The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-10-13
ghost IN MISCHIEF
mysterious Goblin al Work in
Stettin.
'rraet'cal German Police, However,
Asor'be uncanny Proceedings to an
Altogether Mundane Source
Public Willing to Believe.

A stranger passing through Stettin
recently would have thought that a so.
clailst demonstration or something
equally dreadful was taking place. The
streets were closed to traffic by the
ponce, and large crowds assembled in
the nelghborhood manifested their dis
pleasure at this step hour after hour
Dy hooting and cat calls. But all the
pother was merely due to the anxiety
Oh the public to devote itself to a lit.
Tile practical psychical research. For
at the center of the cleared area stood
haunted house, and that was what
the people were trying to get at.
IL appears that ghost had been
at work for long time past, though
IL only became an object of general in.
terest couple of days ago, after it
mad been taken notice of in the news.
papers. The center of its activity Is
the tenement of laborer named
Buchsler, in the Karkutschstrasse
where 1t is reported to have brought
many strange things to pass Cred
lDle witnesses saw cups and saucers,
pots and pans, Jugs and bottles lift
themselves up without any visible as
sistance, and sail through the win
DOW into the courtyard. Brooms how
ered In the air, as II inviting to a trip
to the Broken. Cupboards flung open
their doors and precipitated their con-
tents on the floor.
Thacn
Is so often the case, to center around
a young girl, the 11-year old daughter
OF the tenent a 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 Buchslers 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
their further inquiries convinced them
that the mysterious doings were due
more to sleight of hand than to spir.
itual 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 disappearance from his wife's
cash box. So the family have been
informed that should the mischievous
spirit recommence its tricks they will
be taken into custody under the gross
nuisance" clause, which can be made
to cover everything to which the au-
thorit!es object, but is not specified
in the neutrality-suspicious. London