The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-28
ssHaunted House. of Strat ford Has No Terrors For Marauders Who Back Van Up To Doors and Cart Of Revolutionary Relics.
Several Trips to Hudson Home Made By Robber Band Which Strips the House of Everything Por- table Valuable Heir looms Gone.
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 SzratfcEd. June 2S.-Burgfars that are not afra1d of ghosts entered the historic Hudson home on Main street here at various times during the last few weeks and, ignoring the spirits 4,na+ reputaE5Se persons say are in the habit Of diseouraging visitors, stripped ta1e structure of everything of value, including the contents of g. vault, the Colonial furniture and hangings, the lead and brass piping and the copper boiler in the kitchen
 The fearless robbers evidently drove a truck fo the back door of the famous homestead night after night until ev- e1-ybhing Of value was carted away, according to the state police, and so naonWealth sIeuths say they wouldn't be euzpaised if the burglars book away the ghosts with 4hezn-
 The Hudson homestead is now the property of pr w. H. Carmalt, a not cd physician of New Haven He in her4ted it through the late Mrs Susan B Johnson Hudson
 The famous structure, which is a relic of Revolutionary days was tho home of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the first president of Kings College. now Co., Il11nEbsa university. He was a cousin widely known Dr. Samuel Johnson of EngIand His son. William Samuel Johnson who succeeded him as presi- dentxof Columbia, was also an occu- pant of the house
 The details of the history of the homestead are not so generally known to the townspeople of Strat- ford as the stories of supernatural residents Of fhe house, who plagued the legitimate occupants tDy various neth0ds-or were reputed to have done so. Some there are who will AZ. for servants, which extends through out the house, is disconnected, the bells will ring without being touched by human hands.
 Others there are who will testify to the sIamming of doors and the rolling of a cannon ball in the attic of strange rappings at unpropitious times;s and of the impossibility oi opening an unused door in the house which the spirits seemed to move al will just when it would most frighter the persons in the house.
 Either the burglars had never heard of the ghosts or they didn't care a tinker's cuss for them, for un. der the cover of night-tIle time ths ghosts reveI-they broke into the building and secured from the view of passersby on the street by shrub. bery, carried all the movable object: to a waiting wagon, the wheel track. of which have been found by tht state police. The in1rnovable object. were speedily made movable, as t shown by the manner in which the in truders ripped away the copper boile from it's fastenings in the kitchen.
 A big vault, built Of solid brick ant masonry. and long reputed to b' j. housing vaEuabIes, was smashed ope1 with some heavy tools and footed. Tn, owner, Dr. Carmalt says there wal nothing of value in the vault, wf1fcl is contrary to the tradition.
 Dr. CarmaH came to Stratford lat today to look over the premises. H will confer with the state police as t, the method of catching the ghost flouting burglars, on the track O whom the detectives say they sool will be-