The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-01-23
TALE OF A SPOoK
WOMAN SAW oHosTLY VISITOR
SHOOT HIMSELF.
Spirit Tragedy Enacted In Indian
Bungalow Proved Afterward to
Have Occurred Exactly az
She Had Witnessed II.

This is the tale of a ghost who shot
himself. The woman who relates IL
had accompanied her husband to
Tirzapur, India, says the Kansas City
Star. He had been sent there to under
take the duties Of an agent who had
gone home on sick leave. The only
accommodation they could find when
they arrived was an inspection bun
galow.
Mrs. 8. remained awake for some
time reading a novel by the light of a
lamp. She was just thinking of turn.
ing II out when suddenly man hold
ing a revolver appeared in the room,
she says:
Before I could move or speak he
said Don't stop me: | am going to
shoot myself As he put the revolver
to Ills head shut my eyes and was
nearly deafcned by the report that fol
lowed. My husband jumped mp, wide
awake at once, with a cry of Who
fired?' and | opened my eyes expecting
10 see a CHA tly heap on the floor.
~ MY btaic a-tltAAt lht lOOhi Wdo
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 ort of a sound sleep
by the noise of the shot and when
told him what had seen we searched
the house together. Neither the
pur kah 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. II all happened so sudden
ly thai I bad no feeling of fright or
terror. The man seemed to come from
whore there was door connecting
with the bedroom. in front of which
we had placed heavy wardrobe. He
vas shortish. unpleasant-looking
man and he held the revolver in his
lett hand. Neither my husband nor
! We're at all nervous people and when
we could find nothing to explain what
had occurred we decided that It must
have been Imagination and that our
being in strong sympathy with each
othcr had caused us to share the same
hallucination."
Now for the sequel. Shortly after
ward Mrs. s. accompanied her hus-
band on a tour of the district Among
the hills they met a Nine. de Bevery,
who had been a widow for several
years. In the course Of conyersa.
ton with her Mrs. S. discovered that
~ one time she had lived in the bun
galow at Tirzapur where the spectral
suicide had manifested itself.
"On hearing that she knew our
bungalow and had actually lived in It,"
Mrs. S. adds, II was impelled to relate
our strange experience there, which
hitherto my husband and had kept
to ourselves. She listened without
comment. but when ] ended my nara.
tive by sayirg 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
Il was terribly distressed at having,
all unwittingly, reminded her Of such
a painful episode, but she reassured
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
whole affair coincided exactly with
what ! had seen. down to the small
est detail Nine. de Bevery spoke
very calmly about her husband and
said that he had been i'll and mentally
unsound for some time. heard long
afterward that he was a confirmed
and had ill-treated her in
every way"