The Jasper news., 1908-01-30
TALE OF A SPO POOK
SAW cHosTLY VISITOR
SHOOT HIMSELF. ~.
Spirit Tragedy Enacted 10 indian
\, Bungalow Proved Afterward to
Has& Occurred Exactly as
she Had Witnessed II.

had accompanied her husband to
Tirzapur, India, says the Kansas City
Star. He had been sent there to under
gone home on sick leave. The only
accommodation they could find when
they arrived was an inspection bun
galoW.
They retired about ten o'clock, but
Mrs. s. remained awake for some
time reading novel by the light Of a
lamp. She was Just thinking of turn
ing 1t out when suddenly man hold
ing revolver appeared in the room,
she says:
Before could move or speak he
said Don't stop me; am going to
shoot myself AS he put the revolver
to his head shut my eyes and was
nearly deafened by the report that fol,
lowed My husband jumped up, wide
awake at once, with cry of Who
flred?' and opened my eyes expecting
to see a .ghastly heap on the floor
ITO my amazement the room was
empty and there was no sign Of the
: tragedy that had just taken place in
, front Of me. My husband said he had
been awakened out of sound sleep
by the noise Of the shot and when
told him what had seen we searched
the house together. Neither the
punkah coolie, who was sleeping In
the veranda. nor the servants, whose
houses were close by in the compound,
had heard anything. Even the dogs
chained in the veranda had not been
disturbed. 1t all happened SO sudden
ly that had no feeling of fright or
terror. The man seemed to come from
the direction of my husbands office.
where there was door connecting
with the bedroom, in front of which
we had placed heavy wardrobe. He
was shortish, unpleasant-looking
man and he held the revolver in his
left hand. Neither my husband nor
/ were at all nervous people and when
we could find nothing to explain what
had occurred we decided that 1t must
have been imagination and that our
being in strong sympathy with each
other had caused rs to share the same
hallucination."
Now for the sequel. Shortly after
ward Mrs. s. accompanied her hus-
band on tour of the district. Among
the hills they met Nine. de Bevery,
who had been widow for several
years. In the course of conversa-
tion with her Mrs. s. discovered that
at one time she had lived in the bun
galow at Tirzapur where the spectral
suicide had manifested itself.
ION hearing that she knew our
bungalow and had actually lived in It,.
Mrs. s. adds, Il was impelled to relate
our strange experience there, which
hitherto my husband and l. had kept
to sourselves@ She listened without
comment, but when ended my nara
tive by saying that we had come to
the conclusion 1t must. have been
either indigestion or Imagination she
turned very pale and said, You have
related something that really hap
pened; my husband shot himself there
before my eyes exactly as you have
described. -sn
4 II was terribly distressed at having.
all unwittingly, reminded her of such
painful episode, but she treasured
me by saying: 1t Is many years ago
and can talk about 1t now, though
was Ill for months afterward from the
shock
"She then told me that her husband
had gone into the bedroom through the
door which we kept closed and had
used the very words quoted and the