The evening world., 1922-03-07
DR.. PRINCE ARRIVES
. TO BEARD GHOST IN
CAUSE OF SCIENCE
Research Director Takes Up
Residence in Haunted House
Near Halifax.
DOUBTS SOME DETAILS.
Scientist Is Not Satisfied With
Stories of Some of the
Witnesses.

HALIFAX, March THE ghost Of
Antigonish had callers to-day.
Gazing out through the close drawn
shutters OF Alex MacDonald's desert
ed farmhouse at Caledonia Mills, AS
only ghosts can do, It" deserted two
sleighs drawing swiftly up the road.
A moment later DR.. Walter Frank
lin Prince, Director Of tho American
Institute for Scientific Research, de
barked, to the clicking OF movie cam
eras, and dropped in for an iudcter-
inmate stay.
DR.. Prince brought his own food
upplie5--enough to last him, he
hopes, until he has succeeded in get,
ting on speaking terms with the
ghost, and has learned the secret OF
why the ghost killed Alex MacDonald's
cattle, why "it' set his house on firo
and why 'it" slapped Harold Whid.
den, a newspaper reporter, and +. O.
Carroll a detective, who visited ''it'
after Macdonald and his family had
Ned.
DR., Prince issued o statement be
fore entering tho haunted house in
which he expressed confidence in his
ability TO solve the ghost problem,
provided the occult one would CON
sent to match wits with him. Obvi
ously he couldn't do much, he point
ed out, II the ghost went on a strike.
He promised daily bulletins on his
experiences.
"My first task on arrival in Nova
Scotia" said DR.. Princes statement,
was TO make a careful study of the
reports by Messrs Whiddcn and Car
roll. and the accounts Of interviews
with earlier witnesses.
THE second was TO subject Nj.
Whidden's evidence to n long oral
examination.
THE third was TO See various pr
ties acquainted with certain aspect
OF the case, particularly the char
acter Of the original witnessed. Ny
present conclusions may bc thus sum
married.:
There appears TO be no reason 10
doubt the good faith Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander Macdonald. the MacGilU-
vrays, neighbors OF the MacDonalds,
and other witnesses. In all proba
bility they have told the truth as
they understood 1t, whether their in
depreciation OF the fact IS correct
or not.
"As TO Mr.. Whiddcu have no
doubt whatever that his testimony II
absolutely truth. that he and Carroll
heard sounds of unknown origin and
experienced sensa tons which they de
scribed as 'slaps. II IL too early for
me to pronounce AN opinion regarding
the cause of these experiences.
Speaking abstractly. they stand ol'
n higher basis of probability as o,-
cult events than do the fires judG,uI
by the evidence in other cases, get
that the fires occurred is without
question.
New light upon the entire matter
obviously depends upon recurrence ~
the phenomena while I am I'm tho
house. II nothing happens there viii
hc no data on which 20 work except
past testimony already before the
public. But II things do happen ]
hail study them TO the utmost detail
with the hope Of founding a Logical
verde. upon them.
"No extravagant expectations
should he entertained. / do not "T-
pect that shall witness fires or yist-
bic 'visltors.' That singular sounds
and even physical sensations may be-
experienced is, Judging by other cases
known TO me personally, not improh-
able, but nothing whatever may &C.
cur and II anything dooa u may ho
lute tame 10 the average man on
me other hand, mere succession -
1unds II II could be proved thai t',N
were not due to physical cause. v.u'H
rv o' transcendent s!snincau., 20
science"