Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-23
OF A SPO0K
WOMAN SAW GHosTLY VISITOR
SHOOT HIMSELF.
3eNn Tragedy Enacted in Indian
b~Gsua!ow Proved Aterward 10
Nave Occurred Exactly as
Shs Had Witnessed II.

This is the tale of a ghost who shot
himself. The who relates 1t
had accompanied her husband to
Tirzapur, India, says the Kansas City
star. lie 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.
They retired about ten o'clock, but
Mrs. S. remained awake for some
time reading n novel by the light of a
lamp. She was Just thinking of turn.
ing It out when suddenly a 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 his head / shut my eyes and was
nearly deafened by the report that fol
lowed. My husband Jumped up, wid'
awake at once, with a cry of Who
flred?' and | opened my eyes expecting
to see a CHASTITY 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 a 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, moi the servants, whose
houses we're close by in the compound.
had heard anything, Even the dogs
chained In the veranda had not been
disturbed. II all happened so sudden
iy that | had nc feeling OF fright or
terror. The man seemed to come from
the direction OF my husbands office,
where there was a door connecting
with the bedroom, In front Of which
we had placed a heavy wardrobe. He
was a shortish, unpleasantlooking
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 us to share the same
hallucination."
Now for the sequel. Shortly after
ward Mrs. 8. accompanied her hus.
band on a tour OF the district. Among
the hills they met a Nine. de Beverly,
who had been q widow for several
years. In the course of a converse.
ton with her Mrs. s. discovered that
at n time she had lived In the bun.
galow at Tirzapur where the spectral
suicide had manifested itself.
ION hearing thai she knew our
bungalow and had actually lived in It,"
Mrs. s. adds. 81 vas impelled 10 relate
our strange experience there. which
hitherto my husband and | had kept
to ourselves. She listened without
comment, but when I 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
Il was terribly distressed at having,
all unwittingly, reminded her of such
a 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 W. kept closed and had
used the very words | quoted and the
whole affair colncided exactly with
what | had seen. down to the small.
est detail. Nine. de Beverly spoke
very calmly about her husband and
said that he had been Ill and mentally
unsound for some time. l heard long
afterward that he was a confirmed
drunkard and had ill.treated her in
every way"