The Washington times., 1922-03-12
S REFUSE TO STALK FOR SCIENTIST In HAUNTED HOUSE
DR.PR|NCEST|LL
HOPES SPO0K IS
L|v|NGIN HOUSE

LIuIuU UIU nuuJ[
Finding the Nova Scotia 'Hant'
just a Trifle Timid. lnvestiga-
tor Will Try to Coax Him.
POT LUCK Is ONLY CHANCE
Bells Haven't Rung Yet, But
Scientist Believes He May
Yet Speak to Shade.
CALEDONIA MILLS. N. s..
March 11.--Nothing even family
like ghost was seen or heard or
felt last night in the little valley
home from which Alex Mcdonald
and his family were driven by
pranks and noises and uncanny
occurrences. But today the spark
Of hope still remained with DR..
Walter Franklin Prince. the New
York scientist who. has been on
the lookout for the playful per-
SON or spook since last Tuesday.
Case Of POT Luck"
ION an expedition like this It is a
case Of pot luck" he said. ''The fish
may bite or they may not. To
change the metaphor. the psychic
faucet Ia not always on tap"
Little Mary Ellen Macdonald. who
some Of the Antigonish skeptics
. have hinted might have been re-
sponsible for the strange noises and
fires that scared the MacDonalds
away. came back last night and
slept in s.Ae house. Tonight Mrs.
Macdonald. who adopted the little
girl, Joined her husband and Mary
Ellen. 30 that conditions az nearly
similar as possible to those obtain.
ing when the manifestations &C.
CURED may be reproduced.
Just because the ghost hasn't been
playful these last few days Is no In.
dication that the strange stories
were untrue, or that the ghostly eE-
periences will not be repeated, a
statement by DIR. Prince set forth.
He said he regretted that the
present expedition had to be With
the interested public on tiptoe.
THAT is why I am taking pains
to insist that II we get no phe-
nomena the fact does not prove that
there have been none," he said.
has been undertaken to q distant
part Of the earth favorable to pho
tographs of a total eclipse of tho
sun, only to find the quarter of the
sky where the sun Is at the critical
hour, shrouded with clouds. No
one, / hope, would be foolish enough
to argue that this threw doubt on
the claims of previous observers"
The tracking Of an active. authen.
ticated ghost to its lair has been In
progress all this week.
Dares Ghost In Lair.
DR.. George F. sleggs. assistant
professor Of biology in Dalhousie
University, is assisting DR.. Prince
in the attempt to track the ghostly
sleep In the house for at, least q
week.
DIR. Prince insisted on having q
room to himself in the house. This,
he said, was essential. He took with
him a number Of bells, but their use
he would not explain.
"wait till the bells ring, then
you'll understand" IL all DIR. Prince
would say on this point.
IT have prepared a set of 500 ques-
lions which l shall put to all the
eye-witnesses of the mysterious fires
and the uncanny happenings re
ported to have taken place In tire
Macdonald barn. / intend to pay
particular attention to the exterior
Of the barn and will make sketches
Of the stanchions and stalls in which
the cattle and horses are said to have
been shifted and In which other
things have occurred.
am particularly eager to Ques-
ton Mary Ellen, the adopted daugh-
ter of the MacDonalds. / have in
vestigated several cases and have
always given close attention to the
girl in them. I will put Mary Ellen
through cross-examination, but
mind you / have no reason to sus-
pect her. As q matter of fact. II
published reports are to be believed,
she is the most innocent Of any.
"I am now told there Is another
young man who heretofore has not
been mentioned. He Is, / under.
stand, the sweetheart of Mary Ellen.
I am told that he was not present
during the manifestations in the
Macdonald home. I would like to
know where he was"
Horses Tails Braided.
The Antigonish ghost makes its
abode. according to the formal statr-
ments thus far made. In a little cot.
tage. a story and a half high, reseni-
bling a ftlde, overgrown bungalow.
Here lived the MacDonalds, Alex.
who IL seventy. his wife, and en-
adopted daughter, Mary Ellen. Plain.
simple. industrious, prosaic persons.
primitively religious in a very prac-
tical way.
There are no neighboring build
fngs within a mile and a half of the
farm, and the house itself contairs
but single room upstairs. The
MacDonalds came to II, long ago,
and for years lived an uneventful
life.
Then six years ago. unexplained
and perhaps unexplainable. things
began to be noticed. The first inti-
nation Of anything strange came
when the old man went to the little
barn one morning and found that tie
horses and cows had all been
changed in their stalls, and that the
tails and names of the horses had
been braided.
Finds Ceiling Charred.
This was annoyina to Alex Mac