South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-16
GHOSTS HAUNT.IN
TOWER OF LONDON
They're All Authentic Spirits,
Too. So History Declares
With SOlemnily.

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London the most ghost-r.dden
shouI- haunted city ln the world.
Don u0 other city are there 500 man.
authentic" ghosts. ghosts which
have been seen by high and low.
ghosts who represent names big in
the history of the world
The Tower OF London. that grey
stone battlementcd norman edldce
which has defed the elements for
rearly a thousand years. can and
does show ghosts male and female.
whose ca~th names viii live as Ions
a. history exists
sir Waiter Raleigh. the first man
e. introduce tobacco 90 Europeans.
the man who gained fame for his
daring raids on the Spanish saUeons
Of Philip the Great ard paid for his
her0ism ou the Tower block with
Lls head Thomas Moore The great
EIiza bethan poet and thinker Lady
Jane Grey-rhese are but a few If
the ghosts whose silent feet slide
through the corridors If the Tower.
Many stout guardsman can
DOuCA 90 meeting with Sir Waiter
Raleigh Indeed. there are British
army documents which prove thai
the seutries had 20 be doubled
CT account Of the weird vanderiugs
OF the ghostly population Of the
Tower.
Sir Walter according 90 records
Of the old coustables OF the Tower.
walks with his head in his hand,
while she head never ceases to- drip
blood. Soldiers have tainted away
a. the sight-uot mere recruits, but
hardy suardsmeu OF long service
Take the case Of Private James
Codson. official number in the Cold
stream Guards. 1896. King Com
paHy.
a night DO January 1899. Godson
was posted at the Traitors gate
from midnight unit. q a m.
At $40 "a. IN. a shot was heard.
and GOdson was found oy the cor
poraTs guard lying I'm a faint, his
rihe discharged.
They brought him TO and ne told
his story.
lie had come on guard az md
night. repeated his orders and start
ed his seutry-go. At a. m as the
deep tones of the old Tower clock
doomed. he saw what ne took to- be
a small cart being wheeled round
the corner gate near Cardinal VOL
sey's Tower. He challenged it, ex-
pecting that # was merely a fatigue
party carrying wine bottles from the
officers mess. but got no reply.
\ Headlcss Body.
The cart approached. and again
- he sentry challenged. He raised his
fife when. ne saw that the wheels
70 the cart glistencd I'm the moonlight
with blood. and that a headIess body
lay on the floor OF fl. lie started
10 call his relief. The cart disap-
peared before he had time 90 shout.
lie stood there a minute, perspira-
ton running down his face and
then. seemingly out of a wall came
doublet and hose, rumed as 10 the
neck with no head above the rufflei
II shrieked" said the man. "and
cooked my rifle.
stand 7 shouted Then as I took
aim. I saw under the left arm of the
thing which was slowly advancing
towards me. a head. the eyes star
ing the litte beard dripping with
blood.
IT nred and the thing stood there.
the head ROLLING it's CLASSY horrto
eyes 40 me-then [ don't remember
anything.
That testimony IS On writing TO
this day I'm the records OF the Cold
stream Guards. corroborated by Of
Ulcers who examined the mans rife
and who themselves swear TO have
seen Che unhappy Shoet of sir Walter
Ghost Of Moore.
Gentle natured Thomas Moore.
who shared the fate of Raleigh has
been seen hy hundreds. The LAKE
I-e.l Marshal Robert "Bobs" of
South African fame used 10 tell how
one winters night after mess, ne
was etrollinE near the block on
which so many heads have rested.
. Ire stood by the block a ponder
~ ng. and looked up 90 see a gentle
figure kneelng there. his head rest
ing ON the ntche built for that pur-
pose He made ont the features of
Sir Thomas Moore (easilv recognized
from the po-trai1 saw the guam,