The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
ssGR0ST OF TWE TITANIC"
VENGEANCE OF HooDoo MUMMY FOLLOWED MAN WHO WROTE
ITS HISTORY.
!, owner. however. laughed at this idea
as a foolish superstititon.

7 owner. however. laughed at this idea
as a foolish superstition.
Presently she sent the cas- to a
well-known photographer in BAKER
street. Within a week he called upon
her in great excitement. to say that
although he had photographed the
face with the greatest care. and could
guarantee that n n had touched
either his negative or the photograph,
the portrait showed the face Of a liv-
ing Egyptian oma staring straight
before her with an expression of sim
gular malevolence. Soon afterwards
the photographer died suddenly and
mysteriously.
About this time Mr.. D. happened
to meet the owner of the coffin lid,
and. hearing her story. begged her
to part with it: and she sent it to
the British museum. Tho carrier
the ma who assisted him met a Sc
rious accident.
Ihls Is n history as 1t was veri-
fled by the late B. Fletcher Robinson,
who for three months was at pains
to @"ther the tangled threads of the
evidence and who declared that every
one of the fatalities was authentic.
He himself seems to have thought
that when the mummy case arrived
at the museum. the anger of the
spectral priestess would at last be
appeased. for he wrote:
perhaps it is that the priestess
only used her powers against those
who brought her into the light of
day. and kept her as an ornament
in a private room: but that now.
standing among queens and princess
es of equal rank. she no longer makes
use of the malign powers which she
possesses"
How poor a prophet Robinson
proved was shown a few weeks after
he pehned this hope. when he him.
self died at an early age. after a brief
illness. And now. as the latest link
in the chain of disasters intimately
connected with the painted
case. comes the tragic death of Will
powers and fame. soon after he had
Nentured to relate the sinister story
of the Theban priestess.
The Egyptians religious faith in
the resurrection of both the soul and
the body. which students hold is en-
bodied in the Apostles Greed, made
the rifling of a tomb the most infer
nal OF impieties. It was held that if
the soul returned from it's journey to
find its body. it would be compelled
to wander for eternity. unhoused,
forlorn and accursed. Hence the art
to which the Nile dwellers brought
the art Of embalming. by which
bodies have been preserved even I'M
til today: hence the enormous labors
of the pyramids. the tombs of Egyp-
tian kings, whose bulk has defed
time and those 'cunningly intricate
passages. c%oncealing the royal sar-
cnphasi. frustrated until recently the
curiosity Of man: hence the frightful
i!nprecations written upon the num-
nay cases against irreverent hands
which would modest them.
The mummy case in the British
museum is not the first Egyptian REL
ic which has been credited with
related in the autobiography of the
late lieutenant ~"eneral the Right
Honorable Sir William F. Butler,
grand commander of the Bath. which
was published last year by Constable
& Co, Ltd. of London
The author told of meeting a num-
Der of newspaper correspondents dur
ing the campaign to relieve Gordon at
khartoum. One of these. he relates.
was zone Of the most d%auntless NOR
tails | ever met in my life. The story
tell it here.
u first met him in California in
1873" Sir William continued. ION my
way from British Columbia to the
west coast of Africa. We next met
at the Cataract of Dal. where 1 found
him attempting to work up the Nile
in a tiny steam launch which held
himself; a stoker and one other per-
SON. He was wrecked shortly after.
but got up with the naval brigade.
made the desert march and was pres
emit with Lord Charles Beresford in
his action at Wad Habeshi, above
Metemmeh.
On his way up the Nile he had
INDUCED in the then. and now. fash
lonable tourist pursuit Of tomb
rihling: and mummy-lifting: and he
class mummy. which. still wrapped
in Its cere-clothes. had been duly
packed n sent to England.
When the Nile expedition closed
ne went to Sonaliland, and. some
where in the foothills Of Abyssinia,
was finally killed by an elephant and
was buried on a small island in a
river flowing from Abyssinia south
ward. The mummy got at Luxor
eventually reached London. The cor
respondents friends. anxious to get
their brothers remains to England.
sent out a man with orders to pro-
coed to the pot where he had been
buried and bring the remains home.
This man reached the river, to-
gether with the Son1ali hunters who
had accompanied the deceased or the
hunting expedition the previous year,
but no trace could he found Of tho
little island on which the grave was
made. A great food had descended
from the Abyssinian mountains. and
the torrent had swept the island be-
fore it. leaving no trace Of grave or
island.
Now comes the moral. The num-
my was in due time unwound in Lon.
don. and the experts in E%gyptology
sent to work to decipher the writings
on the %wrappings. Truly were they
spirit wrappings' There. in charac-
tiers about which there was no cavil-
ing on the part Of the experts, was
written a varied series of curses up-
on the man who would attempt to
disturb the long repose of the mum
mtfied dead.
MAY he.' ran the i%nvocations, be
abandoned by the gods. May wild
beasts destroy his life on earth. and
after his death may the floods Of the
"Tenging rivers root up his bones and
cater his dust to the winds of
heaven"