Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1911 — GHOST IN NEW JERSEY TOWN [ARTICLE]

GHOST IN NEW JERSEY TOWN

Apparition Keeps Nervous Residents Homs st Night—Spectre Described as Boy With Limp Head. Beverly, N. J.—Brldgebord, tbs home of wltchlore and ghost scares, had another sensation which the residents take seriously, and after nightfall the streets are deserted. John Johnson and a party of friends, passing what is known as the Paxson pita a few nights ago,-were confronted by a dwarf, which, they declared, climbed out on a pit. For a minute it lingered, and then, giving a screech, vanished into the woods. Other witnesses, farmers of unquestionable veracity, substantiate Johnson’s story. The old residents say that years ago a reserved man who lived on the outskirts of the village, and whose name never was learned, as the family would not mingle with the villagers, had a deformed son. The man was driving along the country road, when the carriage was supposed to have overturned and the child fell into the pit and broke his neck. The version of the accident was accepted, but wild rumors were afloat at the time. Those who have seen the specter describe it as a boy, whose head'seems to hang limp upon his chest