The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-02
and The GHOST
SURE WALKED
Lady Resident of Fourth and Franklin
'Phoned the Police After Mid
night of Funny
Happening.
ONLY A NIGHT SHIRT
Wierd Looking Form Prancins
Down the Street Struck Terror
to Hearts of
Several.

Just take me home, boss, said
the first real live, walking ghost the
police of Keokulx have ever had in all
the history of the department.
Had any one been at the police sta
tion at one o'clock this morning and
seen the wierd and fantastic looking
eerie form that frightened a lady in
her home at Fourth and Franklin,
about the midnight hour, they would
have been forgiven too for calling the
police. Near that mystic hour, when
ghosts are supposed to walk and
spirits and gnomes from the under
world appear. 3 feminine citizen gaz-
ed from her comfortable home at the
street in front of her domain
Ghosts? Bah. But look. 1t is
white moving thing, moving silently
along without making sound. Great
Jehosaphat," the frightened lady re-
tirer thought instead Of saying, for she
was nearly frightened stir and her
blood running cold as the thing dane
ed along down the street to right in
| front of her home One move he
made toward her front door. That
/ was enough.
| A Live Ghost.
Captain Harry Malone and Officer
John Tigue responded to the plea to
hustle some one out to Franklin and
I secure the ghost Of Alexander the
4 Great or the gallant Paul Revere
! ly form.
When the two police officers reach
ed Franklin they took the ghost in
tow without any trouble and escorted
4 him to the police station where he
4 was propped In a chair and the
CLEANS of the manufactured light al
lowed to play on his form. There was
roar of uncontained mirth as the
spook unraveled as much of a story
as he knew how.
The name of this particular visitor
: from the world of the dead and ur-
known is Robert Donald Hines, so he
: told the officers who gathered around
? Robert, and the police reporter made
! a fake move or two to give the ghost
an injection, the old negro scare-bov
submitting unwillingly to the tests of
/ mental and physical examination of
1 the blue-coated individuals.
g "Ah swears ah don't know where
. ah are boss said the ghost "Ah
$ just woke up and found myself wan
f derin around some place and then
S you all come an got me. Just take
n me home. genl-men, jest like de oil
9 song say
r Hines swore he hadn't been using
n dope, although he said he did have a
:. little to drink before going to bed a
t. half past nine He is fifty-seven
years old and has been working at
r the Cameron stable since coming herr
# from Missouri with his wife, Nellie
r last month on the twelfth.
!, All that Hines had on when he was
e found meandering around was a nigh
t. shirt which came we'll down to his
e ankles. With his little black mus
k tache and queer grimace, he was {
k. picture of mirth for those who saw
d him, although every one admitte'
IS that they would climb tree or max
N tracks IN inc brlchS gettllS away an
d, when they got their breath the.
10 would "go some more" as the pul
le says
re- Poor old Hines who was shiverini
* and cold in the station, was taken t
his home. at Eleventh and High, il
le the patrol wagon, where his bette
in half. Nellie, no doubt lambasted hii
ne good for tearing around clad in ga
ne ments that would have made eve
i'll Father Adam blush when it came t
IS scantiness of attire