The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-05
Man Who Succeeded New town Murder Victim Sees
 Shade Nightly
REFUsEs1To STAY
 ALONE IN SHACK
Gets Months s Rent Free to Occupy Place, Then Re
 grets His Bargain
lspecial Id the Farmer.l

Newtown,s Jan. 5.@The ghost Of William Gorr-or John, Green as he was best known in Newtown- haunting the little shop in which the town cobbler was rnysteriously mur- dered on August 29, last. At 9:15 o'clock every night, the restless spirit k of the murdered man. moves about the shop, rattling pans and occasional ly. begging a few spectral shoes.
 Those folks who .don't believe in ghosts are referred to H. A. MOoers. a cobbler who has taken up his busi- ness in the little shack where Corr met his death. Mooers is absolutely convinced that the place is haunted. and has told his land lord, P. H. Gan nons that he'll quit the premises unless some restrictions are placed Son the activities of the ghost
 For a. month after the murder of Corr, the little shop was kept under lock and key by order of the coroner. Women: and children avoided that side of, the street. and if they chanced to
 be out O nights, they'd lose no time dallyfng tn the neighborhood. Then, the story became generally circulated that there were ghosts in the place. Landlord Cannon got permissi on from the coroner to reopen the shop. He had it repainted and Frightened within. and all traces of the crime
 were TGInOV6d. 61e then hung out a
 For Rent sign, but Newtown didn't crowd shiIn with applications for a lease on the shack. Finally H. A.
 Mooers, who used to run a cobbler shop in Stratford avenue, Bridgeport, was. induced to take the place. He was given months rent free as a special inducement, 'tis said.
 Three days after he moved in, Cob- bier Mooers went to his landlord and emphatica1ly remarked that the place was haunted, and that ghosts raised
 ructions there every night, and that
 he wouldn't stay there any more un- 1 less he had company, and that ghosts were no kind of roommates for nice quiet folks, and what was Landlord l Cannon going to do about it anyway Mooers said the ghost appeared reg uIarly at 9:15 every night; stepped around in the basement for a while,
 occasionally rattling a tin pan just to
 liven things up; amid the clanling of 1 the conventional chains, came up the
 ladder into the cobbIer shop and peg 1 ged a few shoes. Mooers couIdn't l see the ghost, or the pans, or the
 chains or the shoes, but he heard the
 noises and what more does anyone l want
 Landlord Cannon finally arranged that Mooers needn't sleep in the place l and got him accommodations outside l the shack. Cold weather setting in l this arrangement had to be changed 1 Then Landlord Cannon provided a
 companion who would keep the vigil l with Mooers until the witching hour l of S:15 had passed every night To
 date, the companion. whose identity l isn't disclosed, has not reported any unusual occurrences.
 1 5Cobbler Mooers, however is sure 1 the place is haunted. He's heard the ghost at work and says it is the spirit l of his predecessor crying for ven- I geance. Mooers doesn't mind the skeptics who scoff at his story. He l knows there are ghosts in the place
 and folks who don't believe don't have
 to. He's got the shack to prove what l he says
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