Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-01
LIVE GHOSTS
BY Frederic J. Haskin

bedroom, they would flnd . bundle a
clothes placed In tho center OK tht
floor blazing. or they would descend
to tho cellar, and there find pho u
shayings allEht ana blazing u1errilN
They lived In constant danger Of HAYS
ing tho house burned over snen
heads" II is interesting 10 note in
this connection, however. that tia
ghostIy incendiaries usually confided
in Esther as soon az they had started
a fire. although sometimes they CORY
withheld It's exact location.
soon after this" We are told.
things got 30 bad that Esther cox
had TO leave home, and went TO visit
a friend. For four weeks there was
peace. Then trouble began again.
This time. knocks and rsps were heard
eli over the house, and Esther now
| began 10 gee the spooks" Theirs
were two OF them, - seems Maggie.
whose feminine personality was rec
ognized by her tiTnid and ingratLat-
ing raps, and Bob. who pounded Out
his communications with huge fist,
or possibly. It was thought with a
stone. OF some OF the additional
j phenomena which occurred about this
/ time. Mr. Hubbell, tho actor. who
visited the Teed honne for tho purpose
Of investigation, gives tho following
account:
( 81 had been seated In the sitting
roon) about FIVE minutes when 70 my
great astonishrnent. my umbrella was
thrown a distance Of 16 feet, passing
over my head in its strang flight. and
aln1os, ~ the same instant largs
carving knife came whizzing through
. the air, passing over the head Il
Esther, who vas just then coming
out OF the pantry with large dish IN
/ both hands and feil IN 'front.' Of her,
near mo having come from behind
her out q the pantry. naturally
went 20 the door and looked IN. bus
no person VAS there
Spirits Depart With Esther.
Things cam. 70 ouch a pass ss
length that the landlord csrae and
told mo Teed family that either
Esther would have 70 go, or they
would have % leave tho house Esther
was then dispatched 20 visit other
friends. From this second tins She
left the Teed house she was never
more troubled with ghosts. but 3 few
weeks after this date she was ar
rested FOR incendisrisn IN a barn
and sentenced 10 four months' I'M
prisonrnent Finally, she married,
ned a family. and that was the end OF
! the Amherst mystery.
40 IN the Antagonist case, Il was
7 Or. Walter Prince who turned the
first brilliant rays Of skepticism upon
= the Amherst spooks. In writing OF
= their spiteful disturbances OF Esthers
= bedclothes and furniture. ne says:
r Mr.. and Mrs. Teed one night could
gee from their bed into Esther's room
= by moonlight thow much moonlight
and how much OF her room ID 4.
D light?); they saw chair slide up from
3 the wall 70 her bed (wouId not a string
: looped around the chair leg have pro-
: duced the same effect and does nc.
the direction the chair took suggest
the strtng2); a pillow went out from
under her head into the chair would
that effect have been beNpnd the
power OF the human hand 70 produce
:, in the serni-darkness4 q ghost sal
. down IN the chair and rubbed, pinchec
: and scratched Esther under the bed
a clothes (but this Is what Esther said)
"a all the furniture except the bedsteac
ID was thrown out into the entry while
7. Esther Jay quietly IN bed (how muct
II and how large was the furniture
10 How much OF Esthers form coulC
d. they see? Is It certain that II Wa.
n. Esther at all whom they saw on tn,
Of bed, for. rolls OF clothing and arttullI
arranged cushions have been know
OF TO deceive IN a poor Nght?); then an
or other ghost rocked the bed Us IL no
IL probable that Esther was in bed now
:, at any rated; at length Esthet wa
brought TO sleep IN the same room wiz
Dc the others. whereupon the manifesto
* tons ceased because OF the better op
" pOrtunities for ObServationD, excep
that once the i'd OF a trunk gave on
DC parting slam (was the trunk con
veniently near Esther's mattress? Wa
= the interval before the parting star
y long enough 70 allow the leeds I
fall into that state, congenial 70 tn
night, wherein eyes watch notD" {
- Thus, DR.. Princes critical stud
- goes on until there Is very uttl
-. ghost substance left IN Maggie an
-! Bob" In the same coIdly scienth
~ way. he calls attention 20 the fac
that the mysterious 1ires caused b
= the Antagonist ghost were never NOR
than five feet from the ground-whic
- is the height OF the McDonald's ADOPT
ed daughter. Clearly, the Englishma
was right. II has taken a neurology.
for DR.. Prince speclalizes in nerveu
~ disorders. such as dual personalitie
.ell etc.--to trail these ghosts 10 the
he secret sources.