The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-09-09
A Readable
Ghost Story
One That is Different and Furnish
es Food for Reflection
and Investigation.

itualism and many other isms are be-
ing used to trade upon the SUSCEPTIBLE
ties and imagination of the supersti-
t1ously inclined, that much credence is
given to ghost stories. Yet the one
here related is so strange, so unaccount-
ably extraordinary in that ;'the ap-
pearance" was In broad daylight and
has been so impossible to disprove or
explain away that it is we'll worthy of
attention, The writer knows PERSONAL
ly the gentleman whose strange ex-
periences are here related and can vouch
for his strict integrity as we'll as for
the fact that the peculiarities of this
case were so many, so mystifying and
so unique that such papers AS the Lon
don Daily Telegraph, as we'll as many
others, considered it of sufficient in
terest to print special article from a
correspondent sent to investigate the
facts and even devoted leading ar
ticle in an endeavor to satisfy the hum
ger of those who were so keenly anxious
for some explanation of that which is
beyond the ken of man and yet un-
doubtedly true.
Mr.. w. T. Stead, editor of the Review
of Reviews, was one of those who ably
reported on this case.
Mr.. G. Dickinson, in the year 1889,
was, and possibly is now, the proprietor
of the largest Photographic gallery in
Newcastle-on-Tyne in England. His
offices occupied the whole of Mo-
Granger street, with the exception of
the ground floor, which was a gentle
mems furnishing store. The entrance
to his studio was entirely separate from
that of the store and was what might
properly be called side entrance. At
night an outer gate prevented an en-
trance to the vestibule, which also had
a door, leading upstairs, which was
locked after the employees had left at
night. And between this door and the
gate were displayed samples of Mr..
Dickinson's work. For this door and
gate were two sets of keys, the one re-
tanned by the proprietor and the other
by the office boy whose duty it was to
open up in the morning and close the
place at night.
The week preceding the occurrence
about to be related a gentleman had
called to have his photograph taken
On asking Mr.. Dickinson for an early
proof, he incidentally remarked that he
was very anxious to secure the finished
copies on certain day as he had prom
| ised his fancee one on her birthday
which was the following week. Mr..
Dickinson, while developing the mega
tive, had the misfortune to drop and
break it and wrote a letter asking for
the favor of another sitting. From
this time until the strange sequel the
matter passed from his mind.
Now Mr.. Dickinson occasionally
would go to his studio before the hour
of opening, a. m., as CHI * upon his
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On morning subsequent to the fore.
going events he arrived at his place OF
business about 8:15 and was surprised
to find the main gate and lower door
still locked. Opening the same him.
self and voicing reprinand to his of.
flee boy for his dilatoriness and non.
punctuality, he was astonished to meet
coming down the stairs the gentleman
whose picture he had taken the week
previously. If explanation was neces.
sary for his presence at all, Mr.. Dick.
inson did not seek such as he immedi.
ately concluded that the party had re.
sponded to his letter for another sitting
and that the Office boy had already
opened up his place of business at the
usual hour, but having forgotten some
thing of Importance had either returned
home or gone elsewhere, locking up
the place agair-no one else having ye,
arrived-and forgotten that a visitor