New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-10-11
TALES OF SP00kS
The Deputy Death Sent to the
Second Lord LyttIeton.
WARNED HIM AND VANISHED.

And just When 10 Thought He Has
"Joeksysd the Ghost" the Prediction
Became . Faet-story Of Q spscts'
Doc and the Legend Of Lady Howard
Belief in specters, phantoms and ap
partitions still fingers in many parts OF
England. We scon at ghost stories as
etuff that Is considered ridiculous by
all persons of sound education and
common sense" and yet mixed In with
the legends Of wraiths and hellhounds
are some true tales that are hard to
explain from the standpoint OF natural
cause and effect.
A strange story is that told OF the mo-
torious second Lord Lyttleton. who is
said to have been as evil as his father
was the reverse He died when in his
prime under the following well attest
ed circumstances: A few days before
his death Lord Lyttleton saw enter his
room q woman who told him that on
the third day after her appearance he
would die. He was very much fright
ened and extremely depressed by the
occurrence, but on the morning Of the
third day his fears had abated some
what, and he had to breakfast with
him a party which included Lady
Flood, Lord Fortescue and two Of the
Misses Amphlett, to whom he said. III
I live over tonight shall have jock
eyed the ghost, for this is the third
day" In the forenoon the party set
out to Pit Place, Lord Lyttleton' coun-
try seat near Epson, and were not
long arrived when his lordship had a
suffocating At, but recovered sufa-
GENTLY to dine with his friends at 5
o'clock.
By what is described as "a friendly
trick" the watches and clocks through
out the house were advanced half an
hour. The evening passed, and Lord
Lyttleton's spirits recovered their usual
gayety. At half past II he retired.
and, according to his Wallets report.
'he kept every now and then looking
at his watch. Within a min
ute or two of II by his watch he
asked to look at mine. His
lordship then put both to his ear to
make certain that they went. When
It was near the real hour Of IL he
said: Come: I'll wait no longer. Get
me my medicine. III take it and try
to Sleep" It appears that the valet
stirred the draft with toothpick,
and this angered Lord Lyttleton, who
sent him for a spoon. When the man
returned he found his master in fit.
Instead of attempting to relieve him
he ran for help. and when he returned
with the alarmed guests Lord Lyttle-
on was dead.
A peculiar class OF apparit1on In
which many persons believed is that
IF specter dogs, which are again d.
7ided into three kinds: (D Black dogs
hat are fiends in disguise; ~ evil
spirits that hunt souls in this guise;
- spirits of the wicked departed
made to take this shape for their sins.
These black dogs are Of all sorts and
sizes, big dogs and little dogs, long
haired dogs and short haired dogs.
meek dogs and fierce dogs, but as a
rule the standard specter hound is
huge, most ferocious looking and
shaggy like wolf, and, we are told,
packs of these hellhounds have been
seen, sometimes hunted by hunts
nan whose description much resem-
oles the popular conception of the
1evil.
A famous story is told of goblin
,ound which used to inhabit an old
at Lyme Regis, in Dorset, that
lad been partly demolished and turned
INTO farmhouse, in which lived an old
farmer. Having been urged
o drive out the black dog by his COM
he seized the poker and rush.
ed at the dog, which sprang up instant
y and rushed upstairs, followed by
the tipsy farmer. It fed into an attic
md, hey presto, jumped clean through
he ceiling. The angry farmer struck
1t the place. when, to his amazement,
Town fell from the hole he had made
an old fashioned money box. which