Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-02
HAUNTED
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a strong guard around the premises
to watch all night-from the outside.
The Bachelor family, which occu-
pies the house in the day time, when
the ghost has retired, went to the
home of Mrs. Bachelors mother,
Mrs. WIFI Ludington, 1916 Twenty-sec-
ond street, to spend the night.
All of their possessions are in the
haunted house" and it works a
hardship upon them to remain away.
None of the members of the family
are willing to undergo the blood-chill-
ing, nerve-freezing horror Of the table
rappings, the stopping of clocks, the
means, moving of pictures and jump
ing of furniture that has cursed the
place. *.
Mrs. Bachelor says that today she
will probably call upon her church to
hold sacred services in the house,
with the object of propitiating or lay,
ing the evil spell that is woven about
it. She says she has called upon
scientists and the cold, everyday rea-
soning of the police to explain the
phenomena without success. Now she
will try the power OF prayer
AS early as 6 O'Clock in the evening
the crowds fiocked to the vicinity of
the house last, night BY $50 O'Clock
there was bowling mob that swirled
through Twenty-third street from.
Hoyne avenue to Leavitt street, jam.
med the abutting thoroughfares, and
made the night hideous with means
cries, catealls and hootings.
Let me at the ghost. screamed a
young girl in shrill treble. IF
catch him I'll kiss him.
"Show it to me-" said a big laborer
II eat ghosts for breakfast. Let us
at him"
Police stationed at the doors of the
little house had all they could do tt
keep the fighting, tugging mob from
breaking through. When the press
became too hot for the little arm,
Of officers, call for reserves was sen
in. II Ell n
/ The response swelled the little
army of officers to fifty, but the,
were swept about in the turbulen
mob like straws in Niagara.
"The fire department" shouted Ser
geant Lyman, in inspiration. A cal
brought engine companies % and SO
The engines were coupled up. Three
firemen manned each nozzle. Aiming
the streams in the air, as a direc
from the water would have been suffi
cient to all but kill, the fireme1
sprinkled the mob until it disburset
numbering and gagging.
| The ghost, through stage fright O
some other reason popular witt
ghosts, failed to make itself nantes
last night. #
/ But Mrs. Bachelor, however, re
called such of those as could hear he
with many hair-raising stories Of th.
| ghosts appearance before.
Three persons died in the hous
just before we took it, she said
For all know, there may be thre
ghosts. There is enough noise 10
three.
eve took the house from the Citrk
family, which owned it, the Saturda.
before the Fourth Of July. I though
| that they acted queerly when I aske'
them why they wanted to give it ii
SO cheaply, but was not told that MI
and Mrs. Citrke and a daughter, Kate
4 had all died in the house.
"The spook started spooking sur
/ day. First, a picture, one, / believe
of the dead Mr. Citrke, over who's
body his two sons we're said to hay
fought about the will until candl
! ignited his clothing, jumped aroun
I. and then fell to the floor.
Then the chairs began to moal
8 They didn't squeak or creak the
moaned -long, low, like the sound
emitted by a pigeon. Then the clock
took the notion Of stopping at 4
o'clock in the evening. b
This is the hour that old M
Citrke is said to have died.
These manifestations continue
about four times every week. until
1, felt that 4 was about to suffer wit
nervous prostration. NY husban
laughed at me until a week ago i
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