Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — A PHANTOM COACH. [ARTICLE]

A PHANTOM COACH.

It la m HeMenger of Death to aa EoHi«h Family. Up the drive of a certain manor boose situated in one of the southwest counties of England a phantom coach with spectral horses and driver is always heard or seen prior to the death of the head of the family or of some Important member of It. On one occasion of quite recent years a number of gentlemen and two ladies who formed a portion of the house party at Christmas were star-

tied on their return at dusk to hear the sounds of several horses’ hoofs coming up the drive. Upon turning, all the party saw an old sash loped coach with four white horses advancing toward them. They drew aside, and as the coach passed them the two ladles screamed and fell almost fainting in the arms of their companions. One was the daughter of the house. All retired to rest about 11 o’clock, some, no doubt, to think over tha mysterious appearance of the coach and others to sleep. Early in the morning a telegram, which had been dis patched too late the previous night for delivery, came to hand, conveying the intelligence that the only son of the house had been drowned while wild fowling in the fens. It was nearly forty years before that the coach had last been seen, although seventeen years previously It had beren heard to drive up to the front door and away again down the avenue in the middle of the night. On this occasion the head of the family had died in his sleep the next night.