Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

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where he had been seen the night before. Re-
porters were present.
At this spot, scene of bloody murder, there
is gap in the line of road lamps for quarter
of a mile and the road is 50 gloomy that timid
people give it wide berth on moonless night.
On this particular night, after couple of
hours had passed, dog suddenly yelped.
'Look!" gasped its frightened mistress. Every
one stared hard. There, in the center of the
dark path of unlighted road rose the tall, vague
figure of man. Some of those who saw 1t
described it as like "a pillar of fog
At that instant car hummed- up the road.
It's headlights seemed to throw the ghost into
high relief. But evidently the driver saw Moth
ing, for he drove right through the specter and
when the dazzled watchers looked again there
was nothing there
With two exceptions no really alarming
ghosts have walked in London so far this sea-
son. Odd, this, when you recoflect that the
capital is sprinkled with very sinister old
buildings, such as the ancient tower murmurous
with signs OF the condemned passing under
Traitors Gate, the groans of prisoners in the
west dungeons, the last gasps of noblemen and
queens expiring under the headsman's AK, and
when you recall that many of the palatial
new blocks stand on the site of old public
gallows or are built on the obliterated ruins
of the waffle huts of Boadicea's characters,
the villas of armorers who sweated over re-
pairs to the armor of King Arthur's knights,
the torture chambers used by old kings and
robber barons in the process of avenging them
selves on enemies or extracting loans from
Jews
The most recent apparition in the capital
is the temple ghost, white dame who hovers
uneaSily the graves of the Templar
knights outside the old Temple Church in the
incloSed legal quarter opposite the law courts
in the Strand 0hey were sworn to chastity,
those knights). The old gnome in brown who
peers from a quaint gallery in Chelsea at pass
ers-by (very badly lit Chelsea has also made
his expected appearance several occasions
Of late. Both, fortunately, are harmless.
The exceptions are the tube ghost nave
mentioned at the Tower of London and o
mysterious visitant in sedate Bloomsbury, the
boarding house district. The Bloomsbury
ghost announced his advent by rapping loudly
on a landladys bedroom door. On his next
visit he tore down bookcase and threw it on
the floor and suddenly appeared in the vacant
wall space, hourishing CHASTITY bandaged arms
and moaning. He was ashen gray and ell
head and shoulders
The old lady thus rudely intruded upon
Skidded into the street in her nightgown call
ing for the police. She has since had a nervous
collapse. professional ghost hunter has spent
q night in the room in the hope Of seeing
the ghost again, and no doubt giving him a
piece of his mind. But to date nothing more
fearful has happened than strange sounds
and odd currents Of chill air.
q ,dOhCdES nave been among the best
haunted places in the island One of the
best authenticated stories in this field comes
from All Hallows' Church, at Barking in the
docks district. The organ master had gone
into the choir room for practice with two of
the choir boys. The church door, incidentally,
was locked, but the door of the practice room
was left open. Through this door suddenly
came In a queer little old lady in a silk gown
and poke bonnet.
One Of the boys politely placed a chair for
her. and for while she sat quietly listening
to the singing. Then she rose and walked
down the main aisle.
Recollecting that the church door was locked,
the organ master sent a boy to let her out. But
the boy came back, saying that he couldn't see
any one. The little old lady had vanished
into thin air.
She has reappeared several times since.
Sometimes q black cat walks with her, but
more usually she is alone. She never speaks.
The hrst time she brought the cat along the
verger saw 1t, and about to shoe u out
when 1t walked through the piano. He Just
lets it walk now.
A host Of witnesses testify to having seen
in the little Holy Gross Priory in Leicester, q
big midland manufacturing city, the ghost Of .
a dead priest, the Rev. Norbert wylie, who was
a former prior Of the Roman Catholic COM
munity and died two years ago in early mid
die life.
The ghost figure of the prior, 1t Is said has
been recognized and has spoken. According 70
witnesses, he has been seen kneeling by the
high altar: he has been seen kneeling in the
confessional box, IN which he used to hear
his parishioners; he has visited the cloisters
Of the priory adjoining the old church and has
nitted across the grass quadrangle which hes
between his old study and the church en-
trance. The most remarkable part Of the vista
ton is the fact that all the apparitions. with
the exception Of one, have taken place in fun
daylight.
Father Jzaf,ar MY thu ,,rasant ,,r.or AN,
the apparition for himself. He was At the
high altar nulnar, Nfn ann,rn Of r,ra.A An, Al,a