The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-16
SP00K QUITS AS
URN IS FOUND
Woman's Cremated Remains
Strangely Recovered from
Niche in the Wall
THE UNEASY GHOST IS LAID

Ashes from crematory Discovered
Nocturnal Rapping that Drove Ten.
ants Away May Cease with Burial.
New York.-The ghcst that haunt.
ID the home of Mrs. Mary Miller, No.
1S7 East Sixteenth street, for six
years, has been laid. and the dodgers
in the house feel more comfortable.
After knocking about in the ice
chest and under the counter of a sa.
loon for more than four years, and
being exposed to the wind, rain and
snow in a niche in brick wall for
about fourteen months, tin canister
containing the ashes of a cremated
woman was found, and sent to the
city Morgue. With its disappearance
from its haunts of six years it is be-
lieveI that the uneasy spirit whose
poundings on the wall caused con.
sternation in two households will now
rest in peace.
The canister, half the contents of
which have been lost, bears the label,
Remains of Kate Bausch. Fresh
Pond Crematory, April 20, 1903" Who
the woman was is mystery, and just
how her ashes came to rest for so
long in saloon. is but little clearer.
The Morgue authorities will hold the
canister reasonable length of time;
then if no one claims the ashes they
will be buried in Potters Field.
The canister first appeared in 1903,
when Thomas Moore conducted the
saloon at No. 166 Third avenue. A
stranger entered the saloon one day
and asked the bartender to take care
OF package wrapped in paper. The
bartender thrust it into the refrigera.
tor compartment back of bottles.
The bartender forgot all about the
parcel. Not until repairs were being
made in the refrigerator year later
was the can discovered The proprie-
tor unwrapped the parcel and for the
first time learned the nature of its
contents. Thinking the owner surely
would return. Moore put the can un-
der the counter. No one knew about
81 save Moore and his bartender.
rank Dutton, watchman, and his
took rooms over the saloon. Mrs.
rCn was the first to notice
lrge knocking and pounding that
-ed TO come late at night from the
ocn. Dutton. on several nights,
:, srs down to the saloon at his wife's
request. Every time the hour was
always long after the time of closing
and there was no sign of life. Dutton
says he often heard a noise as of
gene one splitting wood in the sa-
loon, but when he opened the door
at the foot of the stairs the sound
ceased.
Others in house heard the noises,
and several tenants moved because of
the nervous strain.
About fourteen months ago Moore
decided TO lease the saloon 10 an
other man. In looking over the place
the prospective lessee came upon the
canister. He opened it, Part of the
ashes was spilled on the floor and
swept out with the nights collection
of cigar stumps. Moore agreed to re-
move the canister.
Soon after the new tenant moved
In Mrs. Miller, whose house is separat.
ed from the rear of the saloon by a
narrow alleyway, began to hear
strange pounding noises at night, as
if person were rapping on the inside
of closet door to attract attention
and be released. The sounds caused
several of Mrs. Miller's boarders to
depart.
Mrs. Miller looked up at her wall
when in the alleyway. She saw a
small hole made by removing two or
three bricks. Thinking this hole
might be responsible for the noises,
she called Patrolman Colledge, Of the
East Twenty-second street station.
.Colledge climbed up, reached into the
hole and brought out the canister Of
ashes.
1t is believed the canister was put
in the wall by Dutton, who had been
told by Moore TO remove the object.
The saloon man and Mrs. Miller's
boarders are confident their sleep will
be interrupted no longer by Kate
Bausch's spirit calling for a decent
burial OF her ashes