The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-10

That mysterious character seen at
the 0lney avenue school building
late one Tuesday evening two weeks
ago, fitting about the room minus
his coat and shoes and who was ap-
preached by Janitor Fired Fatzler
without results, made his appearance
at regular meeting of the board of
education Monday evening desirous
OF making an explanation of things.
lie was introduced to the board by
member NJ. B. Dickerson as the ghost
who was seen at the building at an
unseemly hour
1t will be remembered by Mirror
readers that late one evening some
time ago, Mr.. Fatzler in company
With his son-in-law Dennis Gompf.
was enroute to the home of the latter
In the vicinity of the building when
Mr.. Fatzler decided to go In and as
certain If everything was in order.
There had been trouble there on the
saturday evening before when the
building was broken into and Fatzler
was looking toward the welfare of
MS building. Shortly after he had
entered he discovered a man facing
him in the darkness with part of
his clothing removed. He said that
the room smelled of liquor.
The person, who was i'm the building
on the evening in a manly endeavor
to straighten out the, difficulty. faced
the board last evening and told of
the situation. He declared that he
had young girl relative who had
peen In the habit of going in bad
company and that 1t was with the OBJ
Ject OF doing some detective work that
ne entered the building. Only with
the permission. of the janitor, however
had he entered It. He declared that
he had talked with Mr.. Fatzler often
and that he had told him of his plans
with the result that permission was
given him to enter the building and
the two men had joined In filing q
key which would fit the door of the
school building. Fatzler mad assist
Ell the man and gave him the file.
After Saturday evening. however,
when the building was broken into
by maurauders. Fatzler was prone
TO place the blame upon this mtn.
The ghost" declared that he had
talked with the janitor following the
trouble and that he had placed the
blame of disturbing thebuilding on
the Saturday evening upon him. The
ghost declared that he was able to
show proof that he was not I'm the
building at the time Il was broken
into and that he was not in town on
that evening. Fataler had said that
all would be wen II he could prove
this to the board but the ghost" on
the other hand preferred to carry the
matter to finish. He thought the
janitor had placed trap in his way
in order that he might catch him
and that he had very blindly stepped
into II.
Asked Just what he meant by be-
Ing caught In trap, the accused
stated that In his belief the ianitor
was prejudiced against him and that
he sought to get him into trouble.
He had attempted to connect the in
cident related In the papers with the
escapade of Saturday night by un-
known parties and that he would
plainly have been trapped had he not
the proof that he was out of town.
"Why did YOU have your clothes
off as stated In the article?" asked
one of the members.
well you know II Is very hot I'm
those school buildings, when they arc
closed up for some time" he answer
cd. "I had my coat off but / did not
have my shoes or stockings OFF,"
"I understood that somebody spit
tobacco spit upon Mr.. Gompf while
he was standing on the outside" said
Mr.. Spaulding.
The accused declared that the news
papers was responsible for this. they
having obtained their information
from Mr.. Fatzler and p. s. Wilson,
superintendent of buildings and
grounds.
Mr.. Fatzler was not present at the
meeting las evening to give his side
of the question and a committee meet
ing of the buildings and grounds
will be held soon in order that the
trouble may be threshed out. The
members of the committee are G. b.
Christian, w. b. Spaulding and ]. W.
Jacoby.
The matter presents new problem
for the board to consider and II has
assumed quit serious proportions. The
midnight prowler intends to carry the
matter sufficiently far that he might
be rid of the stain which has been
placed upon him. The words of the
accused man who came to the meet
ing last evening voluntarily, are OF
much weight with a number of the
members of the board who have long
known him and the matter will oc.
cupy much attention on the part OF
the members of the board who are
seemingly quit divided over the
matter.