The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-28
SHERIFF PABST
RESCIIES GHOST
Coroner Parker and Life
guards Assist in Thrill
ing Rescue Today.
JUST BEFORE DAWN
Rescue Party Starts at 8 a. m,
for Russell, ILL.,, and Bring
Back Bill Murray.

There's q man drowned here in the
pond at Russell, said an excited voice
in the telephone at 2:45 a. M this
morning when Sheriff Fred Pabst pick
ed the receiver The startling news
reused the sleepy sheriff to full wake
fulness and he gave ear to the details
THAT followed from the other end of
| the wire.
Bring the coroner with you and a
couple of good waders!" continued the
urgent voice.
/ Coroner T. T. Parker was still
pounding his ear but the sheriff sue
cceded in waking him and securing
his instant cooperation. The coroner
called UP the Hfe-saving station and
obtained one of the experienced life
savers for the trip. The coast guard
man, Fred Clarke, brought along the
drag hooks.
| The sheriff who had swallowed a
cup of cold coffee in his kitchen was
meanwhile ready, having hastily add
ed coil Of emergency rope to the
rescue, gathered up the coroner and
life-saver, and taking the wheel of the
hero automobile drove madly in the
direction Of Russell
Make Good Time in Rescue.
Fortunately the early hour assured
| the sheriff a clear road and he drove
| like-well, he exceeded the speed linz
it, to put it mildly. The coroner con-
jectured on the possibilities of the
case being one Of suicide, while he
chung to his hat in the midst of the
gale stirred up by the sheriff as he
whizzed along.
/ The first call came to the sheriff
/ at a quarter of three in the morning
and it was better than four O'clock
when the rescue party reached Rus
sell, III.
Clarke grabbed his drag-nets and
Pabst seized the rope, while the cor
oner with elaboration found his pen
Gil and pad.
Can't Find the Body.
| There was plenty Of light by this
time for good view of the pond, but
in spite of the small crowd that the
sheriff expected would have. collected.
there. was no one to be seen. There
was not ripple in the pond. Over
head, overhead, rushes life in race,
as the clouds chase, A lonely crow
flew over the race-track and said
| Cav CAV" Other crows answered
and soon there was caucus.
'But where is the drowned man? IS
he still in the pond? And where is
the man who sent the telephone call ?"
I These were the questions PROFOUND
cd. in turn by the coroner, the coast
guard man and the sheriff of Kenosha
county, The more the coroner got in
terested in the dead man, the more
the sheriff got interested in the live
man who had sent the call.
They found Dan Blanche at the Ell
| bow,
did you hear anything of a man
being drowned hereabouts ?" asked the
sheriff. Bianchi, laughed like loon
and the Elbow echoed with his merri-
ment. Then the other men noticed
that he was wet, shoes, hose, and
trousers up to his knees.
| Il looked for the drowning man my
SELF" he said, ''but couldn't find
him. Old Bill Murray told me he was
! in there but | couldn't find him. 1t
was Bill Murray who called you up"
I'D like to meet Bill Murray" said
the sheriff, with a serious note in his
voice.
They didn't have to wait long. Pret-
ty soon along came Mr.. Murray walk
ing down the road.
The sheriff gave Mr.. Murray the
| time of day and asked him if he were
the same person who routed the sher-
! if and the coroner out of bed at 2:45
a. m. Murray said, "Oh yes, put in
the emergency call"
He took the rescuing party over to
the pond and pointed out the spot
where he had seen man struggling
in the water.
''He was 23 feet from that tree and
six feet east" said Bill Murray. "But
he isn't in there now. It's the gol-
darndest thing ever heard tell of!
There he is now over on the land"
1T must be the drowned mans
ghost then" said the sheriff.
eyes," said Murray sorrowfully,
"his ghost"
Sheriff Pabst had at.Ieast the salts
faction Of taking Mr.. Murray back
with him to the county Jail and put
ting him behind lock and key. The
sheriff said this morning that he was
not in hurry to let out his prisoner
either.