The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-04-28
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AND HAT 4 HERE sSIs SOME.
ING dYsTERlou s ABOUT
IfTdE PRISON. n n 3, isal
III God, / can't sleep for the cry.
ling of the baby. DO you fellows hear
that baby crying u asked a prisoner
~ the county jail the other night.
Hear it?" came the response from
the other prisoners, Il have been hear
Ing the crying OF that baby. for the
past several nights and I just can't
rest for IT,, q +. a 81 s. r,
Us the Marion county jail haunted?
Not one but all thessixteen prisoners
say that 1t Is: that every one or
them can distinctly hear the crying
OF a babe all night long; the little one
walls are something awful, say the
men in the fall. and many OF them
cannot rest after 9nlghtfall until after
daybreak. u a z Z. ~
For some time the white prisoners
In the jail have been hearing tne
weird cries of the little one, and they
have got;to listen for the crying night.
". but to cap the climax and to I'M.
press 1T more strongly upon the pris.
oners' minds that there Is such a mys.
terious noise about the prison. a ne.
gro from Montana was put In the jail
night before last about nine o'clock
and Just after he had been locked In
his cell and all was quiet he yelled
out: "Whar is that er baby: why don't
somebody tend to II, it will cry Itself
to def: good Lord All never in my
whole life heard ali baby cry so, It
must be In mighty misery" The 9TH
er prisoners called out that there was
no baby crying and that there was no
such being about the jail-thinking
that they could make the negro be-
ifeve that such was true.s knowing
themselves that they had for many
nights passed heard the same sound
but the, black man could not be con-
WINGED that there was not baby cry
Ing. you can't tell me that All. don't
hear ah baby yelling as II It's In mis-
cry. " The other prisoners declare
that they, too. were and are nightly
hearing the weird yelling and some
times muffled crying Of little one.
The prisoners have gone SO far as to
ask Tailor Tucker 70 make an lnves-
tigation and see II there Is not a baby
about. the prison or what caused such
distressing noise like the crying Of
an. infant every night. x "
One of the prisoners. young man
Of good intelligence. declared this
morning that he had been kept awake
for the past seeyral nights by the cry
Ing Of the. infant and that be, had be.
come so nervous that he could not sit
nor, lie still for only q, few minutes.
you should Just hear that baby" said
the young, man. st is the amost@wierd
sound eyer heard and gseyerai times
Iihaxe been aWakened .at midnight and
early In the morning by the awful
cries. When the other prisoners we're
asked II they had heard such noises,
they also declared that they had, and
that one Will ask The other all through
the night, II they are listening 70 the
crying Dabe. kt $3.50
On last Wednesday night about $3.50
O'clock the men in concourse called
out, There goes that baby, 1t has
commenced to cry for the night" and
1t continued to do so all through the
night. It is Just like the crying Of
an infant. stop for few minutes for
breath and then begins again.
If there is such thing as a prison
being haunted, the Marion county jail
Is, according to all the sixteen pris.
oners confined behind the bars. and
those who have long terms to serve
are wishing daily that they will soon
60 to the new jail where 1t is hoped
by them that they Will no longer hear
the weird cry OF this infant through.
out the night. f