The officer, who was not aware
of the existence Of a door in the wal
through which the figure had disap.
peared, made q thorough examination
but could find no trace whatever OF
a place Of exit.
When he told his uncanny story the
following morning 1t created conster'
nation in the palace, especially wher
1t was discovered that three centuries
ago the room had had an exit at the
very place through which the black
lady had passed, and It was gener.
ally believed that the mysterious fig
ure must have been that Of Queer
Elizabeth herself, Of whose midnight
appearances in her old haunts in the
castle many stories were told.
1t was a sentry, who, on the very
night before the death Of the late
German Emperor Frederick III. de-
clared that he had seen the figure o.
an old woman, clothed in white, wall
along the corridor in the Royal Pal
ace at Berlin, and when challenged
"vsr,sh into the air." He described
me spectre as that of an old woman
bowed WITH age and carrying broom
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tainly have been scoffed at as the crea
ture Of a disordered brain had not {
similar figure been seen on former
occasions, notably on the death o.
Emperor William I. The grotesque ole
lady whose visits bode so little goot
to the house Of Hohenzollern, is dis
respectfully spoken Of as "The sweep
err" Spectres in white or even II
black are perhaps intelligible; bu
what are we to think Of the "Rec
Man" who is said to haunt the Tulle
ries, and to have been seen by no les:
famous persons than Catherine d.
Medici and the great Napoleon, thu
latter of whom Is said to have helC
a long conversation with him on thu
eve Of his illfated Russian campaign
Hampton court palace is said tt
be haunted by the shades Of severa
great people who have once 'walket
in splendor" within its historic walls
Strange tales are told of spectral fig
ures which vanish when accosted, o.
mysterious noises. the uncanny open
ing of doors without visible agency
and of sounds Of merriment ant
snatches Of song proceeding from
empty rooms.
But the most affrighting vision o.
all is that of a white-robed figure run
ming down a corridor, with her lont
hair streaming behind her, and dis
appearing into the chapel. This start
ling apparition is said to be that o.
the unhappy Catherine Howard, th'
second queen whom Henry VIII. sen
to the executioners block; and who
so long after her tragic death. repeats
an incident in her troubled existence
when, escaping from her guards, sh'
rushed into the chapel TO peg lot ne
life from her tyrannous lord. who wa'
praying there.
Catherine Of Aragon is also said tt
haunt the Palace OF Hampton, where
her spectre has been seen many {
time. clothed in black and lighted ia
per in hand, walking up a certain
staircase and disappearing through
the beautiful arch way known a.
Queens Gate."-Tit-Bits
3E" Contrasting his Indian expert
ences with those in South Africa
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, says the
London Hospital, said that for th'
first two or three months Of the siege
Of Delhi not a single case Of amputa
ton survived, and at Lucknow th'
death statistics were very similar. II
fact, it would hardly be possible tt
describe what the wounded and sici
suffered during the Indian campaign
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