The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-21

SpOOho d1lu wdI1uCIIHS 0EJ1l1lSs men living in the vicinity to tn
 Bill Playing Safe
 But the famous "BilP' is going to play safe and dispose the spook by having the house remode1ed accord ing to reliable reports in Westport.
 The property owned by Hart is a. bout two miles north of the Compo Inn and is on the Kings Highway road. It contains besides the house several barns and abuot 20 acres or land. 'tBilP' as they say in Westport, settle down in this quaint old New England town in peace; away from the hundreds of prom who want to capitalize his talent and acting. information received that the house is to be remodled and prepared for his home coming. The rear of it is to be torn down and entirely rebuilt
 Ghosts Chase Elm.
 But, to get back to the original story of the ghosts reported as seen, and who are said to have given two known persons a merry chase to failed to give it's light. About ten years ago a man named Denmert who lives just north of the place was on his way home from town.
 was one of those nights that one would imagine a ghost to be following behind ones footsteps. The wind whistled through the trees and the made shivers run up and down persons back. The clouds covered the skies and hung low Now and l then the moon peeped through to see what the dreary world was doing Hoot owls shriu cries rang into the mist adding further touches of ghost | liness to the weird night. The bowling wind threw up guests of dust a nd pd l into miniature tornadoeS.
 Dennert plugged on and not be- l ing a man who allowed his imag1na- ton to carry him away thought noth- | ing of the unearthly night. He but toned his coat about him and pulled
 down his cap in order to keep. his eyes from being blinded by the whirl- | ing dust. He walked on for about l a mile and a half and was nearing the house with the ghost!y reputation The blinds were banging to and fro the house was dark and there was a stiffness of the grave all around. The wind subsided slightly.
 Met the SpooIk Himself. Dennert had by this time reached the front of the house, which has a large porch in the front and along the side. AS was his usual custom he glanced toward the house and suddenly met coming from the closed door an apparitton.
 'tNo," he said to himself, 'it Is nothing. I must be dreaming But the spectre came closer and he saw it to be that of an old colored lady with a shawl about her shoulders and covering her head like a monks hood. For a moment he was as if dead. He was fixed to the ground and could not move. He thought he would run and then he argued it would be best to walk at a slow gait.
 Going and Coming.
 The frightened man started off and ho fHxxr c-HN hn hos f the co1ored lady would likewise take 9 few steps and when he stopped the spirit would also stop. In some un- known way he managed to reach his own gate and with eyes glaring and beads of sweat coming from his fore head he rushed into his own home, told his wife and family of the ghost. They ran to the door with a lamp but it had disappeared into the dark night. The co1ored 1ady's ghost had followed him to his very gate and the next morning when Dennert was recount ing the tale of his night adventure the story of the Spook came to light. One of the old residents heard of the adventure and told of how fifty or more years ago there lived in the old house a colored family. One night that followed the old negro lady was murdered. And to use the words of a poet:
 They buried her darkly at dead of night,
 The sods with their bayonets turning: By the struggling moon beans misty light,
 And the lanterns din1y burning. Never Seen Since. And when the gruesone work was done the murderers fled the scene, and from that day to this have never been seen though they say that a umderer re- turns to the scene of his crime. The story of the old resident accounts for the ghost. Dennert from that horrible saw the ghost and that it was not his imagination.
 And 8 little less than a year ago John Guyer, who lives in the vicinity of the haunted house. was passing 1t one dark and dreary night. and 1t Is thing as Dennert. He still maintains that the ghost followed him with the sames haw1 about her head, as when Dennert saw her, from the big porch to the door of his home.
 Guyer is said to be 8 man without mystery is still unsogved. Why it Is that the ghost of the old negro lady followed these men is unknown un- less It be that she wants to remind them that somewhere in this world her slayer lives; unless her spirit be resless for the unmeted Justice Why she followed these two men without a menacinE spirit, just behind them with the old gray shawl over her head is unknown And then again. all this might have been the cause Of too vivid fnnaginattons on
 he part Of the men knowing a little of the history surrounding the house subsequently, on the part of Guyer who knew au the lateat facts sur.