Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-10-14
GHOST IN MISCHIEF
Mysterious Goblin at Work in
Stettin.
Practical German Police, However,
Ascribe Uncanny Proceedings to an
Altogether Mundane Source
Public Willing to Believe.

A stranger passing through Stettin
recently would have thought that a so
cialist demonstration or something
equally dreadful was taking place The
streets were closed to traffic by the
police, and large crowds assembled in
the neighborhood manifested their dis
pleasure at this step hour after hour
by hooting and cat calls. But al the
pother was merely due to the anxiety
Of the public to devote itself TO lit
lie practical psychical research. For
ut the center of the cleared area stood
haunted house, and that was what
the people were trying to get at.
1t appears that a ghost had been
at work for a long time past, though
It only became an object Of general in
terest a couple of days ago, after it
had been taken notice of in the news
papers. The center of its activity is
the tenement of a laborer named
Buchsler, in the Karkutschstrasse,
where it is reported to have brought
many strange things to pass. Cred
tble witnesses saw cups and saucers,
pots and pans, jugs and bottles lift
themselves up without any visible as
sistance. and sail through the win
tow into the courtyard. Brooms how
cred in the air, as If inviting to trip
20 the Broken. Cupboards flung open
their doors and precipitated their con-
tents on the floor.
, These spectral activities seemed, as
ts so often the case, to center around
"a young girl, the 11-year old daughter
of the tenent, siCkly and undergroWn
little thing, who Is, however, credited
by the neighbors with wonderful mag
netic" gifts. The story, however,
which got about was that the uncan-
ny proceedings were the work of a
hobgoblin, who came to the house in
search Of Frau BuChsler's housekeep-
ing money, and showed its anger in
wanton destruction when it found that
the key of her cash box was hanging
around her neck, and not to be got
at. 1t appears to be fact that the
ghostly demonstrations were occasion
ally accompanied by the disappearance
of sums OF money, but for that there
is spiritual explanation of different
kind
When the police took the matter in
hand they were somewhat at loss
as to the cause to follow. One officer
called upon Frau Buchsler to produce
the ghost, or at any rate cause it to
give some signs of it's existence. The
reply was that was impossible, as she
had done nothing to annoy the disturb
Ing spirit What the head and front
of her offending had been she declined
to say, on the ground that the revela-
ton of such mysteries would bring un-
told disaster upon her head.
The police. however. were not sat
Isfied to let the matter rest there, and
their further inquiries convinced them
that the mysterious doings were due
more to sleight of hand than to spir
ltual agencies. They also learned that
Buchsler had been spending a good
deal of money at the public house OF
late, which. perhaps, might account
for the disappearances from his wife's
cash box. So the family have beer
Informed that should the mischievouS
spirit recommence its tricks they will
be taken into custody under the "gros:
nuisance" clause, which can be made
to cover everything to which the au
thorities object, but Is not specified
in the neutrality-suspicious. Londor
Telegraph.